How Does Elie Wiesel Change Throughout The Book Night

Throughout the book Night by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel tells the readers of the pain and horror he experienced while imprisoned by Nazis during the holocaust. Wiesel talks about the concentration camps, and how some of the people were nice, and some were mean. He explains the challenges they overcame, and the horrors that they saw. Over the course of the novel, Elie goes through numerous changes including losing his mom and sister, when he no longer feared death, and he went from being religious to not even knowing if there is a god. Throughout the memoir, Elie changed a lot. One example is when he first entered the concentration camp he was very religious, but towards the end he didn’t even know if there was a god. As well as in the beginning

He went from loving himself and the world to saying “from the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me” (Wiesel 115). in the last line. Which shows that after all he went through he had seen nothing in himself anymore. All he saw was a dead corpse, a corpse that looked like all the bodies he saw in the camps. Lastly Elie becomes distant with his father. Elie didn’t want his father to die and did everything for him. In the beginning of the memoir he states “I had asked my father to sell everything, to liquidate everything, and to leave.” (Wiesel 9). Then again towards the end he took his fathers food, and laid above him while he died. So in the beginning he showed his love for his father, but then became very distant and not caring. In conclusion, Wiesel states the experiences and horrors during the holocaust, and how he changed throughout the years. He talked about how his religion changed, he went from very religious to not knowing there was a god. as well as his view on himself, he thought of himself as a normal person in the beginning, but in the end he was just a corpse to himself. In addition he also lost his relationship with his father, he loved him so dearly, but then had to distance himself from him which hurt. That just explains the ways that Elie changed in