Genocide In Elie Wiesel's Night

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11 million people murdered. A true act of genocide that Elie Wiesel witnessed and wrote about in his Nobel Peace Prize winning novel, “Night.” In the book Elie Wiesel, captured by the Germans at the age of fifteen, talks about his story and life in the holocaust. In the Novel, Elie is affected by the events in the book because he lost his faith, his love for his father, and he no longer cared about life.

In the novel, Elie Wiesel loses his faith, which he was deep in before the holocaust. The events of the holocaust started to push him away from his faith though. An example of this occurs when the Jews are praying and Elie asks, “What are you, my God? I thought angrily. How do you compare this stricken mass, gathered to affirm to you their faith, their anger, their defiance? What does your grandeur mean, Master of the Universe, in the face of all this cowardice, this decay, and this misery“ (Page 66). He continues to show Elie asks “Blessed be God’s name? But why would I bless him?... Because he caused thousands of children to burn in his mass graves? (Page 67). Elie was asking himself why he should pray to this “God.” He was …show more content…
This mostly occurs at the end of the book, as they do stick together through most of the book. Toward the end of the book a man tells Elie that he should be receiving his father's rations (small amount of food), and Elie should not be giving his father his rations.. Elie agrees when he says “He's right, I thought deep down, not willing to admit it” (Page 111). Just a little bit later he found at that his dad had died. Elie simply explains that “deep down inside of me, if i could have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like: Free at last” (page 112). Elie did not want to ad Although they had a strong connection throughout most of the book, the holocaust caused him to change so much to the point where he no longer cared about his
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