Why does the human race like to destroy each other? Just because you have different beliefs than the next person doesn’t give you the right to kill each other. It doesn’t give you the right to poison them with gas and cremate them. In the book “Night” written by Elie Wiesel, the main character, Elie, changes through his traumatic events he experienced in the death camp, Auschwitz.
Before Elie went to the death camp known as Auschwitz, he exhibited several positive character traits. One example of a genuine character trait would be curiosity. Wiesel wrote, “One day I asked my father to find me a master who could guide me in my studies of Kabbalah.”(4) Elie didn’t care about his age. All he cared about was his religious studies. In other words, …show more content…
Wiesel wrote, “I watched it all happening without moving.”(54) He was impolite because of all the fear trapped inside of him. Elie knows he should help his father and the old version of him would’ve. He knows God would want him to, but he has lost faith and doesn’t care anymore. He is scared for his father, and doesn’t want to be beaten himself. Another excerpt from Night says, “Where He is? This is where- hanging here from this gallows…” (Wiesel 65) Nevertheless, he was heartless and uninterested. Elie has lost all faith in Him and believes that God is dead along with the others. He no longer cares about death, even though it is hard to watch. He is not willing to do anything that his Lord wants him to do because he believes that He abandoned them when they needed Him the most. Finally, Elie Wiesel states, “I no longer thought of my father, or my mother… ” (113) By not thinking of his family, he was acting greedy and selfish. He loved his mother and his father, but when they are both dead he doesn’t think of them. He isn’t honoring his father. He is only thinking about eating and nothing else. It is hard to think about the people you love, but it is even harder to shut them out completely. To conclude, during his time in the death camp, Elie Wiesel was scared, heartless, and selfish. He hated life and was holding on to his father as long as possible, until the day his father let go of him and
Before Elie went to the death camp known as Auschwitz, he exhibited several positive character traits. One example of a genuine character trait would be curiosity. Wiesel wrote, “One day I asked my father to find me a master who could guide me in my studies of Kabbalah.”(4) Elie didn’t care about his age. All he cared about was his religious studies. In other words, …show more content…
Wiesel wrote, “I watched it all happening without moving.”(54) He was impolite because of all the fear trapped inside of him. Elie knows he should help his father and the old version of him would’ve. He knows God would want him to, but he has lost faith and doesn’t care anymore. He is scared for his father, and doesn’t want to be beaten himself. Another excerpt from Night says, “Where He is? This is where- hanging here from this gallows…” (Wiesel 65) Nevertheless, he was heartless and uninterested. Elie has lost all faith in Him and believes that God is dead along with the others. He no longer cares about death, even though it is hard to watch. He is not willing to do anything that his Lord wants him to do because he believes that He abandoned them when they needed Him the most. Finally, Elie Wiesel states, “I no longer thought of my father, or my mother… ” (113) By not thinking of his family, he was acting greedy and selfish. He loved his mother and his father, but when they are both dead he doesn’t think of them. He isn’t honoring his father. He is only thinking about eating and nothing else. It is hard to think about the people you love, but it is even harder to shut them out completely. To conclude, during his time in the death camp, Elie Wiesel was scared, heartless, and selfish. He hated life and was holding on to his father as long as possible, until the day his father let go of him and