It was once said that, "A little faith will bring your soul to heaven, but a lot of faith will bring heaven to your soul. " Likewise, the steadfast faithfulness and determination of young Eliezer Wiesel before the war epitomizes this very true adage. Eliezer aspired to become a Rabbi when he grew up, studying the Torah and the cabbala everyday. Until one day, the very God he prayed to betrayed him and his people. With the passage of the Final Solution, a seemingly eternal darkness had fallen upon the Jewish race; with it came death. Through the course of this everlasting night, Eliezer is slowly transformed from virtuous, pious child to a shadow of a human being, gaunt, lifeless and spiritually dead forevermore.

Before the war, Eliezer was full of love for God. As he says himself, "during the say I studied the Talmud, and at night I...