Night, By Elie Wiesel

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across Moshe the Beadle, who would take him under his wing and instruct him more in depth of the ways of the Talmud and cabbala. Through Moshe’s instruction, he is taught to question God for answers. Later Moshe is sent away to a camp and upon his return to Sighet presents the reader with a foreshadowing of what will soon come in the book. Elie recalls, “Moshe had changed….He no longer talked to me of God or the cabbala, but only of what he had seen.”(4) Thus right away the reader is exposed a loss of religious faith in Moshe, the same loss that will soon plague Elie.
When Elie arrives at Birkenau, the reader sees the first evidence of his loss of faith as he questions God during the selection process. Amid the selection many Jews are separated from their loved ones who are immediately sent to the crematory or burned in large fire pits. Although unaware to him at the time, this is the last Elie will ever see of his mother and sister. For this reason, many Jews are grieving ...

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so long.”(65) Here the reader can sense the immense loss that Elie is overcome by having spent most of his childhood seeking salvation only to conclude it was all a waste of time. With the loss of his religion, Elie’s only will to survive lies solely in the love for his father and hope, a hope that some day he will see an end to the nightmare of concentration camp life forever.
Before forced evacuation into the concentration camps, Elie and his father were not very close emotionally. In fact, his father rarely showed emotion or concern toward family matters at all. Elie’s father was one of the leading men that the community held in great esteem. Yet Elie’s father did not approve of ...

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