Faith In Elie Wiesel's Night

Faith can be a backbone, a sense of organization in a person’s beliefs. In other words, it is able to bring a collection of viewpoints together and view it as one. Faith, neither based on facts, nor used for a sense of comfort to people, can impact one’s life tremendously. This term “faith” is merely based on his/her spiritual apprehension to a belief in God or their own version of the Bible. By way of example, Elie Wiesel, a survivor of the Holocaust, gives a first-person account of his experience. Although this may seem more factual than personal, the novel, Night, written by Elie Wiesel, brings the Holocaust to a new spiritual level. Instead of the Holocaust being just a historical event that took place during the early-1930s to the mid-1940s,

Throughout the Holocaust, Wiesel came face-to-face with many obstacles in which he considers giving up on himself, his father, and God. This put a strain on his relationship with God due to the fact that Wiesel blamed most sins committed within the novel on God. While revealing his personal experience during the Holocaust in the novel, Night, Wiesel puts a strain on his relationship with God and uses theology to describe the importance of faith in someone’s life. Unlike a normal child, Wiesel was particularly focused on studying the Kabbalah and portraying the ways of God through his own acts. Furthermore, the beginning of the novel shows that Wiesel held more of an interest in the spiritual and theological ways of thinking and studying. In further detail, Wiesel had always been surrounded with influencers of the religion. These were people who were so engrossed in the Jewish interpretations of the Bible that they lived by God’s words every day. Some parts of this sparked an interest in learning about the morals of his religion, but mainly it

Because the novel began with Wiesel’s devotion to learning about his faith and furthering himself with knowledge of God’s ways, it brought the reader along with him to experience his doubts and struggles together. In Wiesel’s eyes, faith can be used to bring together jumbled thoughts inside of a person’s head. It is also used to help oneself order viewpoints that are important into one central idea. This is the perspective of faith. In brief, while writing the novel, Night, Wiesel uses the beauty of theology to explain where he originates from in his beliefs and to why he views God in this way. The struggle and constant tension that was placed upon his relationship between himself and God showed that no relationship can ever be perfect. Therefore, God cannot be perfect either. Based on his speeches and excerpts of his own words after the Holocaust, Wiesel realizes that it is impossible to hate God when God cannot control everything in the world. Blaming God is not the way to solve one’s problems, but by pushing through to the end and telling your story will prevent history from repeating itself