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Who Is The Dynamic Character In Night By Elie Wiesel

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I spent my days in total idleness. With only one desire, a desire. To eat. Elie Wiesel uses these words in his book, Night, to explain his horrendous experience in Auschwitz, a concentration camp in World War II, to show the vile things that happened while he was there. Elie gives us a first-person view of his experiences that affected him forever. As a result, Elie is a dynamic character because he begins to question his faith, his attitude for his father changes, and his innocence and view of the world around him changes. First, Elie begins to question his faith in God. During Rosh Hashanah, he feels like a complete stranger when everyone else is praying in silence together. When another holiday, Yom Kipper, happens, he decides not to fast in order to rebel against God. He wouldn't debate and not fast if he wasn't questioning his faith now would he? Speaking of questioning, he questions where God is while he sees a kid die slowly as the kid was being hanged. In addition, while the kids were being thrown into the crematorium, he asks the same question and wonders why God would allow this. …show more content…

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

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