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How Does Elie Wiesel Change In Night

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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. …show more content…

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

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