How Does Elie Wiesel Change In Night

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In Elie Wiesel's “Night” he is a young 15 year old boy going into the concentration camps not knowing what is to come from these experiences. In the book Elie Wiesel pushes through adversity during the Holocaust to find himself again in this traumatic situation. Wiesel’s cultural, physical, and geographical surroundings by the Nazi concentration camps hindered and skewed his psychological and moral trait development to becoming a human being. Elie Wiesel’s cultural situation was a mere faded blanket coming out of the camps from the Nazi demoralization techniques. Wiesel’s culture was stripped away from him at such a young age he couldn’t quite comprehend what the Nazi’s were trying to do. “Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my …show more content…

Sighet, where Wiesel first lived, was a source of comfort and inspiration for him as he could live life like a normal human being. All changed after the Nazi’s moved into Sighet. The Nazi’s made these ghettos. This is how Elie lived after the Nazi’s moved in:“TWO GHETTOS were created in Sighet. A large one in the center of town occupied four streets, and another smaller one extended over several alleyways on the outskirts of town. The street we lived on, Serpent Street, was in the first ghetto”(11). These ghettos would only give a mere glimpse of what was to come in the next few years. The Jews of Sighet were then transported by cattle car to their first concentration camp named Birkenau. After this Elie was transported to many other concentration camps and these surroundings only became a source of constant terror and pain. An extreme example of the pain and terror he suffered is shown in this quote, “AT six O'CLOCK the bell rang. The death knell. The funeral. The procession was beginning its march”(84). These marches went on for hours where Elie would be passing countless camps and different towns where Germans would toy with the Jews to make life even worse. These experiences of being subjected to such extreme physical suffering left deep scars on Elie Wiesel’s

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