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Elie Wiesel's Character Changes Throughout The Book Night

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Night, a memoir by Elie Wiesel has lots of definite character change as Elie changes from positive and spiritual to lifeless, just like Moishe the Beadle. Unfortunately, this was no surprise as Germans were trying to dominate the world. In the beginning, Elie was fine with his peaceful life, he was very religious as he studied Kabbalah, during day and night. He was curious for his age, but his father hadn’t want his son to lose his innocence and tells his son, “Maimonides tells us that one must be thirty before venturing into the world of mysticism (4).” But because that Elie was stubborn and very religious, he found a master who was Moishe the Beadle. As I read, I noticed that Elie and Moishe were both very religious. The questions they asked …show more content…

Elie started to change after finally arriving in Auschwitz. After being checked by Dr. Mengele, he and his dad started to walk toward the crematoria and saw, “children thrown into flames (32).” This opened up Elie’s eyes to the world that while he was living in peace, a whole lot of death was going on. It had made him question about his faith in God, “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)?” If I was also in the same situation as Elie, I too would have questioned my faith in God because Elie had devoted his whole life to God and God was not there for him. But not all of his faith in God was gone because if it was, he would have tried to kill himself right there and now by jumping into the fence. Elie also still, “found myself whispering the words: ‘Yisgadal, veyiskadash, shmey raba… May His name be exalted and sanctified…’ (34)” Even though Elie still believed, barely, in God, “All that was left was a shape that resembled me (37).” He was consumed by the flames, he no longer was spiritual nor positive. In fact, he was lifeless, he had lost his innocence to the cruel Germans who had done many horrendous

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