In Night, the concentration camp has a dramatic effect on Eliezer almost immediately. How does Eliezer change after only a short
time in the camp? 1. He always admired and respected his father, but in the camp he does not try to fight for his father when a Gypsy deportee knocks his father down.
2. Before the camps, he distrusted anyone who was not Jewish, but in the camps he realizes that there are many non-Jewish people who will help them.
3. He was spoiled and selfish at home, but in the camps he always offers his food to his little sister so she can keep up her strength.
4. At home, he was not religious, but once in camp he begins to pray frequently for help for his family.
1. He always admired and respected his father, but in the camp he does not try to fight for his father when a Gypsy deportee knocks his father down.
Explanation:
Elie Wiesel's autobiographical memoir "Night" tells the experiences of the narrator and author Eliezer Weisel's life during the German discrimination of the Jews. This memoir also acts as a first person's account of the Holocaust and the affects it has on the people, especially the Jews.
Eliezer used to have huge respect and admiration for his father before the Jews of Sighet were captured and taken to the concentration camps. But once they were all taken to the camps, he began to have a sense of survival for his own life than thinking of his father's safety. he knows he have to be alive first to make sure his father also lives. This was the one thing that seemed to change in him, seeing the Gypsy deportee knock his father down but he did nothing to save him. He had to learn to keep himself alive.
