Night Character Analysis Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel's Character Analysis In the novel Night, Elie Wiesel goes to a concentration camp with his father and endure many hardships of being in the midst of World War II and being a Jew. Elie goes from a spiritual emotional young man to a closed off unempathetic atheist man. In the beginning of the memoir Elie thinks, believes, and feels entirely differently from the Elie we see in chapter 5. In the beginning of the memoir, what Elie thinks is entirely different from the Elie in chapter 5. The Elie we experience in chapter 1 is a very spiritual and religious young man, “During the day i studied the Talmud” (1). Everyone says that he is too young to be studying the Talmud and the Cabbala, yet Elie is so devoted to his faith he wants to know as much as he can, as soon as he can. Due to the the trauma …show more content…
“Never shall i forget those flames which consumed my faith forever” (32). Of course this statement is just a foreshadow of his thoughts of his religion in the future when he is writing the memoir. Yet this statement is more powerful in the beginning opposed to the end because it is so sudden. We go from seeing him as a lively religious young boy to a dark depressed atheist young man, which in its own a huge transition. There are many other ways we see Elie transition such as what he believes.The author of the memoir Night, recalls his experiences in the holocaust, as well show us the changes in his character during that time. This includes the dramatic change in what he believes. When Elie first arrives at auschwitz he starts to question his belief in his god. “I did not deny God’s existence but i doubted his absolute justice” (42). This thought process the he is going through at this moment is completly understandable because he had lived such a sheltered religious life he could never imagine that HIS GOD would ever allow that to happen to his