In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie compares himself to Job. I can see why; after all, they have many parallels. Their experiences are almost identical at times, and despite a few differences, the key details are very much the same.
Job was a character from the Old Testament, in the book of the same name. He is the pawn of a wager between Satan and God, where Satan believes that Job will stop loving God when all he has is taken from him. However, as his children and cattle are killed, and his life crumbles around him, he still trusts in God, praying for the solution to his punishment. Even when God does not deliver, he does not stop believing - however, he does complain as to why God is punishing him.
Elie is a teenager in the town of Sighet, in Hungary, when the Nazis invade. He was a devout Jew, who went against his father’s ideals to study the Kabbalah, something ordinarily reserved for those who are 30 years old. First he is put in a ghetto, and then he is transported to Auschwitz. There he is met with what can only be described as hell on Earth. His mother and sisters are ripped from him, leaving him with only his father. Rations are measly and guards cruel to the extreme. …show more content…
They lose family members and are changed forever, and God seems to do nothing to stop it, despite how firm they are in their faith. They both question how God, who is supposed to be ever-loving, Almighty, and merciful, could possibly allow anyone, especially people so God-fearing as them, to be put through what they had to endure.
The differences between Elie and Job are, for one, the time period. Job is an Old Testament story, while Elie is a true Holocaust survivor. They go through different specific experiences, for different reason. Elie is brought to a concentration camp because of the invasion of the Nazis. Job has everything in his life destroyed because of a bet between God and the