Examples Of Innocence In Night By Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel’s renowned autobiography, Night, describes the numerous atrocities faced by concentration camp inmates during the holocaust. He explains that prisoners whom were not immediately murdered were subject to severe physical and psychological brutalities, all of which left lasting trauma. Like many others in these circumstances, Wiesel found it difficult to hold onto his Jewish faith when such cruelty surrounded him, going as far to question God’s very existence. These ideas are found in the excerpt: “Behind me, I heard the same man asking: ‘Where is God now?’And I heard a voice within me answer him: ‘Where is He? Here He is—He is hanging here on this gallows,’” (Night, pg. 65). This is Wiesel’s account of one of his most horrifying experiences

Sometime in life, it is unavoidable that one will lose one’s innocence in their life. Such as how cruel the world is. The novel, Night, by Elie Wiesel, Elie loses his own innocence in the Holocaust. Jew’s were brought to the concentration camp. Since Elie is a Jew, he was forced to come. When working, Elie sees how poorly the Germans treat the Jews. Since the death of his father, Elie loses his hope in life. Elie is impacted by the loss of innocence in three ways by losing his faith in his future, loses faith in God, and when he has no passion and sympathy by the deaths around him.

Throughout the book Wiesel changes, because he loses hope in God as soon as he is introduce to violence. After he gets off the train and first enters the camp he starts questioning his religious beliefs and himself, for example, he says “never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul”. ( Wiesel 35) When Wiesel is first introduced to the crematorium and learns what is done in concentration camps, and he starts questioning what he really believes in. In the book Wiesel is a very religious person, as is his family. And very soon after entering the camp as stated above he loses his faith, which shows that being around so much violence can eventually make you lose hope in all things including religion. By saying “murdered my God”, Wiesel is basically saying that the thought of God is

In the beginning of the memoir, Elie Wiesel’s faith is very real and present. For instance Elie states, “Why did I pray? Strange question. Why did I live? Why did I breathe?” (Wiesel 4) Comparing his faith at this time to living and breathing shows how close he felt with God. Elie can't imagine his life without

All babies on Earth are born innocent as they have not yet been exposed to impure, sinful, or immoral events in life; they are likely to lose their innocence during some time in their life, and once innocence is lost it can not be regained. Elie Wiesel lost his innocence when he was fifteen years old during the Holocaust. He describes his journey in his memoir, Night. Although Elie survives the Holocaust, he never truly escapes it as his memories stay with him forever; his most vivid memories are to come from the events where Elie lost his innocence. Throughout the memoir, Elie mentions experiences that caused him to have a loss of innocence within his faith, dignity, and family loyalty.

The horrible accounts of the holocaust are vividly captured by Elie Wiesel in Night, an award winning work by a Holocaust survivor. It describes his time in the Holocaust and helps the reader fully understand the pain he went through. In the text, Elie continuously mentions how he is losing his faith to god. It is evident that he has nearly, if not completely lost his faith during the events of the holocaust. In the memoir, Night, Elie Wiesel’s faith changes because of the absence of God, the dehumanization of the prisoners, and all of the death that surrounds him.

This is shown in the memoir as Wiesel starts to question his faith and what he believes in, which is illustrated when he says “My eyes had opened and I was alone, terribly alone in a world without God, without man” (Wiesel 66). This quote takes place during Rash Hashanah, in which he participates in but not only has he questioned his faith, but he has lost his belief in God’s goodness and he truly believed that God would not help them. He even later goes on to say that man is stronger than god which is a huge shift in his beliefs. This example shows exactly how much Wiesel’s outlook changed. Before getting sent to the concentration camps, his beliefs were all he had. His belief and faith in God was very strong and the memoir even starts out with him wanting to practice Kabbalah- the study of Jewish mysticism. This is key because now, we see him with completely different views on God, because as he went from camp to camp and saw death after death he felt slowly God die in his heart. He no longer believed in God, this even though he still said prayers of desperation to the God he no longer believed. Wiesel clearly illustrates the idea of dehumanization changing what someone used to believe because of how they view the world after going through these horrific

During the holocaust many children and teens suffered from the loss of their innocence. In the memoir Night, Elie Wiesel explained the loss of his innocence through experiences during the holocaust such as the harsh new laws and the death of his family and friends. The death of a family member and harsh punishment cause the loss of innocence.

