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Elie Wiesel Loss Of Innocence In Night

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Humans change throughout their life both physically and mentally. Some as they age, but also as they experience life-altering events. Elie Wiesel, author, and protagonist of his memoir, Night, had to experience the horrors of the Holocaust personally. This led him to modify his life in many aspects. Elie Wiesel changes throughout the story by losing his innocence, faith, and overall emotional standpoint. Elie Wiesel loses his innocence during his time in the Holocaust from events detailing the brutality of man. Elie detailed his life as a young adolescent boy at the beginning of his memoir, and it exemplified a nice and easy life not full of worry. However, when he gets sent on his journey through the concentration camps, it would be clear …show more content…

From this action, Elie grasps the savagery of man after experiencing it on a personal scale. He realizes how humans could be so ruthless to torture other people, let alone a young child, with no regard. This pain would engrave into Elie’s mind for the rest of his life.“Then came the march past the victims. The two men were no longer alive. Their tongues were hanging out, swollen and bluish” (Wiesel 64). Again, Elie further comprehends the cruelty of man; when the soldiers hanged two men and a child. The child especially affected him, and it disheartened Elie even more so that the child was tortured for an action he did not commit. Both of these events were two of many which quickly caused Elie to lose his …show more content…

“‘Why do you cry when you pray?’ he asked, as though he knew me well” (Wiesel 4). At the beginning of the memoir, Elie recalls he would cry for no apparent reason. This shows he was a very emotional person, crying for something and not even knowing the reason why. However, later in the story, this would prove to not be the case anymore. “I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep. But I was out of tears'' (Wiesel 112). Elie lost his father to the brutality of the Holocaust. In spite of that, he did not cry. Going from sobbing without a reason to not even crying when a close loved one passes shows how Elie slowly became apathetic towards life proving the mental trauma the Holocaust brought to

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”I did not weep and it pained me the i could not weep. But i was out of tears. And deep inside me, if i could i have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, i might have found something like: Free at last!... ” When his father died Elie wasn't sad all he could think of was the weight that was lifted off his chest, that he no longer had to be constantly worried or tending on his

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“I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep. But I was out of tears. And deep inside me, if I could have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like: "Free at last!!”(Wiesel 112). The reason Elie had felt this way was because of how much effort he was putting into his father. When his father was sick he would give up his portion of bread and soup just so his father could get better.

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The most tragic events in our lives can also be the most transformative. The memoir Night, by Elie Wiesel, describes the time Weisel spent in the Auschwitz concentration camp during the Holocaust. Elie begins the memoir as a fifteen-year-old boy, full of hope and innocence. By the end of the memoir, he underwent a transmutation into a cynical man, full of enmity, physically like a corpse, but forever changed mentally. He witnesses terrible acts of genocide and inhumane by the Nazis towards himself, and his fellow Jews.

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Continuing on the path to the concentration camp that Elie would soon be held in contempt, he witnessed the burning alive of children and babies. Forever this memory will be scared in his mind and unforgettable. During this time in the night the SS officers and Nazi soldiers caused not only emotional pain for families like Elie’s that had been split up and physical pain for the people who were burn

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The concentration camps made a lot of the people think and act differently, Elie Wiesel was one of them. Elie Wiesel was a survivor of the Holocaust during World War II. Years after the Holocaust Elie wrote a book about how it was, called Night. In the book, as you keep reading, you can see how the concentration camps changed him. That shows that he is a dynamic character because he slowly loses his faith in God, his attitude towards his father changes, and he comes out of the camps with barely any innocence.

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All of the horror he was through dehumanized and changed him. In conclusion, the autobiography ‘Night’ written by Elie Wiesel captured the dehumanizing effects that the Holocaust had on people. As we see the horror Elie went through, from not being able to control what or when he eats, to being emotionally numb that he ran out of

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Before the thought of being confined in concentration camp ever occurred to Elie, his life was one that was oriented around pursuing the divinity of his religion and being emotionally stimulated by this pursuit. When Elie is inquired by a local cabala practitioner, known as Moshe, about why he wept when he pray, Elie 's response is "-because of something inside of me that felt the need for tears." This response evoked from Elie shows that he is connected with his soul and is one that is so emotionally-inspired that he "felt the need for tears." In addition to the expression of his emotions, Elie describing his absolute demand for displaying his sentiments also show how connected he is with feeling the power of his own prayer. After all, Elie weeped over the loss of the Temple and ran to the synagogue every night just to pray, showing his undying, faithful

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Suffering not only forces people to make inhumane decisions but it also causes people to lose hope and give up on themselves. In this section of the book, Elie describes a time where he was devastated to see his father beaten and hurt in the camps. Throughout his time in the camps, Elie saw and heard the abuse that was given to people in the camp killing his hope. The biggest turning point in the story was when he saw his father getting beat. When Idek “began beating [Elie’s father] with an iron bar … [Elie’s] father simply doubled over under the blows, but then [Elie's father] seemed to break in two like an old tree struck by lightning”

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