In today's society the number of people who believe in a god or certain religion seems to be decreasing year by year. Many of us are believed to be falling away from religion due to media and simply lack of time for faith; not many people in today’s world are faced with truly life-changing experiences such as Wiesel’s in his memoir Night. In Wiesel’s memoir, his religion dies out along with his belief of a God existing when he faces the atrocities of the Holocaust. In Night Wiesel incorporates both Moshie the Beadle and the young pipel to support his religion and how it was destroyed during his time in the Holocaust. In his memoir, Wiesel incorporates Moshie the Beadle because he plays an important role in Wiesel’s life as he encouraged the growth of his religion. Despite his father …show more content…
During Wiesel’s time in Buna he experiences a life-changing moment when he and the other prisoners are forced to view the hanging of the young pipel. During the slow and painful death of the prisoner someone questions where god is that he would let this happen, inside his head Wiesel answered “Where He is? This is where-hanging here from this gallows” (65). When Wiesel thinks this he signifies that his God has died along with the young pipel when he is hanged. Wiesel and the other prisoners cannot understand how such atrocities can be going on while god is just watching, this forces Wiesel to believe that there is no god. Although they lived long ago Moshie the Beadle and the young pipel created a major impact on Ellie’s religion, one encouraging it and one destroying it. Throughout our lives we all go through meaningful experiences that may not always be the most comforting. Although we do not always have a choice on what we experience in life it is important that the harder (change that word) situations we face we try to make it impact us as little as