Night Elie Wiesel Change

Deaths in the Holocaust was something that occurred on a daily basis, that’s a well known fact, but there were also many survivors when the camp was seized. Although, Elie Wiesel’s stunning and well-written novel, “Night”, is one that helped him win the Nobel Peace Prize. The memoir is about the year Elie spent in Auschwitz with his father. There are tales of gruesome incidents that took place in the camp, from strenuous work conditions to just the pure insanity of the officers of the camp. In the novel by Elie Wiesel, the events in the book affect Elie because his health diminished, he lost hold of his identity, and he lost his humanity. The most noticeable way that the main character changed was physically and strength wise. Describing what …show more content…
A big part of this was that he slowly and very cautiously pulled out of Judaism, his religion. One of the most noticed pieces of evidence is when he did not fast on the eve of Rosh Hashanah(the Jewish New Year ), “I turned that act[not fasting] into a symbol of rebellion, a protest against Him”(Page 69). This represents the first major act of rebellion against Him, a sign that he has begun to give up faith. Even later in the text, he talks about how after eating his first bite of bread, he feels a great void opening inside him. The void used to be his dedication to his religion, and by it opening, it meant that his religious beliefs were slowly seeping out of him. Another way he lost his identity was when he first entered the camp and the SS officers stripped his name off of him “I became A-7713. From Then on, I had no other name”(Page 42). This was the beginning of the long process of identity loss, and although his dad continued to call him Eliezer, he still got used to being called “A-7713” which is very …show more content…
An example of this is when Elie’s father was incredibly sick and Elie thought to himself “You could have two rations of bread...two rations of soup...”(Page 111). This is a very dramatic and shocking moment in the story. In the beginning, Elie would have given everything for his father, but now in the end he thought about actually taking something from him. Another time is when his father had suddenly passed Elie admitted that if he had searched “the deep recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like: Free at last”(Page 112). This was too a very shocking moment in the story for most readers. This proves that deep inside Elie’s consciousness, he thought that taking care of him was a burden, and had thought that he was finally free. He had lost a part of his own love for everything in that one, 365 day long period of