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How Does Elie Wiesel Change In Night

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Elie Wiesel, a Nobel Peace Prize winner and one of the most famous and celebrated Holocaust survivor’s, Night is a memoir about life inside the camps of the Holocaust. Where the Nazis killed six million Jews, and five million Gentiles. He endured many transformations while in the concentration camps; the two essential changes are his relationship with his father and spiritually with God.

Throughout the time Elie lived through the Holocaust, his devotion and relationship with God greatly changed. In the beginning of his life, Elie was a devoted observant Jew, who studied everyday, and went the synagogue and cry. He was also trying to convince his father to study the Kabbalah, so he could later become a Rabbi. But while in the camps, with all of the suffering, and labor, Elie begins to question God. While his dad was praying, Elie began to feel anger, “Why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent. What was there to thank Him for?” (Wiesel 33). Elie sees what is happening around them, with people being burned and killed, and becomes …show more content…

Before the Holocaust changed his life, he had a distant relationship with father, and they often argued about him wanting to become a mystic. Towards the beginning of his time in the concentration camps, a Kapo was speaking with Elie’s father and struck him in the face, “I stood petrified. What had happened to me? My father had just been struck, in front of me, and I had not even blinked. I had watched and kept silent. Only yesterday, I would have dug my nails into this criminals flesh” (Wiesel 39). Elie would’ve done something to avenge his father after he had been struck, but he couldn't. If he had done so, the result would have been worse for him rather than what the Kapo had done to his father. This shows how if he wasn’t restrained, he would done something to the Kapo, but

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