The Role Of Religion In Night By Elie Wiesel

Pre World War II, Elie details his devout connection and interest with religion as a young teen. Elie spent much of his time in his peaceful Jewish hometown, Sighet, studying religious texts, praying, and striving to understand more of Judaism. Elie's family, His Father, Mother, and three siblings were respected in Sighet, as his father was held in high esteem and valued by the village. Elie's best friend was poor man Moishe the Beadle, who would talk with him for hours a day about Jewish teachings and on helping Elie discover the very essence of divinity. Elie at this point is still in his innocence, he has yet to experience any true hardships in life, this is evidenced when Moishe the Beadle returns from witnessing the murder of Jews by …show more content…
Because of this, Elie, for the time being, chooses to mesh with his world (the Town of Sighet) and it’s expectations by not believing in Moishe’s warnings and brushing it off as lies.

Several years later, Elie actually asks his father to liquidate everything they have and leave to Palestine, where they'd be safe. Because of this, Elie is possibly one of the (if any other) Jews in Sighet that (eventually) instead of choosing to conform with the rest of Sighet and remaining silent and ignorant of the danger, chose to speak out and concern himself with their impending fates. As previously mentioned, Elie is quick to suggest a call to change by moving to Palestine once it becomes more apparent that the fascists are soon to come to power; although he is only a child meaning he doesn’t have much of a say in his family’s matters, in addition, his father is too elderly to make such a large change, they continue to stay in Sighet, until his family is eventually sent to Auschwitz and is separated, leaving his father and himself together. This is where Night begins, or when we begin to see a change in Elie Wiesel as he enters the chaotic and hellish nature of the Holocaust. As Wiesel begins to experience and witness