Famous Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel, once said, “Even in darkness, it is possible to create light.” Elie, being a Jew, was taken away from his family very early on in life. He was forced to live in concentration camps, enduring even the most brutal conditions in order to survive. In the novel “Night,” Elie describes these horrific experiences, as he outlines many events that both changed him, and made him the man he was. In the book, Elie is greatly affected by the events that take place, as the events cause him to lose his identity, question his faith, and impact his willingness to live. The events that occurred when Elie first reached the concentration camps greatly affected his identity. Immediately after being sent to his first concentration …show more content…
Experiencing death first hand, caused Elie to question his faith in God. He doubted the strength of God, and nearly gave up on his religion. This change happened over time, but had a devastating impact on Elie’s mental state. As noted on page 4, Elie stated, “One day I asked my father to find me a master who could guide me in the studies of Kabbalah.” Elie was a very religious individual, who even wanted to improve his relation with God by studying the basis of Kabbalah. This belief, however, slowly started to diminish as the killings and mass murders of prisoners progressed. Watching the lives of his fellow Jews being taken every day caused Elie to criticize God. He was in a state of disbelief as he quoted, “Why would I bless him...He caused thousands of children to die” on page 66. He no longer had the trust in God that he profoundly had in his past. Elie was almost angry that God was not saving the lives of the Jew’s. He continuously challenged God and repeatedly wondered if God’s presence was within the Jewish community. As noted on page 66, Elie questioned, “Why do you (God) keep on troubling these poor people’s wounded minds, their ailing bodies?" Elie’s statements were in opposition to the belief he once had. He was no longer living under God’s hands, and rather at his own
Although there are many different stories about the holocaust, Elie Wiesel's story is very vivid and full of the jarring reality of his experiences. He doesn’t hold back any of the cruelness and torment he was forced to endure as an adolescent. In Night, Elie Wiesel uses repetition, imagery, and symbolism to illustrate the deprivation of his former self during his traumatic experiences during his time in the Nazi work camp.
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
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.
Eliezer in the book mentions several times that the prisoners and him were no longer men. The prisoners in camp were broken down into shadows of the men they were before their imprisonment. This is because the Nazis tormented them. The Nazis treated the prisoners like animals. They put them in cattle cars, forced them out of there homes, and fed them the bare minimum they needed to stay alive. All of these things made the prisoners lose their identity as men. This helped the Nazi cause because it made the prisoners lose hope. Prisoners with no hope become easier to control, and that benefited the Nazis. Therefore the loss of identity of the prisoners helped the Nazi cause.
He wondered if God was truly by his side, why would He allow this much harm to Elie? It wasn’t until he experienced a near-death experience, almost forcing him to walk into a pit of burning flames, that Elie had a strong belief in God. However, something else questioned Elie. How can someone so young be pressurized to not only make an attempt to survive for himself, but also have the duty of making sure his father doesn't get murdered like the other millions
Elie Wiesel’s book “Night” shows the life of a father and son going through the concentration camp of World War II. Their life long journey begins from when they are taken from their home in Sighet, they experience harsh and inhuman conditions in the camps. These conditions cause Elie and his father’s relationship to change. During their time there, Elie and his father experience a reversal in roles.
Throughout history, many terrible things have happened that have put people in terrible conditions. During the Holocaust, millions of people died, and the few that survived were very lucky. Elie Wiesel, the author of “Night”, endured many horrible things in the Holocaust that shaped him as a person today. In “Night”, by Elie Wiesel, the main character, Elie, changed as a person due to his experiences at Auschwitz.
In Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie wrote about his journey through the Holocaust and how it impacted his faith. Before the Holocaust, Elie became very passionate about Judaism, but his learning was stopped abruptly because the Nazis had arrived. The Nazis took away his teacher, along with his neighbors. Soon, the Nazis came back for the remaining citizens and loaded them into a train. This was the beginning of the Holocaust, in which Elie would experience many horrific events. Throughout Night, Elie’s faith decreases because of the harsh conditions of concentration camps and the declining health of his father.
In 2006, Elie Wiesel published the memoir “Night,” which focuses on his terrifying experiences in the Nazi extermination camps during the World War ll. Elie, a sixteen-year-old Jewish boy, is projected as a dynamic character who experiences overpowering conflicts in his emotions. One of his greatest struggles is the sense helplessness that he feels when all the beliefs and rights, of an entire nation, are reduced to silence. Elie and the Jews are subjected daily to uninterrupted torture and dehumanization. During the time spent in the concentration camp, Elie is engulfed by an uninterrupted roar of pain and despair. Throughout this horrific experience, Elie’s soul perishes as he faces constant psychological abuse, inhuman living conditions, and brutal negation of his humanity.
“I won’t give you more, more than you can take and I might let you bend, but I won’t let you break.” Elie Wiesel has an unbreakable personality, but he was certainly tested when God put him through the Holocaust with the knowledge that he had the physical and mental strength to get through some miserable times and impact the world with his story. In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the main character, Elie, experiences great change through his horrific and scarring adventures that he endures at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
“Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed....” –Elie Wiesel expressed shortly after his harsh experience with the Holocaust. As many read through Elie’s book Night, they recognize what Elie fought through while he was staying in the Concentration Camps. People have realized the brutal conditions that the he had gone through and have came to the thought of how it effected his future and what he has done ever since the horrible Holocaust.
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.
While Elie was in the concentration camp he changed the way he acted. This new behavior led him to develop new character traits. While Ellie was in the concentration camp he became angry at many things. For example “I would have dug my nails into the criminals flesh” (Wisel 39). Elie shows extreme anger when the Nazi officials are beating Elie’s father. Elie was angry because the Nazi soldiers were not treating them nicely and keeping them in poor conditions. Elie was usually not a person to display anger, but he shows this when his family members are being hurt. Elie wants to stand up for what is right and for his family members. Despite his studying, Elie wavered in his belief in Kabbalah while he was at the camp. Elie was a religious boy before he went to Auschwitz, but while in the camp, he became angry at God. In the book Elie says, “‘Where are You, my God?’” (66). Elie is wondering why God is not helping the Jews. Elie had complete faith in his religion until he experienced and witnessed such horrible suffering. He had been taught that God will punish evil and save the righteous. However, when Elie saw that God was not helping the Jews situation,
“Blessed be Gods name? Why? But why would I bless him?” Elie says that on page 67 of this book. To me, when Elie says this, he shows his anger towards God and about everything that he is letting happen. He began to wonder, if he was God, why he was letting all the Germans do horrible things to them. However, this never made any sense to Elie. He was always contemplating the existence of God. On page 69 while supper
Elies identity changes over time when he experienced the holocaust. At first, he had a strong belief toward his religion and about god. He was always interested learning about the history and his religion. When everyone had to move to the ghetto, he said “I was up at dawn, I wanted to have time to pray before leaving ”(18). This shows how much he cares about his belief. No teenager kid would do that and his parents didn’t even tell him to pray. After going to concentration camp, he starts seeing things that are fearful,unseeable, and traumatic. He saw that babies are being thrown in the