Elie has changed dramatically in many ways over the course of time he has been in the concentration camps. As the holocausts go on Elie hope that he and his family make it through the horrors. Elie has seen the starting and ending of life during his time in the holocausts. Elie’s family is slowly lost one by one at the hands of the nazis. Elie has seen things a 14 year should never bear eyes on. The concentration camps changed Elie emotionally, physically, and spiritually. Concentration camps changed Elie emotionally. The males and females are separated, mom and sister are leaving. Elie said “I saw them disappear into the distance; my mother stroking sisters fair hair” (27). Elie is feeling left aside from his mother and sister. Therefore this changes Elie from ok to sad with the loss of his mother and sister. People are being through alive into the fir filled ditches. As Elie saw the lorries drive up to the fire ditch “delivered its load of children. Babies!” (30). Elie is now terrified from the seen he just …show more content…
Elie is going to be whipped for messing with someone else's affairs. Elie said “ I was aware of nothing but the strokes of the whip” (54). Elie has changed because he’s never been whipped for something he did wrong/scars. This is physical to the next level. All the jews in the camp have to leave and go to another. Elie is being physically tested “Don’t think. Don’t stop. Run.”. Elie is forced to push the limit on his endurance or he will be shot/over worked. Pushing the physical support Elie has to the breaking point. Elie is in a hospital after food poisoning and gets to see himself in a mirror. As Elie was getting closer to the mirror he didn’t know what to expect, “A corpse gazed back at me” (109). Elie went from a innocent 13 year old to looking like a corpse in three years. In this time Elie changed a lot with work and looks. In conclusion Elie went through a lot of physical changes like work and
All of that was about to change. Elie gets sent to the German concentration camp Auschwitz following the timeline of World War II. He would not be freed from these camps for another 11 months. During this time Elie would bare witness to some of the most gruesome and grotesque things to ever occur on earth. “Babies.
The concentration camps took all of this away from him. The will to survive overshadowed everything else, pitting man against man, and father against son. Everyday was a fight for survival, and the only person Elie could rely on was himself.
When people think about the life of living in a concentration camp, they think about how unbearable and inhumane the way people were treated and how they had to live in order to survive. Elie Wiesel will help you better understand the way they lived and what they went through in their everyday life and what it felt like to finally be free. He tells us a story about the lifestyle in living in a concentration camp, how he and his father and many others try to survive, and how the people who survived were finally able the live free again and he tries to get people to understand everything that happened and how everyone who was brought the the camps understood what had happened. In the beginning of the book Night by Elie Wiesel everybody was being
Over the course of the book, Elie changes from a happy boy to being depressed. This is important to the book as a whole because it connects to the internal conflict. The change is apparent when he gets moved to a concentration camp, when he’s separated from his family, and when his father dies. “We sensed that
This event changed the people that survived. Elie suffered a lot of trauma due to the holocaust. Elie changed a lot over the period of the holocaust, but most significantly he changed physically, emotionally, and mentally. The easiest way for a person to change is for them to change their appearance or their physical features.
Eliezar has gone through various changes throughout the book. These include his mental state, physical appearance, relationships, and his faith. In the beginning of the book we are introduced to a twelve-year old boy named Elie Wiesel. Before Eliezer was left scarred from the horrors of the concentration camps during the Holocaust, he was an innocent kid. The ending of the book replaces this kid with a matured man, described as a ‘corpse’ when seen in the mirror.
Learning to adapt is helping millions of people throughout history. In periods of history, the people that do not adapt die. Night is written by Elie Wiesel and is about Jewish people going through the Holocaust. Particularly, the book focuses on Elie Wiesel. The camps that the Jewish go to are not meant for them to come out alive.
There was no more crying. Anger may still be an emotion Elie had. Disgust did not cross his mind anymore. Happiness was not an emotion spared. Elie might have still felt fear although it did not seem to be expressed.
Elie himself begins to lose his humanity and his faith in God and in the
In this book Elie speaks of his hardships and how he survived the concentration camps. Elie quickly changed into a sorrowful person, but despite that he was determined to stay alive no matter the cost. For instance, during the death
In the beginning of Elie’s experience, he gets the choice to abandon the ghetto and go with the family’s former maid to a safe shelter. He chose to stay because Elie would have been separated from his parents and little sister. This choice had a negative impact, but also a positive one. The negative side is that Elie’s family stayed in the ghettos, and then the concentration camps. At the time, no one could believe the rumors about the Nazis.
World War II had been raging for two years and was bout to enter Sighet. The Germans attempted to commit genocide on the 'lesser ' races, particularly Jews. Through the brutality witnessed, acts of selfishness, the death of his father, and the loss of his faith, Elie changed. Elie became a young man with a strong sense of mortality through it all. By the end of the war, Elie claimed to see himself as "A corpse contemplating me."
Elie went through extreme adversity within the camps of Auschwitz yet still managed to persevere. The experiences Elie went through in camp Auschwitz changed him as an individual spiritually; a boy who was once devoted to God ceased to believe in him. Elie also lost his sense of self identity, as his personality completely changes. During his internment at Auschwitz and Buchenwald Elie completely loses his innocence. As a result of the adversity Elie faces throughout his time at the Auschwitz camp, his identity is tarnished and eventually reformed.
The cruelty of the German officers at the concentration camps change Elie’s personality throughout the novel. At the beginning of the novel, Elie is deeply religious and spends most of his time studying Judaism. However, by the end of the novel, Elie believes that God has been unjust to him and all the other Jews, and has lost most of his faith. The cruelty of the German officers also changed the other Jews as well. The events of the Holocaust forces the prisoners to fend for themselves, and not help others.
Elie was held captive in concentration camps from 1944-1945. During his time in the concentration camps, he became grateful for what he had, overcame countless obstacles, and more importantly kept fighting until he was free. [The Holocaust is very important to learn about because it can teach you some important life lessons.] You should always be grateful for what you have, no matter what the circumstances are. This lesson can be learned when Elie says, “After my father’s death, nothing could touch me any more”(109).