"Night" Blog Two

        Throughout the story Elie's experiences during the Holocaust change him as a person spiritually. Elie was thirteen years old when he met Moishe the Beadle, "By day I studied Talmud and by night I would run to the synagogue to weep over the destruction of the Temple." He devoted himself to studying Talmud and one day he wanted to study Kabbalah. In the beginning of his life he had faith and innocence. Throughout the story, Elie changes his views on God. He questioned God many times in the camps, "Why should I bless His name? The Eternal, Lord of the Universe, the All-Powerful and Terrible, was silent. What had I to thank Him for?" (31). He questioned God because he thought why would God let these horrible things happen to innocent people. Elie and the prisoners worked long hours, were given small rations of food, and overall they were exhausted. He gave up on God more and more throughout his experiences in the Holocaust.

        Elie's experiences during the Holocaust change him emotionally too. Elie's family arrived at Auschwitz and they were separated, "I didn't know that this moment in time and the place where I was leaving my mother and Tzipora forever." (29). When you're separated from your family than you are unstable. They have always been with you, and for Elie to not know it would be the last time they were all together emotionally changes a person. They weren't even allowed to say goodbye to each other.

        Another experience Elie went through changed him emotionally and mentally. Elie's father had asked a Gypsy were the bathroom was located, "... he slapped my father with such force that he fell down and then crawled back to his place on all fours... My father had just been struck, in front of me, and I had not even blinked. I had watched and kept silent. Only yesterday, I would have dug my nails into this criminal's flesh. Had I changed that much? So Fast?" (39). Elie had watched his dad getting slapped just for a simple question, and Elie didn't act on it. He had changed because before, like he said, he would have hurt the person that has hurt his father. That is a lot of change, especially in one day at Auschawitz.

      Wiesel's experiences also changed him not only on the inside, but n the outside. Elie and the prisoners had to face the heat and thirst while on the train ride to the concentration camp, Auschawitz. Also, the hard labor and starvation at the camps, the prisoners were given rations of food that were small. Most importantly, nature's fierce elements and long marching when he was being evacuated. He also was injured on his foot, and he still had to keep marching otherwise he would die.