How Does Elie Wiesel Change In Night

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"Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow." (Wiesel, xiii) So ends the original Yiddish version of Night, with this sad but true vicious cycle, that Eliezer “Elie” Wiesel has broken with his traumatic memoir. He shows the world could not and should not forget the Holocaust, no matter how many sleepless nights or fiery flashbacks it causes, lest it happen again. Way before the tragic events were even being thought of, he was a studious child who lived in the safe and pious town of Sighet. This drastic change happened quickly, almost within a couple months, due to a sudden change in surroundings. Communities can shape every aspect of a person's life. They can help and heal during rough times and give character …show more content…

Eliezer was born in Sighet, Transylvania, where no one ever fails to address a rabbi properly, and religious men are respected above all. Fittingly, he becomes a studious young man. Every night, he sits in the synagogue, praying and weeping over the demolition of his temple. One night, he tells his mentor, Moshe the Beadle, “how unhappy [he] was not to be able to find in Sighet a master to teach him the Zohar, the Kabbalistic works, the secrets of Jewish mysticism.” (Wiesel, 5) He already studies the Talmud during the day, but he is willing to give up his free time in the evening to study even more. Moshe humbly accepts the implied position. As with Eliezer, Moshe is satisfied with his life, until the Nazis deport him, along with all other foreign Jews. By a stroke of luck, he returns, but he “is not the same. The joy in his eyes were gone. He no longer sang. He no longer mentioned God or Kabbalah.” (Wiesel, 7). He was deported to an alarming, gory and disturbing concentration camp, but no one will believe his stories. He has seen petrifying sights, just beyond the town borders, and he has changed, becoming grave and aloof. The others do not comprehend

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