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Change In The Book Night By Elie Wiesel

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Only 37 percent of Jews survived the holocaust. Elie Wiesel was one of the few Jews that survived, and he was only 15 years old when he was sent to his first camp. Elie Wiesel wrote the novel “Night” based on his journey in the holocaust. “Night” is about Elie and how he changed emotionally through beatings, starving, suffering, and much more in the concentration camps. In the novel “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the main character, Elie, was effected by the events in the book which led to him losing his faith, him having no motivation whatsoever (with the exception of his father), and him giving up on humanity as a whole.
Towards the end of the book, Elie lost his faith. An example of this occurs when the main character said, “Where is God’s mercy? …show more content…

The Jews no longer prayed to their God like they had at the beginning of the book. There was death all around them. They no longer sympathized for the deceased. They wondered why their God isn’t saving them and how he could ever forgive those who torture them. As stated in the text, “I no longer accepted God’s silence. As I swallowed my ration of soup, I turned that act into a symbol of rebellion, of protest against Him… Deep inside me, I felt a great void opening” (page 69). Elie was furious that God kept silent and hadn’t assisted the Jews when they needed him the most. He hadn’t understood why He wouldn’t help them. Elie had swallowed the soup because he no longer believed God was doing the right thing. A piece of him was missing when he decided to go against his religion. He was now a changed person. He had been devoted all his life to his religion, and to give up on it is a huge change for anyone. Elie Wiesel demonstrated his lack of faith …show more content…

Elie’s father had stated when they first got to camp, “Mother… must be in a labor camp… Tzipora… must be in a camp…” (page 46). He wanted to give Elie a sense of hope, even if it is false hope. Elie heavily relied on this false hope at the beginning of the book. It helped him not end his life when the times got tough. Towards the end of the story, however, Elie said, “The idea of death… began to fascinate me” (page 86). The only reason Elie stayed alive was for his father. However, his father was becoming weak and losing hope. This led to Elie thinking about death. Since his father lacked hope, Elie lacked hope. If the one person who had hope through it all is losing hope, then why should Elie have hope? As stated in the text, “Since my father’s death, nothing mattered to me anymore” (page 113). This proves that his father was his only motivation in the camp. He had nothing left that he cared about after his father’s death. Elie was lost without his father. He was not only a father, but a friend to Elie. His death destroyed Elie and his hopes for

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