How Has Elie Wiesel Changed

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

“Never give up hope, no matter how dark things seem” -Ahsoka Tano in Star Wars: the Clone Wars. In the beginning of the story Elie is hopeful at every turn. He has a bright, hopeful future and then he and his family are taken away. When they are in the ghetto Elie is hopeful that he and his family won’t have to leave. He hopes he and his family will be okay. However his hope is taken away from him. He and his family arrive and they take his group near a crematorium. Elie is hopeful that he and his father won’t be taken into the crematorium’s deadly fire. But when he gets inside the camp he wishes that he would have been killed by the deadly fire. Later on in the story Elie meets his Uncle Stein. His Uncle asks him how his wife and sons are doing. Elie doesn’t have a clue but lies and says they are okay. This renews Uncle Stein’s faith but later on his village comes to the camp and Stein discovers that they died a long time ago. This news crushed Stein and he died days later. He lost his hope. Elie watches this scene unravel and hopes that he won’t lose his last bit of hope, his father. However he would soon lose him. “No! I yelled. He’s(Elie’s dad) not dead! Not yet!” Elie on page 93 in Night. Elie’s last bit of hope, his only reason for living, is his father. His father slowly starts to fade away and Elie can’t let him die, because then he’ll be dead soon after. However what happened in their relationship might have been worse than him just dying. One day when he, his father, and a group of other prisoners are being transported. The prison guards began to throw bread in their transport and then men began fighting to the death. Elie watches a son attempt to

In the text, ‘Night’, Elie survives because he keeps alive the hope of survival. An example of this is when he lies about his age and his occupation. “’I’m eighteen’. My voice was trembling” (page 33), this quote is evidence that Elie lied about his age so he does not get thrown into the crematorium, for being too young. Another example of Elie keeping the hope of survival alive is when he outcasts his father and decides to eat his rations. Elie does this because he knows that his father is sick and dying and he cannot help him besides watching him slowly die. Because of this his father has become a burden for Elie, lowing his chances of survival, and when Elie’s father dies Elie feels free from that burden. “And deep inside me, if I could have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like: Free at last!” (Page 112), this quote evidence

His father would have  no reason to live if Elie let himself die. If he did his father would have nothing left.

During the Holocaust, Eliezer Wiesel changes from a spiritual, sensitive, little boy to a spiritually dead, dispassionate man. In his memoir, Night, Elie speaks about his experiences upon being a survivor of the Holocaust. The reader sees how Elie has changed through his experiences in Sighet and the ghettos in comparison to what it was like for him in the concentration camps.

Elie mentions several times throughout the novel that he overcame trials by having his father by his side. When separated from his mother and

In the book Night by Elie Wiesel the main character Eliazer goes through some major changes throughout the book. He starts out as a naive young boy in Singet who is mainly focused on religion to an uncaring hardy man who doesn't believe in god. Some major moments in the book that changed him from who is was to who he became was when the German Police first come and remove him from his house, when Eliezer experiences his first night at Auschwitz, when his father gets beat in the camp, when he encounters a French Girl that speaks to him, when he witness a child being hung, and when Eliezer's father gets sick, just to name a few. These moments in Eliezer's life changed him during the book.

When Elie would arrive to new locations he always thought about the good side, his mother and sisters were taken away from him at the beginning, but he still had his father who gave him hope. His dad had not lost faith which influenced Elie to not lose complete faith in God. Elie said that he had moments of anger and protest that put him closer to God. Elie knows many Jews died for a reason, he is a strong believer that everything happens for a reason, he says “If I survived, it must be for some reason” (Berger). He knows he was put on the Earth for a purpose. Whenever God decides to take him he’ll take all his good and bad memories with

The Holocaust was a tragic event that involved the murder of millions of Jews from the years 1938 to 1945. Elie Wiesel was a victim to this, being a Jew himself. The book he wrote, Night, tells his story and how he survived, changed, and adapted to being put into labor camps and forced to work and was starved. Elie was forced to work for nearly four years in these camps surrounded by hundreds of other enslaved Jews. His experience was the definition of trauma. The traumatic experience altered his relationship with his father and emotionally changed him.

On page 112 after Elie's father dies Elie thinks to himself about how he will be affected from his father's death he says “I might have found something like: Free at last!...” This evidence shows that Elie realized that the most important person to protect is yourself which is also called self-preservation. When his father was still alive and wavering towards death Elies primary goal was to keep his father alive. The problem with this was that Elie needs to survive as well and if he gave all of his rations away to his father then he would have starved to death. This helps Elie because he decides that he is the most important and then he tries everything to protect himself such as trading for extra

Imagine being cruelly tortured, starved, and worked to death everyday. In his autobiographical novel, Night, Eliezer Wiesel shares his experiences of being a Jew during the rule of Adolf Hitler, an anti-semite. When Hitler proposed the Final Solution, the eradication of all Jews, Eliezer and his family were forcefully taken to a concentration camp called Auschwitz-Birkenau. Although Eliezer survived, he lost his family and identity due to traumatizing horrors of camp. Over the course of the novel, Eliezer’s actions and words have demonstrated that he changed from being religious and caring to faithless and selfish.

Once Elie was separated from them his first and only thought was to not lose his father and to not remain alone even while they were abused physically, mentally, and emotionally. No matter how many times they wanted to give up they didn't because they were each others motivation to survive. Elie would have done anything to survive along with his father to the point where he would cause chaos so his father wouldn't be sent away because of how weak he had become. Elie didn't ever want to leave his father's side which is why he “had made up [his] mind to accompany [his] father wherever he went.”(82). Even if he might've discovered later on that it wasn't his wisest

I was his sole support.” (Wiesel 86) This means that Elie forces himself to go on for his father, although he wanted to abandon him. A third statement which confirms this fact is, “In spite of myself, a prayer formed inside me, a prayer to this God in which I no longer believed in. Oh, God, master of the universe, give me strength to never do what Rabbi Eliahu’s son did.”

“He has seen things that changed him. There was no longer any joy in his eyes. He no longer talked about god. He talked only about what he had seen that was his priority.” -APA. In Night by Elie Wiesel, the theme of how certain experiences cause people to alter their ideas about what is valuable in life; in other cases, these experiences may, in fact, change that person interiorly. This theme was seen throughout the book. In this case, the thing that changed many was the Germans and Auschwitz.