How Does Elie Wiesel Change In Night

Auschwitz killed more than a million Jews during the Holocaust. In Elie Wiesel’s hometown Sighet he was a very healthy and strong boy. During the holocaust, the Nazis came to Sighet and took him and his family away. Most of his family would be sent to death while he was sent to the workforce with his father. They would travel from camp to camp, Auschwitz being the worst. 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). This shows how much the Nazis will make them work. As Elie

As Elie spends his first night at camp he writes, “Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever. . . . Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes” (34).” Elie is slowly losing his faith in god as he goes through these difficult circumstances. While prisoners start to question God's existence, Wiesel writes, "As for me, I had ceased to pray. I concurred with Job. I was not denying His existence, but I doubted His absolute justice” (45).” This shows that he is questioning god about his decisions. As a child was hanged, a man asked where God was during this event. Elie Wiesel wrote, “ Where is He [God]? This is where—hanging here from this gallows . . .’ ” (65). Elie and multiple other prisoners will witness numerous inhumane events. As the little child hangs there suffocating to death, Elie starts to lose his belief in god. All Jewish prisoners of the Holocaust have lost faith in

As they began their journey, Elie wrote, “That was when I began to hate them [the Hungarian police], and my hatred remains our only link today. They were our first oppressors. They were the first faces of hell and death” (19). This shows how Elie starts to hate people. While Elie witnesses the murder of his father and multiple other events he says, “My hands were aching, I was clenching them so hard. To strangle the doctor and the others! To set the whole world on fire! My father’s murderers! But even the cry stuck in my throat” (109).” This explains how Elie wants revenge against the Nazis that has killed his people. As Elie stands there looking at the damage. He is looking at his father’s tomb while saying, “I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep. But I was out of tears. And deep inside me, if I could have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like: Free at last!” (112). This shows that he is starting to find peace after the tragic events he has been through. Many prisoners developed a hatred for the Nazis during this era of