Transformation In Night By Elie Wiesel

After experiencing the holocaust, Elie can no longer make sense of his world. His lack in faith results from his painful experience with Nazi persecution, but also from the cruelty he sees fellow prisoners inflict on each other. Elie also becomes aware of the cruelty of which he himself is capable of. Everything he experiences in the war shows how humanity is lost people allow cruelty to show itself. “Our

Eleven million humans lost their lives during the holocaust, but there were some individuals that were lucky enough to survive through the living Hell of the reign of Hitler. It was a gruesome transition for many, and it really changed the mindset of any remaining survivors. In the book, “Night”, Elie Wiesel changed into a completely different person throughout the book.

Change is normally inevitable when faced with traumatic situations. In the book Night author Elie Wiesel shows the transformation of himself as he struggles through the events of the holocaust. Being separated from most of his family members, Elie had only his father left to provide as some sort of support. Surviving was hard. Through the harsh weather to the small rations of food, Elie’s self preservation instincts start to kick in.

During the Holocaust, an estimated 11 million people died, 6 million of which were Jews. When Elie Wiesel was 15 he was taken from his home and brought to a concentration camp, where he was immediately separated from his mother and sister. He was put through things that most can hardly imagine; he managed to live through all of it, but just barely. Elie was sent to Auschwitz in 1944 and lived through the horrors until April 11, 1945; he died on July 2, 2016, but not before he could write more than 50 books. In the novel “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the main character, Elie, was effected by the events in the book with his loss of religion, psychological changes, and failing to have the willpower to live or have faith in humanity.

To begin, Can you image having to lose your family, friends and cousins and all your left with in this world is yourself and you no longer belief in God because of all the terrifying things that you seen and had to experiences and because you were taught that god is everywhere and God is good also his very forgiving but it all turns around when Elie’s and his family also their Jew’s get taken to concentration camp where dreams don’t exist only blood, flames, painful and most important were who survival only matters and trying to stay in the some spend of marching as the others pensioner so you won’t get shot. The only way a person survived is looking after themselves first and staying strong. Elie’s a 15 years old boy always has been a very

Elie slowly loses his faith in God. He begins to question his teachings, and the existence of God. Elie loses more faith every day he is in the concentration camp. Elie says, “I was not denying His existence, but I doubted His absolute justice.” This quote shows Elie slowly lose faith. He is not questioning His existence yet, but questions God’s justice. Elie believes the actions of the Nazis are unjust, and God should stop the actions, but God has not stopped them. Therefore, Elie begins to believe God is unjust. While Elie was

His belief is shaken. By the end of the story Elie has lost faith in his religion and resents God for allowing so many people to perish in the camps, "It's over. God is no longer with us" (Weisel,

Imagine being forced out of your home and sent to a camp filled with unimaginable, traumatizing situations. This is what Elie Wiesel suffered through, the author of Night, a story about a boy and the struggles and tortures he went through with his father and other Jews. The only thing that kept Elie going was the love for his father. There were rough times between the two, but Elie still managed to reach the end. All through his experiences in the camps, Elie deals with keeping himself and his father alive, causing Elie to change and transform.

Elie wonders how God can let all the pain and suffering happen. Through the story, Elie thinks to himself on how God would let people kill others due to their religion how can they be so cruel, and not feel any guilt. This is earlier when Elie arrives at the concentration camps and is starting to see all the horror of being there for the first time. He doesn't know quite how to act to everything going on around him. He wants to believe and but can't because he is overwhelmed with everything going on. Elie starts to wonder why he should believe in God and bless his names “Why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty Eternal And terrible master of the Universe, choose

Upon his arrival Elie witnessed the horror of watching a truck full of children being thrown into the flames. This was such a traumatic vision that Elie found himself questioning God and becoming angry at his lack of presence. “For the first time, I felt anger rising within me. Why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent. What was there to thank him for?” (33). Elie was so distraught by the situation that he began to question what he was once entirely devoted to. He questioned it so much that he began to distance himself from the base of his

The loss of faith in God is a recurring theme throughout the memoir, impacting Elie’s emotional and spiritual journey. “As for me, I have ceased to pray. I concur with the job! I was not denying His existence, but I doubted His absolute justice”, Page 45.

Night by Elie Wiesel is a Holocaust narrative that discusses life-changing experiences in the Nazi concentration camps. Different experiences change multiple aspects of one’s identity. Through the course of this narrative, his faith changes drastically. Wiesel’s drastic faith change is evident through his loss of belief in God, loss of confidence in himself, and apathetic attitude about survival.

A key point during the early point of Elie’s life is that Elie illustrates himself as spiritual and very invested in his faith, but from the duration of the Holocaust loses his faith. He asks himself why God would allow his people to suffer and not help them, stating

One can see the absence of God time and time again throughout the holocaust. Even those who were raised to do God’s will were broken in World War II. The reader can see in the end of the novel that the walk to Buchenwald was a specifically trying time. “Oh God, Master of the Universe, give me the strength never to do what Rabbi Eliahu’s son has done.” (91) The Rabbi’s son was obviously raised to be selfless, yet he betrays his own father by leaving him for dead. The Holocaust took men’s values: values needed to keep from raw human instinct from kicking in. With all of this loss of hope, Elie’s whole faith is seized. “From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me.” (115) The reader can only begin to imagine how Eliezer’s view of the world

Loss of faith in humanity is something familiar to a teenage generation. But this case of realization and truthfulness was something of terror and deviation; not normal or just a simple action of trying to tell the truth. This story of growing up is brutal and premature. Elie went into the Holocaust so young and not only lost his faith but also his childhood. After an event like the Holocaust, people change dramatically, in their belief, in their physical health, in their mental health, and in their faith in everything. Elie unsurprisingly to me, lost all faith and belief not only in God but also in humanity and possibly in himself and in his capability. “For the first time, I felt anger rising within me. Why should I sanctify His name? The