d not find any reason to bless God when there was so much suffering. He started to believe that the Jews were not the chosen people, but were the chosen people to be massacred. This denial of faith caused Eliezer to feel alone and on Yom Kippur, when Jews fast, Eliezer ate. In Eliezer’s mind, man has taken the role as God; he determines who lives and who dies. All the prisoners go through Dr. Mengele, Nazi Physician, and he determines who dies, not God. Eliezer has decided that praying for God is foolish because God is not present in the concentration camps. Even a fellow inmate stated, “I’ve got more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He’s the only one who’s kept his promises…” Hitler has taken the place of God, where Hitler has the ultimate power. Even though, Eliezer has rejected his faith in God forever, he still refers to God’s exsistence when he vows never to forget the Holocaust “…even if I am condemned to live as long as God himself.” Although it may seem that Eliezer is rejecting God, he still cannot get God off his mind. Even though, Night ends with Eliezer being faithless and without hope for himself or for humanity, it is Eliezer’s later belief that there are reasons to believe in God and the in man’s goodness. The fact that he wrote Night shows that Eliezer believes in importance of human life and his own life. Night ‘s existence proves that Eliezer still had some hopefulness after the Holocaust. Another important theme in Night was if people are exposed to inhuman cruelty, they themselves actually lose a sense of humanity and morality. Through the Nazi treatment of the Jews as less than human, caused the Jews to actually act less than human. An example of this kind of behavior was when some of the deportees, in the cattle car, started to have sex publicly. When you rob people of their homes and treat them like animals, the...
