"Night" Significant Changes

Throughout the novel "Night", both the main character and author Elie Wiesel, experienced some large changes in personality, and his viewpoints or mindset on certain topics.  These changes were related to several different topics or aspects of Wiesel's life, such as religion, personal bonds with other people, or his reaction to the actions of others.

One way that Wiesel changed in a result to what he experienced in the book, was shown on page 113.  Wiesel stated, "I spent my days in total idleness.  With only one desire: to eat.  I no longer thought of my father, or my mother.  From time to time, I would dream.  But only about soup, an extra ration of soup."  This shows how the treatment of the Nazis to the Jews completing erased and corrupted their minds, feelings, and thoughts.  They truly weren't functioning, being treated, or living as human beings anymore.  After having gone group such tragedy in losing his mother, sister, and then father, all Wiesel could think about was food.  However, I do know this mindset has changed since the times of the Holocaust, and Elie has regenerated his ability to be human, but this shows how a whole race was transformed, treated as animals, and changed in a time period.

Elie's beliefs were also changed in a way that provided him with different opinions on violence and peace.  One section of the book said, "...let hatred and danger be removed from their horizons, and there will be peace in and around the Holy Land...if you could remember what I remember, you would understand."  (Page 120).  This excerpt is proof of how Elie has seen so many atrocities and horrors in his time, and it is these awful memories that have molded his peaceful and generous lifestyle.  Because of his memories at these camps, and his remembrance of all the death, and brutality, Elie has a strong opinion and idea for what is right and what we need to do to get there.