In these stories it takes a lot to survive for them. They have to make a lot of changes. Elie changes by slowly losing his humanity. The Nazis made him strip his clothing and shave his head. That’s what started dehumanizing him.
To tell the truth, Elie’s beliefs before the Holocaust is very spiritual, godly and orthodox. He used to spend most of his time at the synagogue temple worshiping his God. Since he always cried while praying a man named Masha the Beadle asked him why he prayed and Elie’s thought it was a very strange question but he still answered him with a confused face on his look as if he had known idea what he was saying. Elie’s said why he lives and why does he breath he said again he doesn’t know.” I succeeded on my own finding a master for himself in the person of Mash the Beadle’’.
As a result of a constant exposure to brutality, Elie nearly forgets the existence of a standard of humanity, since even the smallest acts of kindness are”judged too humane” (44). As Elie’s situation disintegrates from the stable Sighet to the Nazi concentration camp, he develops
The cruelty of the German officers at the concentration camps change Elie’s personality throughout the novel. At the beginning of the novel, Elie is deeply religious and spends most of his time studying Judaism. However, by the end of the novel, Elie believes that God has been unjust to him and all the other Jews, and has lost most of his faith. The cruelty of the German officers also changed the other Jews as well. The events of the Holocaust forces the prisoners to fend for themselves, and not help others.
Elie was naive and gullible. He believed nothing was wrong, when the Holocaust first began. Maybe he didn’t believe everything was wrong because he wanted to believe that everything will be okay. After Moishe the Beadle came back, he warned everyone: told them that the soldiers were coming. No one believed him, they thought that he wanted
The Nazis may not have killed Elie but they killed all of his family and they killed his former self and changed him so much in such a small amount of
Imagine being a young 15 year old boy barely fed, dehydrated and at a camp that was created for the purpose of killing thousands of people and immediately once you arrive losing your mother and sister. Elie shows extreme mental strength during this event, rather than trying to stop it from happening
Elie’s experience in Nazi’s camps transformed him totally. Elie had lost a great deal through the war and this changed him dramatically. The wickedness and brutality he witnessed had depressing psychological effect on him that haunted him throughout his life. From being a happy child he had become a sullen young man. The most important change in Elie was the value system that he developed through the
and it changed him. In the book, Night, the main theme, is religion and belief which is shown when Elie talks about the his strong religion and belief as a boy, his disconnection from religion, and the inhumane actions the Nazi 's caused. Having such a strong belief in something and then dramatically changing how you think, is a very significant event. During this time, many people questioned where God truly was. Even Elie was questioning where God was.
Because He caused thousands of children to burn in His mass graves” (Wiesel 67). He goes against his faith in times of disparity, as he watches disaster strike all around him. As Elie went through these events, his faith was degraded and
I realized that his statement about believing Hitler was intended to be ironic, since he certainly does not truly trust Hitler in any way, but it also carries truth. I saw this man as a variation on the archetypal sage, offering wisdom to a younger person in a time of strife. Were I in Elie’s situation, I think I would have found the man’s advice almost comforting. In such an unpredictable world, it could be reassuring to remember that one can rely on the evils of man. These events leave no doubt to Elie’s mental evolution.
Throughout the book, Elie is met with many things. Nazi’s physical and psychological abuse that was given to the prisoners, the Jews acquired animalistic behaviors and . The act of dehumanizing the prisoners is shown through physical and psychological abuse. For example, when Elie’s father asks a gypsy officer a question, he gets back a violent response.
The Nazis showed brutality towards the Jews including Elie and his father acting as if they were subhuman. This was shown in the book when Elie said "...climb into the cars, eighty persons in each one." (22). This clearly shows how the Nazis did not care about the Jews a single bit as they overloaded them into cattle cars that were not meant for humans. “To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.”
Elie is going through many things psychologically; he constantly regrets having not listened to Moishe because as said before they would have had a chance to escape. Also the fact that he lost faith in god was something he grieved about. Throughout the entire book Elie was honest; he didn’t hold back and wrote everything to the best of his ability leaving nothing out. A perfect example about being honest was how Elie talked about having sex with the polish girl (scene wasn’t explicit at all) he left no details out from the entire story and mentioned everything. In the book he says he didn’t defend his father while beaten to death, went to his bunk to let his father die.
His faith is also shaken by the attitudes and selfishness he sees among the prisoners. If the prisoners acted differently, he would then probably be able to believe that humankind is basically good. To Elie, The Holocaust exposes the worst qualities in everyone. Everybody in the story, besides Elie and his father, show selfishness, wickedness and brutishness, not only the Nazis, but also the
