As humans, we are constantly changing and adapting to fit our environment. Humans also can have mood changes due to age, rough times or any other driving force. In the book “Night”, by Elie Wiesel, Elie goes through many changes because of what he experiences. Elie had to change his ways in order to survive and keep his loved ones by his side. Over the course of the book, Elie changed the way he acted towards people, loved ones, and things he knew to be true. In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, Elie goes through many changes, as a character, while he was in Auschwitz. Before Elie was sent to Auschwitz, he was just a small child that new little of the world. He made poor decisions and questioned everything. Elie was a religious boy before …show more content…
‘I warned you,’ he shouted” (10). Moishe comes to warn Elie and his family that the Nazi are coming closer. In the excerpt Elie exhibits his poor decision making skills. Elie and his family did not listen to Moishe. This cost them them, because if they would have listened then they could have avoided the concentration camps. Elie was a young boy, knowing little, he asked questions a lot, hoping he could find an answer. In the book Elie says “‘Why do you pray Moishe?’”(Wiesel 4). Elie is not afraid to ask people questions in order to find answers. Elie benefits later in the book because he asked so many questions in the past, he already knows the answers in the future. Elie liked to learn, especially about his religion Kabbalah. Elie asked so many questions because he would have never learned anything if he didn’t ask any questions. Elie, born of jewish parents, believed very strongly in his religion, …show more content…
This new behavior leads 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 putting them in poor conditions. Elie is usually not a person for 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. 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 now, when he is starting to question his beliefs. He had learned that God will punish evil and save the righteous. However, when Elie saw that God was not helping the Jews situation, then Elie asked himself the question, “Is God real?”. Elie became worried because he felt he had lost a companion that always seemed by his side at all times. He lost hope. While Elie was in the camp he had changed the way he acted towards his Dad. Before Elie was sent to the camp Elie had a love hate relationship with his dad. However while they were in the camp together they became closer. Elie showed this when, “I tightened my grip on my
Since Elie was dealing with hardships and unbearable weather conditions, I believe night was a significant time for him to compromise and motivate himself to keep moving forward. Earlier on in the novel Night, Elie explains, “Man comes closer to God through the questions he asks Him, he liked to say. Therein lies the true dialogue. Man asks and God replies. But we don’t understand them… The real answers, Eliezer, you will find only within yourself,” (Wiesel 5). I believe he thinks back to this conversation with Moishe since he impacted his view on life and the fact that he needs something to push him through the tough nights in the concentration camps. Although, his dad was the main support beam through his experience in the concentration camps, Moishe gave him spiritual belief in such a way that God has a plan even if his answers are not clear straight away. So, when he wrote about his day to day life at the concentration camps, he chose to write at night because that’s when he most likely felt he was able to sort out his thoughts and feelings without having to worry very much about a Kapo coming after him.
An estimated 1/3 of all Jewish people who were alive were grotesquely tortured and murdered during the Holocaust. Those who were not murdered went through changes mentally, physically, and spiritually. This changed many people’s identities to where they seemed like a completely different person. Elie was one of the many people whose identity had changed throughout their time at the death camps.
...e has to deal with the death of his family, the death of his innocence, and the death of his God at the very young age of fifteen. He retells the horrors of the concentration camp, of starvation, beatings, torture, illness, and hard labor. He comes to question how God could let this happen and to redefine the existence of God in the concentration camp. This book is also filled with acts of kindness and compassion amid the degradation and violence. It seems that for every act of violence that is committed, Elie counteracts with some act of compassion. Night is a reflection on goodness and evil, on responsibility to family and community, on the struggle to forge identity and to maintain faith. It shows one boy's transformation from spiritual idealism to spiritual death via his journey through the Nazi's failed attempt to conquer and erase a people and their faith.
Throughout Elie’s life he experiences the up and down of this religion. When all looks good Elie finds himself studying Kabbalah and many more areas in his religion, but when the world starts to turn it brings Elie with it along with questions that devour Elie’s religion right before his eyes. Usually then the hero of the story recovers what they lost, but Elie truly went through the Holocaust and the Holocaust only takes; and Elie opens his eyes to find what they took away and that he now travels alone with no beliefs. A deadly night. A devious camp. A destroyed belief. A time when Elie loses something that comes back in forty-years.
The book Night by Elie Wiesel is an autobiography that describes Elie 's time in the Holocaust. He is a sixteen year old jewish boy in the Auschwitz concentration camp. He is a thin scrawny boy, but is very strong. His hair is coal black, but looks bad because it is very short and greasy. His eyes look dark and cold with sadness in them because of the loss he’s experienced in the concentration camp. His hands are torn to pieces because he is a hard worker. He is very dirty due to not being able to shower often. Bruises are found all over him from the beating he often gets if he does not follow protocol in the concentration camp. His feet are cut up and often bleeding because he is on them so much. The bags under his eyes are so distinct because he gets no sleep. His body is broken down and hurt, even after he gets out of the concentration camp his body has still not recovered from the scars.
