“Identity can change for a person over the course of their life. Certain events can change a person a person for the better or the worse,” This cause to happen from a boy name Elie Wiesel from the book called Night by Elie Wiesel, Memoir. It cause from Elie changing his life to him being a religious and studios boy to him stop believing in god. Over the course of Night, Elie’s identity has changed tremendously. Elie went from being a studios boy who was very religious to a kid who started to die from the inside and thinking about nothing. In the beginning of the book Night, before Elie and his family had been put into the ghettos, he was a very religious and studious Jewish boy, all he wanted to do was learn his religion called Kabbalah. Elie was a very studious boy. He really wants to study about his religion since he doesn’t have many other things to do.For example, In the book Night, it states, “... and deeply observant.” on page 3. This quote tells us that …show more content…
In conclusion, this is the reason why I think Elie Wiesel did change by the things that was happening to him at the camp. He wasn’t able to maintain his true self and keeping his belief because of all the stuff that he see. Elie change from him being very religious and studious to him just being empty from the inside. For example, First all wanted to do was learn his religion before he went to the camp. Then, when they went to the camp, he starts to see all the things that 's happening. He starts to ask himself questions of why this is happening to him and that if there’s even a God that exist in this world. Lastly, his Father dies from the weather, and he couldn’t even cry because Elie was so empty inside. Also, he gets an infection and went straight to the hospital, but he notice when he looked himself that he wasn’t the same person anymore. There was nothing in his mind but remember what he looked like. So, this is the reason why I think Elie change from the beginning to the end of the book called
Over the course of the book, Elie changes from a happy boy to being depressed. This is important to the book as a whole because it connects to the internal conflict. The change is apparent when he gets moved to a concentration camp, when he’s separated from his family, and when his father dies. “We sensed that
Before Elie went to the camp he was completely different than the person who walked into the camp. Also during the actions of chapter 3, as a reader I found that Elie had already changed as he made his way into the camp. For example, relating to the quote I have chosen, in that specific part of the chapter and when Elie's father kindly asked to know where the bathroom was and he was hit by a Gypsy. As described in this part of the book Elie felt himself almost immediately
To change means to make or become different. The book is Night by Elie Wiesel, contains the characters of Elie and his family. A boy named Eliezer is taken away to a concentration camp with his family. He meets many people, including doctors, tyrants and many others. He goes through many challenges that change him for better and for worse.
Before the soldiers come to attack at another concentration camp, Eliezer’s father dies. Even though Elie goes through multiple difficult and heartbreaking times, these tragedies have helped shape who he really is and how he has radically changed. In the beginning of the novel Night, Eliezer is trying his hardest to be concentrated on his religion and relationship with God. He had an extremely deep connection with God, and he
Imagine everything that keeps you human being quickly stripped away from you, turning your importance into a number on a chart. This is what Elie Wiesel experiences in the Holocaust and is what he wants to express to the reader in Night. His character changes drastically throughout the memoir, changing him from a happy, carefree religious boy to a desensitized husk of his former self, broken by his experiences in Auschwitz. When the memoir begins, Elie’s biggest concern was his belief that he should study Kabbalah, while his father believes he is too young. Then he shifts the tone of the memoir with the line “
Within seconds of being there, he lost his faith in god. Elie Wiesel’s joy and love for his religion completely changed from wanting to learn, to doubting it. Wiesel’s change in faith helped keep him alive in the concentration camp. When he was in the camp the Jewish holiday Yom Kippur came around and in his words, “To fast could mean a more certain, more rapid death” (Wiesel 69). A lot of the people did not fast including Elie because his father told him not to and because he, “[...] no longer accepted God’s silence” (Wiesel 69).
In the book Night, we the readers witness the hardships and struggles in Elie’s life during the traumatic holocaust. The events that take place in this story are unbearable and are thought to be demented in modern times. In the beginning Elie is shown as a normal teenage Jewish boy, but the events are so drastic that we the readers forget how he was like in the beginning. Changes were made to Elie during the book, whether they were minor or major. The changes generated from himself, the journey, and other people.
These changes can make one lose himself, and when one doesn’t know who he is, those around him do not either. In Night, Elie Wiesel uses imagery and diction to illustrate the idea that going through a traumatic or emotional event can cause a person to lose himself, lose his beliefs, and change into an unrecognizable human. Wiesel uses imagery to explain why and how the characters changed dramatically. Upon coming back after being expelled because he was a foreign Jew, Moshe the Beadle
In this book Elie speaks of his hardships and how he survived the concentration camps. Elie quickly changed into a sorrowful person, but despite that he was determined to stay alive no matter the cost. For instance, during the death
Throughout Night, by Elie Wiesel, the narrator, Wiesel, was subjected to changes within his ideals and religious beliefs. When Wiesel was first introduced to the book, he was a devout Jewish boy who loved his father and had his total faith in God. Over time, Wiesel began to change as a result of being beaten down almost every day and witnessing his fellow Jews being worked to death or simply killed for not being fit enough. "I watched it all happening without moving. I kept silent.
Elie went through extreme adversity within the camps of Auschwitz yet still managed to persevere. The experiences Elie went through in camp Auschwitz changed him as an individual spiritually; a boy who was once devoted to God ceased to believe in him. Elie also lost his sense of self identity, as his personality completely changes. During his internment at Auschwitz and Buchenwald Elie completely loses his innocence. As a result of the adversity Elie faces throughout his time at the Auschwitz camp, his identity is tarnished and eventually reformed.
One reoccurring theme that is present in the Holocaust is a change of identity with everyone involved. The incidents people confronted, especially the Jews, during this harsh time was life changing and traumatic. The identity of many in the concentration camps changed; young and innocent children developed into mature men. Elie Wiesel in the novella, Night, faces a change of identity within himself and the surrounding people, the Jews, through a variety of events that he encounters.
Life is full of good and bad experiences, but you don’t always have control of what happens. That can be scary sometimes and it depends on how you handle it as to whether you get out of that situation. In the memoir Night written by Elie Wiesel, Eli, a teenager had been taken away from his home and taken to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Night is the scary record of Elie Wiesel’s memories of the death of his own family and the death of his own innocence as he tries to fight his way out of the concentration camp. Over the course of the book, Eli changes from a believer in God living in bearable conditions to someone who has become profane because of the situation he’s been put in.
He see’s what's happening and he soon begins to lose his faith and his hope for the future. All in all, we may have never seen the strength or bravery of Elie, had he not kept going forward. He strengthened his faith, and eventually survived Auschwitz. Holocaust survivors seem to always say that without courage and faith, you would never make it out. Another example of this would be when Elie receives gifts from his father.
Never shall [he] forget those things, even were [he] condemned to live as long as God Himself” (Wiesel 75). This quote leads me to believe that the suffering endured in the camps lead Elie to become lost with who he was. Elie and the other members of the Jewish community try to keep their faith as much as they can even though it is being tested. As shown in Night enduring suffering forces people to become much different versions of themselves.