Tone Of Night By Elie Wiesel

However as time progresses, Elie’s father’s health rapidly deteriorates due to dysentery and the harsh conditions. Though Elie struggles, trying hard to keep his

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

Elie was a normal teenage boy before the holocaust. He was well fed and got plenty of sleep and had nice things. Throughout the holocaust

In the text Night by Elie Wiesel, Eliezer suffered a full dreadful year in a concentration camp. This allows for lots of changes to him, and his thoughts. Throughout this novel Elie experienced a lot of significant alterations. A couple of main changes include his loss of religion, his reactions to traumatic situations, and his feelings towards his father. Although there are many shifts in Wiesel throughout his time in the concentration camp system, there are three notable quotes where change is present.

The book shows his mental change in how he had first desired to care about every person he met and tried to help everyone he could. Elie questioned his faith with his God and started to even wonder if there was one watching over him and his people, he struggled with this even before the camps. During his time at the camps, Elie went through experiencing many public hangings, but one primary struck him emotionally and damaged him mentally. This was a public hanging of children. The children were described to be

Everyone under the Nazi’s rule in the concentration camp struggled; the labor they were forced to do, lack of food and mistreatment was irrational. In the beginning, Elie and the Jews were forced out of their homes and were stripped of everything they once knew. In the end, Elie ended up alone being that his father died at the last camp only days before the American SS came on April tenth and freed the remaining Jews (Inconvenienthistory.com). After he was freed with the others he looked at his reflection for the first time since the ghetto and knew that those years in the

In the book Night, we the readers witness the hardships and struggles in Elie’s life during the traumatic holocaust. The events that take place in this story are unbearable and are thought to be demented in modern times. In the beginning Elie is shown as a normal teenage Jewish boy, but the events are so drastic that we the readers forget how he was like in the beginning. Changes were made to Elie during the book, whether they were minor or major. The changes generated from himself, the journey, and other people.

The Holocaust, which began in 1933 was directed by Adolf Hitler. During the Holocaust, the Jewish people had to live in prison camps called “concentration camps” where they were forced to do physical labor. In the realistic-fiction novel Night by Elie Wiesel, the narrator describes what life was like during the Holocaust. The historical period did influence the text because the book describes the lifestyle of the Holocaust, and the outcome.

In Night, by Elie Wiesel, he changes from being confused and unaware, to weak mentally and physically, which conveys the message that trauma affects a person in more ways than one and motivates them to speak up for others experiencing similar events. Early on in the book, Elie is confused and unaware of what the future hold for him and the other Jews. When listening to the radio, he and the other Jews remain calm despite the message that the fascists are coming. He says, "we still were not worried. Of course we had heard of the Fascists, but it was all in abstract.

Elie, the protagonist in Night is very religious. His relationship with God is very loyal. He spends most of his time in Synagogue weeping over the destruction of the Temple. All of his attention is focused on religion. Wiesel is a devoted Jew, his whole life is focused on his religion and nothing else.

In addition to the loss of his innocence, Elie also stopped looking at life optimistically. Before the concentration camps, Elie had a naive attitude towards life that shielded him from the harsh reality of the situation. Even when he was first taken prisoner, he had hope that everything would get better soon. However, slowly the horrible conditions chipped away at his

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

He showed the readers a personal view of the Nazi's treatment to the prisoners. The hell Elie went through in the camps is something that he will never forget. In contrast the dehumanization the jews received was very harsh it was something that changed their lives forever. They lost their possession, family,morality and their identity. Because of the strength Elie had through this horrible experience he has gained a stronger

He lost his innocence and began to feel hatred toward god for letting innocent people die. Elie changed and he became rebellious. He began to wish for things he regretted later and he lost all hope. He became an entirely different person. Elie went through life changing events and he was traumatized.

“I spent my days in total idleness. With only one desire: to eat. I no longer thought of my father, or my mother.” (Weisel 113) Elie lost many values during his times in Nazi concentration camps, and soon became a person that even he didn’t recognize.