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Dead of Night
"From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me.
The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left
me." Many may know the raw emotion of hurt and anguish, but how
often does that anguish arise from internal conflict? In the
novel Night by Elie Wiesel, the conflict over Wiesel's
diminishing faith in God is parallel to his decreasing loyalty
to his father. He is troubled and tormented by feelings of
guilt. His lack of faith and loyalty account for the deadness
in the young man's eyes as he gazes into a mirror after his
liberation.
In the onset of the novel, Elie's faith in God is
prominent. As the novel progresses, however, Elie loses faith
little by little. At the age of twelve, he asks his father,
Chlomo, to find him a master to teach him the studies of the
cabbala. His faith in God is very strong for such a young
child, and his faith continues to flourish as time goes on. "I
believed profoundly.......

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