Stages In Elie Wiesel's Night, Abileene

In the novel Night, Elie undergoes changes within himself, and his thoughts, as his father finally succumbs to the maltreatment of the Nazis. During the later days of their interment, Elie assumes the role as caretaker for his father, as he suggests that “[he] was his [father’s] sole support” (87). Elie transforms from an innocent child in need of care to the care taker. Without Elie, his father would surely die, thus Elie chooses to continue his agonizing life. Elie and his father were kept alive by hope, hope that one day, one of them would be able to survive these horrid times.

After the horrors Elie encountered, his relationship with his father changed drastically. Early in his journey, his relationship with his dad was distant. After being deported to Auschwitz, his father was being beaten while Elie thought, ”What had happened to me? My father had been

During all of the struggles Elie gains a bit of life knowledge, and learns more emotions about himself. If this journey never happened Elie would still be focussing about his studies and not about his family. A fact Elie acquires during the holocaust is always to stay positive in hard times. An example of this is when Elie is running for miles and notices men giving up just makes Elie think about when he can sleep and eat at the next camp. When news comes that the Russians will save the prisoners, Elie keeps this as a positive and keeps thinking this horrifying journey will be over.

Elie was now a man. He missed his parents and sisters. But He was still that unemotional man that the holocaust had created. But at the same time he was still sensitive. Whenever he remembered his family he would feel really sad.

Night by Elie Wiesel, should definitely be taught to 10th grade students around the world. Night is a book which will enlighten students on the revolting occurrence of the Holocaust, and to inform generations to come, so similar massacres will not reoccur in the future. Night also incorporates the trait, hope, and reminds everyone to be grateful for what they given. Night is a very heartbreaking nonfiction story about a boy who must survive throughout the harshest living conditions known to mankind. Night introduces a new glimpse of the world from an entirely different perspective of life.

Elie believes it's better to fend for oneself rather to help one another. Elie and his father have been in Auschwitz for 3 weeks. His tent leader was had been explaining what they were to do this week. He says three days in quarantine after you will go to work and tomorrow medical checkup. He then asks Elie if he wants to get into a good unit.

As he found himself around people and an ambient where everyone survives for himself, he became aware that he has many responsibilities to do compared to his before concentration camp life. Elie develops new ideas based on the responsibilities that each individual possesses as he confronts with corruption. As he encountered with his father’s hard sickness, Elie understood that he holds many burdens that should be completed, since he wasn’t a child anymore. Now it was his time to take care of him as he did once for Elie, illustrated as he says "I gave him what was left of my soup. But my heart was heavy.

When Elie is sent to concentration camp, he goes through a lot of emotions. At first he is in denial that human beings could do such cruel things to other people. This stage however is short lived because very suddenly he must adapt to the harsh environment around him. Although eventually the atmosphere takes him over.

This shows that with this caliber of determination, he can use it to his advantage to keep himself alive throughout his stay in Auschwitz. This is significant because without the determination he had presented, he may not be alive today to share this exact stories to future generations. Another example, when his father was at the “peak of death” in the barracks, “[Elie] ran to get some and brought it to my father. . . . ‘Don’t drink water, eat the soup. . . .’” (p. 111)

In the novel Night, Elie Wiesel does a good job explaining just how hard it was to maintain faith in a place like Auschwitz. Elie also made it clear that it was crucial to remain hopeful if one was planning to survive for very long. Only the strong remained reasonably healthy, despite the harsh conditions they were put through in the concentration camps. It was explained as being a situation where it was every man for himself, and you couldn’t remain emotionally attached to your old life and people you care about. Only few survived, and the ones that did stood out from the rest.

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.

He showed Elie the importance of being strong and fighting during the Holocaust. Elie’s relationship with his father change from a distant one to a close one because of their experience in Auschwitz. By the end, Elie had a hard time taking care of his father and himself. At the beginning of Night Elie’s relationship with his father is distant.

Never shall [he] forget those things, even were [he] condemned to live as long as God Himself” (Wiesel 75). This quote leads me to believe that the suffering endured in the camps lead Elie to become lost with who he was. Elie and the other members of the Jewish community try to keep their faith as much as they can even though it is being tested. As shown in Night enduring suffering forces people to become much different versions of themselves.

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).

In summary, he was forcefully separated from his family, bared the death of the only motivation he had and was left to live with the nightmares of the atrocious doing of Hitler and his Nazis. Elie’s innocence was taken alongside everything else he had. Instead of remembering his childhood and laughing, he prays one day he’ll forget, forget what he was forced to see. Moreover, forget what was taken from him. Elie had undergone an immense amount of pain albeit the fact that many think of WW2 but don’t mind much of it’s events.