Examples Of Attitudes In Night By Elie Wiesel

     The spiritual change in Elie was substantial. He went from a pious, devout Jew who spent countless of hours studying his faith. He never questioned God, but that is probably because everything was always good. During his stay at the concentration camps, Elie never stops believing in God, although he does question what he is doing. On page 64, Elie says, “Why, but why I should I bless Him? In every fiber I rebelled. Because He had thousands of children burned in His pits? Because He kept six crematories working night and day, on Sundays and feast days? Because in His great might He had created Auschwitz, Birkenau, Buna, and so many factories of death?…” This shows the

Ever since Elie was in the concentration camp, he has slowly lost faith in God as he “...did not fast. First of all, to please my father, who had forbidden me to do so. And then, there was no longer any reason for me to fast. I no longer accepted God’s silence. As I swallowed my ration of soup, I turned that act into a symbol of rebellion, of protest against Him” (Wiesel 69). By not fasting like he did before when he was not in the concentration camp, it shows his rebellion against God as he has lost any sign of hope for God. Elie also decides to eat for the sake of his health and his well being in that situation as everyone was starving even before the fasting occured. His beliefs in God has changed from his past as it affects his views on God and his beliefs about him. The concentration camp had also made Elie question his beliefs of God as he asked himself “Bless be God’s name? Why, but why would I bless Him? Every fiber in me rebelled. Because He caused thousands of children to burn in His mass graves?” (Wiesel 67). Elie processes his decision onto why he should even pray to God as he had lost hope and signs of God ever since he saw the horrifying acts made in the camps. His views had been changed him from his past as he questions his beliefs and wonders why God has not saved them from all their misery. Elie had changed his ways of viewing his

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 concentration camps were beginning to remove all emotion from the people. They stopped feeling anything for others, and began only thinking of themselves. For example, when an iron bar beats Eliezers father, Eliezer feels no pity or compassion. He is madder at his father for not being

Over the course of his time there, he is worked hard and witnesses horrific deaths. Because of all the traumatic events that occurred, he lost faith in the God he once believed in unconditionally. John Roth, author of In the Beginning, explained that the holocaust could only have happened if there was no God (35). However this is not true. In actuality, Eliezer explains that there is a God, he just does not believe in His power anymore. Elie does not say that he has become an atheist or that God had died as many people believe” (Brown 72). Elie simply does not believe in Him because of all the events that occurred while he was in the concentration camps.

Elie Wiesel’s book “Night” shows the life of a father and son going through the concentration camp of World War II. Their life long journey begins from when they are taken from their home in Sighet, they experience harsh and inhuman conditions in the camps. These conditions cause Elie and his father’s relationship to change. During their time there, Elie and his father experience a reversal in roles.

Night is a memoir written by Elie Wiesel, a young Jewish boy, who tells of his experiences during the Holocaust. Elie is a deeply religious boy whose favorite activities are studying the Talmud and spending time at the Temple with his spiritual mentor, Moshe the Beadle. At an early age, Elie has a naive, yet strong faith in God. But this faith is tested when the Nazi's moves him from his small town.

Though faithful as they enter the horrific camps of Auschwitz, Bergen Belsen, Buna, Birknau, Dachau, and Buchenwald, the Jews become capricious. They start losing grip and begin falling down the slippery slope of death the Germans set up for them as more horrors of the camps become unveiled. Soon after arriving in the camp and being told about the crematoria, he felt “anger rising with me [Elie]. Why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty, the eternal terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent” (33). This is the first time that his faith is challenged. After a few days in Auschwitz he “had ceased to pray. I [Elie] was not denying His existence, but doubted His absolute justice” (45). As seen, Elie is beginning to have doubts about God and therefore his belief and faith in him. Finally, when Elie is looking for God to come though he doesn’t and he asks,

Night is an book that is filled with many different stories throughout the story. During the holocaust the prisoners in the camps killed, lied, and stole from each other because in these camps everything goes to survive. Night By Elie Wiesel, involves many cases on the dehumanization of Elie, and his other prison mates. The dehumanization happens all throughout the book such as: The incident that Mrs. Schachter has, a boy and his father on a train is another , And Elie’s thoughts changing and becoming intense and crazy.

The novel Night by Eliezer Wiesel tells the tale of a young Elie Wiesel and his experience in the concentration camps,and his fight to stay alive . The tragic story shows the jewish people during the Holocaust and their alienation from the world. Elie’s experience changes him mentally, and all actions in taken while in the concentration were based on one thing...Survival.

The book Night is about a Jew, Elie Wiesel, who was taken from his home. He and his family were taken to Auschwitz, then to Birkenau. Elie was in a concentration camp for most of his life. When he was 15 he witnessed hangings, beatings, bombings, and other unthinkable events.

Throughout the book Eli has gone through many obstacles rendering him to lose faith in god. He shows his lost faith in god after being separated from his mother and sister

The first taste of the abuse came from a German officer who said “If anyone gives missing ,you will all be shot, like dogs” (Wiesel 24).The moment that Elie and his family stepped onto the cattle train was the moment that they were stopped being treated like human beings. When they are first deported they believe that they are going to a better place put they soon realize that’s not going to be the case. But there is only so much abuse that one can take before believing it themselves “I was putting one foot in front of the other, like a machine”(Wiesel 85). After having to evacuate something the prisoners were forced to run like “dogs” until they reach their destination. And after so much running and abuse the prisoner stopped being humans and started to become machines that just did what they were asked to do. These processes affect everyone in something with a simple needle “I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name” (Wiesel 42). When anyone arrives to the camp they are tattooed with a letter and a number sequence by veterans at the camp. The intention of this is to take a person’s identity away and when this occurs their personality and everything that makes them human also goes away. From that moment on Elie was not a human and more what he became was like a piece of livestock that the SS officers could do as they

The concentration camps seemed to bring out the worst in people because what happen was that all the people there reverted to animals and they only thought on their minds was me. Most of them wanted to survive as an individual rather than helping out and surviving as a group. One example of this is when the relationship the young and old is not that good. The young felt like the old was hindrance to there survival because they had to worry about themselves and it was more work and stress if they had to worry about someone else. One example of this is when Idek, the little Jewish boy, began to beat Elie's father because Idek felt that Elie's father was not working to his potential and that could get Idek in trouble. If Idek let Elie's father slack off, then he would get in trouble because all the work has not been done and when you get in trouble it usually means a beating and or death.

As mention earlier, Night is Elie Wiesel personal perspective and shared experiences of what life was like for him and his family in Nazi concentration camps of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. Given that he does with his family the text offers a reader a chance to learn about his family and what he recalled life was like prior to being captured and sent to Auschwitz. “One day I asked my father go find me a master who