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Quotes From Night By Elie Wiesel

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Throughout the book night, we meet a young boy named Eli. Eli is a trustworthy, natural boy who loves to learn about his life. Eli is also jewish and loves to learn about his jewish heritage and Judaism in general. “Never shall i forget the moments that murdered my god” pg 34, a quote that he said which could mean the fall of one belief and the rise of something else. Eli goes through a difficult time during this passage “my father had just been struck, in front of me” pg 39. In this quote it shows that he has a loss of empathy and “my soul has been devoured” pg 37, these quotes can show that it's getting harder to keep trying and he's hurting. As time goes on while reading the book he has a bunch of changes in his life, including spiritual …show more content…

Not only does spiritual changes mean soul and environment changes but also mental changes. He gets hurt a lot, not just physically. “I had watched and kept silent” pg 39. He's scared, he just watched his own father get stuck and he didnt do anything about it. That hurt more mentally than physically. Eli has had many life changing experiences and has given up many times. “Our senses were numbed” pg 36, he doesn't feel anything and feels like it's getting too much and too hard to handle. This is before he saw his father get struck, so imagine how much worse it is after it happens. “Had I changed that much? So fast? Remorse began to gnaw at me” pg 39, overthinking. He’s overthinking a lot, he thinks it's his fault, he feels guilty and feels like he did something wrong. Not only does he go through spiritual changes but also physical ones. You can see all the physical changes towards the end of the book. “From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed has never left me” pg 115, he's losing his childhood years and you can see that through his eyes and face and how it changes throughout time. On page 67 he talks about how he refuses to be blessed and to bless, “Who choose us among all the nations to be tortured day and night”. His mind changes a lot about having trust in God and in other people as well. In the book he has a speech that shows him changing his trust in people

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This is important to the book as a whole because it connects to the theme of optimism. The change is apparent when life isn’t going in Eli’s favor, and the life of his father is taken away from him. Deep inside he feels a sign of relief but guilt at the same time. Eli spends a lot of time praying showing that he is religious.

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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.

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Experiences that affect people emotionally will often alter their mindsets, causing them to change their beliefs. When Elie’s father first become sick, Elie is forced to take on a lot of responsibility to care for him. As the days pass, Elie begins to lose hope that his father will ever get better, as his father becomes bedridden and could barely speak. This takes changes Elie emotionally, changing his perspective regarding the one person he cares for the most. When Elie can not find his father while they are running with the mob, he begins to consider the possible outcomes of the situation, wickedly thinking,“if only [he] [is] relieved of this responsibility, [he] could use all [his] strength to fight for [his] own survival, to take care only of [himself]…”

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