night
Night In the memoir “Night” we see the atrocious events of the holocaust through the eyes of Ellie Wiesel a young boy from Sighet, Romania. The memoir begins with Ellie and his family in Sighet unaware of the horrible events they will experience. In this book we see how his experiences in the holocaust change his beliefs about god and his complete kindness. The change we see in Ellie is most evident in his opinion, Ellie goes from a very religious and god fearing person and doesn’t question him to someone who questions him and at his lowest point criticizes him. Ellie’s religion was such a big part of his personality and lifestyle. In the beginning of the book Moche asks him why he prayed and he replied by saying “ Why did I pray? A strange question. Why did I live? Why did I breath?”. He is comparing praying to breathing, it is something so effortless for him something he doesn’t think about. This supports my thesis because this shows how religious he is and how praying is something he does but doesn’t think about because it is something he feels he should do for god. Ellie also tried hard to learn more about his religion even at such a young age which really shows his devotion. He eventually tells Moche of his problem with finding someone to teach him about his religion Ellie said “ One evening I told him unhappy I was because I could not find someone to instruct me in the Zohar, the caballistic books, secrets of Jewish mysticism.” In this quote you can see that he really wants to study and learn more he is eager to learn more about god and his religion and this helps us understand how is personality changed so much. Elllie being so interested and devoted to his religion shows us that the things he experienced were so horrifying that it changed the way he thought about his religion which he was so devoted to and didn’t question. Ellie was so passionate about