Describe and explain Elie's view of God in Night by Elie Wiesel.

In the beginning of Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie is very religious. He believes deeply in God and even weeps when he prays. He and Moshe the Beadle study Torah (the Jewish Bible or first five books of Moses), Talmud (Jewish Law) and Cabbala (Jewish mysticism) together. 

After the Jewish people of Sighet are taken to Auschwitz, though, Elie's belief begins to change. He begins to question the existence of a God who would allow...

In the beginning of Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie is very religious. He believes deeply in God and even weeps when he prays. He and Moshe the Beadle study Torah (the Jewish Bible or first five books of Moses), Talmud (Jewish Law) and Cabbala (Jewish mysticism) together. 

After the Jewish people of Sighet are taken to Auschwitz, though, Elie's belief begins to change. He begins to question the existence of a God who would allow such horrible things to happen to people. He eventually loses all faith in God because of the horrors he witnesses and is subjected to. 

"I too had become a completely different person. The student of the Talmud, the child that I was, had been consumed in the flames. There remained only a shape that looked like me. A dark flame had entered into my soul and devoured it" (Wiesel 34)

With each terrible experience Elie has, he loses more faith in a superior being. When a boy is hanged at Buna, it is the final straw for him.

"Behind me I heard the same man asking: 'Where is God now?'

And I heard a voice within me answer him:

'Where is He? Here He is--He is hanging here on this gallows...'" (Wiesel 62).