Changes And Character Changes In Night By Elie Wiesel

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.

Have you ever had a day where you were excited and then someone made you so angry, you could hardly stand it? 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 difficult driving force. In the book “Night”, by Elie Wiesel, Elie experienced many changes because of what he experiences. Elie had to change in order to survive and keep his loved ones by his side. Over the course of the book, Elie evolved the way he acted towards people, loved ones, and the things he thought he knew to be true.

People tend to think that it is difficult to trust in something invisible, but it is especially challenging for someone to do so when he has everything taken away. In the memoir, Night, Elie Wiesel recalls his experiences with his family during World War II. After he first arrives at Auschwitz, Elie Wiesel’s mother and sisters are taken away from him. His father is suddenly all that remains of his family. Elie Wiesel witnesses many other terrible events during his first night at camp; the only thing that keeps him sane is his father. Elie Wiesel’s father even keeps him from rebelling and possibly getting himself killed before the Germans intended. When Wiesel lives in the concentration camp with his fellow Jews, he begins to question the

Night is a memoir on how surviving the holocaust could change a person3. The book Night, by Elie Wiesel, involves mostly himself (Elie Wiesel) and his father, and how he survived the holocaust, along with death camps Auschwitz/Birkenau, Buna, Gleiwitz, and Buchenwald. This memoir shows how Elie manages to survive the holocaust, while in a concentration camp. Surviving the holocaust changed Elie Wiesel forever.

In the memoir Night By Elie Wiesel, was a boy who gives his story of his experience during the Holocaust .The Nazis had complete control over everything like how they could have just taken children and thrown them into a fire and burned them alive. While at the beginning of the story Eliezer's Faith in god was that he believed i the beginning and did not at the end. Therefor, Elie Wiesel faith in god changed throughout the memoir.

The tone darkens because, in the beginning, Elie wants to stay with his family. Then he only cares about his rations of soup and bread. At the same point in the story, he stopped believing in God since God is letting all these horrible actions happen. Finally, the tone darkens because Elie lies to the Rabbi about not seeing the Rabbi’s son betray his father and keep running as his father was losing strength. When that is all over, the importance of the darkening tone was to convey how everything had changed during his time in the concentration

During the Holocaust, many people were separated from their families and were put in concentration camps. Everyone was dramatically impacted by the events of the Holocaust including Elie’s family in Night. Elie’s personal relationships and values of family severely changed through the events of being told his family was being deported, being separated from his mother and siblings, and the death of his father. In the beginning of the book, Elie’s father worked with the Jewish community in Sighet to bring information to his family, friends, and neighbors.

When Elie and his father before they went into the concentration camp they were not close enough to each other his father didn’t put much attention to him but when they went to the, camp no one in the world could separate them from each other. “I knew that my sins grieved the almighty and so i pleaded for forgiveness. In those days I fully believed that the salvation of the world depended on every one of my deeds, on every one of my prayers (wiesel 68).’’ everything that Elie Wiesel said was important to him because he was losing faith to his god but he tried not to, even though he thought that god left him and the rest. Also when people revalved they start to lose faith and start to disbelief in positive things. Another theme in Night is that inhumanity causes become closer to love ones. Take care of your land and your love ones and always keep them

After witnessing the abandonment of a father via his son, Elie hopes that he does not become like that. But soon, when hunger tears at him, he thinks about taking his father’s food for his own. Another inmate tries to convince him to take his father’s portion and Elie thought, ”He was right, I thought deep down, not daring to admit it to myself”(Wiesel 111). Elie thought of betraying his father, even if for a second and this shows the change in Elie. In the start of the book, Elie was selfless, caring for both him and his father. But, the longer he stays in the camps, the more resentful he becomes, but not only at his God and the Nazis, but also at his

The autobiography Night by Elie Wiesel is about him as a young boy when he spent time in a concentration camp during the Holocaust. Throughout the book it’s easy to see that Elie is slowly changing as a person as the holocaust progresses. At the beginning of the book Elie was just an innocent boy who went to school and had a regular schedule just like any other child. Until one day he fell into the hands of fate and everything changed. Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazi army hated the Jewish race with a passion and was attempting to wipe them all out and create the “perfect race” of Germans and blonde haired blue eyed North Western Europeans, also called Aryans.

That brings me to my first example of how Elie changed in the camps and one way is how Elie has a different outlook on life. What I mean by that is Elie would have never suspected something this criminal like the holocaust to happen to him just as in today's society we think we are invincible and bad things will not ever happen to us. Which I can understand because I used to think like that, but now that I've read Night I too have a different outlook on things. Elie's outlook on life changed much more than ours will ever. For example, after years in death camps Elie got used to thousand of people dying everyday all around him with nothing he could do about it without getting killed himself. Elie would have never guessed this would be something he would be forced to watch happen everyday which is why the holocaust changed his outlook on life. Like I said there are many aspects in concentration camps that can changed a person so my second example of Elie changing is how much physically and emotionally he changed. For selection day all Jews were required to do some tests to measure their strengths and weaknesses. Like having to run the fastest they could nonstop until a guard tells them to stop and if their name got written down it meant they were to weak to move on and they would be killed. My opinion on this is I think it is

in the book “night” by “elie wiesel” we see a boy who was trying to live a normal life but unfortunately for him the nazi’s enter and change his life completely. like elie gets sent to many camps to try and separate him from his father the only source of strength elie had. Over the course of the book, elie changes from a believing person to just a emotionally destroyed person. This is important to the book as a whole because it connects to the of theme of nazi has played a completely negative lifestyle for a person for example when the night at the camp, when elie gets ripped away from his father, but also we see elie show her weakness at the end of the book

Throughout “Night” Elie goes through massive changes. He changes religiously, emotionally, and physically. These changes cause Elie to behave differently in the concentration camps. He begins to question his faith, and the existence of a God. He changes emotionally, and begins to blame to his father for everything. He blames his father for the beating, and for entering a concentration camp. He believes every situation could have been prevented. Elie also changes physically. He loses weight, becomes weaker, and is shaved. These changes make him appear physically different, but also cause mental changes. The religious, emotional, and physical changes make Elie a different person.

“His voice was terribly sad.I realized that he did not want to see what they were going to do to me. He did not want to see the burning of his only son”(Wiesel 42). During World War II Eliezer and Shlomo had to go to concentration camps, where they both went through many hardships. The Night Trilogy by Elie Wiesel is a historical fiction novel. Shlomo, Eliezer’s father, changed throughout the novel in emotional and physical ways.

Many people experience tragedies in their life, the question is does it change them for the better or worse. In “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the main character changed as a person due to his experiences at the holocaust. Elie lost who he was in the camps and walked out a different person.If you were in the same situation as Elie how would that change you?