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 lad Jews degraded and murdered. 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 depleted young man who doubted his belief in God.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 day and witnesses the starvation, the beatings of innocent the great unwashed, 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 forgetful stick decides who will live and who will die. This man acts like God. To the right you live, to the left, you die. As Wiesel watches the evil th at 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 pauses, 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 struggling between life and demolition. 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.