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  1. www.sparknotes.com › lit › nightNight Section 4 Summary & Analysis | SparkNotes

    Read more about the role of chance and coincidence in Night. A summary of Section 4 in Elie Wiesel's Night. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of Night and what it means. Perfect for acing essays, tests, and quizzes, as well as for writing lesson plans.

  2. www.sparknotes.com › lit › nightNight: Themes | SparkNotes

    • Eliezer’s Struggle to Maintain Faith in A Benevolent God
    • Silence
    • Inhumanity Toward Other Humans
    • The Importance of Father-Son Bonds

    Eliezer’s struggle with his faith is a dominant conflict in Night.At the beginning of the work, his faith in God is absolute. When asked why he prays to God, he answers, “Why did I pray? . . . Why did I live? Why did I breathe?” His belief in an omnipotent, benevolent God is unconditional, and he cannot imagine living without faith in a divine powe...

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    In one of Night’s most famous passages, Eliezer states, “Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live.” It is the idea of God’s silence that he finds most troubling, as this description of an event at Buna reveals: as the Gestapo hangs a young boy, a man asks, “Where is God?” yet the only re...

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    Eliezer’s spiritual struggle owes to his shaken faith not only in God but in everything around him. After experiencing such cruelty, Eliezer can no longer make sense of his world. His disillusionment results from his painful experience with Nazi persecution, but also from the cruelty he sees fellow prisoners inflict on each other. Eliezer also beco...

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    Eliezer is disgusted with the horrific selfishness he sees around him, especially when it involves the rupture of familial bonds. On three occasions, he mentions sons horribly mistreating fathers: in his brief discussion of the pipelwho abused his father; his terrible conclusion about the motives of Rabbi Eliahou’s son; and his narration of the fig...

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  4. www.litcharts.com › lit › nightHaving and Losing Faith in God Theme in Night | LitCharts

    One of the main themes of Night is Eliezer's loss of religious faith. Throughout the book, Eliezer witnesses and experiences things that he cannot reconcile with the idea of a just and all-knowing God.

  5. www.litcharts.com › lit › nightNight by Elie Wiesel Plot Summary | LitCharts

    A Nazi SS doctor separates those who are going to be killed immediately from those who will work. Eliezer sticks close to his father. That first night in the camp, he witnesses babies and children thrown into a great fire in a burning ditch. Eliezer's faith in a just God is shattered.

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    One of the main themes of Night is Eliezer's loss of religious faith. Throughout the book, Eliezer witnesses and experiences things that he cannot reconcile with the idea of a just and all-knowing God. At the beginning of the narrative, Eliezer declares, "I believed profoundly."

  8. www.enotes.com › topics › night-wieselWhen does Elie in Night lose his faith in God? Provide examples.

    In Night, Eliezer loses what had been a profound faith in God quite suddenly on his first night at Auschwitz. There are times later in the narrative when he returns to the idea of a...