Loss comes in many forms, and impacts each individual who experiences in different ways. The loss of material objects is usually not as hard to overcome and deal with then the loss of one who is close to you. When losing faith, mobility rights, or other things granted to us by God, a person may become infuriated and eventually, lose the will to wake up each morning and live each day. In the novel Night, Elie Wiesel explains the hardships he overcomes during the holocaust and World War II, and the losses he is forced to experience. During the couple months that elapse during the novel, Elie gradually loses his freedom, his faith, and above all, everyone close to him.
During this calamity, Elie Wiesel loses all of his freedom rights he is granted when he is born. "At last came the order to rest." After Elie, his father, and many other Jewish men were finally allowed to rest. The Germans did not give any of these men the option to go where they wanted to, or rest even when they were dying from exhaustion, fatigue and other various ailments. "Strip! Fast! Los! Keep only your belts and shoes in your hands. . . ." Being physically forced to take off and leave all of their clothes, the Jewish men are all losing their freedoms one by one. Stolen away from each individual man, was their freedom of speech, freedom of mobility, freedom of religion, and especially, their freedom of decision.
After devoting his life to the Jewish faith, Elie realizes God has left him, even though he has always been devoted to Him. "Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever." The flames he is referring to are the flames, which killed his mother, sisters, and many other people of the Jewish faith. These events caused him to lose all his faith he once possessed in God, because he realizes, that God has deserted them and they would all die there in Auschwitz. "Why should
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