Question

Can you help with this please? Thank you!

Answer 1

Whats the question?

Answer 2

Faith

How is Elie’s struggle to maintain his faith in God evident in Night? Provide three examples of how Wiesel represents this struggle in the novel and discuss why Elie feels the need to reject God, as well as hold on to him.

Answer 3

Is this a book?

Answer 4

yeah

Answer 5

Could you try reading the book?

Answer 6

I an help you with social studies not this

Answer 7

i did, im sorry if i wasted your time.

Answer 8

ok

Answer 9

well whats the books name

Answer 10

Night

Answer 11

Eliezer’s struggle with his faith is a dominant conflict in Night. At the beginning of the work, his faith in God is absolute. When asked why he prays to God, he answers, “Why did I pray? . . . Why did I live? Why did I breathe?” His belief in an omnipotent, benevolent God is unconditional, and he cannot imagine living without faith in a divine power. But this faith is shaken by his experience during the Holocaust.

Answer 12

Eliezer’s faith in the goodness of the world is irreparably shaken, however, by the cruelty and evil he witnesses during the Holocaust. He cannot imagine that the concentration camps’ unbelievable, disgusting cruelty could possibly reflect divinity. He wonders how a benevolent God could be part of such depravity and how an omnipotent God could permit such cruelty to take place. His faith is equally shaken by the cruelty and selfishness he sees among the prisoners. If all the prisoners were to unite to oppose the cruel oppression of the Nazis, Eliezer believes, then maybe he could understand the Nazi menace as an evil aberration. He would then be able to maintain the belief that humankind is essentially good. But he sees that the Holocaust exposes the selfishness, evil, and cruelty of which everybody—not only the Nazis, but also his fellow prisoners, his fellow Jews, even himself—is capable. If the world is so disgusting and cruel, he feels, then God either must be disgusting and cruel or must not exist at all.