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[FONT="]CP English 9[/FONT]
[FONT="]24 March 2010[/FONT]
[FONT="] Night Essay: Elie’s loss of faith[/FONT]
[FONT="]The book Night was written by Elie himself to bring awareness to what he and millions of Jews during the Second World War. Elie at the beginning of the book is a very faithful Jew wanting to study the Kabalah and enter the Temple but as it is shown over the nine chapters of the book he changes drastically. The things he goes through and what he sees will slowly diminish his faith in not only his, religion but God himself. Before entering the camps or the ghettos for that matter he was beyond religious. He spoke on his faith often and with vindication. In Night Elie’s experience in the Holocaust destroy his faith. [/FONT]
[FONT="]In the beginning of the book Elie is a very faithful Jew. He wanted to study the Kabalah and to enter the temple. Moshe the Beadle is a big part of Elie’s life before the camps and Elie talks with him to great extent about God and the Kabala and their faith. But he is soon taken and Elie states: “Day after day, night after night he went from one Jewish house to the next telling his story and that of Malka the girl who lay dying for three days and that of Tobie, the tailor who begged to die before his sons were killed.” (7.) Elie and the people in his hometown refused to believe that the war could touch them. Elie’s faith is still strong at this point, But he states: When he and his family are about to leave for the ghetto Elie walks into his home and takes with him a small box of Jewish scrolls.[/FONT]
[FONT="]One Elie reaches the camp he losses his faith and this is started when he sees the crematorium and he states: “A truck drew close and unloaded it’s hold: small children. Babies! Yes I did see this with my own eyes. Babies being thrown in the flames. (Is it a wonder why sleep continues to elude me?)” (32.) This is the first terrible thing he sees that causes him to doubt the power of God and why he let humans do this to other humans. When he turns and walks away from the flames he says to himself “What are you? My God?” (66.) As it is seen from that quote and the one before it that the physiological harm done to Elie in the first few hours in the death camps. The days turned into years for him. Through the agonizing years in the death camps Elie’s faith continues to diminish. Elie continues to question God when he says the following quote: “Why do you go on troubling these poor people’s wounded minds with their ailing bodies?” (66.) As the Jews continue to wither and die from starvation, sickness or their bodies can’t hold on anymore Elie seems to be asking God himself the question “Who are you to do this to these people that you created and who are you to site idly by and let this continue?” This quote is like a slap in the face when they read it because it shows a completely different person that he was in the beginning of the book. His faith is being destroyed by witnessing the Jews turn into animals the Nazis shooting the Jews in the death march and finally his faith is lost when he witnesses the death of his father.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Elie finally is completely empty of faith when sees the pipel is hung. The young boy hanging in the gallows. This shows clearer then anything that Elie has completely and totally lost his faith. Elie at the beginning of the book is a very faithful Jew. And now it is seen that he is completely and totally at loss with his faith. To put someone through this type of thing is completely and totally unthinkable. If you lose your faith you lose part of your identity. Weather you are Catholic, Jewish, Islam whatever your religion is if you lose that you lose part of what makes you, you. [/FONT]
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[FONT="]As this essay shows, Elie being a very faithful Jew in the beginning becomes a man that doubts the one he worshiped so deeply. When Elie sees the children being thrown into the crematorium is when faith begins to fade. Next you see Elie questioning God once more when he asks what type of God would torture his creations like this and finally it is shown that Elie is completely empty when he says that God is hanging in the gallows.
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[FONT="]CP English 9[/FONT]
[FONT="]24 March 2010[/FONT]
[FONT="] Night Essay: Elie’s loss of faith[/FONT]
[FONT="]The book Night was written by Elie himself to bring awareness to what he and millions of Jews during the Second World War. Elie at the beginning of the book is a very faithful Jew wanting to study the Kabalah and enter the Temple but as it is shown over the nine chapters of the book he changes drastically. The things he goes through and what he sees will slowly diminish his faith in not only his, religion but God himself. Before entering the camps or the ghettos for that matter he was beyond religious. He spoke on his faith often and with vindication. In Night Elie’s experience in the Holocaust destroy his faith. [/FONT]
[FONT="]In the beginning of the book Elie is a very faithful Jew. He wanted to study the Kabalah and to enter the temple. Moshe the Beadle is a big part of Elie’s life before the camps and Elie talks with him to great extent about God and the Kabala and their faith. But he is soon taken and Elie states: “Day after day, night after night he went from one Jewish house to the next telling his story and that of Malka the girl who lay dying for three days and that of Tobie, the tailor who begged to die before his sons were killed.” (7.) Elie and the people in his hometown refused to believe that the war could touch them. Elie’s faith is still strong at this point, But he states: When he and his family are about to leave for the ghetto Elie walks into his home and takes with him a small box of Jewish scrolls.[/FONT]
[FONT="]One Elie reaches the camp he losses his faith and this is started when he sees the crematorium and he states: “A truck drew close and unloaded it’s hold: small children. Babies! Yes I did see this with my own eyes. Babies being thrown in the flames. (Is it a wonder why sleep continues to elude me?)” (32.) This is the first terrible thing he sees that causes him to doubt the power of God and why he let humans do this to other humans. When he turns and walks away from the flames he says to himself “What are you? My God?” (66.) As it is seen from that quote and the one before it that the physiological harm done to Elie in the first few hours in the death camps. The days turned into years for him. Through the agonizing years in the death camps Elie’s faith continues to diminish. Elie continues to question God when he says the following quote: “Why do you go on troubling these poor people’s wounded minds with their ailing bodies?” (66.) As the Jews continue to wither and die from starvation, sickness or their bodies can’t hold on anymore Elie seems to be asking God himself the question “Who are you to do this to these people that you created and who are you to site idly by and let this continue?” This quote is like a slap in the face when they read it because it shows a completely different person that he was in the beginning of the book. His faith is being destroyed by witnessing the Jews turn into animals the Nazis shooting the Jews in the death march and finally his faith is lost when he witnesses the death of his father.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Elie finally is completely empty of faith when sees the pipel is hung. The young boy hanging in the gallows. This shows clearer then anything that Elie has completely and totally lost his faith. Elie at the beginning of the book is a very faithful Jew. And now it is seen that he is completely and totally at loss with his faith. To put someone through this type of thing is completely and totally unthinkable. If you lose your faith you lose part of your identity. Weather you are Catholic, Jewish, Islam whatever your religion is if you lose that you lose part of what makes you, you. [/FONT]
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[FONT="]As this essay shows, Elie being a very faithful Jew in the beginning becomes a man that doubts the one he worshiped so deeply. When Elie sees the children being thrown into the crematorium is when faith begins to fade. Next you see Elie questioning God once more when he asks what type of God would torture his creations like this and finally it is shown that Elie is completely empty when he says that God is hanging in the gallows.
Note. This was double spaced.
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