In the beginning of Night Elie was very focused on his family, keeping them safe, and helping them survive. As he continues his life in the concentration camps he starts to let go of those views. He starts to let go of past events easier instead of dwelling on them, he kicks into survival mode, and he loved his father through the whole thing but realized it was just his time which e would not have done in the beginning of the story. The story says, “The officer dealt him a violent blow to the head… I did not move. I was afraid. My body was afraid of also receiving a blow” (116). This shows that Elie had changed so he himself could survive. All of this is an example to why adaption in the key to
Elie Wiesel wrote Night because he wanted to spread awareness to others, so he can try to prevent what happened to him. The concentration camps had taken a lot from him, His mom, dad, sister. This book shows that the concentration camp has taken a lot of his humanization. Wiesel was a Jewish teenager that lived in Sighet, in Hungarian Transylvania. Eliezer studied the book of Torah this book was the first book out of five of the Old Testament, and also the Cabbala. When he met Moshe the Beadle, Moshe was to others a lunatic and none took him seriously at all. The Gestapo was in charge of Eliezer's train they taken everyone in the woods and slaughtered them like pigs. When Wiesel
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.
It doesn't take long for the Nazis to completely destroy Elie’s faith in God. The following quote by Elie Wiesel shows how much he has changed. “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, to watch as our fathers, our mothers, our brothers end up in furnaces?”(67) This demonstrates Elie not wanting to support his God. The next quote shows how he separates himself completely from the boy who entered the camp to the one who came out. “The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me.” (115) In the statement before he refers to himself in third person implying that he no longer sees himself as who he was, not only physically but
In Night Elie Wiesel begins at the concentration camp as a young teenage boy only fifteen years old where he has to view and endure the horrendous trauma of the war. Elie has to witness gruesome events unfold, as now that is where he was living and he has to confine to the rules. In a specific example, Elie witnesses as SS officers place “nooses around [the] necks” of a child and two other men. As they tip over the chairs and the horrific images of their “tongues hanging out … swollen and bluish” appear, as well as the lonesome child, “lingering between life and death” remains into his memory forever (Wiesel 64). After witnessing such horrendous acts, Elie’s innocence is completely lost. Not only that, but on many occasions Elie is treated with cruel punishment, such as violence for something he might have not done right. Idek once took his fury out on Elie and began to throw “violent blows” and “ [threw] him to the ground,” beginning to“crush” him, until he was “in blood” (Wiesel 53). These despicable actions and cruel punishment will have a toll on anyone if they continue to experience it everyday, which is exactly what happens to Wiesel and becomes a huge reminder on how he lost his innocence. These actions all led up to Wiesel changing as a character in his memoir and in real
“Even in darkness, it is possible to create light”(Wiesel). In Night, a memoir by Elie Wiesel, the author, as a young boy who profoundly believed in his religion, experiences the life of a prisoner in the Holocaust. He struggles to stay with his father while trying to survive. Through his experience, he witnesses the changes in his people as they fight each other for themselves. He himself also notices the change within himself. In Night, it is discovered that atrocities and cruel treatment can make decent people into brutes. Elie himself also shows signs of becoming a brute for his survival, but escapes this fate, which is shown through his interactions with his father.
In Eliezer Wiesel’s novel “Night”, it depicts the life of a father and son going through the concentration camp of World War II. Both Eliezer and his father are taken from their home, where they would experience inhuman and harsh conditions in the camps. The harsh conditions cause Eliezer and his father’s relationship to change. During their time in the camps, Eliezer Wiesel and his father experience a reversal of their roles.
Night by Elie Wiesel is a very sad book. The struggle that Eliezer endured is similar to one that we all face. Eliezer’s was during the holocaust. Ours can be during any period of life. If we set our priorities in our hearts, nothing can change them except ourselves. Night is a prime example of this inner struggle and the backwards progress that is possible with Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. It teaches that the mind truly is “over all.” As Frankl wrote, “Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate,” no matter what the circumstance.
‘I warned you,’ he shouted” (10). Moishe comes to warn Elie and his family that the Nazi are coming closer. In the excerpt Elie exhibits his poor decision making skills. Elie and his family did not listen to Moishe. This cost them them, because if they would have listened then they could have avoided the concentrations camps. Elie was a young boy, knowing little, he asked questions a lot, hoping he could find an answer. In the book Elie says “‘Why do you pray Moishe?’”(Wiesel 4). Elie is not afraid to ask people questions in order to find answers. Elie benefits later in the book because he asked so many questions in the past, he already knows the answers in the future. Elie liked to learn, especially about his religion Kabbalah. Elie asked so many questions because he would never learned anything if he didn’t ask any questions. Elie, born from jewish parents, believed very strongly in his religion, Kabbalah.
Night is an autobiography by a man named Eliezer Wiesel. The autobiography is a quite disturbing record of Elie’s childhood in the Nazi death camps Auschwitz and Buchenwald during world war two. While Night is Elie Wiesel’s testimony about his experiences in the Holocaust, Wiesel is not, precisely speaking, the story’s protagonist. Night is narrated by a boy named Eliezer who represents Elie, but details set apart the character Eliezer from the real life Elie. For instance, Eliezer wounds his foot in the concentration camps, while Elie actually wounded his knee. Wiesel fictionalizes seemingly unimportant details because he wants to distinguish his narrator from himself. It is almost impossibly painful for a survivor to write about his Holocaust experience, and the mechanism of a narrator allows Wiesel to distance himself somewhat from the experience, to look in from the outside.