How Does Elie Wiesel Change In Night

In the memoir, Night, by Elie Wiesel, the author gives us a first person point of view of the Holocaust. Wiesel explains how he and his people got tricked into going to Auschwitz. Also, Wiesel describes how he underwent a transformation throughout the Nazi regime. He lost his faith with God because of the Holocaust, but also strengthened his relationship with his father. Finally, the author shows how his perspective changed on humanity because of the things he experienced.

Elie Wiesel’s relationship with God was like a roller coaster ride. Before Wiesel was force out of his home town of Sighet to concentration camps he loved to talk about God and wanted to learn more about him, “... I asked my father to find me a master who could guide me in

After hours of marching, Elie got tired and cold along with his pop, so he asked him if they could go back to the shed so that they could rest. “Come, father. It’s better there. You’ll be able to lie down. We’ll take turns. I’ll watch over you and you’ll watch over me. We won’t let each other fall asleep. We’ll look after each other.”(89) Although Elizer was exhausted and wanted to sleep, he also wanted his father to get some time off so Elie promised him that they would look over each other so they might avoid falling asleep in the snow and never waking up. Rabbi Eliahu’s son had abandoned him in the death march thinking his father had gone too weak, but his dad managed to survive without him. So he went to look for his son and told Elie and his father what had happened, then the author made this prayer, “Oh God, Master of the universe, give me the strength never to do what Rabbi Eliahu’s son has done.”(91) This determines how much love Ellie now has with his pop. Not only did his connection with his father and God change because of what he was going through, but also his view on humanity

Wiesel would go to the bread constriction to work most of the week without his dad since he was sick in the firmary. Although, when he did his father would get beat up by his neighbors, so when he found out he stated, “One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate. One less reason to live.”(109) this shows Wiesel coming across another reason to dislike the world. After the author and the others were rescued, he was thinking about revenge, and thought that the other Jews were thinking like him. However, that was not the case, “But still no trace of revenge.”(115) After all the torture, Wiesel wasn’t thinking of nothing, except getting payback on the Nazi people. Till this day there are still people who haven’t recovered mentally, spiritually, and physically from the Nazi