Throughout world history, suffering has always accompanied people’s life. In the novel Night written by Elie Wiesel, the protagonist, Elie faced many problems in the concentration camp. Adolf Hitler, the German leader during the 1930s and 40s, had created the concentration camp to keep people in control and forced them to work like slaves. This was during World War II, which devastated many countries in a big depression. Many people struggled and end up dying in the Holocaust. However, prisoners in the camps were made not only to suffer but to lose their humanity. People were suffering to death and the evil becomes internalized in the camp. Eliezer will also lose his humanity in this terrible circumstance.
In the beginning of the story, Eliezer studied the Talmud, and he was working hard in religion. He also studies the Jewish mystical texts of the Cabbala, somewhat unusual occupation for a teenager but this shows how much he is involved in religion. He strongly believed in god. However, he went through many concentration camps such as Birkenau and Buna and started to believe that studying religion was meaningless. He could not find a reason to bless God in the midst of so much suffering. “For God’s sake, where is God?” (65) People were also beginning to lose their faith. Eliezer thinks that man is stronger than God and therefore he had no need to celebrate the Jewish celebration, Rosh Hashanah. Yom kippur is the day which Jews traditionally fast; Eliezer eats on the day. He could no longer control himself emotionally and physically. This started Eliezer to lose his humanity. His consciousness was blunting.
The Nazi concentration camps treated the prisoners brutally. Many people were murdered and suffered for starvation, fear and torture. Because of the conditions, people are desperate to survive. Because of the food shortages, people fights and even kill each other to obtain their own food. Eliezer watched an old man grabbing a piece of bread in the train,...