Eliezer Character Analysis for the memoir Night by Eliezer Wiesel The Holocaust was a horrible event in which 6 million Jewish people and millions more were slaughtered at the hands of the Nazis and the war, and during those times, no family was safe. Elie was from one of those families. His personality soon transforms from an imaginative child, to a traumatized, cognizant shell, which he ended up as due to the psychotic episodes that were his time in the camps. Over the course of the book, Elie begins to lose his faith in a God he once followed very closely, due to what he experiences while in camps. In Elie Wiesel’s book Night, Eliezer’s personality shifts drastically, changing him from a bright young boy to a drained husk, as well as losing …show more content…
As the book progresses, Elie’s faith is lost in the face of the horrors he faces as he goes from camp to camp. He no longer mentions God in a positive light, as he feels that God has ignored the Jews, abandoned them, and left them to rot. After he explains the first reason as to why he did not fast, his second reason is: “And then, there was no longer any reason for me to fast. I no longer accept God's silence. As I swallowed my ration of soup, I turned that act into a symbol of rebellion, of protest against Him” (Wiesel 69). There is no longer any reason for Elie to fast, he did not wish to honor God. and to fast would mean to die. Elie no longer cares to worship or follow God’s teachings, but is starting to fight back against God, starting with the small action of consuming his rations of soup and bread during a time he should fast to show his faith. Due to the Holocaust, millions of lives were lost, all from countless backgrounds, all with countless stories that will now never be uttered. Though Elie lost his whole family, he still kept on, and his story was one of the few that could finally be told. These petrifying events morphed the faithful child we saw in Eliezer into a weak and desensitized