Eliezer's Transformation In The Book Night By Elie Wiesel

The holocaust ended May 8, 1945 but it took the lives of millions of people with it. Depriving millions of innocent souls of basic rights we have today. In the book Night, we are shown the experiences and transformations of young Elie from the day he arrived in the ghetto, to his last day in a concentration camp. As a result of his experiences during the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel changes from a religious, sensitive little boy to a spiritually dead, unemotional man.

As for Elie’s relationship with God, some find it tempting to say that he became an atheist, but this is an oversimplification. Though Eliezer lost faith in God’s mercy, he still believes that there is a God. He still believes that god can still save him from the mess. He feels like god is real enough to help him through the holocaust. He stop relying too much on god, and start asking god questions. Elie sees god as a new path to freedom, and work to regain a new life.

Eliezer lost many things during the holocaust, including most his freedoms. This includes his freedom from fear, and his freedom from want.

Throughout this time period, Elie changes spiritually. In Sighet, he was a very religious Jewish male. Young Eliezer studied Kaballah under the direction of Moshe the Beadle. Many people thought that Moshe was crazy. An example of how Elie changed from being religious in the concentration camp was that he did not even fast on Yom Kippur. Fasting for a day can easily mean death while in the camps. Many people in the concentration camp, there was a big debate whether people would past or not. He decided to not fast not because he couldn’t, but because he was mad at God. “I did not fast. First of all, to please my father who had forbidden me to fast. I no longer

During the Holocaust, Eliezer Wiesel changes from a spiritual, sensitive, little boy to a spiritually dead, dispassionate man. In his memoir, Night, Elie speaks about his experiences upon being a survivor of the Holocaust. The reader sees how Elie has changed through his experiences in Sighet and the ghettos in comparison to what it was like for him in the concentration camps.

Eliezer faced many hardships throughout this book including malnourishment, fatigue, being overworked, and being extremely mistreated. There are so many stories about the holocaust and all of them show that everyone dealt with the pain differently, though some did it better than others. Eliezer had everything taken from him: his home; his possessions; his family; and his pride. After all this is taken from him we begin to see his true character. He becomes a totally different person. Reading this book was like watching a beautiful tree come out of a terrible storm with nothing left. After this storm the tree has nothing left all of its leaves are gone and we can truly see how its branches are made up and how they connect. This relates perfectly

Eliezer was only 15 when it all began, when he basically lost everything that he was living for. He was held in captivity for his beliefs and tortured. Although he knew the world was cruel, he didn't know the fullness of it all until he lost his father. "No prayers were said over his tomb. No candle lit in his memory. His last word had been my name. He had called out to me and I had not answered. I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep. But I was out of tears" (Wiesel 112). Eliezer began to realize the gravity of his current difficulty, the torments of the Nazis and his loss of his faith. That moment of realization shows that he lost all of his innocence. In the loss of his father, he realized he lives in a cruel world, and not everything can go according. Eliezer was still 15 when he crossed the threshold of the death

People often begin to lose faith in God because of the results they faced from their life experiences. Some face things that seem cruel and unbearable while others are “confronted with the information presented from another viewpoint that rejects God” (Gospel Billboards). Elie was told by his father to never lose his faith in God, it would help him get through tough times and keep him strong. The faith is the only strong force that helped Elie Wiesel get through the Holocaust. Through experiences that involve cruel and unbearable moments, people start questioning whether God has the answers to life’s problems. This results in faith beginning to weaken, people stop communicating with God, which makes it easier for one’s faith to diminish. We encounter Elie questioning and refusing God, but also see his contradictory behavior he exhibits to praise. However, throughout the book, Eliezer witnesses and experiences things that leads him to lose his faith in his religion. The longer he stays in the concentration camps, the more he experiences and sees cruelty and suffering. Eliezer believes that people who pray to a God who allows their families to suffer and die are more stronger and forgiving to God. Elie was angry at God, he thought God didn’t deserve his praises or honors because he expected God to come save him but he never did. He observes people die and others around him slowly lose hope, starve, Elie ceases to believe that God could exist at all now. “Where He is? This

Throughout a lifetime, people undergo many different identities to discover their true self. Elie Wiesel, the author of the memoir Night, suffered a major event that changed his identity forever. In his experience at the concentration camps during the Holocaust, Elie had to fight to stay alive even during the most resilient moments. This event shaped his life and brought Elie to endure different perspectives in his time in the camps. Eliezer’s identity changed throughout the memoir from faithful, to fearful, to hopeless.

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.

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 Eliezer was in Sighet, he spent most of his time Studying the Hebrew Bible and God. Soon Nazis storm their village and everyone and put them in a ghetto; while in this ghetto he prayed to god and for liberation but while there he learned that help and salvation would not be coming anytime soon. Eliezer’s prayers to god went unanswered and he knew it. When they asked were they were being taken before they left for Auschwitz, The SS replied “God alone could answer you”. This shows their faith in God and how they had to realize that the God they had spent their entire life worshipping and following, would not answer their prayers. Even when their devotion to God is torn down some will still devote everything to him; even in their last moments

A tragic event can change someone’s life forever in a good way or a bad way. The holocaust shaped people's lives into a way where they can never go back. In “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the main character, Elie, changed as a person due to his experiences at Auschwitz. Elie was a victim of the holocaust and it changed his life forever as a person and a Jew.

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.

After 3 weeks at Auschwitz, they get deported to Buna, which is a turning point for the relationship between Elie and Chlomo. The camps influence Elie and give him a crooked mind focused on staying alive and nothing else. This leads to him disregarding his father. This twisted way of thinking, due to the camps, is making Elie cheer during bomb raids at Buna. He states his thoughts “But we were no longer afraid of death, at any rate, not of that death” (57). This shows that he is willing to die to see the camps destroyed. The most horrifying event that demonstrates his twisted mind is when Eliezer pays no heed to his father while he was being repeatedly beat with an iron bar. Eliezer, rather than acting indifferent and showing nothing, actually feels angry with his father. “I was angry at him for not knowing how to avoid Idek’s outbreak” (52). The new lifestyle of the camps affected Elie and his relationship with his father for the worse.