. In the novel, NIGHT written by Elie Weisel, he describes his account as a young boy who becomes entrapped in the holocaust. Elie loses is innocence through the many terrible sights he witnesses such as the selection process, beatings and in many cases, deaths. Elie also endures large changers to both his mental and physical state and survives the torturous dehumanisation process which strips him of his sense of self and identity.
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Elie loses his innocence when he is stripped of all his possessions and identity. “I became A7713, from then on I had no other name.” (Page 42) In this particular moment, Elie became nothing more than a simple number, this was all part of the dehumanisation process commonly used by the Nazis during the holocaust. It helped the Germans to believe that the innocent people they were killing were not in fact people but objects. This wasn’t the first incident that impacted Elie’s innocence, but it was the tipping point for a chain reaction of events they would continue to demise the little hope and innocence he carries with him.
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He faces starvation and the threat of violence on a daily base. “What had happened? My father had just been beaten and I had not even flinched “(page 39) this indicates just how accustom to violence Elie and all the Jews had become in such a short time. As a result impacts to Elie’s mental state were enormous he had felt anger toward his father for being beaten for making himself a target and for failing to comply to the rules. Another sign of changes within elie was as the Jews around him began to die from poor living conditions and health elie didn’t cry “one died because one had to, no point in making trouble.” (Page