Transformation In Night By Elie Wiesel

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Transformation can be thought of as many things. It can be good to bad, bad to good, ill to healthy the list goes on and on, but if a person in Auschwitz were to transform it would be from good to bad. The ways they change is that they change mentally, physically and spiritually. There's many obstacles that the people of Auschwitz had to go through so they would definitely come out a new or different mad. The first way a person could transform is that they could change mentally. Many went into camp scared, This is because they did not know what was happening and they were getting split up from their families and were getting yelled at. Over time this eventually changed. How it changed was that people began not to care. It became neutral to them the yelling, the beating, the starvation, they were no longer scared any more. An example is in the book “Night”. When Ellie and his family first arrived at camp he was scared and he watched both his sister be put in a different line. Then soon after he was in camp with his father and started not to care anymore. For example he sometimes would still eat his soup even if it did not care. He also soon stopped complaining when they would go on marches because they went on them so often.(Wiesel 66). …show more content…

Many went into camp with high spirits. They believed in there god, and believed that it would make all the bad things end. They soon realized that praying would no longer help. Soon they no longer even ignollege the god above. The jewish holiday Yom Kippur is celebrated by praising god and worshipping him but many did not participate in the holiday. Even though it went against their religion they still refused to praise god. “I did not fast. First of all, to please my father who had forbidden me to do so. And then, there was no longer any reason for me to fast. I no longer accepted God’s silence.” (Wiesel 69). So simply many lost faith in god in