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A normal 12 year old boy would have never seen a man shot to the ground or eaten by dogs, Elie Wiesel unlike any other boy went through this, not in the comforts of his home but in the filthy concentration camps. Surrounded by death itself Elie held onto any life available, could you? Elie Wiesel the author of Night went through the horrors of inhumane treatments Through his book, Wiesel changed from an innocent boy to a mature man only at 15. Wiesel was like any other boy in the beginning. He held a stable life while living with his family in Sighet.

In the beginning of the book, Night, Elie Wiesel was not immune to the nazi treatments, He doubted that what had happened to him would eventually become his reality. Wiesel lived with his two sisters and his parents, They lived in a jewish town, Everyone in the town knew of Hitler and his goals, but, they abandoned the idea of him accomplishing any of his plans.Wiesel too believed this, Moshe a friend of his, warned everyone the terror the Nazis were bringing to the jews. Everyone just pitied him. Wiesel explained, “Even I did not believe him I often sat with him after services and listened to his tales trying to understand his grief but …show more content…
He had changed to a innocent boy to a grown man in extremely harsh conditions. Wiesel was a normal boy living with his family, They all felt safe within their own town. Then suddenly after being warned the Nazis took wiesel and his family to a concentration camp, Auschwitz. In Auschwitz the officers beat him and his father, made them work in harsh areas, on top of that they were given only one portion of soup. Wiesel changed from these experiences. Elie Wiesel was unlike any other child, he was taken to all sorts of horrid places one cannot simply imagine. He was forced to work like an adult even though he was as young as 13. After all the changes Wiesel was formed into a new man he could have never seen in his

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