This is a gradual transition that starts, first, with Wiesel’s questioning of God. The first day at Auschwitz, Wiesel witnesses babies being thrown carelessly into pits of flames, burning alive. To Wiesel’s utter disbelief, God is not present to save these poor innocent children from premature death. Wiesel cannot comprehend why his God is not showing up in the face of such adversity and starts to question whether he should worship such a God that ignores his people’s obvious pleas for help. Instead of praying to God for strength and guidance, Wiesel skeptically asks, “Why should I sanctify his name? What was there to thank him for?” (33). Instead of trusting that God is beside him through this experience and investing every last bit of faith into optimism, Wiesel infringes on God’s path for him and becomes suspicious of God’s motives and loyalty. He does not understand, “how can anyone believe in this Mercy of God”, when the Jewish people, their own people, are slaughtered daily

In the beginning of The Book Night Eliezer had a passionate belief in Judaism. But he started losing his faith and his innocence the first day the Nazis came to his town called Sighet. The Nazis gathered the whole town and brutally forced them into their cattle cars and took them to their first camp. In the camp he was separated from his mother and his sisters. "Yet that was the moment I left my mother In a fraction of a second I could see my mother, my sisters, move to the right I didn't know that this was the moment in time and the place where I was leaving my mother and Tzipora forever My hand tightened its grip on my father. All I could think about was not to lose him. Not to remain alone" (Wiesel 29-30) When he came to it he realized that his father was the only one left so he grabbed his father because he didn't want to lose his only hope.

Wiesel’s faith was shaken by the cruelty and evilness he witnessed during

Innocence. Every child is born with it, but no child should have it stolen from him. Night written by Elie Wiesel is a story on how his innocence was stolen from him. It is a tragic yet inspiring story from the holocaust. Elie Wiesel was only 15 years when his innocence was ripped from him.

But, when everything goes south, many lose faith, believing that a truly good God wouldn’t let trials come upon them. The same was true for Elie. Before the Nazis took him prisoner, Elie had great faith in the existence of his God. Furthermore, he wholeheartedly believed that God held his best interest in mind. To show Elie’s strong faith at the beginning of the narrative, Wiesel adds one of his conversations with Moishe the Beadle into the story. During their discussion, Elie asks Moishe, “‘why do you pray?’”(5) Moishe explained to Elie that “man comes closer to God through the questions he asks Him.”(5) Elie believed that God exists, but due to his youth he had lots of questions. Elie’s inquiries do not question God’s existence, rather, they investigate why Jews do things concerning God, such as praying. Enthusiastic about the scriptures, Elie asked probing questions about the rituals and practices of Judaism, resolved to learn more about their religion and God with the goal of strengthening his faith in God’s

First of all, in the beginning of Night, Wiesel tells how when he was a young teen and around the time before he went to the concentration camp, he was very curious about religion and his God. One way Wiesel shows the very first views of God in the beginning of the book and how dedicated to God he was, is when he went looking for answers anywhere that he found most valuable. He found most of his preaches and lessons from his “master”, Moishe the Beadle. One of Wiesel’s questions that he had asked was, "And why do you pray, Moishe?" I asked him. I pray to the God within me for the strength to ask Him the real questions." (Wiesel 5). This shows that Wiesel was starting to become more involved with his God. The fact that Wiesel wanted to learn

But Elie Wiesel thought differently. He was not able to understand why God wanted all this pain, deaths, and catastrophe to the Jewish people. He thought that it does not make sense to praise God, after seeing how