"...whether God truly defeated Satan in the primeval struggle-a question inescapable for one contemplating Job in the light of Auschwitz." (Idinopulos). Praising the way Wiesel describes the events of the Holocaust, though the evil of it being cabalistic. That evil, interpreted the night, and everything lost while God being contemplated. Although many of times throughout the book Night, religion was spoken, if only in subtle form, showing that God was not put off, only temporarily misplaced. Day came, when Wiesel rediscovered his deity, the day that he started to piece together his first writing since "to write is an act of faith."
In Night Wiesel's character claimed to have lost his faith in the God he had once known, however, God and religion are reprised, not always precisely, yet in a rather subtle manner- he may have thought to have lost his faith, but looking closer, it was always there. "Never shall I forget that night...(N)ever shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God himself. Never." (Wiesel, pp.43) In this sense, night was at the time of his contemplations, when God did not show to help, when all evil consumed the world around him. Day is that, in which God took a notable place again in Wiesel's mind, when the good of the world once again shined upon him. The big picture of Wiesel's experiences is that of knowing his God- his good, his day, and loosing sight of his God- his evil, his night.
Armstrong states, "Like art, religion has been an attempt to find meaning and value in life, despite the suffering that flesh is heir to." (Armstrong, pp. 6) She believes in the holiness and sacredness of other people. In her eye's religion is not based on belief but on that of doing things and living with a commiserated style. Unlike Wiesel, Armstrong through life had been on a search for that of what she misunderstood as &quo
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