Change In The Book Night By Elie Wiesel

Imagine you had the opportunity to change anything, any decision, thought, outfit? Anything within your life, what would it be? In the book night I'm sure Elizer Wiesel the author of “Night” and holocaust survivor would change a multitude of things within his life. Throughout the book the author is faced with multiple hardships which changes many parts of his mentality and we can witness a gradual change through the book.

Standing up for yourself and other victims of injustices will eternally be the right thing to do. At first Wiesel was afraid to stand up for what he knew was right because of the consequences he would face. Near the beginning of the book, when Wiesel was sent to the concentration camp he did not try to run or stand up for himself. He layed dormant out of fear of the nazi’s. Wiesel stood up for people that couldn't stand up for themselves.

Elizer throughout the book starts to question his faith and he judges himself harshly because he wished his father to die because he considered him a liability. “ I let the SS beat my father, I left him alone in the clutches of death” This shows his insensitivity to his fathers lashing and how he viewed him as nothing but a liability. Wiesel is saddened in himself for being frustrated with having to take care of his father instead of focusing on himself alone. He judges himself harshly for this because it’s his fault for thinking that about his father. “He was right, I thought deep down, not daring to admit it to myself. Too late to save your old father…You could have two rations of bread, two rations of soup… It was only a fraction of a second, but it left me feeling guilty.” At the end, he is able to regather himself and care for his father until his final days; Although, still under the burden of tremendous stress and guilt for wishing death upon his