The memoir night by Elie Wiesel is a book about a very religious, and poor Jewish teen that explains what happened to him in the holocaust, and how it changed him. Elie lived in a poor town in Hungary. He wanted to become a Jewish scholar so at the age of fifteen he started studying Kabbalah, but his dad says he should not waste his time because, there is no kabbalists in his town. As the memoir goes on Elie was taken to many different concentration camps and ghettos. This goes on to change him physically, mentally, and emotionally. There are many different ways that Elie changes mentally. At first he believed in god, and studied the Torah and Kabbalah, but as the story goes on that starts to change; “I did not deny God’s existence, but I doubted his absolute existence” (Wiesel 42). Elie started to begin losing his faith when his dad passed away. His death put such a big impact on him that he felt like nothing could be worse than that; “ After my father's death, nothing can touch me anymore” (Wiesel 107).
His father died because, he was sick, and he did not want to eat so that Elie could have a bigger chance of surviving. This took a toll on Elie because, he was really close with his dad, and seeing your dad get sick and then die will make you start losing faith on if you will survive or not.
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As the holocaust went on he started to get skinnier than he was before; “ I was a body. Perhaps even less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time” (Wiesel 50). Elie also had pus in his foot after walking bare feet to his concentration camp in the snow. This shows how the nazi’s did not care about anything that happened to their prisoners. He was in a lot of pain, but no one helped him, and he had to just go on with it like it is nothing. He was struggling to stay alive, and he did not know if he was going to make it out or
Everybody changes even if it's just puberty or just in the way you act. Change is shown everywhere in the novel “Night” by Elie Wiesel. It’s not just shown physically but it’s also shown mentally. He also had to make many difficult decisions through his journey through the Holocaust. Night is about Pain and Suffering that was caused by the holocaust, and most of that pain was put on the jews.
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.
Night is a memoir on how surviving the holocaust could change a person3. The book Night, by Elie Wiesel, involves mostly himself (Elie Wiesel) and his father, and how he survived the holocaust, along with death camps Auschwitz/Birkenau, Buna, Gleiwitz, and Buchenwald. This memoir shows how Elie manages to survive the holocaust, while in a concentration camp. Surviving the holocaust changed Elie Wiesel forever.
Another change Elie went through was his religion. Before he was captured he prayed, he sang to god and even celebrated Passover. Than when he was in the Nazi concentration camps he started losing his faith in god and got to a point where he was mad at god. He did not celebrate the holidays anymore and barely even believed in god if at all. An example of this is in the book he said he is mad at god. This proves that Elie Wiesel has just given up on his religion
He slowly loses his faith while there. He even thinks “never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust” (Wiesel 32). During the holocaust, Elie Wiesel changes from a spiritual, sensitive little boy to a spiritually dead, unemotional man. In the beginning of the book Elie is very religious.
Elie Wiesel, a Nobel Peace Prize winner and one of the most famous and celebrated Holocaust survivor’s, Night is a memoir about life inside the camps of the Holocaust. Where the Nazis killed six million Jews, and five million Gentiles. He endured many transformations while in the concentration camps; the two essential changes are his relationship with his father and spiritually with God.
Danger all around, flames rise, and gunshots crack into the air. Elie Wiesel’s Night tells the story of Eliezer's life during the Holocaust, and the hardships prisoners had to go through. Eliezer, the main character, is exposed to many horrible things and encounters many changes. Eliezer is taken from his home by SS officers along with the entire Jewish population, and there then forced to be moved in carts to Auschwitz. Eliezer is separated from his mother and younger sister, but remains with his father.
In the novel Night, Elie Wiesel gives an account about his life in a concentration camp. His focus is of course on his obstacles and challenges while in the camp, but his behavior is an example of how human beings respond to life in a concentration camp. The mood, personality, behavior, and obviously physical changes that occur are well documented in this novel. He also shows, as time wears on, how these changes become more profound and all the more appalling. As the reader follows Elie Wiesel’s story, from his home in the ghetto, to his internment at Auschwitz-Birkenau, to his transfer and eventual release at Buchenwald, one can see the impact of these changes first hand.
How did Elie Wiesel change within the holocaust? He changed a lot throughout the holocaust as a person, his physical appearance, his mental stability, and his faith. First I will tell you about how his physical appearance changed, then I will tell you how his mental stability is challenges and finally I will tell you about how his faith changed. As you can guess being put into a concentration camp your physical appearance will change. The biggest change he faced was his physical appearance.
Elie Wiesel’s Night is an eye opening memoir of his experiences being in concentration camps during the Holocaust. Wiesel went from a man who loved his family and had great faith to a man who lost all hope in everything. His memoir sheds light on what it was like to be a teenage boy during this time. Throughout his memoir readers get to see his transition as well as the circumstances he was undergoing. Elie Wiesel named his protagonist Eliezer, who is the only boy out of 4 children.
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
As their treatment started to get worse Elie began to change. He still tried to stay with his father but his thoughts about him began to change. He watched his father be beat by a Kommandant and thought about how he was glad it was not him. Throughout the book Elie would have mixed emotions about his father. He would think bad things about him and then get mad at himself for doing so.
The novel Night by Eliezer Wiesel tells the tale of a young Elie Wiesel and his experience in the concentration camps,and his fight to stay alive . The tragic story shows the jewish people during the Holocaust and their alienation from the world. Elie’s experience changes him mentally, and all actions in taken while in the concentration were based on one thing...Survival.
In the story Elie was whipped savagely by the Kapo, and all he can think about is his father. Later in the new camp Elie's father is giving up on life and Elie tries to make him move. There is an allied air raid and for the first time Elie leave his father.(wiesel pg. 106) This proves he finally gave up on his father. He started off in the story really caring about his father sacrificing his own safety just so he could stay close to him. After his father was struck ill in the new camp he gave up on him. In the story Elie wanted to keep his shoes even if that meant he would get tormented even more. This show he has a very strong will and loves things that give him a glimmer of hope. At the end when his father died he stopped caring and lost all hope in surviving the
Elie experienced many changes, as a person while he was in Auschwitz. Before Elie was sent to Auschwitz, he was just a small naive child that new very little