Changes In Night By Elie Wiesel

One internal conflict Elie experienced was the loss of all of his family. While he was in the concentration camps, he and his father were the only ones in his family that were left. “My hand tightened its grip on my father. All I could think of was not to lose him. Not to remain alone,” which was stated on page 30, explains how he and his father were all that were left and his father would have to be there for Elie during that time. They fought hard together through the cold nights

The best way to learn about an event is to hear about the event from someone who was there. The memoir Night by Elie Wiesel tells of Elie’s experiences in a concentration camp along with his father. He finds himself battling with many inner struggles as the Nazis break him down. Elie battles these inner demons to eventually live through World War II and go on to write about his experience. Throughout the book Elie changed physically, mentally, and emotionally due to his experiences.

After the departure of Elie’s father he says “since my father’s death, nothing mattered to me anymore”(Wiesel 113). Elie remains focused after his fathers passing and lives to tell his story. 2. Elie struggles to remain humane and hold true to his faith. While in the concentration camp Elie begins to question why God is allowing these horrendous acts to happen to his followers.

His father died because, he was sick, and he did not want to eat so that Elie could have a bigger chance of surviving. This took a toll on Elie because, he was really close with his dad, and seeing your dad get sick and then die will make you start losing faith on if you will survive or not.

In the autobiographical account Night, written by Elie Wiesel, the Jews experienced many conflicts and discrimination issues during the Holocaust. There were many many warnings but the Jews decided not to listen. The Germans were led by a man named, Adolf Hitler who wanted power over any and everybody they encountered.

.As Elie’s father continues to show that now he is dependent on Elie, Elie slowly but surely grows into a parent. Elie believed he needed to be by his father because his father needed him. At one point in the novel, on page 108 Elie makes a sacrifice for the little bit of food that they barely get for his father, “For a ration of bread I was able to exchange cots to be next to my father”. Elie

Night is a dramatic book that tells the horror and evil of the concentration camps that many were imprisoned in during World War II. Throughout the book the author Elie Wiesel, as well as many prisoners, lost their faith in God. There are many examples in the beginning of Night where people are trying to keep and strengthen their faith but there are many more examples of people rebelling against God and forgetting their religion.

Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night displays how the traumatic effects of the Holocaust shaped his identity, as it caused him to lose hope in humanity and goodness in the world due to loss of faith. An individual is greatly impacted by their identity as it can shape how others view them, their moral beliefs and how they reflect upon themselves. Those perceptions of Elie are altered by the intense punishments and orders the Nazi officers have on the captured Jewish. Wiesel is stripped of his rights and punished for his Jewish faith, which triggers the changes in his identity and turns into a lifeless prisoner. After seeing many of his fellow prisoners be killed or beaten, Elie undergoes a crisis of faith and God because seeing those events often causes mental stress.

“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering” (Nietzsche). This quote, said by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, describes the desire to survive that was inside of Elie Wiesel in his story. The book describes Elie’s late teen years when he was sent to a concentration camp by the German government. In the book, he is separated from his whole family except for his old father, and both are put to work inside of the camp. As Elie suffers through the camp, his faith and his life face many tests and trials. There are many instances throughout the book when people die or when somebody loses their faith. The theme of the book Night, written by Elie Wiesel, is survival, as shown by the death of many Jews during the Holocaust, people willing to do anything to survive, and people’s faith not surviving the traumatic experiences of the concentration camps.

During the Holocaust, an estimated 11 million people died, 6 million of which were Jews. When Elie Wiesel was 15 he was taken from his home and brought to a concentration camp, where he was immediately separated from his mother and sister. He was put through things that most can hardly imagine; he managed to live through all of it, but just barely. Elie was sent to Auschwitz in 1944 and lived through the horrors until April 11, 1945; he died on July 2, 2016, but not before he could write more than 50 books. In the novel “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the main character, Elie, was effected by the events in the book with his loss of religion, psychological changes, and failing to have the willpower to live or have faith in humanity.

In the memoir, Night, author Elie Wiesel portrays the dehumanization of individuals and its lasting result in a loss of faith in God. Throughout the Holocaust, Jews were doggedly treated with disrespect and inhumanity. As more cruelty was bestowed upon them, the lower their flame of hope and faith became as they began turning on each other and focused on self preservation over family and friends. The flame within them never completely died, but rather stayed kindling throughout the journey until finally it stood flickering and idle at the eventual halt of this seemingly never-ending nightmare. Elie depicts the perpetuation of violence that crops up with the Jews by teaching of the loss in belief of a higher power from devout to doubt they

In the Novel “Night” by Elie Wiesel, his emotion that was coming of the novel was sadness, simply because he was questioning God, he was reconsidering his relationship with him and he explains so in his novel. Elie stated “Behind me, I heard the same man asking: “For God's sake, where is God?” And from within me, I heard a voice answer: “Where He is? This is where--hanging here from this gallows...”

In Sighet, Elie would study the Jewish religion day, and night. He and his father disagreed on whether Elie was of age to be studying so much content. “He wanted to drive the idea of studying Kabbalah from my mind. In vain”(Wiesel 4). Elie’s father didn’t believe that Elie could study despite all that he already knew. This represents their disconnected relationship because Elie’s father should be close enough with Elie to know his intellectual potential. Elie’s dad was respected throughout the community. His advice was constantly needed for every affair. Helping the community was his main priority, rather than his own family. “He rarely displayed his feelings, not even within his family, and was more involved with the welfare of others than with that of his own kin”(Wiesel 4). As a father its respected to be quiet and serious, but isolating one’s own family is extreme. Elie and his father were never able to have a close father and son bond due to the fact that Elie’s dad focused on his reputation rather than his primary responsibility. Later on while in Auschwitz, Elie and his dad meet one their relatives. Elie’s dad barely recognizes his own family due to always being out and not attending his family. “He was always elsewhere, lost in thought. (Once, a cousin came to see us in Sighet. She had stayed at our house and eaten at our table for two weeks before my father noticed her presence for

“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” - George Bernard Shaw. George Shaw’s famous quote describes that to achieve, you must change yourself. On May 1944, Elie Wiesel and his family were forced out from his home in Sighet, Romania to live in Auschwitz, Germany. He and his two older sisters survived the holocaust, Elie then wrote his experience in 1960. During the span of the book, “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the novel demonstrates that traumatic events can change a person drastically. In the beginning, Elie lived with his family in Germany, his mother, his father, and his three siblings. The Germans forced the Jews to hand over their valuables, live in ghettos and finally moving them to concentration camps, including Elie’s family. He was disunited from his mother and three siblings, but managed to stay with his father. At first when he entered the camp he was pessimistic and discouraged when he saw the townspeople crying including his father. After, Elie then learned to take care of himself and his father during tragic events, he stuck to his ambitions and values which led him to go through many obstacles , despite the limitations, and be free of the camp of Auschwitz. As he set out Eliezer was an immature and carefree 15 year old who developed into a responsible young adult.

Elie is a new person, changed by nightmarish, heinous events that happened to him. He knows that he would never be the same again.