The Nazis inhumanity and brutality slowly diminished his hope and desire to live. Despite Elie’s constant battle, it is from the interaction with other characters that he is able to maintain his hope. Elie depends on his father for support, and his love for his father makes him strengthen his hope and desire to live. When they arrived at the camp, his father said that he would rather Elie to go with his mother than to see what they were going to experience as men. The father began to cry and this was the only time that Elie saw his father cry.
He is “cultured and rather insentimental man”. He does not reveal his emotion but “wept” when the Nazis invaded. During the Holocaust he and his son Elie become close and this gave him courage to survive as long as he could but unfortunately loses his faith and then got very ill after the “death march” and dies in the first night at Buchenwald.
Couldn’t he let his own people stand up for themselves rather than being scared and not knowing what to do? Furthermore one Jewish prisoner from the concentration camps during holocaust had said, “If there is a god, he will have to beg for forgiveness!” this shows that many Jews were angry at god as he let his own people suffer without food for many days, being called a disease and being treated as a number rather than human so they stopped believing him. Other people would disagree with the statement because god was testing people’s faith as the bible says, “Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trail, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which god has promised to those who love him.” This shows that people who are patient, god will save and protect them in whatever situation they are but they have to maintain their faith in him. If they had maintained their patients and faith then they will be rewarded as god has promised them! Maybe during Holocaust most people had lost their beliefs on god and started blaming him, so god might have stopped his wish of saving them since they had no faith him.
Imagine believing so strongly in something and then being let down, or thinking that you were wrong even to believe. In Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie felt as though he had lost his religion and belief in God. We learned how strong his beliefs were when he says,“I believed profoundly. During the day I studied the Talmud, and at night I ran to the synagogue to weep of the destruction of the Temple,” (Wiesel, 14). But then he experiences the hardships of the Holocaust and it abruptly changed him.
In the beginning of the story, Brother recounts the day Doodle was born, saying that he was a disappointment as soon as he entered the world. The narrator was not satisfied with his brother, which resulted in the horrible things he thought about him. Brother said that “It was bad enough having an invalid brother, but having one who possibly was not all there was unbearable…” As a result, the narrator enjoyed torturing Doodle, threatening to abandon him multiple times. He even took Doodle to see the casket that was built for him, and forced him to touch it. The narrator basked in the control he had over his brother.
Job 4: 7-21 is taken from Eliphaz’s speech to Job. After undergoing immense suffering for no apparent reason, Job curses his life and birth and seeks comfort from his friends. Although Job is a good and holy man, Eliphaz states that suffering is the result of sin. He is implying that Job’s suffering is a result of a sinful life, although we already know the true reason for his pains. In verse 7, “Think now, who that was innocent ever perished, or were the upright cut off?”, Eliphaz basically says that the good do not suffer.
In his second trial, huge and painful sores spread over Job’s body, but he continues to be loyal to God, in spite of his own wife suggesting to curse God for his suffering. Hearing of his illness, Job is visited by his friends and they convey their advice. It is at this point where Job curses God, as he cannot handle his pain or his friends and their beliefs that his sin is what is causing his suffering and that he must repent in order to be saved. After all of this, God then presents himself to Job in a storm, in awe
God made us and loves us He does not want us (His children) to fear death. Jesus made the ultimate sacrifice in which we do not have to fear anything. Jesus claimed to be God In the Bible, in John 10:30, it says, “I and the Father are one.” Jesus was talking to the Jews that had gathered around him to stone him and they mocked him so Jesus replied that he and God are one. Jesus also said to them that even if they did not believe he was the Son of God to believe his works so that they may understand that God is in him. (John 10:37-38) Jesus never tried to hide the fact that he is the Son of God nor did he ever do anything in secret, everything was there in plain sight for everyone to see and to believe.
Both these words carry heavy connotations saying that his faith has been devoured by the “flames” of the Holocaust. Wiesel continues to say that his “dreams” turned “to ashes,” meaning he no longer has anything to live for, Wiesel uses the forceful word “Never shall I forget” repeatedly to make sure the reader never forgets the horror of the Holocaust. (34) Wiesel uses the forceful word “commands” in place of a milder word such as “asks” or “requests.” It points to the power of the bible for the Jews and suggests that, at this point, they were continuing their traditions more out of obligation than out of desire. (10) He also describes the sun as being “Hellish.” Hellish is a strong word and it saying that he is very hot and becoming dehydrated. Wiesel said that the man was staring at them with a “gaze” and that they looked like “leprous dogs.” (38) Elie Wiesel included these words in his book because he wanted to describe to the readers what it was like for the Jews.
God eventually talks to Job making it clear that his actions need no explanation. The book of Job brings up the ever-present question of why bad things happen to good people and answers that question by saying God is above justice. When Job’s friends — Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar — hear of his calamity, they come to visit him and begin to argue their “theology” to him. Their theology is that a man’s suffering is always the result of his personal sin. Further, the more one has sinned, the greater one will suffer.