Many people don't realize how lucky they are when it comes to family, environment, food, and many other things. We as people tend to take things for granted and sometimes don't realize how easily it could be taken away. Elie Wiesel's novel Night is about his story during World war 2 when he was sent to the Auschwitz camp. When his life completely flips and experiences many devastating events, Elie shows what he went through, his thoughts, his experiences, and his changes mentally and physically. It also shows this dark side of humans and history, and how much power a person could have. In Night, Elie's behavior and beliefs were reformed because of his environment and the traumatic events Elie goes through. A way that Elie changed was his religious beliefs. He was so passionate about his religion and followed it in the beginning. Elie was so touched by his religion he would cry during prayers and was so interested in his religion that he would want to learn more. Later on in the story, Elie changes due to his new environment, from seeing things no thirteen-year-old boy should ever see. He realizes how his god is not helping him and is just letting this cruelty go on, so his Faith was fading. “ Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent …show more content…
Throughout the novel, his emotion started to slip away, and he lacked emotions from all of the traumatic events he had gone through. Seeing and going through this abuse, and even seeing his father slowly die, made him realize he needs to be strong. “My father had just been struck, in front of me, and I had not even blinked. I had watched and kept silent'' (Wiesel 39). Elie's environment had made him numb and petrified. This shows how his environment has changed him, and even when it came to his father's death, he didn't even shed a tear, he was just emotionally incapable, and he even was relieved that his father had