, being the follow-up to Night, also had a lot to do with faith in God. It was not just loss of faith in this novel but faith in God. Confronting the Holocaust stated, "The voice defending the position that a humanist position solves nothing in Dawn is a vigorous one. The voice of God proclaims a harsh morality."(41) So Dawn was not necessarily just about loss of faith, but showing how God gave them a tough time. There are a few times in Dawn, that the characters lost their faith in God. "Death loves to change the color of people's hair. Death has no hair; it has only eyes. God, on the other had has no eyes at all." The characters felt that God was not watching over them when this was going on. But as time went on in this novel the characters began to regain their faith in God. "We were the first-or the last-men of creation; certainly we were alone. And God? He was present, somewhere. Perhaps He was incarnate in the liking with which John Dawson inspired me. The lack of hate between executioner and victim, perhaps this is God." In the end Dawn ended up being a little different than Night, because they regained their faith in God.
             The idea of God played a different role in A Beggar in Jerusalem. Since this novel does not take place in the time of the heart, Auschwitz, this does not necessarily use the loss of faith theme. In Confronting the Holocaust, it says, "At the very end of A Beggar In Jerusalem, Wiesel alludes to the famous photograph, collected as a souvenir by a German officer of a 'father and his son, in the middle of a human herd, moving toward the ditch where, a
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