In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, the author writes about his experiences as a Jewish prisoner in concentration camps during the Holocaust. Wiesel was only 15-years-old when he was forced out of his home in Sighet and deported to Auschwitz along with his family in May 1944. By the time Buchenwald concentration camp was liberated in April 1945, Wiesel already had major experiences that greatly affected his life. Wiesel’s experiences drastically change his character as a human being to help him deal with evil as a survivor of the Jewish holocaust.
In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, the author writes about his experiences as a Jewish prisoner in concentration camps during the Holocaust. Wiesel was only 15-years-old when he was forced out of his home in Sighet and deported to Auschwitz along with his family in May 1944. By the time Buchenwald concentration camp was liberated in April 1945, Wiesel already had major experiences that greatly affected his life. Wiesel’s experiences drastically change his character as a human being to help him deal with evil as a survivor of the Jewish holocaust.
In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie, a thirteen year old Jewish boy, lives in Transylvania, Hungary with his family. Elie practices his religion by going to mosques and praying. However on the seventh day of Passover, the Germans arrested the leaders of the Jewish community. One of the big impacts they had was going to the unsanitized ghettos. In the ghettos the Jews were trapped in a big area of homes that were surrounded by walls.
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.
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 “
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 Wiesel’s novel “Night” is the story of what Eliezer and millions of other Jews experienced during the Holocaust. Eliezer, the narrator and main character, changed throughout the novel physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Eliezer was sent to a labor camp, therefore his physical state changed. The novel, “Night” has shown the readers the physical changes that Eliezer has gone through. For example, Eliezer became malnourished due to the lack of food being provided.
How would you feel if you woke up every morning to see people, much less babies, being used as target practice? Some horrible things like this is what Elie Wiesel had to experience everyday while he was so-called, “living” through the holocaust. He was pushed to the inhumane limits in many ways that changed him physically, mentally, and faithfully. Physically, he was hanged dramatically.
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.
“There are victories for the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.” -Eliezer Wiesel. Elie is victorious because he went through many tough events throughout the camp, yet he survived. When Wiesel first arrived at Auschwitz, his mother, Sarah (Feig) Weisel and younger sister, Tzipora Wiesel were murdered almost immediately, and Eliezer was pushed around and beaten to get in line.
The Holocaust was one of the most tragic events in history. It just so happened to be the cause of six million deaths. While there are countless beings who experienced such trauma, it is impossible to hear everyone's side of the story. However, one man, in particular, allowed himself to speak of the tragedies. Elie Wiesel addressed the transformation he underwent during the Holocaust in his memoir, Night.
Hate can cause one's beliefs to change. In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, he shares his experiences in the Nazi concentration camp as a teenager and how he manages to survive with his father after being separated from the rest of his family until the very end. In Night, Wiesel reflects on how hatred can change people’s perspectives, especially on religion. Before being taken away to the Nazi concentration camps, Elie Wiesel was a deeply religious person, and after what he experienced during the Holocaust, he no longer has a strong belief in Judaism. Before the Holocaust, Wiesel was a deeply religious person who couldn't even fathom why he wouldn’t pray.
During the trauma of the concentration camps, Elie changes physically, spiritually, and emotionally. During Elie’s imprisonment by the Nazis, he undergoes a physical transformation. As the Nazis forced them to march Elie wrote, “I had no strength left. The journey had just begun and I already felt weak…”(Wiesel 19).
Night, by Elie Wiesel: Summer Camp One of the most horrific genocides in the history of mankind, the Holocaust is an event where over eleven million people are murdered, and countless lives are changed. When the Nazis took power in 1933, Jews constituted less than 1% of the German population. Several countries, including Germany, France, and Austria, prohibit denying the Holocaust occurred. In the memoir Night Elie undergoes drastic physical, emotional, and spiritual changes throughout his ordeal as a prisoner during the Holocaust.
“Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind. ”- Shania Twain.
