How Does Elie Wiesel Use Faith In Night

In the memoir Night, by Elie Wiesel uses faith throughout the story to show both the importance and difficulty of maintaining faith during hardship. Wiesel shows that many people gave up in their faith, people believed that the Holocaust was not God’s doing, and others hid their faith in their God because they didn’t want them or their families to be killed.

Many people who were involved in the Holocaust gave up their faith in God. If so many people were going through all of this pain and suffering why wouldn’t He help them? Why would God remain silent and not do anything while being are being moved into concentration camps.
‘“Oh God, Master of the Universe, in your infinite compassion, have mercy on us.”’ (page 20) This is when Elie, and his family get to the small ghetto they were assigned to live in. They all dropped to the ground when the family had arrived to their new home. “‘Where is He? This is where- hanging here from the gallows.’” (page 65) In this scene, there is a hanging of a young boy in the concentration camps. The boy was too light to die when he was hung, so he was left there. There were many people who were standing in the crowd, a man asked “For God’s sake, where is God?” Elie replied in his mind and said the sentence. It’s where his faith was starting to diminish. …show more content…
“Man comes close to God through the questions he asks Him.” This is in the scene where Eliezer is praying in the chapel and is talking to Moshe the Beadle. Moshe had been expelled and when he had come back, he had tried to tell people what had been happening. No one believed him. After the Jews got into the Ghettos, then transferred into the concentration camps, they kept asking God why this is happening to them. I think they maintained their faith in Him because they knew that it wasn’t God who was doing this. They continued to pray, they had to keep up