Change In Night By Elie Wiesel

Change is inevitable, just as life experiences are uncontrollable. The person you become to be depends on parents, environment, and values. Knowing yourself is essential, but change is inevitable. Night by Elie Wiesel is a historical personal narrative that brings the reader through Elie own personal experiences of Holocaust in 1933. Before Eliezer was a quiet, observant and respectful young boy, but this had all changed once him and his family were forced into the concentration camps. Throughout the novel, he expresses his unforgettable experience about what he saw and how that had impacted him. During his time in the concentration camps, he became the shell of his old self. Due to the abhorrent experience of the concentration camps Eliezer …show more content…
There was word that the Germans were advancing closer and closer to their town, but few believed that they would be captured themselves. Moshe the Beadle, his mentor, was captured but mistaken for dead. When he returned to the synagogue to tell the story of the Malka, everyone doubted him besides Eliezer.“ Eliezer had changed. There was no longer any joy in his eyes. He no longer sang. He no longer talked to me of God or the cabbala, but only what he had seen.” (pg. 4) his virtues had changed, he was no longer interested in his Torah studies, but rather escaping his hometown. From what he heard of Moshe’s story of people heartlessly killed and babies thrown up into the air and used as targets this was the first instance the Holocaust was going to change him. Eliezer never imaged that in the 21st century such horrific events could ever take place. He himself, at one point did not want to believe that anyone would allow Hitler to come and rip families apart, but they Nazis did come. “Before three days had passed, German army cars had appeared on our streets”(ADD PG NUMBER) If they had just listened to Moshe the Beadle, his town could have been saved. Eliezer here because he was even starting to doubt himself that he had ever been put through that experience “I looked at our house, where I had spent so many years in my search for God; in fasting in order to to hasten the coming of the Messiah; in imagining what my life would be like. Yet I felt little sorrow. I thought of nothing.” (pg 16) Loss of faith when the German soldiers had kicked them out of their home and they were forced to evacuate from their towns. This would be the beginning of the long journeys of coming and going to three concentration