How Did The War Change Elie Wiesel's Childhood

One famous passage Wiesel wrote in Night captures his lingering feelings of the awful tragedy. “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed… Never shall I forget the little faces of children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke…” (“Elie Wiesel” Biography.com).

To be engaged in war is to be engaged in an armed conflict. Death is an all too ordinary product of war. It is an unsolicited reward for many soldiers that are fighting for their country’s own fictitious freedom. For some of these men, the battlefield is a glimpse into hell, and for others, it is a means to heaven. Many people worry about what happens during war and what will become of their loved ones while they’re fighting, but few realize what happens to those soldiers once they come home. The short stories "Soldier's Home” by Ernest Hemingway and "Speaking of Courage” by Tim O'Brien explore the thematic after effects of war and how it impacts a young person's life. Young people who

The holocaust took its toll on the lives of innumerable people. One particular survivor Elie Wiesel had his entire outlook on life changed not to mention his beliefs feeling and his innocence. His life was once a pleasant and comfort filled life, one with family and friends. A life worth living and a life that was filled with innocence and freedom of religion. He loved his religion as if it was life itself. He wanted to push himself to be more close to God but, that would soon change. As a result during Elie’s experience during the holocaust he changed from a religious, sensitive little boy to a spiritually dead , unemotional man.

People both today and back then have been traumatized by war’s brutal combat, fallen victim to cruel soldiers, and had war cause sorrow and grief to them. Through characters seeing death, characters that are soldiers, and characters that are not in combat, Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See demonstrates that war affects individuals negatively, even if they are extremely

We have all seen or read about the political and social upheavals caused by war. Some may have even experienced it first-hand. Throughout history war has had negative psychological implications on those effected. However, there is no greater negative impact of war than the psychological and emotional turmoil that it causes individual soldiers.

There is no doubt that when war occurs, every single human being is affected by it even if it is just a little. In the novel, “All Quiet on the Western Front” written by Erich Maria Remarque, a group of teenage men, who also appear to by classmates, are in the German army of World War I because they have chosen to leave their adolescence at home and school for grown up work at the army. Throughout this fictional novel, they face many challenges that result in them not seeing each other ever again because of death. War affects individuals by leaving behind necessities such as education or jobs, not being able to watch over others such as their health, and injuries that soldiers receive while they are at war.

His experience of close death was: “They brought a crate. “Lie down on it! On your belly!" I obeyed. I no longer felt anything except the lashes of the whip. "One! Two!… "He was counting. He took his time between lashes. Only the first really hurt.” (Eliezer,57) This quote shows that he was almost beaten to death. When Elie said the first one only hurts, you can tell that he was becoming unconscious in the process of almost dying. Another encounter was what Moishe had experienced. What he told told to Elie was devastating. “The Jews were ordered to get off and onto waiting trucks. The trucks headed toward a forest. There everybody was ordered to get out. They were forced to dig huge trenches. When they had finished their work, the men from the Gestapo began theirs. Without passion or haste, they shot their prisoners, who were forced to approach the trench one by one and offer their necks. Infants were tossed into the air and used as targets for the machine guns. This took place in the Galician forest, near Kolomay. (Eliezer,6) These Jews were digging up their own graves without knowing what is going to happen to them, unfortunatly they end up dying and forgotten. Until the end Elie

War is always the worst tragedy of mankind in the world. We, as human beings, were experienced two most dolorous wars that were ever happened in our history: World War I and World War II. A young generation actually does not know how much hardship the predecessors, who joined and passed through the wars, undergo. We were taught about just how many people died in the wars, how much damage two participations in the wars suffered or just the general information about the wars. We absolutely do not know about the details, and that’s why we also do not know what the grief-stricken feeling of people joining in the wars really is. But we can somewhat understand that feeling through war novels, which describe the truthfulness of the soldiers’ lives, thoughts, feelings and experiences. All Quiet on the Western Front written by Erich Maria Remarque, which takes World War I as background, is the great war novel which talks about the German soldiers ' extreme physical and mental stress during the war, and the hopeless of these soldiers about the “future” – the time the war would have ended.

When most people of think of war, they generally think of the glorified aspects. Love and violence. Or perhaps their minds are drawn to an image of a soldier’s homecoming: A father embracing his son, crying tears of joy, all while the solider relays his experiences of the war among celebratory decorations. He is now considered a hero. But what difficulties has he faced to get there? This is the side of war that many of us don’t recognize. In the memoir, A Long Way Gone, author and protagonist, Ishmael Beah, experiences civil war and its effects first hand when he is forced into becoming a child soldier in the poor third world country of Sierra Leone. As the novel progresses, Ishmael becomes increasingly addicted to drugs,

War often has drastic and lasting effects on individuals; the violence and horror ages soldiers mentally and physically. World War I was a violent and distressing war; men came home with mental illnesses and never were fully able to sink back into society. Through these lasting effects common civilians with no affiliation were unaware to the consequences. In All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Remarque investigates the damaging effects of war on an individual’s identity using Paul Bäumer as a representation for all soldiers; he draws specific attention to the continuing loss of purpose and ability to relate to the rest of society.

In Elie Wiesel's book “ Night” he reveals his experiences and memories during the Holocaust of 1941-1945. Elie Wiesel’s experience was dull, filled with violence and darkness. Elie changes not only emotionally but physically, and spiritually.

To alter is to change or to become different or modified. That is exactly what happens to the character, Eliezer Wiesel, Elie for short. The book Night is an autobiography by Elie. It is all about the struggles Elie and his father go through after being transported to a concentration camp. Elie’s love for his father is the only reason why he keeps going. Elie and his father have some ups and downs, but make it through together. Over time he feels trapped and confined by the responsibility of keeping his father alive. All throughout Night, Elie’s relationship with his father is transforming, throughout that process, Eliezer himself is transformed.

Life changing experiences Elies Story Many people turn into brutal savages due to the inhumane treatment that they might have gone through. It does not matter if it’s physical, mental or even a combination of the two. Being treated badly or seeing something that isn’t right can scar a person and change them forever. There are many people that go through crazy situations in their lives that can be life changing. Many of these people grow, learn and even become stronger from those experiences.

Elie Wiesel, an Auschwitz survivor, ends his autobiography, Night, with the lasting statement, "From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me" (115). The importance of this declaration signifies that Elie came to a realization that emotional death that the death camps have created will far outweigh the physical pains experienced through torture. He understands that the physical evidence from the torture will fade, but the psychological trauma will torment and alter the rest of his life. Through Elie 's eyes, the reader is forced to beg the questions: What is the breaking point for a person to experience a disregard for emotion? How does a person heal from what is thought to be obsolete terror? And can a person ever recover to the extent of fitting back into society? However, holocaust survivors are not the only people who suffered from the detrimental effects of death. Veterans of war also become victims to the immunity of death. The mother country will rejoice at the sight of its sons returning from battle; however, the families do not comprehend that the war will always rage inside their battle-scarred relative. Although wars hurt America physically by decreasing the population, wars also impact soldiers emotionally. Emotional death is prevalent in all wars, and it destroys America socially because of the isolationism it creates.

(AGG) In the book, Under the Persimmon Tree, the author really shows how people’s lives can be devastated by war. (BS-1) Many families were left homeless due to the bombings in the Afghan War. (BS-2) Hundreds of people lost family members in the war. (BS-3) The main characters in this story, Najmah, Nur and Nusrat, victims of this war, decided the only place they could recover from the horrors they experienced was to return to the only home they knew. (TS) War can have many impacts on a person’s life; sometimes just by helping a person make tough decisions or by destroying one’s life completely.