Changes In Night By Elie Wiesel

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.

I swore never to remain silent whenever and wherever humans beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.- Elie Weisel

In “Night,” the setting creates a cruel and depressing mood which helps the reader feel what it was like to live during the Holocaust. For example in chapter one he uses descriptive words that make it seem like the Nazis think that the Jewish people didn’t deserve a life. Once the Jewish get to the concentration camps the writing said “They were forced to dig huge trenches then they shot the prisoners” (Wiesel 6). That quote is saying that they were forced to dig their own grave when they arrived at the concentration camps, and then got shot and placed in the grave that they had just dug. In the writing i get the feeling that the Nazis thought the Jews were evil people because of the way they named the street that they lived on. In the text

After surviving the Holocaust, Elie writes down the things he experiences as a young boy during that time period. As Elie enters Birkenau holding his father’s hand, he claims, “Never shall I forget the small faces of children whose bodies I saw transform into smoke under a silent sky… Never shall I forget those things, even were I condemned to live as long as God himself. Never.” (Wiesel 34). Upon his arrival at the concentration camp in Birkenau, Elie witnesses young children being burned alive in crematoriums. He asserts that he has seen events so horrid that the memory would stay embedded with him forever. As soon as he witnesses the death of countless people, Wiesel begins to see the world as one filled with cruelty and hatred, the exact opposite of what he learns in his Jewish studies. In the end of his memoir, Elie finds himself in the hospital after being liberated by American soldiers. Elie looks into the reflection of the mirror hanging on the wall and describes what he sees as, “From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me” (Wiesel 115). After experiencing such traumatic events, Wiesel refers to himself as a new person. The innocent and religious Elie slowly dies during the Holocaust. In his biographical memoir, Elie slowly changes his

Wiesel’s mind set changed greatly from the torment he withstood during this time in his life. Mr. Wiesel applies strong emotions to events that normally others would not, which, for example he stated one page one hundred that while in Aden “Our ship’s passengers amused themselves by throwing coins to the “natives,” who dove to retrieve them. An elegant Parisia lady took great pleasure in this game.” This game made two children fight fiercely, just like the prisoners did when germans threw bread pieces into the wagon they were in. This shows that certain things remind Eliezer of his experience in the holocaust and cause him to have flashbacks which overwhelm him with emotions that most others in his situation would not have. ELiezer’s view on what others do and why also changed. When Rabbi Eliahu came looking for his son, Elie remembered seeing the son abandon the Rabbi while they were running. Eliezer thought it was terrible and prayed that he would never do the same to his father. Then on page one hundred five Elie stated “I knew that I was longer arguing with him but with Death itself, with Death that he had already chosen.” right before he went inside of the block and left his father in the cold to die. When Elie left his father outside, his actions showed that he was like the Rabbi’s son. He wanted to survive and being with someone else was a burden to him and would make his life harder than it already was. These two reasons show that Elie’s mind was changed in major ways during this dark time in history but, something more important was changed

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

Eleven million humans lost their lives during the holocaust, but there were some individuals that were lucky enough to survive through the living Hell of the reign of Hitler. It was a gruesome transition for many, and it really changed the mindset of any remaining survivors. In the book, “Night”, Elie Wiesel changed into a completely different person throughout the book.

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.

The stench of burning flesh lingers over the piles of skeleton like people who could no longer fight the battle. Along with the millions of bodies that got left behind at Auschwitz so did much of Elie’s existence before he was brought to the camp. In the memoir Night, by Elie Wiesel, Elie faces many challenges and loses much of himself due to his horrific journey in the camp. Elie’s losses contributed dramatically into the person he became after the liberation, he no longer valued religion or a higher power, he lost his family, and his innocence . Elie entered the concentration camp as a faith driven young boy but ultimately transforms into a scarred corpse like version of his old self.

In the book Night, Eliezer’s father, one of the main characters, shows various changes throughout the story. In the beginning of the book, the book states, “Cultured man, .... He rarely displayed his feelings, .... The Jewish community of Sighet held him in highest esteem; his advice on public and even private matters was frequently sought.” (pg. 4).

During the gruesome times in the Holocaust, Elie and his father both experience suffer and torture. The Nazis treats the Jews like animals and place them in cruel conditions which causes Elie’s father to rely more on Elie. Over the course of Night by Elie Wiesel, the relationship between Wiesel and his father changes from distant to dependent, committed love.

Change is an immense portion of human development that can alter a person’s character traits based off of a single experience. A time known to change man is the era of the holocaust. In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the main character, Elie, changes dramatically through his unbearable events that he had experienced in Auschwitz, a death camp, known for its extreme and unusual tactics. Eli Wiesel’s book proved that he has seen the absolute worse so how has these experiences translate change throughout Eli’s life for the better, or for the worse?