Never Give Up

While reading Night, I was shocked at the content and the way in which Wiesel told his memoirs, it´s incredible how many details he gave and the faith that most of the Jews had during difficult times. Their faith and their beliefs are the ones in The Bible, and the situation of Elie in the camp is very similar to the one of Job. He also accepts it, "How I sympathized with Job! I did not deny God's existence, but I doubted His absolute justice." (pg 42) Many people started to lose their faith and believed that God had abandoned them through these difficult moments.

They all remembered the Jewish holidays and some still tried celebrating. Others didn't because they could fast for fear of dying or starving, and others they had just lost their faith and saw no purpose on continuing their religious life. Some people tried to convince others to keep their faith and that God would help them survive the war, but many didn't mind anymore and had no fear of death and were sure that God wouldn't do anything for them.

At the end Elie noticed that God allowed him to get out of the concentration camps, unfortunately he was the only survivor from his family. At the same time he was almost sure that his father had rested from all the suffering he had to overcome for almost a year, and that he was not agonizing as he had been the last moments they were together.