Night By Elie Wiesel Reflection

     Eli has a definite change emotionally. He thinks about the things he would never consider if he was not in Auschwitz. For example, on page 102, Elie says, “I gave him what was left of my soup, But it was with a heavy heart. I felt that I was giving it up to him against my will.” In the beginning, it was as if Elie would do anything for his father. After all, his father was older and it was Elie’s turn to look after him. After a while, his father seems like almost a burden to him. Elie felt obligated to give him the rest of his food, but if given the choice, he probably would not have given it up easily.

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.

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,

Physically, Elie underwent several changes that left him different from what he had once been. Before the holocaust Elie was a young boy who ate meals regularly and had no need to worry about when he would be getting his next meal or how big it would be. The carefree state of mind that Elie was in did not last. When the holocaust was in full swing he would not

“Saliva mixed with blood was trickling from his lips. He had closed his eyes. He was gasping more than breathing.” (108) While Elie was at the concentration camp, he had to watch his father suffer from dysentery. By the time a doctor saw Elie’s father, the disease had progressed too far for treatment or medicine. Elie wondered why God didn’t give Elie’s father a second chance to live. This resulted in a major decrease in Elie’s faith in God and the Jewish religion because he didn’t understand why God couldn’t save his father. “One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate. One less reason to live.” (109) In this scene, Elie was close to giving up on surviving the Holocaust. His father was at the last stages of his life and was suffering every minute because he had nausea, suffocation, and blood was all over his body. Elie wanted God to either help his father recover from dysentery or for God to end his father’s life quickly so the suffering could come to an end, but God didn’t respond to Elie’s prayers. At this point, Elie was so traumatized by the Holocaust that his faith had almost

We encounter Elie’s lost of faith throughout the book. Once he was separate he was brought to an area where bodies were being thrown into a fire. He started losing his faith in humanity once he saw the cruel things that were happening. When people lose there faith, they lose their faith in God and themselves. They start looking on the negative side of life and just lose their focus for what they wanted. Elie would want to study the Cabala but his father didn’t approve of it. He would always look out for not just his family but the people around him. Elie would always pray but wouldn't know why. He fascinated with Judaism so he goes without his father’s permission to learn more. “Never shall I forget those flames, which consumed my faith forever.” on page 45 clearly tells us that his faith was lost due to the fact that bodies were being thrown into the flames. As the book

As he writes on page 113, “Nothing mattered to me anymore,” in response to the death of his father. In the time after his father died, he didn’t really feel anything. All that mattered was eating and staying alive. He had no one else to think about after his father died other than himself, and nothing else to think about other than when his next meal was. Although what really showed the change in Elie was the way he felt about his father dying. At the beginning of the book Elie would do everything he could to stay with his father, stating, “All I could think of was not to lose him (his father),” (page 30), and by the end when his father died, on page 112 he exclaims, “Free at last!” The way his feelings changed from the beginning to the end prove how the way they were treated made them believe it was every man for themselves. In fact, Elie had at first been ready to defend and stand by his father in anything, but nearing the time of his father’s death had started thinking of being free of his father, and even using some of his father’s rations for himself. After his father died, he only thought of his next meal, and he only cared for himself in a way he never had

From being a normal kid, to almost being burned alive, Elie Wiesel’s Night is a story about a boy’s time in a concentration camp. Elie is faced with many scarring challenges, and some have changed him. These events were In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the main character Elie, is affected by the harrowing events in the book because he was mentally, spiritually, and physically harmed during his time at Auschwitz To start, Elie was changed mentally in the book. There were many events that caused Elie’s mental state to deteriorate, including the event where Elie was deported in the cattle car. He describes on page 24 that his world from then on as “being in a hermetically sealed cattle car.’’

Referring to the quote, “never shall I forget those moments that murdered my god and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes,” (Wiesel 34) it is relevant to the struggles faced by the Jewish people during their imprisonment in a holocaust camp, particularly Eliezer’s struggles. When he and his father arrived at their first camp they were greeted by an immense crematorium, with black smoke rising from its chimney. Jews stood in the freezing cold with only the miniscule amount of clothes on them, waiting to be told to go somewhere. Eliezer watched as many small children, as well as women, were herded into the crematorium, and turned into nothing but smoke. He came to realize that this could have easily been his fate, had he not lied about his age. Seeing innocent people turned into nothing but ashes and smoke made him question life itself. He had the belief

