How Does Elie Wiesel Change In Night

Wiesel’s faith changes from being a strong believer in faith before the war to losing faith while during the war, he goes on to talk about him losing faith by saying “Some of the men spoke of God: His mysterious ways, the sins of the Jewish people, and the redemption to come. As for me, I had ceased to pray. I concurred with Job! I was not denying His existence, but I doubted His absolute justice.” (Pg.63). This quote goes on to demonstrate the loss of faith by Wiesel when being tortured by the Germans with the rest of the millions of Jews. Wiesel also loses faith when he says “Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes .”(Pg. 34) When Wiesel say this it implicates that his faith is being lost, and also he feels that his faith is basically being robbed from him by the German Nazis party. This fully show that he had lost faith but this shows what harshness and cruelty can do to a

Throughout a lifetime, people undergo many different identities to discover their true self. Elie Wiesel, the author of the memoir Night, suffered a major event that changed his identity forever. In his experience at the concentration camps during the Holocaust, Elie had to fight to stay alive even during the most resilient moments. This event shaped his life and brought Elie to endure different perspectives in his time in the camps. Eliezer’s identity changed throughout the memoir from faithful, to fearful, to hopeless.

When Wiesel first arrived at the concentration camp where he encountered the first selection and babies being burnt to death, he infuriated, "Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust... Never” (34). Here, Wiesel enraged toward God who merely observed innocents being burnt to deaths. This passage was where Wiesel doubted God's presence for the first time and where his faith in God aggravated. He not only repeated "Never shall I forget" to underline that the Holocaust and its sin must not be forgotten, but also to assert that he was now in a world without the God's presence, the world with merely the evils. Through using the repetition and powerful phrases such as, dreams turning to dust or God and soul being murdered, the quote delivered extreme profundity and intensity when one loses his faith in God. Again, in page 87, Wiesel used repetition to stress his change of faith in

Wiesel began to question his faith on September 20, 1933 it was close4 to the final stage of summer. Wiesel is experiencing the eve of Rosh Hashanah at a concentration camp. The holiday celebrates the end of a year in which all the prisoners were glad the year was over because it was horrific. On this days the jews commit to their past

Wiesel is constantly battling with whether or not his god exist. On page (64) Wiesel says “Where is merciful God, where is He?’ someone behind me was asking. This is one of the most powerful quotes in the whole book. He begins to question is his religion even real, To add on, he begins to stop fasting, one of the most crucial days of the year for a Jew to prove their relationship with god; however, “I did not fast. First of all…” he says on the page (69). To put the last “nail in the coffin” on the page (76) "It's over. God is no longer with us",

In the end Elie questions his faith more than reevaluate, what he had been taught as a child. He has become an unemotional man. He had since the worst to the point where he for as forsaken his faith. A result of experiences during the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel changes from a religious,sensitive little boy to spiritually dead,unemotional

How young Elie Wiesel changed from the beginning of the book until the end In the beginning Eliezer had so much faith in God, and after they were liberated, he questions if God really exists. After accepting the fact that his father has died, there is nothing that could possibly happen to make Eliezer feel worst. Even though he was liberated, he was with his father the whole time.

Prompt: Analyze how Wiesel's character changed throughout the novel, especially in regard to the Jewish religion and towards God as a result of his experiences during the Holocaust. How does Wiesel’s transformation reveal the author’s intended theme about the Holocaust?

In the memoir, Night, Elie Wiesel is only a teenager when he is taken by the Nazis and used as a labor force. He is taken to many concentration camps in Nazi Germany, now Poland. At the camps, he is treated awfully. He is at the bottom of the hierarchy of needs. Because of this, Elie changes in all kinds of ways.

He used to be a religious person, but then he loses his faith and starts to slowly lose his religious beliefs. He does not understand why God would let such a bad thing happen to the Jews. He at one point says “I did not deny God’s existence, but I doubted His absolute justice” (Wiesel 42). He just thinks that God is not as powerful as he thought. He used to be very serious about his religion.

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.

He used to want to end his life in the quickest way he could when challenges were too hard. Now, his goal is to survive the Holocaust. “...dream of another life...we were stronger than cold and hunger, stronger than guns and the desire to die…” (Wiesel 86/87). Even when he had the desire to just end whatever was going wrong, he started dreaming of a time where he was outside of the concentration camp. He always told himself that he was “...stronger than guns and the desire to die,” and this was true. All the power was in his hands when he chose if he wanted to live or

Faith is an interesting thing that can lead people to being something great but can also have someone question their values, and what they really stand for. In the beginning of this story before Wiesel went through the concentration camp Wiesel was devoted to his faith. He often prayed and went to his synagogue to talk to God. Others knew he was a faithful person he studied many religions and was dedicated to the practices that followed which people could see that he lived out. When he had problems he was seek help through his faith he believed that anything could happen through the power of God. As his time went on through the concentration camps he had moments that he believed were brought to him by the Lord and other moments where he would curse his name. By the end of his experience, he claimed that there was no God because no God could just watch over and see all of these people

His beliefs that everything in the world was good were changed after what he went through with his father at the concentration camp in Auschwitz. He would often question himself how God could permit such cruelty to take place. His faith was not only questioned because of the cruel things that were done to the Jews at concentration camps but also because of how selfish and greedy the other prisoners were. “And the spectators observed these emaciated creatures ready to kill for a crust of bread.” This quote states how Wiesel’s faith is also shaken by the brutality and selfishness he sees among the prisoners (119). He sees that the Holocaust brought out the selfishness, evil, and cruelty of not only the Nazis, but also the Jewish prisoners, and even himself. He feels if these disgusting and harsh things are happening in the world then God either must be disgusting and harsh or must not be real at all. While Wiesel doubted his faith some of the men at the camp still had complete faith in God and would discuss it by saying that, “God is testing us. He wants to see whether we are capable…much more…”

The first glimpse we get into Elie Wiesel’s views after the holocaust is the preface of his story night. Written not so long after he escaped death in the concentration camps, it mostly shows he has unrefined, common views of remorse and regret on behalf of the Jews who died. He does hold some more unique and negative views about the event. In particular the soul of the human race as a whole. Although many survivors were eager to share their experiences in order to sway the public, Wiesel was scared that no one would believe him. “Could men and women who consider it normal to assist the weak, to heal the sick, to protect small children, and to respectthe wisdom of their elders understand what happened there? Would they be able