How Has Eliez Changed Throughout The Book Night

Before Elie was sent to the Auschwitz Concentration Camp, he displayed positive character traits. He was faithful, courageous, and smart. In the beginning, Wiesel states, “He had watched me one day as I prayed at dusk” (4) Elie was talking to Moishe the Beadle (teacher in Sighet) and was not afraid to express his faith. Obviously, Elie was faithful because he was praying. In addition, this showed that he was also very passionate about his faith and did not care if people knew if he was Jewish. Elie had this trait before he was sent to Auschwitz, and he made his faith the top priority. Elie’s faith was an outlet for him, and he was a very positive person because of it. Further into his stay at the Auschwitz concentration camp, Elie started to let his faith drift away, leaving him with almost nothing. Next, Wiesel says, “There could no longer be any doubt: Germany would be defeated. It was only a matter of time, months, weeks perhaps.” (8) Elie and his family were getting worried about the Nazi’s invading many Jewish homes. Elie became very confident about the situation and told himself that the Germans would be defeated. Confidence was deeply displayed in this piece of text evidence because he begins to make it a fact that the Germans would lose the war and everything would be okay. Elie’s confidence was a big part of his positive personality before he was in the camp because it gave him hope. Elie has a complete change of heart once he is in the death camp for a while and becomes very hopeless. Lastly, Wiesel explains, “I continued to devote myself to my studies, Talmud during the day and Kabbalah at night.” (8) Elie listened to the radio and heard that there were bombings from Germany and

While Elie was in the concentration camp he changed the way he acted. This new behavior led him to develop new character traits. While Ellie was in the concentration camp he became angry at many things. For example “I would have dug my nails into the criminals flesh” (Wisel 39). Elie shows extreme anger when the Nazi officials are beating Elie’s father. Elie was angry because the Nazi soldiers were not treating them nicely and keeping them in poor conditions. Elie was usually not a person to display anger, but he shows this when his family members are being hurt. Elie wants to stand up for what is right and for his family members. Despite his studying, Elie wavered in his belief in Kabbalah while he was at the camp. Elie was a religious boy before he went to Auschwitz, but while in the camp, he became angry at God. In the book Elie says, “‘Where are You, my God?’” (66). Elie is wondering why God is not helping the Jews. Elie had complete faith in his religion until he experienced and witnessed such horrible suffering. He had been taught that God will punish evil and save the righteous. However, when Elie saw that God was not helping the Jews situation,

Elie loses complete faith in god in many points where god let him down. He struggles physically and mentally for life and no longer believes there is a god. Elie worked hard to save himself and asks god many times to help him and take him out of the misery he was facing. "Why should I sanctify his name? The Almighty, the eternal, and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent..."(page 33). Elie was confused, because he doesn’t know why the Germans would kill his race amongst many others, and he does not know why god could let such thing happen to innocent people. "I did not deny god's existence, but I doubted his absolute justice..."(page 42). These conditions gave him confidence, and a courage to

As for Elie’s relationship with God, some find it tempting to say that he became an atheist, but this is an oversimplification. Though Eliezer lost faith in God’s mercy, he still believes that there is a God. He still believes that god can still save him from the mess. He feels like god is real enough to help him through the holocaust. He stop relying too much on god, and start asking god questions. Elie sees god as a new path to freedom, and work to regain a new life.

Elie’s faith before being exposed to the concentration camps is apparent and he works hard to strengthen and grow his faith. All throughout Night, Wiesel shows the eminent effect faith has on individual’s actions and attitude. At the beginning of Night, Elie’s faith is a key feature of his lifestyle and attitude. Studying under the wisdom of Moishe the Beadle, Elie can put his faith in retrospect as he says, “In the course of those evenings I became convinced that Moishe the Beadle would help me enter eternity, into that time when question and answer would become one” (Wiesel 5). It is very clear that Elie is very emotionally and physically invested in his faith. Before camp Elie was so eager to expand and connect to his faith in which he becomes, “convinced” that he fully understands his faith proving him to be a devout Jewish boy. Thus because, Moishe the Beadle is helping him “enter eternity” and build his faith. Elie’s whole life revolves

In the beginning of the book he studies the Talmud and other Jewish texts, “I continued to devote myself to my studies. By day, the Talmud, at night, the Caballa.” This text shows that he was a devoted jew who followed the texts. This religiousness soon came to change when Elie was in the concentration camps. Elie started to question god where an example of this would be in the quote “But these men here you have betrayed , whom you have allowed to be tortured,..., they pray for you! They praise your name!” This quote shows that Elie realizes that god has not devoted his time to his followers, and is angered that his “brothers” are dying and God is doing nothing about it. This quote changes his view of god showing the theme that the holocaust was a very difficult time for jews and that it made them lose faith in god.

Over the course of his time there, he is worked hard and witnesses horrific deaths. Because of all the traumatic events that occurred, he lost faith in the God he once believed in unconditionally. John Roth, author of In the Beginning, explained that the holocaust could only have happened if there was no God (35). However this is not true. In actuality, Eliezer explains that there is a God, he just does not believe in His power anymore. Elie does not say that he has become an atheist or that God had died as many people believe” (Brown 72). Elie simply does not believe in Him because of all the events that occurred while he was in the concentration camps.

