Change Is Inevitable In Night By Elie Wiesel

The holocaust ended May 8, 1945 but it took the lives of millions of people with it. Depriving millions of innocent souls of basic rights we have today. In the book Night, we are shown the experiences and transformations of young Elie from the day he arrived in the ghetto, to his last day in a concentration camp. As a result of his experiences during the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel changes from a religious, sensitive little boy to a spiritually dead, unemotional man.

Ever since Elie was in the concentration camp, he has slowly lost faith in God as he “...did not fast. First of all, to please my father, who had forbidden me to do so. And then, there was no longer any reason for me to fast. 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” (Wiesel 69). By not fasting like he did before when he was not in the concentration camp, it shows his rebellion against God as he has lost any sign of hope for God. Elie also decides to eat for the sake of his health and his well being in that situation as everyone was starving even before the fasting occured. His beliefs in God has changed from his past as it affects his views on God and his beliefs about him. The concentration camp had also made Elie question his beliefs of God as he asked himself “Bless be God’s name? Why, but why would I bless Him? Every fiber in me rebelled. Because He caused thousands of children to burn in His mass graves?” (Wiesel 67). Elie processes his decision onto why he should even pray to God as he had lost hope and signs of God ever since he saw the horrifying acts made in the camps. His views had been changed him from his past as he questions his beliefs and wonders why God has not saved them from all their misery. Elie had changed his ways of viewing his

In the book Night, Eliezer’s father, one of the main characters, shows various changes throughout the story. In the beginning of the book, the book states, “Cultured man, .... He rarely displayed his feelings, .... The Jewish community of Sighet held him in highest esteem; his advice on public and even private matters was frequently sought.” (pg. 4).

During the Holocaust, Eliezer Wiesel changes from a spiritual, sensitive, little boy to a spiritually dead, dispassionate man. In his memoir, Night, Elie speaks about his experiences upon being a survivor of the Holocaust. The reader sees how Elie has changed through his experiences in Sighet and the ghettos in comparison to what it was like for him in the concentration camps.

Elie’s faith in his Lord and his instinctive love for humanity are put to their final tests as the novel approaches its climax and conclusion. After witnessing the malicious, brutal hanging of an innocent child, Elie comes to the

One less reason to live.”pg 109. Elie goes through many emotions throughout Night. He feels so much hatred towards the soldiers, that it hides all his other emotions. Another emotion is Love; the main reason Elie is still alive. He loves his father to much to give up on life. But when his father died he had a small amount of reasons to live. Emotions can cloud people's judgement. An example of that would be when he gave his father water when he was suffering. But his consequence was that his father would die earlier than he was supposed to. He begins to lose his emotions at the end of the book Being in the camps taught him that there isn't time to feel emotions. When he loses his father he feels nothing. Emotions make a person human and the camps took that

Night by Elie Wiesel is an book about the author a Jewish boy and his life during World War Two. The story begins with him getting captured by Nazis and gets put in a several concentration camps, with his father. Wiesel just fifteen years old and has to leave his humanity behind to survive. And if that wasn't enough he also has to surpass a lot of challenges like starvation, losing hope, and getting beat constantly. This is an true story that ultimately ends up with him surviving. Although, Wiesel does end up a changed boy when loss of hope starts to set in, suggesting that people change because of violence some changes are lose hope in God, humanity, and innocence

Throughout a lifetime, people undergo many different identities to discover their true self. Elie Wiesel, the author of the memoir Night, suffered a major event that changed his identity forever. In his experience at the concentration camps during the Holocaust, Elie had to fight to stay alive even during the most resilient moments. This event shaped his life and brought Elie to endure different perspectives in his time in the camps. Eliezer’s identity changed throughout the memoir from faithful, to fearful, to hopeless.

Napoleon Hill once said, “Strength and growth come only from continuous effort and struggle.” This quote is rather true in not only reality, but also in books, for instance, Night. Most of the time people grow most after experiencing a period of hardship or difficulty. Elie Wiesel’s Night, expresses what it takes to survive and how it can change a person. Night is the story of a young man who is split up with his mother and sister and later placed in a concentration camp along with his father. Elie does all he can in order to stay alive and strong. It was only when Elie survived months of starvation and torture to which he soon found a change in himself. He transformed from a young man, who no longer had faith in God, with intentions to keep his father alive and well, even if it meant he had to make sacrifices, to a grown man who eventually realized that survival is only reasonable if one fends for oneself, in the hands of God.

Saying that he could not concern himself with mercy, pity, or anger as all he had to worry about was his next meal and his own survival. The story soon takes you to the winter months with all of the jewish celebration and fasting. It states that Elie lost his faith in the god that got him in the position he is now and decided to bump all of the tradition and just survive as best he could. He soon had to go to the infirmary though due to a swollen foot. When he got wind of russians approaching the camp he decided to tough his swollen foot and go with the evacuees to another camp lest he get killed before the russian invasion.

Even as the war got closer, the Jewish people remained hopeful and they tried to see the good in things, as absurd as it sounds. For example, when they were forced into the ghettos, people looked on the bright side, and found good things about them. Elie, looking back on the ghettos experience stated, “People thought this was a good thing. We would no longer have to look at all those hostile faces, endure those hate-filled stares” (Wiesel 12). So, even after the hate of the Germans had reached Sighet, the people were still thinking positive. They never even ventured to think about how situations could turn negative. When things did get negative, and they learned that they would have to be transported, they started having more pessimistic thinking, but they still were counting on a miracle to pull through for them. When Elie asked his father when they were expected to depart, he replied, “‘The day after tomorrow. Unless…things work out. A miracle, perhaps…’” (Wiesel 18). This shows that Elie’s family still had hope as they were going to be transported. They were more worried than they had been before, but they still had hope for a miracle. Overall, at the beginning of the book the characters were very hopeful and optimistic, even though scary events were happening around them.

In life, people go through different changes when put through difficult experiences. In the book Night, Elie Wiesel is a young Jewish boy whose family is sent to a concentration camp by Nazis. The story focuses on his experiences and trials through the camp. Elie physically becomes more dehumanized and skeletal, mentally changes his perspective on religion, and socially becomes more selfish and detached, causing him to lose many parts of his character and adding to the overall theme of loss in Night.

Have you ever changed or have the people around you changed out of survival? People who survived the holocaust changed because of what they went through so they could survive. Just like Elie he survived Auschwitz and he will never be the same person he was before the concentration camps. In “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the main character, Elie developed into a new person through his experiences at Auschwitz Concentration Camp and survived.

Sometimes in life we are faced with challenges that threaten our identities. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel his challenge was the holocaust, and every aspect of his identity changed. He lost his faith, his appearance changed dramatically, and his lost his ability to care about things he loved most.

Have you ever had a day where you were excited and then someone made you so angry, you could hardly stand it? As humans, we are constantly changing and adapting to fit our environment. Humans also can have mood changes due to age, rough times or any other difficult driving force. In the book “Night”, by Elie Wiesel, Elie experienced many changes because of what he experiences. Elie had to change in order to survive and keep his loved ones by his side. Over the course of the book, Elie evolved the way he acted towards people, loved ones, and the things he thought he knew to be true.