Change In Elie Wiesel's Night

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In the book Night, Elie Wiesel went through and saw some horrible things in the holocaust. These things can change someone in multiple ways and they definitely changed Elie Wiesel. These events caused Elie Wiesel to change by making him lose his faith, desensitizing him to violence/evil, and after the holocaust, most things didn't matter to him anymore. Many of the events that occurred in this book tested Elie Wiesel’s faith. In the end he completely lost his faith and accused God of what happened in the holocaust. There had been so many bad things he had seen happen to people. He didn’t know why a loving and caring God would let this happen. One example of him losing his faith is, “And from within me, I heard a voice answer: Where he is? This is where - hanging from these gallows.” 65 …show more content…

Throughout the book, he is exposed to so many violent things. He saw people being beat and killed. He saw others burned. He even saw a little boy, just a little boy, being hung. Towards the end of his journey, they came to a camp with another crematory, but did not think of it anymore. “Very close to us stood the tall chimney of the crematoriums furnace. It no longer impressed us. It barely drew our attention.” 104. He didn’t care about the crematorium anymore. He wasn’t even scared to go to it anymore. Afterward, when they were rescued, he didn’t even care about anything anymore. His father had died, and now the only thing he could think of was getting more rations of food. “That’s all we thought about. No thought of revenge, or of parents. Only of bread.” 115 He could’ve just died and been fine with it. The holocaust had made him not care about life anymore. He didn’t want to live, especially after his father died. “Since my father’s death, nothing mattered to me anymore.”

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