Elie has been through so much trauma and it has affected him in many ways both negative and positive. One way he has changed is by his faith. He believed that god turned his back on them in their time of need, “Why, but why would I bless Him? Every fiber in me rebelled. Because He caused thousands of children to burn in His mass graves” (Wiesel 67). He has learned to rely less on God and more on himself and his focus has gone to his survival instead of praying. In his moment of despair, he turned his back on god instead of strengthening his faith and that is shown in his “What does Your grandeur mean, Master of the Universe, in the face of all this cowardice, this decay, and this misery?” (Wiesel 66). He felt betrayed and hurt because he has been told about this

Elie Wiesel’s Night is an eye opening memoir of his experiences being in concentration camps during the Holocaust. Wiesel went from a man who loved his family and had great faith to a man who lost all hope in everything. His memoir sheds light on what it was like to be a teenage boy during this time. Throughout his memoir readers get to see his transition as well as the circumstances he was undergoing. Elie Wiesel named his protagonist Eliezer, who is the only boy out of 4 children.

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.

When Elie and his dad passed selection and thought they were walking to the crematorium. He had experience anger towards God for the first time, which made him start asking himself why should he sanctified his name, and why hasn't he done something to stop this cruelty. Elie started developing more questioning as months go by in the concentration camps. Elie starts telling himself how he should never forget the moments that had murdered his God and turned his dreams to ashes. He also mentioned he noticed there is a new Elie, and the old, Elie who was a student and study his faith was gone. "Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes" (34). Elie has gone through beatings, starvation, and torture because he was a Jew. Elie knows he has changed because he feels anger and disappointment in God. His dream of entering eternity is now ashes, and his love toward God is now anger. He knows the dreams he had before coming to the camps are now

When Elie is ordered to go on a march, he and others witness a youth about his similar age being hung for stealing food. “I remember that on that evening the soup tasted better than ever” (Wiesel 63). This indicates that Elie had shown no emotion towards the event, and in turn was happy that he was able to eat the soup, even if it was at the expense of another individual. Additionally, as Elie’s father is dying towards the end of the novel, Elie shows no empathy towards him as he is being beaten by the Nazi SS Official. “I heard his voice...yet I did not move” (Wiesel xi). Elie later regrets this terrible event however, but this just suggests how he was corrupted at that time after seeing all those people suffer and not do anything about. It then ultimately it happened to his father, and he did not do anything about it. Moreover, Elie is very religious at the beginning of the story, and is eager to learn more about the Jewish religion. However, as the book progresses, he begins to lose faith in his own God. After seeing all these terrible horrors, he exclaims, “For God’s sake, where is God?” (Wiesel 65). This statement clearly validates that as he watches all this abomination take place, he wonders where God

He is eager and determined to learn more about his faith. He then arrives at Auschwitz and everything he knows dissipates. Since the beginning, Elie wanted to learn more about Kabbalah and pursue his faith. Since his father would not help him, Elie takes it upon himself and starts searching for someone to help him learn about his God. Elie comes across Moishe the Beadle who agrees and helps Elie up to the point before Moishe was taken away to a work camp. Elie continues to search for his faith once Moishe is gone, but starts to stray away once he himself is taken away as well. When Elie is brought to Auschwitz he realizes that his God was not as amazing and all-powerful as he thought. Elie sees the things the Germans do to the minorities and “ceased to pray” (Wiesel 45). Elie sees that his God is not protecting his people. Elie was frustrated and angry at his God. He began to doubt “His absolute justice” (Wiesel 45) because he let his people suffer and die at the hands of the

I have been asked hundreds of times in my life why God allows tragedy and suffering. I have to confess that I really do not know the answer totally, even to my own satisfaction. I have to accept, by faith, that God is sovereign, and He’s a God of love and mercy and compassion in the midst of suffering. The Bible says that God is not the author of evil. It speaks of evil as a “mystery.” In 2 Thessalonians 2:7 it talks about the mystery of iniquity. The Old Testament prophet Jeremiah said, “The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?” He asked that question, “Who can understand it?” And that’s one reason we each need God in our lives.

Elie turns to God as he is overwhelmed after witnessing a son abandon his father: “And in spite of myself, a prayer formed inside me, a prayer to this God in whom I no longer believed” (91). Although Elie cannot believe that God is allowing such horrors to happen, he believes that God still exists. His faith in God is never lost. Even in his darkest moment during the Holocaust, Elie still prays to a God that has existed within him since his arrival at the camps. Before he was deported, Elie was very faithful to God and prayed quite often, but when Elie witnesses the horrors of Auschwitz, he loses faith in a just, loving God. Elie believes that no just or loving God would kill millions of innocent people. Nevertheless, Elie finds God when he needs God most. Elie changes during the war, but his faith ties him to his past self. Elie’s faith in God dramatically decreased, but it is never