The most important event in the story Night is when Wiesel and his family leave their hometown and go to a concentration camp. I think it is the most important event because this is where their lives and prespectives change by a lot. When they were first turned into a ghetto in their hometown they still had smiles on their faces and felt not a lot of change in their life, after they left they had a shot new prespectives of everything. Wiesel goes throughout a series of hard events, Wiesel's family is put in a compacted cattle car with most of the people from their town crunched up in there, Wiesel's family gets separated, then everything gets worse from their on. Little by little their humanity or civil rights get taken away and it breaks them down.
One big way I see the main character Wiesel change is his loyalty to God. As time goes by he loses his faith in God and starts to question Him. "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?" Pg #33 This quote goes to show that Wiesel didn't think God was doing the right thing and God wasn't doing anything but watching them suffer as they go through these rough experiences. Another way he changes is by him not saying anything when his father gets beat. When his father gets beat Wiesel says he didn't do anything but he thought that before they went to the camps he probably would have tried to help his father. Now he is just accepting everything that is happening and is changing the way he is as a human, the Nazis were taking away his humanity.
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