How Does Elie Wiesel Change Throughout The Book Night

Elie loses complete faith in god in many points where god let him down. He struggles physically and mentally for life and no longer believes there is a god. Elie worked hard to save himself and asks god many times to help him and take him out of the misery he was facing. "Why should I sanctify his name? The Almighty, the eternal, and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent..."(page 33). Elie was confused, because he doesn’t know why the Germans would kill his race amongst many others, and he does not know why god could let such thing happen to innocent people. "I did not deny god's existence, but I doubted his absolute justice..."(page 42). These conditions gave him confidence, and a courage to

Next, Elie's father had unfortunately crossed Idek’s path when he went through a fit of rage, and while his father was being beaten with an iron bar, Elie wasn’t thinking about how to help him or how awful these circumstances were, instead he thought, “Why couldn’t he have avoided Idek’s wrath?” (Wiesel 54). Elie blamed his father for the unnecessary beating that he got, he watched it all without moving and kept silent. Instead of helping Elie thought of how he could get away to avoid getting beat himself and found himself angry at his father, not the ruthless

The book Night by Elie Wiesel is about the Holocaust, the slaughter of 11 million people. Readers follow Elie from his home, in Hungary to Auschwitz and Buchenwald. At these camps, the Nazis beat and starve Elie and his father. In this book, Elie changed tremendously in the concentration camps. Elie Wiesel changes in the concentration camps both emotionally and physically.

They even gave each other presents, “My father had a present for me: a half ration of bread. ”(Wiesel 73) Their situation got so sad because Elie was giving everything to his dad and he was trying to keep him alive and then the people that were sick’s food resources got revoked causing Elie to give his food to his dad to stop him from suffering and then his dad died of dysentery. Elie had to listen to everyone he knew cry because of all the suffering that was happening.

By the end of the book, he is completely dependent on Elie, and the latter can’t bear the conflicting thoughts he’s forced to acknowledge. In another translation of the book, Elie admits to himself how he “was angry with [his father] for having been noisy, for having cried, for provoking the wrath of the SS” as he watches him get beat to death by an officer (Wiesel 15). As terrible of a situation as it was, at least his ill father allowed Elie to retain his humanity. Referring to an inmate who killed his father for a measly morsel of bread, a speaker from Shmoop notes how “we can't blame something like that purely on hunger. He had been reduced to an animal, systematically broken down, day after day,” (Shmoop 01:38-01:44).

He wanted to stay with his father at all times, and even traded bread to sleep next to him. Elie later in the book says that he doesn't even want to find his father when he goes out looking for him. After his father was hit by Idek, Elie gets mad that his father didn't try to avoid the hit. Furthermore, when his father gets taken and Elie thinks he's dead, he feels relieved to not have to care for him

Before his experience at the concentration camps, Elie was devoted to his faith, but after the horrors of the concentration camps, Elie could not find it within him to have faith any longer. Elie was furious, furious at the Nazis, but also at his God for allowing such horrible things to happen to him. Elie challenges his faith in God when he sees the thousands of Jews in the camp, who all were put there because of their faith in their God. Once everything sunk in Elie thinks, “I no longer accepted God’s silence”(Wiesel 69). Elie is understandably angry. He had had faith in his God, and had devoted himself to learning all about his religion, but after his experiences, he felt that his God had not only abandoned him, but also the other Jews who had believed in him. Elie sees the things going on in the camp, and he realizes that God is allowing it to happen. Earlier in the book, Elie was completely devoted to his God, studying the Kabbalah day and night. But now Elie has seen

Elie got angry at his father when Idek hit him because Elie implied that his father was not working hard enough. On January 29, 1945, that is when Elie discovered that his father was gone, unlike being upset or sad, Elie felt relieved and did not cry. Lastly, Elie lost his innocence. Throughout the time Elie was in the cattle car on the way to Auschwitz, Elie witnessed an old lady get gagged, beat up, and tied up because she saw visions of flames and fire. While running, the idea of dying began to fascinate him.

He formed a hard shell around himself in the beginning, but opened up in the end. Elie was aware of himself gradually turning into a brute and he is worried that he will give up his humanity to survive. He is scared that he might eventually betray his own father. He had indeed “betrayed” his own father by not helping when his father was being beaten by the gypsy and later Idek, but Elie made up for it by saving his father’s life from the two men who were taking out the corpses. He felt good about eating extra soup after the death of one person, but he felt disgusted at himself after witnessing the death of a child too light to be hanged, so much as to lose his appetite.

The beginning of the book, Elie is commonly found praying and studying his religion. As said in the book, “..Talmud during the day and Kabblah at night.” This shows Elie is very serious about his religion and his god as well as having a pretty strong faith because he takes his time to study and educate himself further. This quickly begins to shift as he and his father arrive at the concentration camps.

In the book “night” Elies faith and his relationship with God change while he is in the concentration camp, because he finds out that he wasn’t going to leave anytime soon, so he starts losing his faith in humanity, and he questions wether he should continue believing in his god. Elies crisis of faith is shared with other prisoners as well.

     The spiritual change in Elie was substantial. He went from a pious, devout Jew who spent countless of hours studying his faith. He never questioned God, but that is probably because everything was always good. During his stay at the concentration camps, Elie never stops believing in God, although he does question what he is doing. On page 64, Elie says, “Why, but why I should I bless Him? In every fiber I rebelled. Because He had thousands of children burned in His pits? Because He kept six crematories working night and day, on Sundays and feast days? Because in His great might He had created Auschwitz, Birkenau, Buna, and so many factories of death?…” This shows the

When Elie and his father first entered the camps, his father was struck and Elie did nothing to help his father: "What had happened to me? My father had just been struck, in front of me, and I had not even blinked. Only yesterday, I would have dug my nails in this criminal's flesh" (39). This shows that, although Elie did not share a close relationship with his father, he still feels that he should stand up for his fahter for the fact that they are father and son. Elie is very violent in that he would have "dug his nails in the criminals' flesh." Evidently, Elie is furious towards the offender. Unfortunately, Elie does not do anything when his father is struck because he does not want to draw attention to himself. Nevertheless, the bond between Elie and his father does strengthen: "And what if he were dead, as well? He was not moving. Suddenly the evidence overwhelmed me: there is no longer any reason to live, any reason to fight" (98-99). Elie reveals that he truly depends on his father for survival. Because he believes his father is no longer alive, he loses all hope for surviavl. Although Elie expresses anger towards his father from time to time because he is being a burden, he still feels that his survival is meaningless without his father. The strong bond that the two developed once they entered the concentration camps proves that nothing can come between them so easily.

Elie Wiesel’s Night is a memoir depicting the journey of a young boy, Eliezer, who experienced the Holocaust at a very young age. The Nazis occupied Hungary in the spring of 1944, and Eliezer and his family are deported to a concentration camp. Eliezer and his father are separated from his sister and mother, whom he never sees again. While at several different concentration camps, Eliezer faces a variety of different situations, and he learns to adapt to his circumstances. As his father becomes weaker and weaker throughout the memoir, Elie starts to develop mixed emotions for him. During his experiences, he endured several personal, social, and emotional changes. In the memoir, Elie Wiesel displays a variety of different literary strategies

He realized the God he was believing in wasn’t helping him, l but bringing him hell. This shows that Elie stopped putting all of his faith in a God, but into himself. This illustrates that not putting your faith into a God makes you stronger instead of putting your faith into someone who doesn’t help