Changes In Night By Elie Wiesel

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).

The best way to learn about an event is to hear about the event from someone who was there. The memoir Night by Elie Wiesel tells of Elie’s experiences in a concentration camp along with his father. He finds himself battling with many inner struggles as the Nazis break him down. Elie battles these inner demons to eventually live through World War II and go on to write about his experience. Throughout the book Elie changed physically, mentally, and emotionally due to his experiences.

"If you do not change direction you may end where you were heading". That quote was from Lao Tuz who was a religious philosopher and poet form China in 604 BC. During the book Night you could see it in not just Elie Wiesel, but you could see it in everyone. You could see change in Elie not just in his physical appearance, not emotionally, and mentally. People can or cannot say they've seen worse except for the people who survived war and the camps and which has led them to be mentally broken down. During the Holocaust Elie has changed in his faith, his struggle in the camp, and how his personality changed.

In the novel “Night” by Elie Wiesel there is also an example of indifference. This example is given from the perspective of a Jew who was kept prisoner by the Nazis during the Holocaust. Wiesel was a Jewish boy of about 15 who lived in Transylvania. He accounts all of the abhorrent experiences in the camps that he has been kept in, including all of the war planes flying overhead. These planes belonged to the countries that were supposed to be against the imprisonment of the Jews, these were the countries who could have done something to save them, to end their suffering. However, these countries didn’t do anything to free them, instead they had “other business elsewhere” according to the novel. In reality, these countries were being indifferent,

One of the generalizations of change is, change can be natural or man-made. The entirety of the 1940’s change was due to man-made problems. Any memoir written by someone who lived through this decade would have included several examples of this generalization of change. This includes the book that I was assigned, Night by Elie Wiesel. Accordingly, Night clearly illustrates that change can be natural, or caused by a human.

How much can one person change/transform throughout one of the worst times in history? In this horrific story Night by Elie Wiesel it is told from his own point of view because the book is about his own experience in the concentration camps. An important character is Eliezer’s father because Elie has to take care of him a lot throughout the book. Night is about when Elie Wiesel is taken from his house and sent to a concentration camp. He faces selection and many other terrifying things that not only change his outlook on life, but how he thinks about his religion and God. In the end, the soviet union takes over the camp Eliezer is in and he is set free. Change can happen overtime or in a short amount of time. One way people can change is through traumatic events because it can change how one person can think about the world and other people.

Why do people change? So many people’s thoughts and feelings changed during the Holocaust. They changed for the better, or for the worse. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, the main character, Elie, changes through the horrific events he experienced in the concentration camp, known as Auschwitz.

In the novel “Night” by Elie Wiesel there are many examples of how indifference can affect individuals and society. The novel is an autobiography of Elie Wiesel’s experience throughout World War 2. At the beginning of the story indifference is seen negatively affecting the Jewish and Elie’s friend Moishe. Moishe is a foreign Jew who was evacuated from Sighet and taken into Polish territory controlled by the Gestapos. There Moishe sees many horrific sights happen to the Jews, including: Jewish being forced to dig their own graves, which they got shot in and young Jewish infants being used as target practice for machine guns. Somehow Moishe manages to escape the terrible situation and returns to Sighet with a wounded leg to warn the Jews. Though when he tries to share his horrific experience, he is ignored by the Jews. “He spoke of what he had seen. But people not only refuse to believe his tales, they refused to listen.” This indifference by the Jews caused Moishe to feel depressed as he thought no one cared for what he had to say. While it made the Jewish put themselves into the danger of concentration camps which they could’ve escaped, if only

Stress and change have a strong relation because with one, comes the other. Elie Wiesel; the author of Night and Jonathan Marc Feldman; the screenwriter of Swing Kids, let readers witness characters reactions to the stress’ they encounter as the Nazi’s take over in World War II. The relationship between stress and change relates to these characters because as they experience stress throughout these stories, they undergo spiritual, emotional and interpersonal changes.

Throughout “Night” Elie goes through massive changes. He changes religiously, emotionally, and physically. These changes cause Elie to behave differently in the concentration camps. He begins to question his faith, and the existence of a God. He changes emotionally, and begins to blame to his father for everything. He blames his father for the beating, and for entering a concentration camp. He believes every situation could have been prevented. Elie also changes physically. He loses weight, becomes weaker, and is shaved. These changes make him appear physically different, but also cause mental changes. The religious, emotional, and physical changes make Elie a different person.

Every year, about fifty million people die. During the holocaust, over 16 million people were killed. That is almost half of the average amount of deaths that occur each year added to the total rate. The holocaust is responsible for the killing and damaging of many people such as Elie Wiesel. From a sheltered boy to a mentally scarred young-man, Elieser’s overall character drastically changed.

Over the course of the book, Night by Elie Wiesel. Elie changes mentally from being a regular boy with a little boy mindset to a grown man with a man mentality. This is important to the book as a whole because it connects to the life of jews and all the struggles they went trough. The change is apparent when they were rumors of them being transferred, when idek refused to leave him in the camp and also when his dad dies.

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.

In Elie Wiesel’s memoir, “Night”, readers see a dramatic change from the young, sensitive and spiritual individual to a, boy with the mindset of an adult that is spiritually dead and is unemotional. Elie shows this in his memoir by rewriting what he saw, thought, or what he heard while in concentration camps, this occurs, in the three sections of the memoir.

Night tells the story of a young boy, Eliezer Wiesel, and his struggles to survive during the Holocaust. Becoming a victim of various Nazi German concentration camps at the young age of fifteen, Elie finds himself separated from his mom and sisters, never to see them again. Therefore, he solely remains with and relies on his father. Together they are stripped, sanitized and treated with inhumane cruelty, along with millions of other innocent victims. Despite their strong bond and