Night by Elie Wiesel :: Night, Elie Wiesel

Night is a horrible tale of murder and mans inhumanity to man. Wiesel saw his family, friends, and fellow Jews degraded and murdered. Wiesel also states in his entertain that his divinity, to whom he was so devoted, was also murdered by the Nazis. In the apologue Wiesel changed from a devout Jew to a broken young man who doubted his doctrine in deity.When Wiesel first comes to the concentration camp and sees all the walking skeletons, he cant believe that this is real. He feels that he might be dreaming. However, as Wiesel faces each daytime and controles the starvation, the beatings of candid people, and the tortures, his faith in God begins to waiver. By the end of the book Wiesel has lost 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 pocketable stick decides who will live and who will die. This man acts like God. To the aright you live, to the left, you die. As Wiesel wa tches 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 hangings, beatings, starvation, and torture. One day when Wiesel comes back from a days work, he sees three gallows being 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 assay between life and death. The death was a slow agony. At this engineer Wiesel lost all faith in the existence of God. Where is God right off? Where is He? Here is - He is hanging here on this gallows...(62) after this incident Wiesel could no longer believe in God.