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Essay / Night Analysis - 674
Feeling lost when you don't even know yourself or when you no longer know what to defend or believe, that's exactly what Elie Wiesel felt in his book “Night”. During the time of the Holocaust, Elie was one of the victims taken to a concentration camp and forced to work in a brutal manner. As a child, Elie was determined to learn and study his religion, but that changed, along with his priorities. Devastating events changed Elijah's idea of religion, wrestling with the conflicts between him and those around him, even the trial that God seemed to bring upon Elijah. To his own disbelief, Elijah had abandoned God and lost his faith because of his immense struggle throughout the year he had spent in the camp, carrying the burden of not caring for Him. that he had always looked at too and who had been there. for him, it is God. Once Elie was in the Auschwitz concentration camp, he felt like his life was a dream because he claimed it was too surreal to be reality. Elijah remained faithful to his religion, looking to God when problems approached him. God had always been Elijah's escape, and according to Elijah, that wasn't going to change. Yet the time came when the solid structure upon which Elijah's faith rested began to erode. Elijah had also fought against himself, creating mental conflicts. When men talked about God, Elijah argued with himself about how he felt about him. Elijah said: “As for me, I stopped praying. I agree with Job! I did not deny its existence, but I doubted its absolute justice (45). He didn't know how he felt about religion because he still wanted God to protect him, but he wasn't sure if he would just protect him. On the eve of Rosh Hashanah, Elijah had fought his last battle with himself over his faith...... middle of paper ...... Elijah completely abandons his faith. Elijah repeatedly found himself in conflict, trying to hold on to the last piece of his life before it took a turn for the worst: his connection with God. Elijah is a constantly evolving character: his struggle for his faith and his conflicts over it, his struggle between his faith and the other inmates, and his struggle between God and his relationship with Job; even though the underlying conflicts are solely between Elijah and God. Elijah had once believed that God was the Almighty and had all the higher power. But, as the concentration camps changed many people mentally and physically, the camps also changed Elijah. No matter how much Elijah had believed in God, that strong belief had become a minimally boring, thin or no belief left behind. They say change is for the better, but that's not always the case..