Night

     Elie changed quite a lot from before and after the Holocaust occurred, or even during the Holocaust.  However, I see only one way he changed that is most noticible. The most noticible way he changed was by his belief in God or his religion. In the beginning Elie wanted to be more in touch with his religion and wanted to learn more about it. "Thus began my initiation. Together we would read, over and over again, the same page of Zohar. Not to learn it by heart but to discover within the very essence of divinity." Wiesel first asked his father on who can help him learn Kabbalah but his father says Wiesel is too young to learn it. After his father rejected Wiesel's answer he asks Moishe the Beatle if he could teach him to know more about his religion. That is when Wiesel began his initiation.

    About midway through the book, when Wiesel is in the concentration camp he says different things about God and starts questioning God. This is the time when times have gone completely hard and that is when Wiesek asks God on why he is not helping him and why he isn't stopping anything. "for the first time, I felt anger rising within me. Why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent. What was there to thank Him for?" Wiesel is asking why God is being silent or is not doing anything and he also says that there was nothing to thank god for since he wasn't helping or doing anything about what is being done to the Jews.

     Towards the end of the book Elie sees that the Rabbi's son tried to ditch him or get rid of him to get a better chance of survival. Elie then realizes that it was an easier way to survive but he really didn't want to do that to his own father. He ends up praying to God to not let him do what Rabbi's son did to his own father. Throughout the entire book he ceased to pray and to believe God was helping them, but now that he has seen somebody turn on their own family he does not want to do the exact same thing.