While reading the book, Night written by Elie Wiesel, I found it to be a very moving, but disturbing piece. This book focuses on the necessities in our life that we take for granted, necessities we do not even think about as being important. Wiesel writes a great deal about the hardships and happenings of the concentration camps during World War II. Even though history of the second world war is taught in school, it is never elaborated on. We learn that while Americans were being bombed by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor, Hitler was moving thousands of Jewish people into concentration camps, but we never focused on the lives of the Jewish community and the hardships that they had to go through in order to survive.
Wiesel writes about his time spent in several different camps. He writes how the Jewish community was ignorant in thinking that nothing was really going to happen to them and that the Russians would never allow Hitler to destroy an entire population. Wiesel also writes a great deal about God. He focuses a good portion of the book on God Himself. Being a firm believer in God and the meaning of God, Wiesel believed that He would not allow this infiltration of the German community to overtake the Jewish community. His faith slowly diminishes as the book proceeds. His faith in God becomes no longer apparent. He often questions God and why He is allowing the Germans to torture and destroy the entire Jewish population.
Since Wiesel was a strong believer in God in the beginning of the book, but not towards the end, I have chosen the following passage from the book (which can be found on page 64) that best describes his change of emotions and beliefs about God and clearly portrays his emotional turmoil to myself.
"Why, but why should I bless Him? In every fiber I rebelled.
