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The protagonist of Night is Eliezer. Eliezer is twelve years old when the story begins in 1941. Shlomo, Eliezer's father, is Orthodox Jewish. However, Eliezer finds a Jewish teacher who teaches him Kabbalah, Jewish mysticism. The concentration camps further challenge Eliezer's religious beliefs as he discovers them. The night is written in first-person from Eliezer's point of view, so the reader follows his experiences and thoughts directly throughout. At the concentration camp, Eliezer and his father are separated from his mother and three sisters. Eliezer's religious beliefs are challenged by this, as well as the cruelty he witnesses. Eliezer is especially disheartened as he sees other sons abandon or even kill their own fathers in order to escape. However, when his own father dies, he does not reach out to help him and, even after his death, he guiltily thinks, ''Free at last!''
Through all of his time at the concentration camps before he is rescued, including the death of his father, Eliezer questions and eventually loses his faith in God. Eliezer is a dynamic character throughout the story, as he develops and changes through the horrors of the Holocaust. During a Jewish holiday service in the concentration camps, he asks himself, ''Blessed be God's name? Why, but why would I bless Him? Pointing out all the atrocities of the Holocaust that proved God's mercilessness.