Changes In Night By Elie Wiesel

Due to the horrific circumstances, Elie changed both physically and emotionally. He started to not care about anyone or anything, he thought his father was a burden, an he became very skinny and he thought that his body was holding him back. At the beginning of the story, Night, Elie cared about his father and everyone he knew. He was always making sure that him and his father were doing the right thing. He helped to teach his father how to march, he was mad at the officer when he was beating his father, and he took care of his father when he was sick. After the story went on, he began to think of his father as a burden. His father was sick and could not do things on his own. Elie gave food to his father, he got him water, and he did anything

He only thought about when he would be able to eat. He stopped caring about what the S.S. were doing to them, as this had become the new normal to him. In the beginning, he got mad at the Kapo for hitting his father, but near the end when his father got beat again, he was mad at his father. He didn’t have any sympathy for his father, or anyone else. Elie stopped caring when the people on the beds next to him would just disappear, unlike in the beginning when he was always sad when his neighbors were gone. Or, when another person would be killed, he did not think anything of it. He saw so many people being killed that this was just a regular thing. He didn’t even care too much when he father had died. His sick father was now gone, and he didn’t have another person to take care of. He also lost all sense of hope. He didn’t think that he would make it out, or that he would live. He started to give up on religion. In the beginning of the book, it told us how Elie was studying a new type of religion, and how he was way above his age level with religion. But, he stopped believing that there was a god, and he stopped praying and celebrating the Jewish holidays. He thought that if there was a god, he would have helped them by then. Another thing was that he didn’t do the fasting with the other Jews, as they were already