Feeling lost when you don't even know yourself or when you no longer know what to represent or what to believe in is exactly what Elie Wiesel feels in his book "The Night". During the Holocaust period, Elie was one of the victims taken to a concentration camp and forced to work to a brutal extent. As a child, Elie was determined to learn and study his religion, but things changed, along with his priorities. Devastating events changed Elie's views on religion, battling conflicts between him and those around him, even the test that God seemed to impose on Elie. To his disbelief, Elie had given up on God and lost faith due to his immense struggle throughout his year in the camp, carrying the burden of not caring about the one who had always looked up and been there. for him, that is God. Once Elie was in the concentration camp, Auschwitz, he felt as if his life was a dream because he claimed it was too surreal to be reality. Elie remained faithful to his religion, looking toward God when trouble approached him. God had always been Elie's escape route, and according to Elie, that wouldn't change. However, there came a time when the solid structure on which Elie's faith rested began to erode. Elie had also fought against himself, creating mental conflicts. When men talked about God, Elie argued with himself about how he felt about Him. Elie said, “As for me, I have stopped praying. I agree with Job! I was not denying His existence, but I doubted His absolute justice (45).” He didn't know how to feel about religion because he still wanted God to protect him, but he wasn't sure if he would be right in protecting him. On the eve of Rosh Hashanah, Elie had fought his last battle with himself regarding his faith… middle of paper… Elie renounces his faith completely. Elie has come into conflict numerous times, trying to hold on to the last bit of his life before it takes a turn for the worse: his connection with God. Elie is an ever-evolving character: his struggle with his faith and his conflict with himself about it, his struggle between his faith and the other inmates, and his struggle between God and his relationship with Job; although the underlying conflicts are solely between Elie and God. Elie once believed that God was the almighty and contained all higher power. But, as the concentration camps changed many people mentally and physically, the camps also changed Elie. No matter how much Elie had once believed in God, that strong belief had faded to a bare minimum, little or no belief left behind. They say change is for the better, but that's not always the case.