Stacy Lee
A changed Man
Febuary 15, 2016
A Changed Man
Who is Elie Wiesel? Has his experiences through this book changed his personality? Changed his perspective? Elie Wiesel was a small boy living with his dad, this book is about the experience that takes place when they were taken to German concentration camps in Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945, at the climax of the Holocaust toward the end of the Second World War. According to Elie Wiesel in night,” Never shall I forget that smoke Never shall i forget the small faces of the children whose bodies got transformed into smoke under a silent sky.” ( 33 ) I looked through all his emotions within all his actions that Elie has changed exquisitely changed throughout this whole story …show more content…
Once Elie cross the path of Idek while he was nervous and he started hitting him so hard. Everyone in general gets changed mentally and physically changed into the process of being associated or abused in the holocaust, The way he explains it in the book is an intimate, personal account of the Holocaust through direct descriptive language. The holocaust was a disgrace and terrible occasion, even reading the book will leave millions in tears after their loved ones. The greatest numbers of victims were killed in concentration camps, in which Jews—and other enemies of Germany were gathered, imprisoned, forced into labor, and, when they could no longer be of use to their captors, annihilated. In addition, to the slaughter at the camps, millions of soldiers were killed in battle. By the end of World War II, more than thirty-five million people had died, over half of them civilians. When they could no longer be of use to their captors, annihilated. In addition to the slaughter at the camps, millions of soldiers were killed in battle. By the end of World War II, more than thirty-five million people had died, over half of them civilians, even if they were not full or even related to being a jew they were killed, abused, and thrown away. In Wiesel’s native Sighet,the worse has yet to happen, the 15,000 Jews in prewar Sighet, only about 50 families survived the Holocaust. In May of 1944, when Wiesel was 15, his family and many inhabitants of the Sighet shtetl were very well …show more content…
At the age of 15, Elie Wiesel and his entire family were sent to Auschwitz as part of the Holocaust, which took the lives of more than 6 million Jews. Wiesel was sent to Buna Werke labor camp, Auschwitz III-Monowitz. Elie has changed drastically in this book entirely, he has gotten scarred and changed physically and mentally. Reading the book I felt like he has gotten depression throughout the whole story. This whole book is just relating to the topic of him never forgetting the smoke, never forgetting what had scarred him for life, and basically seeing small children get smoked up into flames. The greatest numbers of victims were killed in concentration camps, in which Jews and other enemies of Germany were gathered, imprisoned, forced into labor, they were forced to work in such deplorable, inhumane conditions. Yes, indeed Elie Wiesel has changed dramatically throughout his young years of his life, and he has become a changed man. He was spiritually dead, unemotional, and sensitive, and that is what the holocaust has done to Elie