It’s the sirens, too close to death, though alive men, and the constant popping of guns that changed Eliezer. Night by Elie Wiesel is from his and his father’s experience in the Holocaust. Taken out of their homes and forced into camps to be starved, tortured, and challenged by death daily. Eliezer had been changed in ways in which he could see the world’s true colors, had a better look on relationships, and his faith in God was tested, leading to the dwindling of faith in his life.
Originating in the Holocaust, the evil around Eliezer assisted his negative outlook on the world and the lack of anything good at all. His idea of the world wasn’t as it once seemed. During the novel, his once known world was unknown by stating, “ My eyes had opened and I was alone, terribly alone in a world without …show more content…
Chapter three allows for Eliezer’s relationships to become raw and to be looked at without him or his father’s guard up. To explain the growing love between the two he includes, “ Still I was happy, I was near my father.”(32) But later in chapter five, to display that the relationship is growing, but also has many more levels to it now. “ Never before had we understood each other so clearly.” (69) Overall, his faith had being lost gained his gratitude for positivity around him. Not only did Eliezer’s faith in the world seem to vanish, but his trust in God’s love for him had diminished ongoing until the flame blew out. Spoken to the reader by Elie, his thoughts were given to reveal his feeling toward religion. “ I no longer accepted God’s silence . As i swallowed my ration of soup, I turned that act into a symbol of rebellion, of a protest against Him.”(69) By his “symbol of rebellion” he is choosing not to fast, since he no longer wants to give his respects to God, if God does not love him enough to save them from their so called