Night, By Elie Wiesel: Character Analysis

First of all, to please my father who had forbidden me to do so. And then, there was no longer any reason for me to fast. I no longer accepted God's silence” (69). At the end of the novel, Elie’s father grows sick and cold, eventually passing. After Elie learns of the death of his father, his mind runs blank, he becomes idle to all except for his animal needs like food and shelter.

You’re eighteen.” “But I’m not,” I said. “I’m fifteen.” “Fool. Listen to what I say.”...

Later, Elie begins to explain how his personality and outlook on life changed during his time at the camp. He stated, “The instincts of self-preservation, self-defense,

If his father was dead Elie would have had no other reason to fight; this is asserted by a desperate Elie on pages 98-99 “What if he were dead...there would be no longer a reason to live… I threw myself onto his body… I hit him harder and harder… my father half opened his eyes… breathing faintly… you see I cried” Elie was relieved to see his father alive; he started to cry. Even if it was freezing outside and he was on the verge of death his main priority was his father. Toward the end of the memoir Elie’s father gets extremely sick and is put in the crematorium. Elie no longer had a reason to fight; no one to lean on.

Elie has the chance to stay in the infirmary with his father or leave with the rest and march to the next place. Finally, he decides that he and his father with evacuate with the rest. This shows that Elie could have made the choice to stay in the infirmary or leave with the evacuees. Elie had no clue what could have happened to him and his father if he were to stay. He finally chose to leave with his father, not many people would have had the option to stay and were taken by force to the next camp.

When his father is taken to the crematorium and he finds out about this, he feels both guilty and relieved by his father's passing, knowing he no longer has to worry about anyone but himself. Elie struggles with an internal conflict that he could

When they approached Elie’s father he was cold and still. Elie was panicked, insisting he was still alive and resorting to hitting him, desperately trying whatever he could to wake him. “And I started to hit him harder and harder. At last, my father half opened his eyes. They were glassy.

Decision Making by Elie in Night The decisions made by Elie Wiesel in the book Night both positively and negatively impacted his life. These were decisions that the author thought were best for him or for his mother, sister and father. However, the particular decisions made by the boy in Night affected his identity, innocence, and significantly changed his view of life during his experience in the holocaust.

Near the beginning of the novel, Elie wanted to be in the same camp with his father more than anything else. The work given to both his father and himself was bearable, but as time passed by, “. . . his father was getting weaker” (107). The weaker Elie’s father got, the more sacrifices Elie made. After realizing the many treatments Elie was giving his father compared to himself, each additional sacrifice made Elie feel as if his “. . .

Elie was left with his father as they survived together until Elieʻs father died. One choice Elie made was when it was time to speak up he told Dr. Mengele that his own occupation was a farmer and he was 15 not 13. Because of this lie that Elie made, him and his father were sent to the left then they ended up at the camps. It says “Your age?

It becomes clear that Elie’s father will die without the care and attention he is providing him. Eli becomes conflicted over the fact that it is becoming too difficult to keep his father alive. Elie admits he believes, “Yet at the same time I thought crept into my mind: If only I didn’t find him! If only I were relieved of this responsibility, I could use all my strength to fight for my own survival, to take care only of myself”( Wiesel 106). Elie begins to face the issue of either choosing his survival or to continue fighting to keep his father alive.

Elie and his family arrive at Auschwitz, and they are immediately divided by gender, Elie is left with his father and commits to staying with him. A prisoner tells them to lie about their age, when a SS officer asks Elie how old he is, he quickly says, “I’m eighteen”(32 Wiesel). Then the officer unexpectedly asks him his profession, Elie confidently states “Farmer”(32 Wiesel). While saying farmer saved his life, Elie is still worried about his father’s and when he is sent to the same line as Elie, he is greatly relieved, “The baton pointed to the left. I took a half step forward.

To find a man who has not experienced suffering is impossible; to have man without hardship is equally unfeasible. Such trials are a part of life and assert that one is alive by shaping one’s character. In the autobiographical memoir Night by Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, this molding is depicted through Elie’s transformation concerning his identity, faith, and perspective. As a young boy, Elie and his fellow neighbors of Sighet, Romania were sent to Auschwitz, a macabre concentration camp with the sole motive of torturing and killing Jews like himself. There, Elie experiences unimaginable suffering, and upon liberation a year later, leaves as a transformed person.

After Elie’s father dies, Elie is a little bit glad because the responsibility is off him, “And deep inside me, if I could have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like: Free at last!?” Elie will certainly miss his father because they were very close. Yet part of Elie is glad to have the stress and responsibility off him. Elie is a little bit selfish in this, that he does not care that his father is dead, but he is a little bit relieved. Elie has lost his integrity, he is glad he has to take care of one

Despite everyone else’s actions, Elie remains true to his own desire of helping his father. He almost gives in to the influence, but he instead follows his own wishes. Just as the reader believes that Elie may continue following his own personal values, he shows signs of conforming to societal norms. As his father’s death becomes imminent, Elie fakes an