How Does Elie Wiesel Change Throughout The Book

The holocaust ended May 8, 1945 but it took the lives of millions of people with it. Depriving millions of innocent souls of basic rights we have today. In the book Night, we are shown the experiences and transformations of young Elie from the day he arrived in the ghetto, to his last day in a concentration camp. As a result of his experiences during the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel changes from a religious, sensitive little boy to a spiritually dead, unemotional man.

Before Elie went to the concentration camp, Auschwitz, he had many character traits such as innocents , fearful, and unknowing. Elie wrote in the book ¨Night¨ on page (xix), ¨I shall never forget that night the first night at camp...¨ Elie was very afraid as soon as he got to the camp. He didn't know what was in store for him and didn't understand what was going on. His innocents showed threw making it easy to see he didn't know

He understood how important it is, and faked an illness so that he could get out of losing the crown. Using his instincts and intelligence, he is able to think extremely quickly and overcome the block in the road. Later on, dying of thirst, Elie, who had just endured a death march and 3 days in a camp,

Elie had to face the Nazi’s who were killing his people quicker, and more often. He had to survive and get out of the brutal nature of the Nazi’s. These two characters both have to face death coming right towards them and they both keep their resilience by teaching themselves how to

This reveals that through the things Elie has witnessed, he is no longer phased due to such exposure. The countless horrors Elie has seen and experienced during his imprisonment in the concentration camps shaped him into a tough young man, not a soft and sensitive boy. Due to all of the terrible things Elie was put through during his survival of the Holocaust, he was shaped from a devout teenager to a tough and brave young man. When faced with hunger and brutality during his

When Elie first arrives at Auschwitz, he is completely overwhelmed. He meets another inmate and the three are all very optimistic about their futures. This is not the case for all inmates, though. The very next person Elie meets has adopted an indifferent attitude about his situation, and has become so tauntrimized by the hardships of life in a concentration camp that he does not care if he lives or dies. When he approaches Elie and his father, his only advice is, “You should have hanged yourselves rather than come here” (30). Because of his traumatic experiences, the inmate has become so numb even death seems better than the life he is being forced to live.

Elie is questioning if God if he is real and why he has done nothing about the deaths that are happening around him. Also later on in the story his father dies and many others die around him. During these times he questions God and loses faith because his prays are not being answered and many

He experiences hangings, shootings, and so many unforgettable floggings. The cycle that he has to go through seems to never end, there is no escaping from the misery. In Buna he acquires a foot injury and he has to get surgery or his foot would have to amputated. After his surgery must stay in the infirmary for a while, but they receive news that that the camp is going to be evacuated and once they are gone the camp was going to be bombed, scared for his life, Elie decides to leave the infirmary and move on to the next camp with everyone else. He left because all he had left was his father, and all his father had was him, he had to stay with his father because he felt like they both stayed together, they would be able to get through this together. Elie knows that his father is getting close to his death but he must do anything to help his father in the last days that he

The murder of thousands can not only impact the universe, but the ones that live in it. For instance, victims of the Happiest had to deal with, not only losing all of their loved ones but the deaths of others around them. In “Night”, Elie is expiring death, of not only his loved ones, also other Jews who were taken by Hitler. The loss of your family is petrifying. But watching others have their lives slipped away from their fingertips, is indubitably scary. In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, Elie changes drastically throughout the book, because of the time he spent in Auschwitz, one of the most infamous concentration camps.

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.

Elie has lots of character traits that helped him get through Auschwitz, such as resourceful, traitor, and determined. In Night, Elie states “I went back a week later. With the same excuse: I still was not feeling better” (52). Elie came up with excuses to get out of getting his gold crown out. He got resourceful and came up with the idea to keep making an excuse that he was not feeling well, until they got a new doctor and he got to keep his gold crown. He used what he already had to get more out of people later and use his tooth as an advantage. Not only was he resourceful but he was also a traitor. Elie just let his father die and his father was still breathing yet he didn’t move.“My father groaned once more, I heard: ‘Eliezer…’ I could see that he was still breathing- in gaps. I didn’t move” (Wisel 111). He just let his father died and didn’t even try to help him and he died and his last words were “Eliezer…”, but he is thinking for his own future and if he will live or not. He betrayed and was a traitor to his father and didn’t even say goodbye. He was also very determined on living as said by Elie in the expert from his book, “‘Listen to me, kid. Don’t forget you are in a

