The Changes In Night Elie Wiesel

1l million people die in the holocaust, and 6 million are jews. People are stuffed into gas chambers where they are suffocated by the toxic gas consuming them. People are shot by Nazis for not running fast enough, or starved to death because they get little food. Elie Wiesel witnesses these atrocities and is forever changed from the innocent boy he once was. The traumatic experiences Elie undergoes leads him to transform physically,emotionally,and spiritually. The holocaust alters Elie’s physical appearance and health. The SS officers punish anyone who do anything slightly wrong. Sometimes beating people as a sick way to vent their anger. Elie is a victim to this multiple times. “He threw himself on me like a wild beast, beating me in the …show more content…
Elie was once an innocent boy from the small town of Sighet. His world revolved around his family, his studies and god. This Elie is now gone. The old Ellie would fight back when someone hurts his father. “Then, as if waking from a deep sleep, he slapped my father with such force that he fell down and crawled back to his place on all fours. I stood petrified. What had happened to me? My father had just been struck in front of me, and I had not even blinked”(39). Elie changes emotionally because if in any other situation, and not so changed by the death around him, he would do something in response to the person who hit his father. The American planes drop a bomb in the middle of the concentration camp. A bomb could land where he is right now and he would die, though he does not care about that. “But we no longer feared death, in any event not this particular death.” The old Elie’s emotion of fear would have been scared of death. However, now he changes and isn’t afraid of the bombs. He only thinks that they bring him joy because they give him and the other inmates a feeling of revenge. The relationship Elie has with his father helps him survive. The only reason Elie lives sometimes is because he knows that if he dies, then his father will as well. So when Elie’s father does die nothing matters to him any more. His mother and sisters are most likely dead, and now so is his father. All he cares about is his next meal.“I shall not describe my life during that period. It no longer mattered. Since my father’s death, nothing mattered to me anymore … I spent my days in total idleness. With only one desire: to eat. I no longer thought of my father, or my