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- Having and Losing Faith in God One of the main themes of Night is Eliezer's loss of religious faith. Throughout the book, Eliezer witnesses and experiences things that he cannot reconcile with the idea of a just and all-knowing God.
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- Cruelty in the Holocaust. The Night demonstrates terribly cruel acts by the Nazis against the Jews, also known as The Holocaust. Elie’s family is in Sighet.
- Humanity. Humanity is absent from the main storyline. However, it can be considered as an overarching theme. Most of the characters treat each other with prejudice and inhumanity.
- Faith. Faith in God is another major theme of the novel. When Eliezer in Sighet, his primary concern is the study of his religion, Judaism, and the purpose of life on this earth.
- Family. Families were broken during the mayhem of transportation to the concentration camps to Auschwitz and other camps. Eliezer, for example, gets separated from his mother and sisters.
- Eliezer’s Struggle to Maintain Faith in A Benevolent God
- Silence
- Inhumanity Toward Other Humans
- The Importance of Father-Son Bonds
Eliezer’s struggle with his faith is a dominant conflict in Night.At the beginning of the work, his faith in God is absolute. When asked why he prays to God, he answers, “Why did I pray? . . . Why did I live? Why did I breathe?” His belief in an omnipotent, benevolent God is unconditional, and he cannot imagine living without faith in a divine powe...
In one of Night’s most famous passages, Eliezer states, “Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live.” It is the idea of God’s silence that he finds most troubling, as this description of an event at Buna reveals: as the Gestapo hangs a young boy, a man asks, “Where is God?” yet the only re...
Eliezer’s spiritual struggle owes to his shaken faith not only in God but in everything around him. After experiencing such cruelty, Eliezer can no longer make sense of his world. His disillusionment results from his painful experience with Nazi persecution, but also from the cruelty he sees fellow prisoners inflict on each other. Eliezer also beco...
Eliezer is disgusted with the horrific selfishness he sees around him, especially when it involves the rupture of familial bonds. On three occasions, he mentions sons horribly mistreating fathers: in his brief discussion of the pipelwho abused his father; his terrible conclusion about the motives of Rabbi Eliahou’s son; and his narration of the fig...
Analysis of Key Moments in Night. Elie studies with Moishe the Beadle. Moishe is expelled from Sighet. Moishe returns and tells everyone what he saw and experienced. German soldiers come to Sighet and place restrictions of Jews living there. Eliezer and his family are moved into a ghetto; Eliezer and his family are transported to Birkenau on ...
One of the main themes of Night is Eliezer's loss of religious faith. Throughout the book, Eliezer witnesses and experiences things that he cannot reconcile with the idea of a just and all-knowing God. At the beginning of the narrative, Eliezer declares, "I believed profoundly."
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The main themes in Night are death, God and religion, and sanity and insanity. Death: The death camps represent a perversion of the social, cultural, and religious significance of...