During his time in the concentration camps, Elie’s outlook on life shifted to a very pessimistic attitude, showing emotions and actions including rebellion, forgetfulness of humane treatment, and selfishness. Elie shows rebellion early in the Holocaust at the Solemn Service, a jewish ceremony, by thinking, “Blessed be God’s name? Why, but why would I bless Him? Every fiber in me rebelled” (Wiesel 67). Elie had already shifted his view on his religion and faith in God. After witnessing some of the traumas of the concentration camps, Elie questioned what he did to deserve such treatment. Therefore, he began to rebel against what he had grown up learning and believing. Not only had Elie’s beliefs changed, his lifestyle changed as well. When Elie’s foot swelled, he was sent to the doctor, where they put him “...in a bed with white sheets. I [he] had forgotten that people slept in sheets” (Wiesel 78). Many of the luxuries that Elie may have taken for granted have been stripped of their lives, leaving Elie and the other victims on a thin line between survival and death. By explaining that he forgot about many of these common luxuries, Elie emphasizes the inhumane treatment the victims of the Holocaust were put through on a daily basis.

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

People had to help each other to survive and keep themselves safe. Although it can sometimes be an every man for himself situation in the camps, an inmate saves Elie and his father when he says, “The man interrogating me was an inmate. I could not see his face, but his voice was weary and warm. He asked my age. ‘Fifteen’ ‘No, you’re eighteen’ ‘But I’m not’ I said. ‘I’m fifteen’ ‘Fool, listen to what I tell you…” (Wiesel 30). Certainly this may have come off as being rude, but this was a major help to Elie and his father. If they were to actually give up and tell their real jobs, this could have put them in the crematorium. The Nazis were looking for healthy, strong, and fit people. Since Ellie was young and his father was old at the time, they probably wouldn't have met the Nazis requirements. Likewise, another moment of hope was when Ellie shared his soup with his sick father and states “Did you eat?’ ‘No. They wouldn't give us anything…’ I gave him what was left of my soup.” (Wiesel 107). Even though Elie is hungry too, he still managed to give up half of his soup. His father is on the verge of death and people are telling him to stop caring for his father, but he still continues to share his meals with him. Provided that, Elie has created a much bigger connection with his father rather than just the father and son role. In the end, the result of inhumanity can cause people to change for the better and help people a lot

In the book, our narrator, Elie, is constantly going through changes, and almost all of them are due to his time spent in Auschwitz. Prior to the horrors of Auschwitz, Elie was a very different boy, he had a more optimistic outlook on life. During the first few pages of the book, Elie tells us a bit about how he viewed the world before deportation, “ I was almost thirteen and deeply observant. By day I studied Talmud and by night I would run to the synagogue to weep over the destruction of the temple.” ( 3). Elie was, as he says himself, deeply observant and devoted most of his time to his faith. He spent almost all of his time studying and worshiping. At this point, Elie’s faith is the center of his life. Elie is also shown to do a few other things and has a few more early character traits aside from being dedicated to what he believes in. Elie also sees the best of people, a few pages later he says, “The news is terrible,’ he said at last. And then one word: ‘transports’ The ghetto was to be liquidated entirely… ‘Where will they take us?” (Wiesel 14). This is one of the only time we hear about Elie being worried or scared because of the Germans before Auschwitz, and still, despite the warnings that were given and the rumors circulating, Elie doesn’t think that the Germans are actually going to do all of those terrible things. Around this time in the book, Wiesel starts to become more emotionally weighted, but none of what has happened takes full effect until much later. There are multiple instances in the book where Elie is given reason to distrust or even hate the Germans, he talks about how the Gestapo treated him and his family on page 19 “‘Faster! Faster! Move, you lazy good-for-nothings!’ the Hungarian police were screaming.”. Yet he then goes on to say, on that very same page, that “Still our first