Wiesel Inhumanity In Night

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By recounting his horrendous journey as a Jewish teenager during World War II, Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night illustrates the author’s devastating loss of faith in God amid the atrocities of the Holocaust. For example, after witnessing the horror of the crematorium during his first night at Auschwitz, Eliezer proclaims, “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night… Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever” (Wiesel 32). As burning fires cruelly consume innocent lives, Wiesel’s faith falters, questioning how his loving and omnipotent God would allow such unthinkable inhumanity. Furthermore, as Eliezer listens to the other prisoners deliberate their God’s perceived