How Does Elie Wiesel Change In Night

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Moshood Kassim Mrs.Pavlenko ENG3C0 January 11th 2023 How Elie develops thought his experiences and his new perspectives In Elie Wiesel’s Night, Elie changes drastically throughout the entire timeline of the Holocaust. He faces many struggles such as leaving his homeland, separation from family, concentration camps and losing many loved ones. Altogether, Elie loses everything that he knows. He learns to rely on his father for survival and eventually he gains a new perspective on humanity. In Conclusion, Elie changes a lot, he gains a new perspective on what it is to live and to live without support or family and what it is to live to lack empathy and focus on survival. Firstly, Elie loses His teacher, …show more content…

As Moishe is coming back from the tragedy that the Germans strike upon him and his fellow foreign Jews he says: “Life? I no longer care to live. I am alone. But I wanted to come back and warn you. Only no one is listening to me …” (Wiesel 7- 8). In these first few pages of the book Elie has lost his …show more content…

Secondly Elie learns to rely on his father for survival and what it means for his father to lean on him for survival. Elie learns what it means to have no meaning in life after his father's eventual death. Elie also learns what a selfish son looks like. Elie sees in the view of other sons actions what he could have done to his father. After Elie’s family is split Elie is leaning on his father there is almost no moment where Elie is not with his father or wants to be with him father but when Elie’s father was first getting bullied due to the fact that Elie had a gold crown tooth that he was saving to get extra something like bread. But somebody found that he has a gold crown tooth and was using Eile’s father as a weak point. Elie’s father forbids Eile from fasting. After Elie and his father survive the death march Elie's father went to sleep in the snow but Elie stops his father even though he complains that they should rest. During the 100-man cart, Transfer to Buchenwald Elie woke him and saved his father from getting thrown out with a slap and several hits. After all, they went