How Did Night Change Elie Wiesel's Perspective On Life And Death

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.

Robert Shapiro, an American civil litigator once said, “To me, the Holocaust stands alone as the most horrible human event in modern civilization,” The Holocaust, a genocide led by Adolf Hitler, killed six million jews, and dramatically affected the whole world. The memoir “Night,” written by Elie Wiesel describes the brutality Wiesel experienced during the Holocaust, and how life changing it was. Although some may believe the memoir written by Elie Wiesel was titled “Night” because he was forced to leave his home during the night, Wiesel illustrates Jews losing hope, faith, and happiness through the symbol of Night, to prove that the memoir was titled “Night” to symbolize the darkness the holocaust created.

In a desperate moment for survival, a person will act in a spontaneous manner to

: As Elie’s motivation to keep persevering at times began to diminish. Elie would either remind himself that god was watching over him and would eventually free him from the suffering and torture. Other times he would look over at his father and see him struggling yet still fighting with every

Emphasizing the word ‘me,’ Elie shows himself gradually being consumed by the mindset of ‘every man for himself.’ He worries about his safety more than his father’s pain, and this continues after the officer leaves. His father called out to him again but Elie didn’t move, even when the officer disappeared, he only looked at his father, no aim to help his father and finally returns to his bunk to sleep. When he awoke the following day, his father was gone and Elie states, “deep inside me, if I could have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like: Free at last! …,” (112). Here, Elie admits that somewhere deep down inside him, he felt released from the responsibility of looking after his father, although pained by his death, relieved of a burden. Deep down he harbored the feeling that his father was just another thing to add to the list of his trouble and

In Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie wrote about his journey through the Holocaust and how it impacted his faith. Before the Holocaust, Elie became very passionate about Judaism, but his learning was stopped abruptly because the Nazis had arrived. The Nazis took away his teacher, along with his neighbors. Soon, the Nazis came back for the remaining citizens and loaded them into a train. This was the beginning of the Holocaust, in which Elie would experience many horrific events. Throughout Night, Elie’s faith decreases because of the harsh conditions of concentration camps and the declining health of his father.

Can you imagine the horrors of what it was like being a jew in the Holocaust? Elie Wiesel tells his story of being a Jew in the Holocaust in his novel Night. Night tells the story of a Jewish boy Elie and the journey he faces during the holocaust. Elie and his neighborhood are quarantined by Germans into ghettos. Later the Jews in the ghetto are taken to concentration camps where they go to work and live.

Traumatic and scarring events occur on a daily basis; from house fires to war, these memories are almost impossible to forget. The Holocaust is only one of the millions of traumas that have occurred, yet it is known worldwide for sourcing millions of deaths. Elie Wiesel was among the many victims of the Holocaust, and one of the few survivors. In the memoir, “Night”, by Elie Wiesel, Elie, the main character, is forever changed because of his traumatic experiences in the Auschwitz concentration camps.

Only 37 percent of Jews survived the holocaust. Elie Wiesel was one of the few Jews that survived, and he was only 15 years old when he was sent to his first camp. Elie Wiesel wrote the novel “Night” based on his journey in the holocaust. “Night” is about Elie and how he changed emotionally through drubbings, starving, adversity, and much more in the concentration camps. In the novel “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the main character, Elie, was affected by the events in the book which led to him losing his faith, him having no motivation whatsoever (with the exception of his father), and him giving up on humanity as a whole.

The early 1940s, an observant, young boy, and his caring father: the start of a story that would become known throughout the world of Eliezer Wiesel. His eye-opening story is one of millions born of the Holocaust. Elie’s identity, for which he is known by, is written out word for word his memoir, Night. Throughout his journey, Elie’s voice drifts from that of an innocent teen intrigued with the teachings of his religion to that of a soul blackened by a theoretical evil consuming the Nazis and Hitler’s Germany. Elie Wiesel's memoir, Night, examines the theme of identity through the continuous motifs of losing one’s self in the face of death and fear, labeling innocent people for a single dimension of what defines a human being, and the oppression seen in the Holocaust based on the identities of those specifically targeted and persecuted.

In the beginning of the book, before experiencing life threatening difficulties, Elie was much more determined to stay with his family (in order to survive). Eliezer thought that his father was what kept him going and gave him strength, he was certain that the right thing to do was to stay with his dad. In chapter 3 Wiesel states, “My hand tightened its grip on my father. All I could think of was not to lose him. Not to remain alone” (30). In these sentences, Elie explains that he and his father needed to stay together. This quote also shows what Elie’s emotions were; he was scared to suffer through the concentration camp alone. Elie also shows his need for family when he says, “Franek, the foreman, assigned me to a corner... ‘Please, sir ... I’d like to be near

For example he was questioning his belief, will to live, and if his father was worth sticking with. The text states “Don’t forget that you are in a concentration camp. In this place, it is every man for himself and you cannot think of others. Not even your father” (Wiesel 110). This quote shows that it doesn't matter if it is your father, so Elie should only care for himself. This impacts Elie because he loves his father, you should love your father. For many people to tell him to abandon his father and just not stick with him it can really break down someone emotionally especially if they have been there since the day you were born,and Elie loves his father. They have been through a lot ever since they have been in the concentration

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.

Elie’s father becomes very ill and weak, and is diagnosed with dysentery. Elie tries his very best to help his father. No matter how many times Elie explains to his father that they would return home soon, “I knew that I was no longer arguing with him but with Death itself, with Death that he had already chosen” (Wiesel 105). His father has grown so weak that he has lost hope. Elie feels a sense of helplessness because he is not able to do anything for his father. His father’s illness makes him very fragile and vulnerable, and unable to do anything. Elie tries his very best to fulfill all his wishes, but he struggles to do so. Although Elie is aware of the fact that his father is going to die soon, he tries his best to give him as much as hope as he possibly can.When he moves on with the mob and remembers that his father was with him, “a thought crept into my mind: if only I didn’t find him! If only I were relieved of this responsibility, I could use all my strength to fight for my survival…Instantly, I felt ashamed, ashamed of myself forever” (Wiesel 106). Elie knows that his father is a threat to his survival because he is sick and can no longer do anything. However, Elie is guilty of even thinking this about his father. The Blockälteste also advises Elie that he needs to move on without his dad. He tells him that in concentration camp, there is no such thing as a father, and

Notably, when Elie was younger he always faced the fact that he father believed that he was not old enough to make certain choices and do certain things. Elie’s father made him believe that he wouldn’t understand making him doubt himself. During this time at the Concentration Camp he was beat even in the text he states, “ I tried to protect myself from the blows,”(41). The author has been through a lot through these past couple of days and weeks. He states that the first human words he heard were, “Don’t lose hope,”(41). Those words brought his dignity back up close to his previous personal