Change In Eliezer Wiesel's Night

During a time of great struggle, there is no doubt that the event will cause the person to change. In something so horrible and traumatizing as the Holocaust, where the Nazi soldiers inflicted so much fear on the Jews, there is no doubt they would feel forced to change in order to survive. Since the Nazis committed such heinous crimes, the victims of the holocaust began to deny their faith, go against their morals in order to survive the stress, and their physical appearances changed due to the little food the Nazi’s gave them in the Concentration camp. Eliezer, the main character of the novel Night, goes through an intense character change from the beginning to the end of his story as a holocaust victim. This event in his life causes a change

While he does change into a completely new person by the end of the novel, he doesn't want to change, but ultimately fails in his fight for survival. In the beginning of the book, Eliezer is a faithful Jew who seeks more study of his religion when he wants to study the cabbala. Not only was he faithful, but he was somewhat naive to the world. His naivety allowed him to be hopeful. When the war first broke out, him and many of his neighbors were hopeful that they would never be touched by the German’s hatred. They believed that since Sighet was such a small town they wouldn’t be affected by the war. The idea of “one and done” went through everyone’s mind that since it happened somewhere else it would never happen to them. This hopefulness and naivety crumbled once the German soldiers marched into Sighet and created a Ghetto. From the