horrific experience. Throughout the story there is this question of “Where is God”, indeed I believe many people ask this question in times of hardship and pain. And as alluded to in the reading questioning is fundamental to the idea of faith in God. While Eliezer’s faith is shaken it is not however completely destroyed. It is true we do see him struggling with his faith at times for example “during the hanging of Piple and during his first night in the camp.” But the very fact that he asks the questions reflects his commitment to God and his beliefs. Even at his lowest points in faith when it seems that he has turned his back on God, he still prays to God help him be strong for he fears he will abandon his father and “after the death of his father, he expresses regret that there was no religious memorial.”Night focuses greatly on “Eliezer’s struggle with his faith. Eliezer discusses this struggle in terms of his loss of faith in God, but really it is a loss in faith in everything around him.” After all this trauma nothing in life makes since and his “disillusionment is the result of his painful experience with Nazi persecution, but it is also the result of the cruelty he sees fellow prisoners inflict upon each other as well as the cruelty of which he himself is capable.” Eliezer’s first taste of this cruelty is experienced at the hands of the Nazis, but is seen furthermore when he witnesses the way the prisoners treat each other. “Instead of comforting each other” in their times of need, they turn on each other. When Eliezer sees sons killing their own fathers he is at first appalled, but then worries that he himself will begin to feel this way towards his father, thus allowing him to see the cruelty which he posses as well. “When Eliezer’s father dies, Eliezer is deeply troubled at the sense of relief he feels” stati...
