How Does Elie Wiesel Change In The Book Night

During the Second World War, thousands of innocent Jewish prisoners changed, because of the intense hardships they faced. In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, the protagonist Elie struggles to survive the Holocaust. Elie changes, as a result of the inhumane living conditions and hardships he faces, during the Holocaust.
Throughout Elie’s harsh experience, he loses faith in God. Specifically, Elie becomes quite angry and unthankful to God, for they are admitted into the camp. Elie feels that there was no reason to praise God’s name because the “terrible Master of the Universe”, chose to be silent. (p.66) At this point, Elie and his father realize that this horrible camp will unfortunately be their daily lives for an unknown amount of time.
For instance, Elie watches his father, as he gets beat up by a German officer for asking where the bathrooms are located. As this occurs, Elie watches on in shock. He cannot believe the person he is becoming because he watches his father get beat up, right in front of him. Not only does this occur, but Elie also does not give up his valuable shoes to be in the same block with his father. An aide of the tent leader approaches Elie because he tries to negotiate for Elie’s shoes. The man offers rations of food, another pair of shoes, and even Elie’s father, in exchange for the shoes. At this point, Elie feels that the shoes were all he had left. During this time, shoes were quite valuable due to an immense amount of physical labor. Therefore, Elie declines all of the man’s offers, but the man ends up taking the shoes away, in exchange for nothing. Along with this, Elie turns on his father, when Idek gets mad at Elie’s father. As Idek screams at Elie’s father, the only thing Elie can do is watch in anger. “What’s more, if I felt anger at that moment, it was not directed at the Kapo but at my father.” (p.54) This quote illustrates that Elie is significantly angry at his father because he could not manage to avoid Idek. Elie believes that “that was what life in a concentration camp had made of me.”(p.54) Overall in the memoir, it is shown that life in a concentration camp is transforming Elie into
Along with the others, Elie becomes selfish when he forgets about the fate of the dead. “The absent no longer entered our minds. One spoke of them- who knows what happened to them?- but their fate was not on our minds.”(p.36) This quote illustrates that other prisoners also become insensitive, along with Elie because everyone’s minds become senseless. Following this, Elie continues to act selfish during the selection. At this time, Eli only cares about himself. The other prisoners did not matter to Elie because the doctors did not write him down, so Elie ends up passing the selection. Another example of Elie’s selfishness is during the inhumane march to another camp. While Elie is marching, a young boy named Zalman is running next to him. Out of nowhere, Zalman starts to experience painful stomach cramps. Afterwards, Zalman surrenders as he screams that he can no longer go on. At this point, Elie is not sure if an SS officer killed him, but Elie quickly forgets about Zalman. This proves that Elie went back to caring about himself. Nevertheless, Elie is not sure if an SS officer eventually killed him, but it proves that Elie is only focusing on