Transformation In Night By Elie Wiesel

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.

Elie and his father are taken to Auschwitz where they are separated from the rest of the family and first hear about atrocities such as the incinerators and gas showers. In the beginning Elie believes that everything is a rumor, a lie, that humankind cannot perform such crimes, but he soon is forced to witness the demise in front of his eyes. This is when his outlook on his faith starts to waver. While watching the smoke billow up from a crematory, Elie hears a man standing next to him begging him to pray, and for the first time in his life Wiesel turns away from God. “The Eternal, Lord of the Universe, the All-Powerful and Terrible, was silent. What had I to thank him for?” (31).

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.

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

This quote portrays how, although Elie would never say he did not believe in God, he didn’t understand how God allowed Jewish people to be gassed and slaughtered. This quote is significant as it underlines Elie’s confusion and scepticism with God, and how his faith in him had been lost. The literary device used in this passage is personification, as God is portrayed as having human attributes such as justice and existence. The depiction of God in the passage highlights a theme of questioning faith

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

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.

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