He lost in his faith in life, and God as stating, “Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever. Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live (Wiesel 32).” Eliezer has been broken and scarred for life. He has seen events that are inhumane and will never be the same. On page 63 he continues his apostasy,“‘What are you my God?... Why do You still trouble their sick minds, their crippled bodies?’” Someone that he used to praise and worship he is now shaming and questioning. Although the reader follows Eliezer while he loses his faith, we also see a strong father-son relationship rise. During these disgusting times, Eliezer's only motive to stay alive was his father,“My father’s presence was the only thing that stopped me…. I had no right to let myself die (Wiesel 82).”He pushed through despicable conditions and situations and managed to survive the concentration camp. Finally Eliezer's senses sharpened and his self awareness and preservation became noticeable. He had to do this if he wanted to survive as it says, “He was going to be hanged…. I did not feel any pity for him. I was even pleased about what had happened I had saved my gold crown (Wiesel 50).” He was selfish and even pleased about a life being lost because it meant he could keep something valuable. Elie was a humble, faithful person at

At the beginning of the story, Elie devoutly follows Judaism and its religious customs, strongly desiring to learn more about his faith. On the opening page of the novel, Elie says the following about himself: "I believed profoundly. During the day I studied the Talmud, and at night I ran to the synagogue to weep over the destruction of the Temple. One day I asked my father to find me a master to guide me in my studies of the cabbala" (Wiesel 1). This passage intends to demonstrate the zeal Elie had for his religion. The phrases believed profoundly, studied the Talmud, and ran to the synagogue all reveal Elie's excitement. He is not grudgingly following his father's instructions but yearns to learn more about Judaism. He strives to reach a new level of understanding, asking his father to find someone to guide him through the Talmud. It is evident that religion plays an important part in Elie's life and that he fully trusts in his God; otherwise he would not be focusing on it "during the day […] and at night" (Wiesel 1). This all changes for him after witnessing the horrors of Auschwitz. Elie vehemently cries out to God, "'What are you my God' I thought angrily, ' Compared to this afflicted crowd, proclaiming to You their faith, their anger, their revolt? What does Your greatness mean, Lord of the universe, in the face of all this weakness, this decomposition, and this decay? Why do you still

I feel like the book Night lets off a very sad a depressing mood. The setting of this book is a various amount of concentration camps that Elie and his dad go to. The main central idea of Night is to explain the experiences in the Holocaust. I personally think that this book is a good book for young adults and not kids because it uses some language and it’s very descriptive.

In the book Night, written by Elie Wiesel, the theme of sorrow continues through the book. Numerous Jewish people are being thrown out of trains aimlessly after they pass away. During this section of the story the Jews are still slowly vanishing one by one. There was now only a few “well dressed” inmates left in camp. Elie, his father, and other inmates were placed onto a train to head to their new camp. When they arrived they were all given new clothes, had settled into new tents, and would later be assigned a new block. “The sound of the bell brought me back to reality. We had to go to bed. We came back from very far away. I looked up at my father’s face, trying to glimpse a smile or something like it on his stricken face. But there was nothing.

The book that has made the greatest impact on my life is Night by Elie Wiesel. After reading Night and even while I was reading the book it really just made me think about a lot of things, both good and bad. Night is a memoir, in this book you see Elie’s faith really tested. At the beginning of the book Elie was so strong in his faith, when he was asked “Why do you pray to God?” he answered with “Why do I pray?...Why do I live? Why do I breathe?” His belief in God was so strong at the beginning of his book. He was so strong in his faith primarily because that was what he was taught his whole life, he was Jewish. It was established in his mind, as well as in the mind of most other Jews, that God is everywhere in the world and that nothing would

In the novel Night, by Elie Wiesel, Moshe the Beedle tried to warn the small town of Sighet, Transylvanian. Mosh, lived in Sighet; he was a poor man, although, many Jews in this small community were fond of him. He had a close relationship with Elie and often used to study Torah together. When praying, Moshe revealed that he prays to God for “the strength to ask Him real questions” (page 5). Sadly, one day a German proclamation was made: all foreign Jews would be expelled from Sighet. Moshe was forced to leave, and the community moved on without him. Later, Elie saw Moshe sitting outside the entrance to the synagogue. Moshe began to describe the true events after the deportations. The train was unloaded in the Polish territory and Jews were then loaded onto transport trucks, which took them to a large forest. The Jews forced to dig huge trenches. Once they were finished, the Germans started to kill all the Jewish prisoners! They used babies as targets! Luckily, Moshe was hit in the leg and left for dead. After telling his story, and living through it, he was no longer joyful as he once was. He went throughout the community, “exclaiming "Jews listen to me" (pg. 7)”. Moshe believes that he survived to warn everyone about there futures and the horrors he witnessed. However, no one believed him, and the community members moved on with there lives. In 1944, Elie is begging his father to pay attention to the warning and purchase immigration certificates. Although, his father