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In 1944 - 1945 during World war 2 Nazies separated many family's and put them in the concentration camps.In the story “Night” written by Elie Wiesel tells us about his experience and what him and his father witnessed during they were in the Concentration camp.Throughout the story Elies and many other Jews faith and beliefs change while they are in the concentration camps. The story “Night” is about a young Jewish kid name Elie that was put in concentration camp.Elies was taken to a camp called Auschwitz and was separated from his mother and sisters.Elie was put with his father and both promised to each other that they would stick together.Elie and other Jews were being starved and were also forced to work in horrible weather.Elie tells …show more content…
“Night” had many characters attitudes change throughout the story.One character that changed over time was Elie.At the beginning he tells us about how he could never lose faith in god.Eventually that would change because of the things he witnessed in the concentration camps.For example Elie heard someone say “where is god” “where is he” when they saw the hanging of a young boy.Elie would question himself many times if god would save them and started to think that god didn't exist.Another example is when the people of his village and his family are forced to leave their homes to be taken to the labor camps.This made Elie and the other people feel worthless because they had to leave everything behind in their

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