Night by Elie Wiesel Night is a story about a boy named Elie Wiesel and his family being sent to a concentration camp because they are Jewish. The family was warned many times from people who had seen the pain and suffering at the concentration camps with their own eyes but didn't believe it. One day they learned that the Gestapo were coming to the Jewish neighborhood. When they came the people were split into two ghettos, a small and large one. The Wiesel family was put into the larger ghetto.
Indeed, it will leave its mark behind and has some sort of change. Elie, the protagonist in Night, faces changes during the course of the novel. It can be argued that the most significant alteration that Elie experienced happened during the concentration camp. Certainly, I believe the major change Eli had to face was the relationship with his father. Before they were sent to the concentration camp, Elie had little respect for his father and they both lived quite an independent life.
This links him to a world outside of the Holocaust. For awhile, keeping to his religious traditions helps him keep his sanity. Even though he tries very hard to keep faith he fails because the need to survive becomes more important.”As I swallowed my ration of soup, I turned that act into a symbol of rebellion, of protest against Him.”(Wiesel,173) Elie meant that he was rebelling against God because He was not doing anything about the Jews in the camps. He consumed the soup in hope of survival. Furthermore, the prisoners no longer acknowledge their dead while in the camps.
As Elie was becoming stronger his father Chlomo had a dramatically opposite effect and was slowly loosing faith. This was shown when Elie saw his father, a well-respected and stern man, crying after finally realizing his family’s fate. ‘My father was crying. It was the first time I had seen him cry. I had never thought it possible.’ At that point was when Chlomo and Elie’s relationship changed as Chlomo relies on Elie in order to get through the rough times they had ahead in the camps.
When the two had first arrived at Auschwitz, his father begins to cry. Elie had never seen his father cry before and Elie begins to feel the love his father has for him. Elie and his father quickly adapt to sharing a relationship based on love and emotion rather than respect in obedience in their stay at Auschwitz. Over the coarse of Elie’s stay at these brutal concentration camps, Elie’s interpretation of life has become dramatically altered. When his father had passed away, he had felt more rejoice
With a crippled hand, Johnny cannot find sufficient work and he allows himself to feel sorrowful. Almost giving up all his hope, Johnny almost commits a crime. Yet, with his new job with the Boston Observer, the Whig newspaper, and his friendship with Rab, the Lornes, and the leaders of the revolution, Johnny takes a more truthful path. Inspired by their generosity and dignity, Johnny finds himself changing from a selfish boy into a dedicated man. On a conscious level, he models himself after his new best friend, Rab, trying to copy Rab’s quiet, meek confidence and mild temperament.
Is Elie Wiesel’s book “Night” the Anti-Exodus? After nearly two years of misery, a young boy finally saw the first ray of hope on the horizon; the Americans had finally arrived, and the Nazis were gone. In his autobiography Night, Elie Wiesel shares his experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau, one of Hitler’s concentration camps. Wiesel was one of the minorities of Jews to survive the Holocaust during World War II. His family did not make it through with him, and this had lasting effects.
When Elie says, "I was thinking of my father. He must have suffered more than I did," it shows how he thinks about his father’s well-being even before his own. Although Elie helps his father, his strength is in himself. A Kapo told Elie, "Here there are no fathers, no brothers, no friends. Everyone lives and dies for himself alone.” Before the camps, Elie was religious and had a relationship with God.
They went to the same school, had the same classes, copied each other’s essay and liked the same girls. (Remarque 28-29) Kemmerich is injured in the war. Paul and his comrades decide to visit Kemmerich in the hospital and they are told Kemmerich lost his foot. They notice Kemmerich’s leg has been amputated. As Paul looks at Kemmerich he describes him as “ghastly, yellow and wan.” (Remarque 14) Kemmerich has the look of death.
After two incidents – one where he watched babies lowered into a furnace and the second, a boy dying slowly by the noose, he “no longer accepted God’s silence” and on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish when fasting is performed, he drank soup and ate bread instead. He saw the act as “a symbol of rebellion, of protest against Him.” Although he does not doubt God’s existence, Eliezer cannot unite the atrocities he has observed with his notion of God. He ultimately turns his back on God, a figure to which Jews have remained true and faithful for hundreds of years. Similarly, Liesel in ‘The Book Thief’ also becomes disloyal to the leader who all Germans are expected to obey and look up to. In the beginning, she admires Hitler’s greatness and dreams of him.