His belief was off and on through out the book. At one point he will be all out for his religion, but at other times he barley follows it at all. “I looked at our house, where I had spent so many years in search for my God,”(28) this was right before they were getting ready to be deported. After he got to the concentration camp, he got a sense of disbelief. From seeing and smelling all of the burning flesh of people.
The prisoners are forced to run 42 miles in one night during a blizzard. Those unable to keep up are shot. The refugees stop in a small village where Eliezer and his father keep each other awake to avoid freezing to death. Rabbi Eliahu enters a small shack occupied by Eliezer, looking for his son. Eliezer recalls--after Eliahu's departure--seeing his son desert his father, something he prays for strength never to do.
At this point this becomes crucial, because the Nazi oppression in the concentration camps makes it harder for any relationship. It is shocking to Elie on many occasions, the cruelty sons show their fathers in many of the barracks. He says of this particular boy, “I saw one of thirteen beating his father because the latter had not made his bed properly. The old man was crying softly while the boy shouted, “If you don’t stop crying I shan’t bring you any more bread. Do you understand?” This event serves a warning to Elie not to lose his sense of compassion towards his father so that they can remain close and continue supporting each other because without each other neither of them will survive.
Before he died, he asked Joseph to take him back to Canaan to be buried with his ancestors. He also blessed each of his sons and Joseph’s two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh. After Jacob’s death and burial, Joseph mourned for a long time. Joseph returned to the land of Egypt with his brothers and all those who accompanied him. Now that their father was dead, all the brothers were scared that Joseph will pay them back for all the wrong they had done to him.
Night a modern day Book of Job In Night, the author Eli Wiesel shares his most personal memories of the Holocaust. Where he experienced directly and during which he lost all of his family and many friends. The occurrence of incomparable evil perpetrated by the Germans against the Jews ruined Eli’s hopefulness and his belief in the natural goodness of human beings. Although he could have held on to that view throughout the remainder of his life, Night ultimately shows how Wiesel was eventually able to restore hope and optimism and belief in others and to live with the enormous burden of pain that he carries. Many of the memoirs of the Holocaust such as have this same tone throughout them.
Although Towards the end of the book he lost his faith in god the only reason he kept pushing and worked harder to survive was because of his father. He did not want to die and leave him alone because he thought the only reason his father wanted to stay alive was because of him. They helped each other and watched each other’s backs while the Nazi inhumanly tortured and beat them. It was during World War II where the Germans mass murdered The Jewish people. Even though it was everyone for them self’s in the concentration camps some managed to successfully help and work with each other to survive, sharing food and other things.
“D”: Roger Chillingworth Roger Chillingworth, Hester Prynne’s, deformed husband, slowly transforms into what many call the Black Man. Chillingworth’s transformation, ultimately detrimental to Reverend Dimmesdale’s health, began once he questioned the reverend about sin, and his obsession did not, “set him free again until he had done all” of his searching (117). He leeched info out of poor Dimmesdale every day until, “there was a fiend at his elbow” his own self (155)! Chill., hired to help nurse Dimm. back to health, actually took more years off his life.
Against his father’s will, Eliezer is into learning religious mysticism such as the Kabbalah. Despite this, Eliezer finds a sensitive and challenging teacher in Moishe the Beadle, a local pauper. Their relationship was like every normal teacher and student. Soon the Hungarians banish all foreign Jews, including Moishe. After several months, Moishe escapes the German captors, and goes back to Sighet to warn his people about how the deportation trains were handed over to the Gestapo but no one believes him.
Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed....Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never. (Elie 32). Both Night, and Man’s Search for Meaning provide a certain mark in those who study the Holocausts mind.
After Blockalteste told Elie that he is in a concentration camp, he shouldn’t care about anyone else except himself even his old father. Elie began to thinks about what Blockaltest had told him, “Too late to save your old father----You could have two ration of bread, two rations of soup----“(111). When the SS officer was beating his father in front of Elie. Normally human been would protect his father getting hurt, but he chose to do nothing and just watched his old father getting whipped, because he was afraid to get hurt. Next morning when Elie found out his father got took away, he didn't weep anymore.