Night- Elie Wiesel
God’s first act is to create light and dispel this darkness. Darkness and night therefore symbolize a world without God’s presence.
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od. Many were filled with disgust, as the God they were so loyal to had abandoned them when they were subject to such cruelty.
Loss of Faith
he uses violence towards others as an outlet for his anger and despair.
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idek
He changes along side Elie throughout the book as they both experience the horrors within the Holocaus
Mr. Wiesel
(sholmo)
His commitment to his father also reminds him of his own humanity, of the goodness left in his heart. All around him, he sees fellow prisoners descending to the deepest depths of selfishness and cruelty, but his relationship to his father reminds him that there is life outside of the Holocaust, and a set of fundamental moral values that transcends... See more
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"It's over. God is no longer with us."
Loss of Faith
We do not get to hear Shlomo’s thoughts about his experiences, and the only development we are shown is his gradual decline, a decline that all of the camp’s prisoners experience.
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- “I did not fast. First of all, to please my father who had forbidden me to do so. And then, there was no longer any reason for me to fast. I no longer accepted God’s silence. As I swallowed my ration of soup, I turned that act into a symbol of rebellion, or protest against Him.” (pg. 69)
Loss of Faith
. Despite the fact that he also endures suffering at the hands of his captors, Idek has absolutely no compassion for the workers in his unit.