Explain how and why Elie changes throughout his experiences encountered in Night?

Answer 1

Eliezer Wiesel had changed soon after entering the camps because he had a better relation ship with his father nad his only goal was to take care of his fahter because that was the first time got close to them. However, after his father died he becomes more self sufficient. He doesn't look outside of himself for anything anymore. . . . he only relies on himself. It's a survival mode.

Answer 2

Elie changes drastically throughout his experiences in Night. He starts as a young boy with strong faith and innocence, but the horrors of the Holocaust lead him to question his beliefs and lose his faith in humanity. The atrocities he witnesses and endures strip him of his innocence and reshape his identity, leaving him a Survivor haunted by trauma.

Answer 3

if you read a few pages before, Wiesel once stated that he found "the soup excellent one evening" after witnessing some hangings of adult prisoners. You see, he did not care that they were hung. They were adults. They committed a crime and thus had to be punished. Because they were adults, they presumbly lived their lives. Now let's look at the pipel...

Keep in mind that the pipel was a young boy. It's a heinous sight as it is to see a young child killed before a person's eyes. When Wiesel saw him die, he felt bad and sorrowful. How can a child commit a crime and be punished severely? Here is a quote that may explain why Wiesel wrote that statement:

"To hang a young boy in front of thousands of spectators was no light matter. The head of the camp read the verdict. All eyes were on the child. He was lividly pale, almost calm, biting his lips. The gallows threw its shadow over him".

So you see, Wiesel felt horribly bad that a child died for something he did not understand and perhaps did not commit. The soup, which once tasted excellent, now "tasted of corpses" because Wiesel's mind was filled with guilt and remorse.

Answer 4

In the beginning he fully believed in his religion but once he relised during his time in a few concentration camps that there wasnt a God to help him or save anyone.

Answer 5

Elie's faith changes drastically throuout the novel. He goes from being a devout jew,to a young man struggling with believing in the god who once meant so much to him.

Answer 6

he has learned to think of his survival first before anyone else. he had witnessed his father beaten right in front of him and did nothing because he was scared of his own death

Answer 7

made him happier