Through Night, Elie Wiesel exemplifies the trials of trying to keep faith throughout a time, in which, many often fall to the wayside because of things life has thrown their way. Being the author, Elie's life experience, at a concentration camp during the Holocaust, is his way of reaching and warning many nations of how the loss of humanity can destroy all faith; faith that is, in turn, suppose to protect one from the unexpected acts of another. Although Elie's faith starts out as this fierce less ore within, the events of the Holocaust leave Elie feeling as though God has escaped from his heart.
At first, Elie seems to put complete trust and faith in God to stop, as well as erase, the beginning horrors of the Holocaust by often answering his own questions of "why?" He would simple remember a conversation between him and Moshe in which they both agreed that, "Man questions God and God answers. But we don't understand them. Because they come from the depths of the soul, and they stay there until death. (3)" Elie clearly believed that the answers of why his race of Jews was under pure torture was an answer God could only understand, but realized the answer was coming for him one day. By allowing his faith to thickly coat the problem, Elie often believed this would eventually blow over, but that was not the case. As the problems began to arise, his faith fell.
The question of "why" has eventually flipped its meaning, it has been transformed to "why do You still trouble their sick minds, their cripples bodies? What does Your greatness mean, Lord of the universe, in the face of all this weakness, this decomposition, and this decay? (63)" Elie, is now, having an eternal question of why faith should exist in a man who is controlling all the demolishing acts of the Jews. The understanding of God being the holder of the key to the answers of life is now lost because frustration has taken over.
