Eliezer Wiesel Character Analysis

Have you ever had a day where you were excited and then someone made you so angry, you could hardly stand it? As humans, we are constantly changing and adapting to fit our environment. Humans also can have mood changes due to age, rough times or any other difficult driving force. In the book “Night”, by Elie Wiesel, Elie experienced many changes because of what he experiences. Elie had to change in order to survive and keep his loved ones by his side. Over the course of the book, Elie evolved the way he acted towards people, loved ones, and the things he thought he knew to be true.

“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.

No matter when and where you live, there will always be a possibility that genocide could be committed. There could be a world in which every piece of technology is state of the art, society is progressing, and individual people are inspired to prosper. Yet, a populace of people could still be genocided under no repercussions from any civilians and government members.An eon such as this occurred about 78 years ago, in the year of 1944. An appalling tragedy known as the Holocaust was in full swing with the fascist dictator, Adolf Hitler in charge of the Nazi regime. People were suffering, becoming people they didn’t even know they could be. One example of this is in the book Night by Elie Wiesel. The main character, Elie, transforms into a different person through his suffering that he encountered in the extermination camps. Before the war, Elie was ardent, faithful, and motivated. He then transformed into hating god, losing all of his motivation, and having outright disgust in people.

“The Red Army is advancing with giant strides… Hitler will not be able to harm us, even if he wants to…” (8). The quote comes from a novel, Night, by Eliezer Wiesel, who was a survivor throughout the Holocaust. Elie and his father are the protagonists as they strive and suffer to survive the rough times. The two gentlemen are split apart from the rest of their family when they arrive at Auschwitz. On a daily basis, Elie and his father went through hell, whether it was being whipped or just being screeched at. Time passed by at a tremendously slow rate. Elie’s father was sick for weeks, but Elie couldn’t help rather than giving up his ration of bread and soup every day. Day after day, being sick and tired had finally come to an end. The U.S.

People can change very much in bad situations like the people in the Holocaust, more specifically, Elie Wiesel, a 15 year old who got sent to a concentration camp in Auschwitz. In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the main character, Elie, changed in many ways throughout the book because of the different experiences and sights he had to go through in Auschwitz.

Many thoughts went through my mind while reading about Wiesel’s final experiences as a German prisoner. I felt pity and sadness for him. His last few days as a German prisoner were his most difficult. He lost his father, he went days without food and passed days out in the freezing cold. I was also impressed on how he fought through these events. Despite his exhaustion or hunger, he never surrendered his life. He found strength that he never knew he had and showed the readers how strong humans can be when their lives depend on it. If I could meet Elie Wiesel and discuss with him about his time during the war, I would want to tell him many things. I would tell him that the time he spent at the concentration camps made him the man he is today

“I won’t give you more, more than you can take and I might let you bend, but I won’t let you break.” Elie Wiesel has an unbreakable personality, but he was certainly tested when God put him through the Holocaust with the knowledge that he had the physical and mental strength to get through some miserable times and impact the world with his story. In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the main character, Elie, experiences great change through his horrific and scarring adventures that he endures at the Auschwitz concentration camp.

The Holocaust destroyed many relationships between family members. In this horrific time period, survival meant that one had to abandon their dearest family and friends. In Night, Elie Wiesel lived in this nightmare where the Holocaust tore up the bonds of everyone around him.. He watches separation and abandonment and experiences it as well.

In “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the main character, Elie, changed as a person because of his experiences at Auschwitz. Throughout his entire journey, his choices became wiser and more strategic. Before entering Auschwitz, Elie was a very weak in the sense of decision making. He did not think ahead or think about the consequences for his actions. However, Elie’s character changed because of his experiences at Auschwitz.

Throughout history, many terrible things have happened that have put people in terrible conditions. During the Holocaust, millions of people died, and the few that survived were very lucky. Elie Wiesel, the author of “Night”, endured many horrible things in the Holocaust that shaped him as a person today. In “Night”, by Elie Wiesel, the main character, Elie, changed as a person due to his experiences at Auschwitz.

The Holocaust was a very terrible time in history over six million Jews perished in concentration camps. Even though in every tragedy there are survivors. Elie Wiesel was a little boy when all of this happened. He experienced all of the terrible things that happened during this time frame. While suffering in the terrible condition of the camp Elie and his father’s relationship goes through a drastic change.

When Stein, a forgotten relative, approached Eliezer and his father on their eight day of living in the concentration camp, Auschwitz, he wanted information on his wife and two kids whom Eliezer's mother had corresponded with in the past. Stein and his family had been separated two years ago and he desperately wanted to know how they were doing. While Eliezer did not have any knowledge about Stein's family, caught between indecision, he decided to lie. He

People’s emotions may conflict them with their moral duty. It may be a personal cause, a love, a desire for revenge, or some other emotion which may affect their duties to be accomplished. In Dawn by Elie Wiesel, a young boy named Elisha is set free from the camps of the Holocaust and joins a terrorist group to kill John Dawson as a revenge to the British for executing David ben Moshe. He has till dawn to complete his duty. Through, heartbreak and a desire for revenge Elisha is motivated to kill an innocent man (John Dawson), but finds it difficult to take out this responsibility given upon him by his group.

A good novel can make you feel like the characters "live on" after the final page. Where do you imagine Gogol will go from here/after the last page?

“Yes, I’m heading to Minnesota Unite States of America.” Then she starts looking onto the documents she had.