How Does Elie Wiesel Change In The Book Night

In the book Night, Elie Wiesel in the beginning was a religious, sensitive little boy that would soon learn and write in his memoir his experiences of his vile past that would shape him into a spiritually dead, unemotional man in which the reader can easily decipher the stages.

The reader can easily see that Elie was originally a little boy that wanted to learn more about this religion because he was very young to be so intrigued with his religion because you had to be 30 to venture into the world of mysticism but Elie found a master for himself that would guide him in the perilous world of mysticism in which would cause him to see Moshe often.

The reader could understand how originally Ellie was a sensitive boy because Mosh had asked Elie “Why do you weep when you pray?” (Pg. 2) and Elie couldn’t answer it but the reader could

answer it for themselves because when one thinks of a child they think of many tears that’ll fall until the child grows up.
The first phase of Elie’s change was hearing from his father say all the jews occupying the ghetto’s would be deported.

Elie would soon know how horrible they were going to be treated and it started out with Hungarian police striking jews for no reason. Elie’s change from a sensitive little boy into a spiritually dead, unemotional man had officially started whenever they were crammed into cattle wagons.

Elie’s drastic change was when they arrived at Auschwitz, his words put into text could be heard loudly without listening. “A lorry drew up at the pit and delivered its load-little children. Babies Yes, I saw it-saw it with my own eyes… those children in the flames” (Pg. 30) anyone that was humane would be affected by the sight of this. Elie was getting a little sliver compared to what was going to come.

Elie starts to become spiritually dead whenever his father blesses their god's name because after he hears that he says internally “For the first time, I felt revolt rise up in me. Why should i bless his name?... What had I to thank him for?”. He starts to no longer rely on religion to keep him going, his god is slowly fading away from

him.
The quick drastic change in Elie could be seen by the reader and Elie himself realized he had changed when he said internally “I did not move. What had happened to me? My father had just been struck before my very eyes, and I had not flickered an eyelid… Yesterday, I should have sunk my nails into the criminals flesh. Had I changed so much, then? So quickly?”.
Elie wasn’t a sensitive boy anymore and the faith in his religion might of been hanging by a thread because he was able to receive 25 lacerations in total from a whip without tearing up and his escape from the pain wasn’t religion, it was fainting but not a single prayer was uttered when he was about to faint and even when he regained consciousness from a bucket of cold water.
Elie had truly become spiritually dead whenever he witnessed the young angle like boy being hanged. Both the reader and Elie knew that he is spiritually dead when he was answering the man behind him internally “Where is He? Here He is-He is hanging here on this gallows….” meaning that his faith in god was officially murdered when the child was hanging on the rope, alive for more than 30 minutes.