How Wiesel Changed
The holocaust: In my essay I will recount the events that happened to Elie Wiesel, the survivor of Buna, Buchenwald, and the infamous Auschwitz. Imagine being shamed for your beliefs and forced to renounce your God and still, even after all this, taken to a foreign place where you are meant to die. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel he tells his story of how the holocaust changed him. One of the ways Elie changes is how he went from a “deeply observant” (3), “determined” (4) and deeply cared for his family, and was overall a very loving person. But by the ends of the book he becomes very selfish. One way is when his father dies, he couldn't even cry, because all he could think of was the food he could have gotten from his father (112). He immediately regretted thinking that, but the guilt of even considering it is what haunted him. Throughout the book, until he is liberated, he still only thinks of eating. He does not think of his mother, father, or siblings (113). Throughout all of this though he still does things that remind him that he is still who he was in the beginning. Speaking of his father another way Elie changed was with his relationship with him. He wasn't close with his father, and didn't share their feeling with one another. Even though they were …show more content…
When he was home he would pray and often begin crying (4). He said that “he felt a need to cry” (4), but when the holocaust happened he soon began to question his faith. Like when he arrived at his first concentration camp he said that he would “never shall I forget those moments that murdered my god” (34). After this he went back and forth from praying to God, to wanting to rebel with every fiber of his being (67). By the time he was liberated we are left unsure on what his stance with God is. But I think that is the point, because I don't even think that after all this, Elie knew where he stood
The holocaust: In my essay I will recount the events that happened to Elie Wiesel, the survivor of Buna, Buchenwald, and the infamous Auschwitz. Imagine being shamed for your beliefs and forced to renounce your God and still, even after all this, taken to a foreign place where you are meant to die. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel he tells his story of how the holocaust changed him. One of the ways Elie changes is how he went from a “deeply observant” (3), “determined” (4) and deeply cared for his family, and was overall a very loving person. But by the ends of the book he becomes very selfish. One way is when his father dies, he couldn't even cry, because all he could think of was the food he could have gotten from his father (112). He immediately regretted thinking that, but the guilt of even considering it is what haunted him. Throughout the book, until he is liberated, he still only thinks of eating. He does not think of his mother, father, or siblings (113). Throughout all of this though he still does things that remind him that he is still who he was in the beginning. Speaking of his father another way Elie changed was with his relationship with him. He wasn't close with his father, and didn't share their feeling with one another. Even though they were …show more content…
When he was home he would pray and often begin crying (4). He said that “he felt a need to cry” (4), but when the holocaust happened he soon began to question his faith. Like when he arrived at his first concentration camp he said that he would “never shall I forget those moments that murdered my god” (34). After this he went back and forth from praying to God, to wanting to rebel with every fiber of his being (67). By the time he was liberated we are left unsure on what his stance with God is. But I think that is the point, because I don't even think that after all this, Elie knew where he stood