Ciaran Stout Mr. Trivits English 1XL Period 5. Have you ever been through something terrifying, then grown in some way from it? Perhaps you went to a haunted house and learned to be less mortified by niche scare elements. In Jojo Rabbit and Night, the audience is encouraged to explore how hardship makes people change and think in different ways. Night by Elie Wiesel has a constant and consistent theme of indifference. This is the belief of hopelessness and almost the entire loss of emotion. The path that Elie Wiesel takes throughout the story is a very difficult one. He starts by being taken from his home, then is separated from the women in his family, goes through multiple concentration camps where he is almost starved, and in the end he …show more content…
This is undeniably a large amount of tribulation that Wiesel had to go through. What is truly astonishing in Night is the way in which Elie’s mind changes from his travails. The beginning of the novel portrays him as an innocent boy who is still learning about the world and Jewish culture, but this mindset shifts to being indifferent as a way to adapt after being taken from his home. Elie’s father dies, and Elie does his best to help him, but we know that he does not want to. We can see from his line: “I gave him what was left of my soup. But my heart was heavy. I was aware that I was doing it grudgingly,” (Wiesel 107). He does become indifferent, acknowledges it, and hates it. He also says: “I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep,” (Wiesel 112) after his father died. He changed from being a regular Jewish boy going on a religious journey, to an indifferent and selfish person that he regrets becoming. This hardship is subjectively more bearable in Jojo Rabbit, with the change in mind almost being reversed. Jojo is a Nazi fanatic who hates Jews, loves his country, and has an imaginary friend, Hitler. His life starts out okay, having a good life in a good area. His primary travails come