Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, shares the experience and personal experience from the actions that took place between 1941-1945. Throughout the text, Elie’s story of the holocaust is told. Elie’s story is shown through his spiritual and emotional transformation. During the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel changes from a spiritual, sensitive little boy to a spiritually dead, unemotional man.
In Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night, before everything happened Elie was a young and spiritual boy. Elie is spiritual feelings before the Nazi’s came can be seen when in his memoir Night it states, “One day I asked my father to find me a master to guide me in my studies of the cabbala”(1), this shows how Elie really wanted to study more and learn more about God. This shows …show more content…
When the Nazi’s arrived the Jews thought they were nice but then the ghettos came, which changed that. When Elie’s spiritual feelings starting to change can be seen when Elie states, “Night. No one prayed, so that the night would pass quickly. The states were only sparks of the fire which devoured us” (Weisel 18), this shows how the night was seen as an absence of God. As Elie started to embrace the feelings of the ghettos, he feels that by not praying, the night would go quicker. Elie was trying to get distant from God for a while because before this all happened Elie wanted to know more about God, but know Elie doesn’t want to pray. Similar, Elies emotional feelings start to numb him and show how he feels towards the situation at the time. Elie goes on to say that, “There was nothing else to do but to get into bed, into the beds of the absent ones; to gather one’s strength” (Weisel 18), showing that at the moment they couldn’t do anything, as if they were in trapped and couldn’t do anything except sleep. With the Jews having nothing or nowhere else to go they are forced to do nothing since Nazi soldiers are watching them. The only thing that they are able to do is to have no emotion towards the ones that were transported and just sleep in the beds of those who were deported. Therefore, Elie's spiritual and emotional state from when they are deported to the ghettos change is …show more content…
The holocaust has the same number of effects on survivors the same way it did towards Elie. The holocaust was able to do what no other things could do to a person: deprive them of their human
In Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night, before everything happened Elie was a young and spiritual boy. Elie is spiritual feelings before the Nazi’s came can be seen when in his memoir Night it states, “One day I asked my father to find me a master to guide me in my studies of the cabbala”(1), this shows how Elie really wanted to study more and learn more about God. This shows …show more content…
When the Nazi’s arrived the Jews thought they were nice but then the ghettos came, which changed that. When Elie’s spiritual feelings starting to change can be seen when Elie states, “Night. No one prayed, so that the night would pass quickly. The states were only sparks of the fire which devoured us” (Weisel 18), this shows how the night was seen as an absence of God. As Elie started to embrace the feelings of the ghettos, he feels that by not praying, the night would go quicker. Elie was trying to get distant from God for a while because before this all happened Elie wanted to know more about God, but know Elie doesn’t want to pray. Similar, Elies emotional feelings start to numb him and show how he feels towards the situation at the time. Elie goes on to say that, “There was nothing else to do but to get into bed, into the beds of the absent ones; to gather one’s strength” (Weisel 18), showing that at the moment they couldn’t do anything, as if they were in trapped and couldn’t do anything except sleep. With the Jews having nothing or nowhere else to go they are forced to do nothing since Nazi soldiers are watching them. The only thing that they are able to do is to have no emotion towards the ones that were transported and just sleep in the beds of those who were deported. Therefore, Elie's spiritual and emotional state from when they are deported to the ghettos change is …show more content…
The holocaust has the same number of effects on survivors the same way it did towards Elie. The holocaust was able to do what no other things could do to a person: deprive them of their human