Examples Of Innocence In Night By Elie Wiesel

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After Elie and his father spend the night at the camp, Elie feels as if he has lost his innocence. When Elie first arrives at the camp, the first thing he sees when he walks inside is babies being thrown into a fire. Grown men being forced to burn and die right in front of him. Elie seeing this changes his outlook on life. He starts to feel as if his soul jumped into the fire but he physically did not. This is true because after Elie sees his father in such a sad and hopeless state, Elie wrote, “The child I was, had been consumed by the flames. All that was left was a shape that resembled me. My soul had been invaded and devoured by a black flame” (Wiesel 37). He says the child he was had been consumed by the flames showing how the child in

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