Elie Wiesel did not consider himself lucky to have survived the Holocaust. Throughout his book, he often repeated that he thought of dying as a passage out of the suffering they went through. He must’ve been affected by the concentration camp for that to be even a thought in his mind. In the novel “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the main character, Eliie, was affected by the events in the book because he lost his faith, gained an emotional scar, and gave up on humanity.
One of the reasons we know Elie was affected by the concentration camps is that he lost his faith. He seems to become enraged after page 32 when he witnesses things happening to the Jews right when they arrived at the concentration camp. He was secretly irritated that the Jews were suffering, and God wasn’t doing anything about it. On page 67, you could see Elie getting aggravated because “...He created Auschwitz, Birkenau, Buna, and so many other factories of death…(He) chose us among all nations to be tortured day and night, to watch as …show more content…
At the beginning of the book, he would react to actions with more emotion. As the story continues, he loses his feelings towards things like death or suffering. “Beneath our feet there lay men, crushed, trampled underfoot, dying. Nobody paid attention to them (page 89).” Everyone started caring about themselves and not the well being of others. Even Elie stopped caring about others and “...began to think of (him)self again (page 86).” At the beginning of the book, people relied on each other, and when someone passed, they were upset. As the conditions grew worse, those people start shutting everyone out of their lives, and they didn’t care as much when someone died, even family members. Elie even said that when his father was killed “(he) did not weep...(page 112).” Because of this, we are able to see that what Elie went through had really affected him