Character Analysis Of Night In Night By Elie Wiesel

While Elie was in the concentration camp he changed the way he acted. This new behavior led him to develop new character traits. While Ellie was in the concentration camp he became angry at many things. For example “I would have dug my nails into the criminals flesh” (Wisel 39). Elie shows extreme anger when the Nazi officials are beating Elie’s father. Elie was angry because the Nazi soldiers were not treating them nicely and keeping them in poor conditions. Elie was usually not a person to display anger, but he shows this when his family members are being hurt. Elie wants to stand up for what is right and for his family members. Despite his studying, Elie wavered in his belief in Kabbalah while he was at the camp. Elie was a religious boy before he went to Auschwitz, but while in the camp, he became angry at God. In the book Elie says, “‘Where are You, my God?’” (66). Elie is wondering why God is not helping the Jews. Elie had complete faith in his religion until he experienced and witnessed such horrible suffering. He had been taught that God will punish evil and save the righteous. However, when Elie saw that God was not helping the Jews situation,

Elie has lots of character traits that helped him get through Auschwitz, such as resourceful, traitor, and determined. In Night, Elie states “I went back a week later. With the same excuse: I still was not feeling better” (52). Elie came up with excuses to get out of getting his gold crown out. He got resourceful and came up with the idea to keep making an excuse that he was not feeling well, until they got a new doctor and he got to keep his gold crown. He used what he already had to get more out of people later and use his tooth as an advantage. Not only was he resourceful but he was also a traitor. Elie just let his father die and his father was still breathing yet he didn’t move.“My father groaned once more, I heard: ‘Eliezer…’ I could see that he was still breathing- in gaps. I didn’t move” (Wisel 111). He just let his father died and didn’t even try to help him and he died and his last words were “Eliezer…”, but he is thinking for his own future and if he will live or not. He betrayed and was a traitor to his father and didn’t even say goodbye. He was also very determined on living as said by Elie in the expert from his book, “‘Listen to me, kid. Don’t forget you are in a

Before Elie went to Auschwitz, he exhibited many positive character traits. (Such as Compassion, Depressed, and Friendly. An example of compassion that Elie showed before was on page 5 that said, “And Moishe the Beadle, the poorest of the poor of Sighet, spoke to me for hours on end about the Kabbalah’s revelations and its mysteries. Thus began my initiation. Together we would read, over and over against, the same page of the Zohar. Not to learn it by heart but to discover within the very essence of divinity”(Wiesel). How he shows compassion is, Elie treats a man of lower social status with kindness, and the man repays him with studies of the Zohar. So a random act of kindness, could pay off someday, you never know. The next example of how Elie showed traits before Auschwitz was depression on page 10, “The Bible commands us to rejoice during the eight days of Passover, but our hearts were not in it. We wished the holiday would end so as not to have to pretend”(Wiesel 10). Elie was so depressed and scared, that

As humas we are constantly changing and adaping to fit our envionment. Humans also can have mood changes due to age, rough times or any other driving force. In the book “Night” Elie goes throug many changes because of the poor conditions in Auschuwiz. Elie had to change his ways in order to survive and keep his loved ones by his side. Over the course of the book, Elie changed the way he acted towards people, loved ones, and things he knew to be true.

The Holocaust was a time of endless suffering, death, and despair. Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel, recalls his own journey during the most dreadful and devastating time of the century. Through this massive tragedy, Elie learns that humanity isn’t as beautiful as it seems. In his tragic memoir, Night, author Elie Wiesel demonstrates that no matter how hard we work for something it sometimes doesn’t pay off.

Why did Elie change? He experienced terrible things. He saw people being burned, shot, tortured, gassed, and much more. As the book started, he was an innocent boy. He wanted to study more into his religion. He was a strong believer in the jewish religion. Why did that change throughout the book? While Elie was in Auschwitz, all of the terrible things he saw made him believe that god was not there for him. He even started to think, what if there was no god at all? If god were real, why would he just sit and watch this awful event happen?

