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How Does Elie Wiesel Change In The Book Night

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The autobiography Night by Elie Wiesel is about him as a young boy when he spent time in a concentration camp during the Holocaust. Throughout the book it’s easy to see that Elie is slowly changing as a person as the holocaust progresses. At the beginning of the book Elie was just an innocent boy who went to school and had a regular schedule just like any other child. Until one day he fell into the hands of fate and everything changed. Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazi army hated the Jewish race with a passion and was attempting to wipe them all out and create the “perfect race” of Germans and blonde haired blue eyed North Western Europeans, also called Aryans. Hitler believed that the Aryan people and Germany was destined to rule the world. …show more content…

His hair was shaved and he wore the same striped jumpsuit as every other prisoner. His child-like innocence was gone. He was no longer a devout jew. He wasn’t even called by a name anymore. He had a number just like everyone else. They were no longer individual beings, but walking corpses waiting to die. They were denied the dignity a human being deserves. Bodies deprived of the nutrients needed to survive. Many went insane. But Elie stayed stayed sane throughout the torture. He was becoming weaker by the day. His father was in worse condition. Elie was beginning to think what he feared he would eventually think. His father was becoming more of a nuisance than a companion. Elie became independent and helped his father more than his father helped him. In chapter 5 Elie was sent to the infirmary. His foot was swollen and the doctors had to drain pus from it. At this time, rumors began to spread through the camp that the Russian Army was coming so all prisoners would be moved. At first, Elie, his father and the other prisoners planned to stay behind, but once they hear that those who remain behind will be executed before the army arrives. This caused Elie and his dad to evacuate with the rest of the prisoners. Elie bravely walked and ran for days in the cold snow with an infected foot. It is easy to see that Elie is getting stronger throughout the book. When they arrived at the camp Elie’s father was growing much weaker and collapsed onto the snow in exhaustion. He had contracted dysentery. Elie went to sleep that night with his father alive in the bed underneath him and woke up the next day to see that his father was not there anymore. "After my father's death, nothing could touch me any more." With his father dead Elie had nothing to hold onto anymore. He was broken inside. He had built an immunity to things affecting him. And to his deep shame he did not cry, he felt

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