Changes In Night By Elie Wiesel

The one person in Elie’s life that means everything to him is his father. During his time in the concentration camps, Elie’s bond with his father

In life, people go through different changes when put through difficult experiences. In the book Night, Elie Wiesel is a young Jewish boy whose family is sent to a concentration camp by Nazis. The story focuses on his experiences and trials through the camp. Elie physically becomes more dehumanized and skeletal, mentally changes his perspective on religion, and socially becomes more selfish and detached, causing him to lose many parts of his character and adding to the overall theme of loss in Night.

While Elie was in the concentration camp he changed the way he acted. This new behavior led him to develop new character traits. While Ellie was in the concentration camp he became angry at many things. For example “I would have dug my nails into the criminals flesh” (Wisel 39). Elie shows extreme anger when the Nazi officials are beating Elie’s father. Elie was angry because the Nazi soldiers were not treating them nicely and keeping them in poor conditions. Elie was usually not a person to display anger, but he shows this when his family members are being hurt. Elie wants to stand up for what is right and for his family members. Despite his studying, Elie wavered in his belief in Kabbalah while he was at the camp. Elie was a religious boy before he went to Auschwitz, but while in the camp, he became angry at God. In the book Elie says, “‘Where are You, my God?’” (66). Elie is wondering why God is not helping the Jews. Elie had complete faith in his religion until he experienced and witnessed such horrible suffering. He had been taught that God will punish evil and save the righteous. However, when Elie saw that God was not helping the Jews situation,

The book Night is a memoir about Eliezer Wiesel’s greuling holocaust experience. This book discusses the the grim conditions and treatment that Mr. Weisel endured during this dark time period. Elie changed in many ways while in the camp because of the dreadful things he experienced. This essay will be focusing on the physical, spiritual, and mental changes that Eliezer went through.

When Elie first begins to lose his faith he gets the loss of God. When Elie loses hope it happens when everyone begins to pray to god and he didn't feel the need to anymore. “For the first time, I felt anger rising within me. Why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent. What was there to thank Him for?” (Wiesel 33). When Elie loses faith in God while he's in the camps, it's like how people begin to lose faith or trust in their friends if they

Child abuse is very similar to the book Night by Elie Wiesel. There is one main topic that sticks out when reading child abuse articles and Night. Both topics have delt with a certain pain. Elie Wiezel and child abuse victims have suffered, starved, and are mainly frightened of their surroundings. Not only did they deal with emotional abuse, but also physical abuse. The Jewish children in Night have been abused by the leaders of the camp and were forced to do work or else get punished. When it comes to Child abuse, the children also get punished, whipped, and punched like Elie and his father did. Both topics dealt with verbal abuse too. Many Jews in Night have been threatened and constantly picked on by the concentration camp leaders for being

To alter is to change or to become different or modified. That is exactly what happens to the character, Eliezer Wiesel, Elie for short. The book Night is an autobiography by Elie. It is all about the struggles Elie and his father go through after being transported to a concentration camp. Elie’s love for his father is the only reason why he keeps going. Elie and his father have some ups and downs, but make it through together. Over time he feels trapped and confined by the responsibility of keeping his father alive. All throughout Night, Elie’s relationship with his father is transforming, throughout that process, Eliezer himself is transformed.

He began by devoting his life to others, mainly his family. However, his experiences caused him to become more selfish and grudgeful. For example, Idek, the kapo in charge of Buna, is known for his unexpected wraths. There was an event where Idek approaches Elie’s father, Shlomo and Elie is a bystander during this situation. He clearly states that the camps have changed him in the sense that after Shlomo received a few blows, Elie held a grudge towards his father rather than Idek. This foreshadowed an even bigger change in Elie’s father in the book. “What’s more, if I felt anger at that moment, it was not directed at the Kapo but at my father. Why couldn’t he have avoided Idek’s wrath? That was what life in a concentration camp had made of me...” (Wiesel 54). Elie knows who had fault in this change of character, if it had to be anything, anyone, it has to be the camp itself. As Elie is slowly becoming less and less humane, his father's strength is lessening also. After the death march where prisoners are forced to WALK 85 miles to the camp in Gleiwitz. During this they are tortured and left to die along the way. This had consisted of many losing their strength along with their lives because of how they were treated by those who had authority. Elie is resisting the urge to do more for himself and less for his father because of his father's state in health. “They didn't give us anything... They said

When he was separated from his mother and sister, Elie was left with his father. After the first few camps he could not live without his father alive and with him. They would both lie to stay together, but when his father was not with him, Elie didn’t know what to do. His father would tell him and the other Jews to never give up on hope. When they were being moved to the last camp on the train cart, they went threw a small town. When people outside saw them in the carts someone throw a small piece of bread. “ Men were hurling themselves against each other, trampling, tearing at and mauling each other”(101). after they got out of the cart, some man came up to Elie asking him if he had seen his son. Elie lied to the man and said no because he thought what if his son didn’t want to be found by his father? Back at one of the first camps he remember his father asking to use the bathroom and Idek slapped him across the face. Eliezer didn’t even blink, in fact he wanted his father to be quiet and not make any sound. When his father was on his deathbed, he ignored his father for his last call of

"If you do not change direction you may end where you were heading". That quote was from Lao Tuz who was a religious philosopher and poet form China in 604 BC. During the book Night you could see it in not just Elie Wiesel, but you could see it in everyone. You could see change in Elie not just in his physical appearance, not emotionally, and mentally. People can or cannot say they've seen worse except for the people who survived war and the camps and which has led them to be mentally broken down. During the Holocaust Elie has changed in his faith, his struggle in the camp, and how his personality changed.

People in today's world are more reluctant to help and stand up for others. Caring more about themselves rather than the others around them. This practice of indifference in today’s society only leads to negative outcomes. Outcomes that are portrayed in the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, and in both the articles “The Perils of Indifference” by Elie Wiesel and Indifference has been seen all throughout history and has led to many unfortunate events. One of these events was the holocaust.

One of the generalizations of change is, change can be natural or man-made. The entirety of the 1940’s change was due to man-made problems. Any memoir written by someone who lived through this decade would have included several examples of this generalization of change. This includes the book that I was assigned, Night by Elie Wiesel. Accordingly, Night clearly illustrates that change can be natural, or caused by a human.

During the holocaust, Elie Wiesel changes from a spiritual sensitive little boy to a spiritually dead, unemotional man. “ Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever.” the book Night revels Elie experiences during the holocaust.

Change is normally inevitable when faced with traumatic situations. In the book Night author Elie Wiesel shows the transformation of himself as he struggles through the events of the holocaust. Being separated from most of his family members, Elie had only his father left to provide as some sort of support. Surviving was hard. Through the harsh weather to the small rations of food, Elie’s self preservation instincts start to kick in.

It is commonly said, as well as believed, that change is inevitable. It is bound to happen, whether we choose to believe in this concept or not. An excellent example of change, change of character specifically, would be Eliezer Wiesel in his book Night. He wrote about his time in concentration camps, and the traumatizing experiences he went through, some of which most people can’t even begin to imagine. His mentality changed and developed more and more as the book progressed, he has clearly changed from the once religious and faith-based boy, into an anguished and desolate man.