Night by Elie Wiesel :: Night, Elie Wiesel

Night is a horrible bosh of murder and mans inhumanity to man. Wiesel saw his family, friends, and fellow Jews truehearted and kill. Wiesel also states in his book that his God, to whom he was so devoted, was also murdered by the Nazis. In the novel Wiesel changed from a devout Jew to a unkept young man who doubted his belief in God.When Wiesel first comes to the concentration battalion and sees all the walking skeletons, he cant deal that this is real. He feels that he might be dreaming. However, as Wiesel faces each twenty-four hours and witnesses the starvation, the beatings of unobjectionable people, and the tortures, his faith in God begins to waiver. By the end of the book Wiesel has disoriented his belief in God. If there is a God, how could he allow this to happen, he wonders.As the days go by, there are frequent selections. A man with a little stick decides who exit live and who will break-dance. This man acts like God. To the right you live, to the left, you die. As Wiesel watches the evil that exists, his belief in the existence of God continues to deteriorate. Wiesel asks, Where is my God? Where is He?(61)Wiesel continues to witness intermissions, beatings, starvation, and torture. One day when Wiesel comes back from a days work, he sees three gallows macrocosm assembled. The whole camp has to witness the hangings. Among the 3 people who would die that day, was a young child. Wiesel wondered what that poor innocent boy had done to deserve to die in this manner. Wiesel watched the boy struggling between life and death. The death was a slow agony. At this point Wiesel lost all faith in the existence of God. Where is God now? Where is He? Here is - He is hanging here on this gallows...(62) After this incident Wiesel could no longer believe in God.