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Elie Wiesel - Night

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Many people question their faith when they are put in difficult situations. Depending on the situation, they may ask themselves “Why would God want this to happen to me?” These depressing memories or events can cause people to lose their faith in God and lose their religious views. In the book “Night”, Elie struggles not to lose his faith when watching others in the camps who eventually do. It does seem that Elie completely abandons his faith in some parts of the book unexpectedly, but Elie’s experiences are not a complete loss of faith, he questions it throughout this experience of the Holocaust while being tortured and hurt in the concentration camps but he leaves the concentration camps at the end of the holocaust with his faith intact. Elie struggles not to lose his faith while others in the camps do, but when he does lose it, it is sudden and almost unexpected. As a child, Elie’s faith was in an early stage. He wasn't sure why he was praying or what it meant to pray. He just knew that’s what he was taught to do and that he must do it. Elie’s faith is a creation of what he was taught of the Jewish Mysticism. This religion teaches Elie that God is everywhere and nothing exists without Him, that in fact everything in the physical world is a reflection of the divine world. Because of this, Elie grew up believing everything in the world reflects God’s creations through religiousness and power. Elie’s faith is stuck in the idea that God is everywhere, all time. Since God is good and God is everywhere in the world, Elie believes that the world must be good as well. Elie asks himself in the beginning of the book “Why did I pray? A strange question. Why did I live? Why did I breathe?” (P.2.B) His belief in God was unconditional. Elie believes that religion is his life and without religion he would not be alive. He compares his religion to breathing. Without breathing people cannot survive therefore, without religion, Elie cannot survive. Elie could not imagine living without faith in a religious matter. Before the holocaust happened, and Elie Wiesel was taken from their home, they did not believe the rumors and they doubted the rumors of the German Nazi expelling Jews. They believed their God w

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