Night

You would think that a fifteen year old who watched his mum and sister walk off to the gas chambers would loose complete faith in god forever, this is not so for Elie Wiesel. Although Elie’s experience in the camps at Auschwitz changes him in the courses of the events related in ‘Night’, the one thing that doesn’t completely change is his faith in god even though he looses all traditional beliefs. Other areas in which Elie changes is his physical appearance, his maturity level, his ambitions and his relationship with his father. The book ‘Night’ is an autobiography about a young boy and his time the concentration camps and the horrific events in which he lived through.

Before the camps Elie was a young healthy intelligent boy who showed no signs of any illness, however this all changed due to his time at the concentration camps. At the end of the book Elie looks in a mirror after several years, he explained how when he looked in the mirror a corps gazed back at him. This is due to the appalling food they were given. Many days they would go without food and would have to eat snow for water. There were many occasions such as on the trains in which they would kill each other for a piece of bread.

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However, during the Holocaust this all changed as they became very close. A sad incident was the hanging of the Pipel who was just a young boy. Elie describes in the book “The child I was had been consumed in the flames. Elie was a lucky few who made it through this tragic time. Elie was to forget his old life and concentrate on surviving. He would always study and followed all the traditions.

Elie was a very religious boy who lived and breathed god. Because this was such a time of horror and inhumanity, you needed someone to keep you going, someone you could care for in order to survive. They were all each other had, they depended on each other for survival.

Elie didn’t have a close relationship with his father before his time in the camps. They looked after each other and always stayed together. Elie explains how he shall “Never forget those moments which murdered my god and my soul and turned my dreams to dust”. That’s when god died in Elie and he didn’t even say a prayer when his father died later on in the book.

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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)

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