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Loading... 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.
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The infants, who are the ultimate representation of purity and innocence, meet the same horrific fate as everyone else, and Eliezer cannot reconcile this destruction of God’s purest creation with his belief in a world that reflects the will of the divine.
It's debatable whether Elie completely lost his faith in God, but it surely is apparent that he changed vastly from his past enormously religious self. We see glimpses of Elie questioning and refuting God, but we also see the contradictory behavior he exhibits by returning to praise.
Wiesel's narrative includes specific examples of images which outline the loss of faith in the camps. Consider the ending to Chapter 5, in which the figure of the boy choking for thirty...
As he reflects upon his horrendous first night in the concentration camp and its lasting effect on his life, Wiesel introduces the theme of Eliezer’s spiritual crisis and his loss of faith in God.
The metaphorical night darkens as Wiesel’s faith diminishes throughout the memoir as a result of his experience in the network of Auschwitz concentration camps, which include Birkenau, Auschwitz...
The Holocaust forces Eliezer to ask horrible questions about the nature of good and evil and about whether God exists. But the very fact that he asks these questions reflects his commitment to God. Discussing his own experience, Wiesel once wrote, “My anger rises up within faith and not outside it.” Eliezer’s struggle reflects such a ...
