How Does Elie Wiesel Change 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,

Originally, Eliezer was a young teenager who was devoted to his religion and was pious. According to the text, Elie explains, “Why did I pray? Strange question. Why did I live? Why did I breathe?” (4). Religion was Elie’s way of life and brought him a sense of completeness. Praying and understanding his religion was like breathing, he couldn’t live without it. He dedicated himself to his faith and wanted to follow the same acts as his father who was a known man in their town of Sighet and put other people and his religion before himself. At a young age, Elie wanted to study Kabbalah, which is the deepest insights into God and the purpose of creation. He found his master in a man named Moishe the Beadle. Moishe the Beadle was a master in everything he has done and was an influential person in Elie’s life. For instance, “Man comes closer to God through the questions he asks Him...Man asks and God replies...The real answers, Eliezer, you will find only within yourself,”(5). Moshe proved that God is always there to guide you no matter what happens, but sometimes you also have to rely on yourself. Elie was astounded with the way Moishe viewed God and the lessons he was taught. It became a routine for Elie to converse with him. But after Moishe was transported from Sighet for being a foreign Jew, Elie started to have a change of thought. Weisel points out, “One day… I saw Moishe the Beadle… told me what had happened to him and his companions… were forced to dig huge trenches… they [the Gestapo] shot their prisoners… Infants were tossed… and used as targets for the machine guns,” (6). Moishe’s experiences sounded so horrifying that nobody believed him- he was called a fool and liar. Although

In the concentration camp Eliezer can’t understand why God allows so much death and destruction, and even though he is angry and questions God he never loses his faith. Although Eliezer never has his questions answered he never loses his faith. Eliezers evolving relationship with God is a major source of character development for himself.

God, is the creator and ruler of the universe and source of all moral authority, the supreme being. God has all the control on this Earth and rules over everyone, he controls everything that goes on in the world. He would help the Jews which made Elie wonder why God isn’t helping the Jews. The other Jewish people in the camps were praying together but Elie has a different point of view than them and thought, “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). Elie’s anger is rapidly releasing and he sharing his feelings about God. He is trying to say why should he pray to someone who is watching everyone suffer and not taking action. Elie losing his faith is shown in the quote because he is stating that God is making him furious, he was asking why he should praise him, and saying there's nothing to thank him for. This was the start of Elie’s loss of faith, this was a turning point because he begins recognizing what is truly happening in life. As a result, Elie begins to lose his faith when he starts questioning God and gets offended when he didn’t help the Jews as they are suffering.

Night, by Elie Wiesel, showed the devastation of Eliezer’s childhood and illustrated the loss of innocence through the evil of others. Elie Wiesel expressed to us that one’s own faith and beliefs can be challenged through torture and ongoing suffering. The novel, Night, allowed the reader to witness the change in Eliezer from one of an innocent child who strongly adhered to his faith in God into a person who questioned not only his faith and God but of himself as well. The cruelty is shown to him while in the concentration camp forced him to wonder if there was a God and if so why would he put him and the others through such torture. Through his suffering, Eliezer’s beliefs dramatically and negatively changed his faith in God and compelled him to experience a transformative relationship with his father.

There are many important themes and overtones to the book Night, by Eliezer Wiesel. One of the major themes from the book includes the protagonist, and author of his memoire, Elie Wiesel’s ever changing relationship with God. An example of this is when Moche the Beadle asked Elie an important question that would change his life forever, as the basis of his passion and aptitude for studying the ancient texts and teachings of Judaism, “When Moche the Beadle asked Elie why he prayed, Elie couldn 't think of an answer that truly described his faith, and thought, "a strange question, why did I live, why did I breathe?" (Wiesel 14).

Amazed and frighten and in need of help, wondering if he is there or not. In need of faith but not sure if he should believe or not. If believing in him will save him or not. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie begins to lose his faith in God. he began to realize and understand that God can’t answer every prayer.

Initially, Eliezer’s faith is a result of his Jewish studies, which teach him that God is everywhere in the world, that nothing exists without God, that in fact everything in the physical world is a reflection, of the divine world. At the beginning of the memoir, his faith in God is absolute. When Moshe asks him why he prays to God, he answers, “Why did I pray? . . . Why did I live? Why did I breathe?” (Weisel 4). His belief in comforting and caring God is unconditional, and he cannot imagine living without faith in a divine power; however, throughout the Holocaust Elie’s faith is shaken to its core and he begins to question God himself. Since his studies showed God is good and God is everywhere in the world Elie believes the world is generally good. When

Quotes “Not far from us, flames were leaping up from a ditch, gigantic flames. They were burning something. A lorry drew up at the pit and delivered its load--little children. Babies! (Wiesel 30)” "I did not deny God's existence, but I doubted His absolute justice.

In the beginning of the book, before Eliezer even knew about the terrible camps, he was religious. In chapter one Eliezer practiced Kabbalah, despite what his father thought of him starting Kabbalah so young. For example, the narrator says, “He wanted to drive the idea of studying Kabbalah from my mind. In vain. I succeeded on my own finding a master” (pg. 5). In this evidence it is obvious that he was determined to study Kabbalah, it shows that he was very religious and wanted to grow. He disregarded his father to learn more about his religion. Sadly later in the book when

In the end of the book is says, “with only one desire: to eat. I no longer thought of my father, or my mother” (page 113). In the beginning he wanted to study his religion and in the end the only wanted food. Another thing that happens is that Elie starts to loose faith in his religion. On page 3 the author stated that, “by day i studies Talmud and by night I would run to the synagogue and weep over the destruction of the Temple.”

Elie Wiesel’s had many experiences in chapters seven through nine of Nnight. His experiences from chapter seven to chapter nine had changed dramatically, with the relationship of Elie and his father . Through the hardships he faces and the dramatic changes in his life that is brought to him, it is showing how he sticks with his dad through whatever happens. Elie has gone through so much through out the book.

No candle lit in his memory” (Wiesel 112). Wiesel’s faith was his entire life before his time in the concentration camps but the cruel hatred and treatment of Elie and his religion brought him to question his faith and even eliminated it to a point out of his

“Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my god and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.” (Wiesel, Night 34). This is implying that from Elie’s first moments in a concentration camp, seeing the burning bodies of his flesh, and then realizing that no one is able to help, nor reach out to help any of this that has been happening, not even God, he begins to lose faith in god. He saw things no one should see. “Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever.”

In the book Night, Elie’s character trait changes throughout the book. This is mainly caused by the things happening to him and other Jews. This changes changes him into a completely new person with new believes and views about the world. Over the course of the book, Elie changes from a person who believes in good and that God is fair to someone who is bitter, angry at his God, and only thinks about surviving. This is important to the book as a whole because it connects to his central character trait and how it changed throughout the book. The change is apparent when he was angry at his God for not preventing the barbick actions of the Germans, when he talks about how men were stronger than God, and when his father died he couldn’t think of anything but how to survive.