The concentration camp made Elie have to readjust to all of the transformations for his own survival. His first priority was for him to make it through the selection. He wanted his father to be with him, but at the same time he didn’t because he didn’t want to see his dad suffer or his dad to see him suffer. When His dad died and he said Elie’s name as his last word, Elie did not go to find him. He knew there was nothing he could do so he payed no attention to him. He thought it was a refreshment that he did not have to endure the pain of witnessing his father

“An estimated 1/3 of all Jewish people alive at that time were murdered in the Holocaust” (Lehnardt 11). Many people died and struggled to live in a terrible way during the Holocaust and Elie Wiesel was one of them. Elie, the author of the book Night, wrote about his and his family’s life during the Holocaust and the struggles of everyone's lives. Throughout the book, Elie Wiesel states the idea many times that dehumanization is an awful thing and can take over any person, but pushing through it shows strength.

During Eliezer’s suffering, he announced “How good it would be to die right here”(76). Obviously, during the holocaust people suffered dearly, which during the time made Elie say that. In the memoir Night, by Elie Wiesel two things people had faced were emancipated faith and hope, and weaker relationship/ survival instinct.

When Elie first arrives at Auschwitz, his main concern is staying with his father and making sure his father stays safe. The longer they are held prisoners, the more resentful Elie is becoming to his father. He feels like his father is getting weaker, therefore bringing the chances for them to be called out even greater. When his father lays dying, Elie is struggling with the fact that he feels almost relief. He thinks that he will

Earlier in Elie’s time in the concentration camps, he fought as hard as he could to keep him and his father alive and healthy. But after Elie’s father’s death, his will to stay alive and keep on fighting is questioned. As Elie talks about his remaining time in Auschwitz he says, “I shall not describe my life during that period. It no longer mattered. Since my father’s death, nothing mattered to me anymore” (Wiesel 113).

Eliezer and his father were on the same team when they were in the concentration camp, constantly looking out for each other. Eliezer cared deeply for his father and strived to sustain his life. However, after a certain point during his stay in the camp, he began to feel burdened by his father. Eliezer fed him and nurtured him, yet he realized he had been doing so because it was his duty as a son; he had not been doing it all out of love for his father. In one instance, Eliezer’s father was suffering from dysentery and hungry, deprived of food because he “would die soon, and that it would be a waste of food” (107), according to camp officials. So, Eliezer gave his soup to his father. But his thoughts were not as benign: “I gave him what was

First and foremost, family is important when things get rough. In the beginning of the book the Nazis were rounding up Jews in the Ghettos. The families in the Ghettos did their best to stick together but some families were broken apart. When Elie and his father get to the concentration camp they do their best to stay together. Elie says he’s 18 and his dad says that he is 40. It keeps them alive and together. Elie does everything he can to keep his dad going. He makes sure he keeps walking and that he stays awake. He takes beatings for his dad, and he even tried to keep him alive when

Before Elie went to the concentration camp, Auschwitz, he had many character traits such as innocents , fearful, and unknowing. Elie wrote in the book ¨Night¨ on page (xix), ¨I shall never forget that night the first night at camp...¨ Elie was very afraid as soon as he got to the camp. He didn't know what was in store for him and didn't understand what was going on. His innocents showed threw making it easy to see he didn't know

The advance of Hitler and his soldiers were daunting. Although, the German citizens had nothing to fear and went on with their daily routines and lived life as nothing had happened. Fortunately, the Germans were not disrupted nearly as much as the unfortunate Jewish population facing mass genocides. Wrenched out of their homes, forced into the ghettos, and losing all of their civil rights, the Jews were punished and they were no longer being treated like citizens or people by the Nazis. As the Jews were decried, the majority of German citizens did not lend a helping hand. The German townspeople in the novel Night, by Elie Wiesel, remained satisfied, despite the detention of the Jews because they neglected the appalling actions against the Jews,