How Does Elie Wiesel Change In The Book Night

“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....” –Elie Wiesel expressed shortly after his harsh experience with the Holocaust. As many read through Elie’s book Night, they recognize what Elie fought through while he was staying in the Concentration Camps. People have realized the brutal conditions that the he had gone through and have came to the thought of how it effected his future and what he has done ever since the horrible Holocaust.

Imagine, losing the part of you that makes you unique, or being treated like you were worth absolutely nothing. Think about losing all that you hold on to: your family, friends, everything that you had. Imagine, being treated like an animal, or barely receiving enough food to live. All of these situations and more is what the Jews went through during the Holocaust. During the period of 1944 - 1945, a man by the name of Elie Wiesel was one of the millions of Jews that were experiencing the wrath of Hitler’s destruction in the form of intense labor and starvation. The novel Night written by the same man, Elie Wiesel, highlights the constant struggle they faced every single day during the war. From the first acts of throwing the Jews into

Through this whole time Elie has lost faith in those that he trusted. God wasn’t there for his followers that were suffering. Humanity turned a blind eye to the genocide that was happening. Elie himself was having moments of weakness where he would think about leaving his father behind. With each faith that was destroyed he grew more unfeeling and indifferent to what happened to

Elie and his family's view on loss was extremely impacted because of what had happened to them during the Holocaust. Before the Holocaust, for them, loss was rare and seemed to mean more since it didn't happen very often. But during, "loss" is more than just an everyday thing. During the Holocaust, losing something of yours, such as valuables, clothes, food, even family members are taken away from Elie. This changes Elie and his family's outlook on loss because after the holocaust they begin to value many things more because they have experienced what they did. Loss became more of a common thing and getting certain things taken away didn't mean as much to them compared to someone who had not been through everything they have.

There are people crowded, shoulder to shoulder, expecting a shower and to feel water raining down their bodies. Sighs of relief turn into screams of terror as innocent people are gasping for their last breaths of air inside of the gas chamber. This was a daily occurrence for Jewish and other people involved in the Holocaust. This was just one horrific event of many that had happened to women, men and children. Some of the survivors have used their voice to speak out about their own background during their time spent in Auschwitz and other concentration camps. Elie Wiesel, author of the book Night, is one of the many who did so. Wiesel talks about his personal experience and shares his feelings, thoughts and emotions that he went through with others during the Holocaust.

Paragraph four - During the book Elie started to doubt God. ( man vs God )

“I woke from my apathy only when two men approached my father. I threw myself on his body. He was cold. I slapped him. I rubbed his hands, crying... At last, my father half opened his eyes” (99). Elie almost lost the one thing that kept him going, his father. He had gone all this way, enduring so many different trials and awful things. He was not going to let his father give up now like most of the other people around them. Elie would not let him be like the other ones that were thrown off. “In a snowy field in Poland, hundreds of naked orphans without a tomb” (99). Elie was not going to abandon his father like

Before Elie had been deported to the terrors of the Auschwitz, he was a completely different person. Some of the traits that he exhibited were hopeful, shielded, and religious. As Wiesel said in “Night” “There was joy, yes joy. People must have thought there could be no greater torment in God’s hell than that of being stranded here, on the sidewalk, among the bundles, in the middle of the street under the blazing sun.” (16) The town was not concerned about what was going on. They didn't believe that anything else would get worse. Elie and the people of his town were unable to accept the fact that anyone would do such a horrible deed. Elie and his neighbors were ecstatic because they thought nothing could get worse than it was already; what Hitler would do to them in the future, did not even seen imaginable. The victims believed that God would

The holocaust is one of the world's most tragic events, approximately 6 million Jews died and the concentration camp Auschwitz is the world's largest human cemetery, yet it has no graves. In Elie Wiesel's autobiographical memoir Night, he writes about his dehumanizing journey in the concentration camp, Auschwitz. Firstly, Elie experiences the loss of love and belonging when he is separated from his mother, sisters, and eventually his father. Also, the lack of respect that the Nazis showed the prisoners which lead to the men, including Elie to feel a sense of worthlessness in the camp. Finally, the lack of basic necessities in the camp leads to the men physically experiencing dehumanization. As a result, all these factors contribute to the

Elie was deeply devoted to his faith at the beginning but as the story progresses he loses that devotion and barely believes that there is a God that exists. The first signs of him losing his faith was when he arrived at the first camp and saw the horrible things people were doing to the Jews. Other people around him had already lost faith in God and Elie was beginning to doubt God due to Him allowing people to do this to others. “His

He slowly loses his faith while there. He even thinks “never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust” (Wiesel 32). During the holocaust, Elie Wiesel changes from a spiritual, sensitive little boy to a spiritually dead, unemotional man. In the beginning of the book Elie is very religious.

Night, a memoir written by Elie Wiesel, reflects a time in his life during the Holocaust. During the Holocaust, over six million people deemed “unworthy” were sent to concentration camps, where they were forced to work, or killed. Over three millions Jews were killed during the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel’s feelings about God change from being very religious and wanting to learn more about God, to losing his faith in God and going against his religion after the young pipel is hanged.

Elie still has faith in God that he can now survive on his own without having his father with him. For instance, when Elie says, “ I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep. But I had no more tears. And, in the depths of my being, in the recesses of my weakened conscience, could I have searched it, I might perhaps have found something like- free at last!” (Wiesel 106).

Stated in the book, “ How could I say to him: Blessed be thou, Almighty, Master of the universe, who chose us among all nations to be tortured day and night” ( page 67). All the Jews in the concentration camps questioned why their savior was letting this happen and not helping them and Elie was one of those Jews. Without having much insight of what was to come of their lively hoods Elie and rest of the Jews pushed through tough conditions, Elie states, “ It’s over, god is no longer with us” (page 76).  After time Elie and other Jews started believe that their was no God, and they should accept their fate.                                            Elie’s will power decreased throughout the book, after understanding everyday was a fight for his life. When something is desperately wanted it is fought for, easier said than done when surviving the conditions Elie lived in: scarce food, bad weather, and poor sheltering, In the words of Elie, “I’ll run into the electrified barbed wire, that would be easier then a slow death in flames”(page 33). He wanted to give up once finding out his fate to be. At the time he thought why should he sit

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.