How Does Elie Wiesel Change In The Book Night

When Elie Wiesel was only a teenager he was starved, beaten for no good reason, and was separated from most of his family… millions jews went through this same exact pain. Elie Wiesel was born in an isolated town of Sighet,Transylvania and was raised in the Jewish faith. But in 1944 he and his family were sent to a concentration camp in Auschwitz and then Buchenwald where they worked hard labor. In his book ,“Night”, he wrote about his experience during the holocaust, what their daily life was, and the hardships they had to go through. Throughout Elie’s duration in the concentration camps has deeply affected him because he began to slowly lose his faith/religion, lose his emotions and sympathy for other people, and acted more hesitant to certain

During the beginning of the book, his faith was a significant part of his life. He had strong relationship with God. He states in page 8, “One day I asked my father to find me a master who could guide me in my studies”,and in page 5 he said, “ Not to learn it by heart , but to discover within the very essence of divinity”, which displayed his determination to have more of a connection and understanding of God. But as weeks go by in the concentration camp he no longer looks up to God for hope,or answers, and begins to accuse God for what’s happening the Jews and always ask himself why would God do this to them. In page 67 Elie begins to wonder, “ Why would I bless him? Every fiber in me rebelled. Because he caused thousands of his children to burn in his mass grave?...”, and in page 69 he said,”I did not fast”, which meant that he didn’t want to follow the religion and believed there was no point to praying or doing the traditional practices. Elie simply believed that praying to God wasn’t going to help him survive the

Before he and his family were sent to the concentration camps, Elie was described as a loving, smart, and caring boy. But as months go by in the concentration camps he slowly begins to his emotions for other people, which definitely affects the way he thinks mentally. In page 112 he stated, “I did not weep, and is pained that I could not weep. But I was out of tears”, which displayed Elie’s inner emotions and meant that he didn’t have enough in him to feel sad because he went through so much during the concentration camps he felt emotionally tired to feel anything. The day after his father died he said, “Since my father’s death nothing mattered to me anymore,” meaning he had nothing to live for or no one to care for anymore. Even though he thought about being selfish and to no longer help his dad survive, he still loved his dad and wanted him to get through the holocaust together. But you could really see the emotion change when he said toward to end, “ From the depths of the mirror a corpse gazed back at me. The lookin in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left “, meaning he couldn’t see the same person after the holocaust and it presents an idea that it had “killed”