Many people don't realize how lucky they are when it comes to family, environment, food, and many other things. We as people tend to take things for granted and sometimes don't realize how easily it could be taken away. Elie Wiesel's novel Night is about his story during World war 2 when he was sent to the Auschwitz camp. When his life completely flips and experiences many devastating events, Elie shows what he went through, his thoughts, his experiences, and his changes mentally and physically. It also shows this dark side of humans and history, and how much power a person could have. In Night, Elie's behavior and beliefs were reformed because of his environment and the traumatic events Elie goes through. A way that Elie changed was his religious beliefs. He was so passionate about his religion and followed it in the beginning. Elie was so touched by his religion he would cry during prayers and was so interested in his religion that he would want to learn more. Later on in the story, Elie changes due to his new environment, from seeing things no thirteen-year-old boy should ever see. He realizes how his god is not helping him and is just letting this cruelty go on, so his Faith was fading. “ Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent …show more content…
Throughout the novel, his emotion started to slip away, and he lacked emotions from all of the traumatic events he had gone through. Seeing and going through this abuse, and even seeing his father slowly die, made him realize he needs to be strong. “My father had just been struck, in front of me, and I had not even blinked. I had watched and kept silent'' (Wiesel 39). Elie's environment had made him numb and petrified. This shows how his environment has changed him, and even when it came to his father's death, he didn't even shed a tear, he was just emotionally incapable, and he even was relieved that his father had
Over the course of the book, Elie changes from a happy boy to being depressed. This is important to the book as a whole because it connects to the internal conflict. The change is apparent when he gets moved to a concentration camp, when he’s separated from his family, and when his father dies. “We sensed that
He reflects on the indescribable pain, sadness, and loss that he had to endure during this horrific
In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, he narrates his horrific experience during the time the holocaust took place. He is shown going through many changes within his mentality and direct focus on a person, place or thing during this time. While Wiesel cared so much about God, religion, and culture, his focus and overall perspective on the world around him tends to take a shift as he transitions into a more harsh environment in the beginning of the holocaust. Wiesel changes his perspective on his surroundings due to the suffering that takes part in these concentration camps in which he was transported into. These events have a big effect on the details in which gain lots of weight overtime as he’s describing certain situations.
In the text Night by Elie Wiesel, Eliezer suffered a full dreadful year in a concentration camp. This allows for lots of changes to him, and his thoughts. Throughout this novel Elie experienced a lot of significant alterations. A couple of main changes include his loss of religion, his reactions to traumatic situations, and his feelings towards his father. Although there are many shifts in Wiesel throughout his time in the concentration camp system, there are three notable quotes where change is present.
“The Holocaust, the state sponsored persecution and murder of European Jews by Nazi Germany… is history’s most extreme example of antisemitism” (USHMM). Elie Wiesel is one of the many Jewish people affected by the Holocaust. Night is a memoir about a Jewish boy named Elie during the Holocaust. Readers follow Elie as his hometown is turned into a ghetto, as he’s sent to concentration camps, and as he is walking on a death march. Throughout the memoir Elie is faced with the death of his loved ones, and deals with the cruel situations on a daily basis.
The only thing keeping him living, was his will to help his dad survive. He cared for his dad and his self preservation, while he started as a person that cared about everything, including his full family, not just his dad. He cared also for the jewish religion in the start not the end. In other words, Elie changed because he lost his faith.
There were over 23 concentration camps that killed Jews over the course of the Holocaust, Over 6 million Jews died. In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel he shares his traumatic experience during the holocaust and how he and his dad navigated concentration camps. In comparison Anne Frank's “The diary of a young girl” talks about how she and her family had a safe place to hide while others were dying. In both books we can see that the main character's environment shapes their behaviors and beliefs, Even though both characters went through the holocaust differently they were still both highly affected.
In the book Night, the first night in camp is the worst experience that happened to Elie. For example, the author knew that the camp is where his nightmare began, “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night...” (page 34) This illustrates that Wiesel’s life completely changed since he separated from his mother and sister, the camp is where Nazis wanted all faiths and hopes of prisoners are gone to be able to survive in the camp you have to believe, pray and help others. Furthermore, when the narrator said one long night it’s shows that he never see the sun again, which mean Elie thought he couldn’t survive through this camp, it brought all his dreams and his family away.
He had had many challenges before this like losing his belief in god and getting separated from people he loved. He had been taking care of his father for a while before he passed. One night as the SS guards were checking the barracks as Elie was trying to take care of his father they told him to be quiet. Elie's father was trying to get him to get him some water instead of soup, however Elie wasn't able to meet those needs and was trying to keep him quiet. The SS officer hit Elie's father across the face with his ballet.
The fact that Elie has faced such unbelievable cruelty and is present to his father's death shows his ability to persevere and remain hopeful. His only thought was to stay alive and was achievable by overcoming all the hardships he had faced so
Through the time human beings have shown how far could the discrimination and hate go, and the effect that it has done. The book “Night’ ’by Elie Wiesel is a perfect example of this. Through the book readers are able to revive the horrible experiences that he has pass through the Holocaust. He is one the survivors of the holocaust. He was able to pass his experiences to words and tell the world what should no be repeated.
Eliezer and his father The Jews situation caused tension. Sons were abandoning fathers, and man lacked compassion towards others. Eliezer gave up on his father after being pressured indirectly by the Rabbi’s son whom was running away from his father, and directly by one of the Nazi guards. “Listen to me, kid.
Night is a first hand experience from Elie Wiesel of life inside Auschwitz concentration camp. He describes the horrid conditions, treatment, and poverty they endured. He was with his father, but was separated from his mother and sister. They had to rely on each other for survival. The relationship between him and his father changed, along with Elie’s Jewish faith because of their traumatic torture.
Imagine being a young 15 year old boy barely fed, dehydrated and at a camp that was created for the purpose of killing thousands of people and immediately once you arrive losing your mother and sister. Elie shows extreme mental strength during this event, rather than trying to stop it from happening
He lost his innocence and began to feel hatred toward god for letting innocent people die. Elie changed and he became rebellious. He began to wish for things he regretted later and he lost all hope. He became an entirely different person. Elie went through life changing events and he was traumatized.