How Does Elie Wiesel Change In Night

If Eliezer was selected for death at Birkenau, he was going to break rank and run into the electrified barbed wire fence. He thought this was a better decision for death rather than dying slowly in the flames in the crematoria. Eliezer was going to follow through with his plan I think because he squeezed his father’s hand as a sign of saying good-bye but then his father asked him, “Do you remember Mrs.Schacter, in the train?” If it wasn’t for his father I think Eliezer would have jumped into the electrified barbed wire fence and he wouldn’t have survived all the concentration camps in the end.

In the novel Night, Elie Wiesel gives an account about his life in a concentration camp. His focus is of course on his obstacles and challenges while in the camp, but his behavior is an example of how human beings respond to life in a concentration camp. The mood, personality, behavior, and obviously physical changes that occur are well documented in this novel. He also shows, as time wears on, how these changes become more profound and all the more appalling. As the reader follows Elie Wiesel’s story, from his home in the ghetto, to his internment at Auschwitz-Birkenau, to his transfer and eventual release at Buchenwald, one can see the impact of these changes first hand.

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.

Elie experienced many changes, as a person while he was in Auschwitz. Before Elie was sent to Auschwitz, he was just a small naive child that new very little

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.

Wiesel also uses imagery, of Eliezer loosing the ability to express emotion, to show the dehumanization of Eliezer and the other Jews who are led to undergo drastic emotional changes. Unfortunately, the Jews suffer tremendous difficulties in the concentration camps. The torture that the enslaved Jews experience has obvious physical effects, but it also has mental changes on them. The events that have taken place at the concentration camps has shaken Eliezer so much, that at the sight of his stricken father, he replies, “My father had just been struck, before my eyes, and I had not flickered an eyelid. I had looked on and said nothing.” (Pg. 37 old book) After the Kapo beats his father to the ground for asking permission to use the bathroom, Elieizer is surprised at himself because he is incapable of doing so much as lifting a finger or saying anything in his father's defense. Like the other Jews, he is dehumanized with his main concern becoming self-preservation. Thus, Eliezer looses his compassion for others, including his father. When his father dies due to dysentery, Eliezer states, “I did not weep and it pained me that I could not weep.

“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering” (Nietzsche). This quote, said by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, describes the desire to survive that was inside of Elie Wiesel in his story. The book describes Elie’s late teen years when he was sent to a concentration camp by the German government. In the book, he is separated from his whole family except for his old father, and both are put to work inside of the camp. As Elie suffers through the camp, his faith and his life face many tests and trials. There are many instances throughout the book when people die or when somebody loses their faith. The theme of the book Night, written by Elie Wiesel, is survival, as shown by the death of many Jews during the Holocaust, people willing to do anything to survive, and people’s faith not surviving the traumatic experiences of the concentration camps.

Night by Elie Wiesel is dark, and this book is the opposite of pleasant. The holocaust was an unimaginable time; he described it uniquely by asking rhetorical questions. The characters attitudes and personality change from the beginning to the end. The beginning of the story shows the happy “people” they are. As it moves on the characters change and become different in a bad way. The eye witness view creates a harsh reality for the reader. He uses detailed metaphors and euphemisms to create or dramatize each moment. Elie is a teenager struggling with religion as he feels the world is giving up. Elie and his father have a captivating relationship and it is depressing. The concentration camps they are brought to drag their family apart.

“Eliezer experiments with the possibility of becoming an adult while his father gradually slips away, all the while giving his son what space he can to let him try out a new role” (Sanderson). “Eliezer's march toward a pseudo-adulthood continues, while his father seems to be regressing. (Sanderson). Elie’s father starts to get sick and is becoming an annoyance for Elie. When Chlomo sinks into a snow bank during a forced march to the next death camp, too sick to move, Eliezer begs his father to stand up and continue moving” (Sanderson). Elie also felt no remorse for his father as he was being beaten by a S.S guard. “At first my father simply doubled the blows…I felt angry at that moment… Why couldn’t he avoid Idek’s wrath?” (Wiesel 54). Even when his father was being beaten for not marching right he still became annoyed with is dad. He also gave up his soup with a heavy heart. “I gave him what’s left of my soup.” I was aware that I did it groggily” (Wiesel

6 million lives, all of those perished in the holocaust for nothing but their religion; So many died but some survived and one survivor in particular Elie Wiesel author of Night tells his story of how at the age 16 he was deported to a concentration camp with his father and saw what took to survive. In those moments where Wiesel is describing what happened is where we decide is hope really the reason he survived or was it is fear?

Eliezer’s faith in God slowly starts to become weaker when things become worse with his father but it does not change completely, he still has faith that everything will turn out good. He prays to God when he sees the boy leave his father behind and he hopes that he will not be like that and he will actually stick by his father through thick and thin. When Elie’s father dies, he has faith in God that he can now survive on his own without having to have a parent by his side. Even though these are moments where he questions his faith he still has faith in God. Eliezer’s faith in God does not change throughout Night.

For example, during one selection, Eliezer had passed through the selection while the others and his friend Akiba Drumer did not pass (Wiesel 82). This shows that Eliezer has passed and survived because he is hopeful in his future and freedom while the others have lost their faith and their willing to live. Furthermore, his loyalty also helps him to survive through his journeys. For another example, when he and the other Jews evacuated from Buna and the SS men, Eliezer kept the same speed with his father that he did not leave him behind (Wiesel 108). His action has showed that he is loyal to his father because he did not abandon him behind like the other men. Because he is loyal to him, he always has his father beside to help and to support him during the journey. If he didn’t have his father beside him, he would be killed by the other men while he was sleeping. At Buchenwald, Eliezer has lost his humanity because of the starvation and the weakness. For instance, even though he gave his father food and water, parts of him didn’t want to do that because he wanted to keep the food for himself. This shows that he became selfish and greedy when there was not enough food and water. His optimism and his loyalty have helped him to survive through the dead journeys; however, the terrible condition has changed him into inhumanity as the other

The Holocaust was a tragic event that shocked the world. The Jews were treated like repulsive animals and that majorly affected their shortened lives. More than six million Jews were killed, but Elie was one of the few to survive the Holocaust. As hatred grew, the poor treatment and killings escalated. Elie’s book Night clearly involves the dehumanization of the Jews. He was forced to grow up before he was ready. Elie saw dreadful things that forever changed him, but despite his dreadful situation, he overcame many challenges and lived to tell his story.

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.

Eliezer Wiesel (Elie) is a famous Jewish author who has written a total of fifty-seven books, one being Night where he talks about him and his family being taken away from their home in 1944 to the Auschwitz concentration camp where he keeps horrific memories of the death of his family and the death of his own innocence as a young boy. Although Night is a very informational read, it’s also heart-wrenching as well and can bring you into tears as you image yourself walking through this terrifying experience. To readers, it is obvious that Elie is no longer considered a boy witnessing what he has seen in the holocaust. World War II has taken the innocence from a Jewish child through his experience