How Does Elie Wiesel Change Throughout Night

Eleven million people, six million of them are Jews, tragically die in the Holocaust. Each and every one of them have a different story to tell about their experience. They all endure many different changes and different struggles that the world should not forget. Elie Wiesel is one of the few survivors who gets to tell his story for the whole world to hear. As told in his memoir Night, author Elie Wiesel undergoes drastic physical, emotional, and spiritual changes throughout his ordeal. First, Elie goes through many different physical changes, like when he first gets to the concentration camp and gets branded with a tattoo on his arm. Elie declares, “The three ‘veteran’ prisoners, needles in hand, tattooed numbers on our left arms. I became

One of these are how Elie begins too feel suicidal. It doesn't take very long in the concentration camp for Elie to not want to live. While all prisoners are running outside in the cold wind, the SS suddenly start shooting at them. When Elie watches all of these people around him die he starts to think about death. Elie confesses, “The idea of dying, of ceasing to be, began to fascinate me. To no longer exit. To no longer feel the excruciating pain in my food. To no longer feel anything, neither fatigue, nor cold, nothing. To break rank, to let myself slide to the side of the road”(86). This is the first point where Elie starts to wonder if it would be better if he dies. He wonders if he dies will all his pain go away. He asks himself if he dies will he stop suffering in the life no one should ever have to live. Elie also becomes desensitized too torture after a while because of how he is treated in the camp. Prisoners from the concentration camp are walking to, what Elie doesn't know, are the gas chambers. While they are walking they pass the crematorium. Elie states, “Very close to us stood the tall chimney of the crematorium’s furnace. It no longer impressed us. It barely drew our attention.”(104). In the beginning of the book whenever the prisoners passed the crematorium they were scared of it. However, this time they didnt feel anything because of how at this point they don't really feel anything. Elie

He goes through losing his faith in steps. The first step is him starting to question God. Elie has a brush with death and is returning from the crematorium and while he tries to rest he is listening to the science and seeing the smoke from the crematorium. Elie declares, “Never shall I forget that consumed my faith forever….Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and turned my dreams to ashes''(34). Elie cannot fathom why God would ever put him and his fellow Jews into this horrific situation. He starts to ask if God is actually real and if he should keep worshiping God. His second step is when he begins to lose his faith. Elies and his father are going to the crematorium and Elies dad can't bear to see his child burn to death so Elie's father starts to pray. Elie asks, “For the first time I felt anger rise inside me. Why should I sanctify his name? The Almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent. What was there to thank Him for''(33). Since Elie is going through this traumatic situation and has loved and worshiped God throughout his whole life he is mad at God for doing nothing when he and his father are being tortured. Elies last step is when he starts rebelling against God. Elie is tired and fed up with all he has been taught and decides to disobey the Judaism rules. Elie asks, “Blessed be God’s name? Why would I bless Him? Every fiber in me