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- Eliezer feels a first sense of rebellion against his religion and his God. The misfortune of his family losing its home and possessions didn't shake Eliezer's beliefs. But the vision of children and babies thrown into the flames eats away at his sense of God and the universe.
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The narrator says he will never forget that first horrible night, "which has turned my life into one long night." He will never forget the faces of the burning children nor the night he loses his belief that God is just. As this passage suggests, the title Night carries a lot of symbolic weight in the book.
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Though not complete at that moment, Eliezer’s loss of faith contrasts with the continued faith of such devout prisoners as Akiba Drumer, whose faith in divine redemption raises the prisoners’ spirits. We also see, as Eliezer begins to doubt his own humanity, the beginning of his loss of faith in man.
On that night his faith was consumed, and the silence of the night made him lose his will to live. At the barracks, veteran prisoners began to beat the new arrivals and told them to get undressed. The new prisoners threw their clothes into a huge pile.
The ThemeTracker below shows where, and to what degree, the theme of Having and Losing Faith in God appears in each chapter of Night. Click or tap on any chapter to read its Summary & Analysis.
Some of the new prisoners contemplate attacking the guards, and an old man tells everyone that they must never lose faith. When Elie approaches the notorious Dr. Mengele, “the Angel of Death...
They wait through a long night, during which Eliezer loses faith in God’s justice and mercy. The new male prisoners are beaten, forced to strip off their clothes, beaten more, and sent to the barber to get their hair shaved off. After the barber, all of the men are standing around, naked, finding acquaintances and old friends.
As mentioned before, Wiesel wrote elsewhere, “My anger rises up within faith and not outside it.” Eliezer reflects this position, which is particularly visible throughout this passage. Despite saying he has lost all faith, it is clear that Eliezer is actually struggling with his faith and his God.
