Elie's Radical ChangeWhen people are placed in difficult and desolate situations, they often change in substantial ways. In Night by Elie Wiesel, the protagonist, Elie, is sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp where he undergoes many devastating experiences. Due to these traumatic events, Elijah changes drastically, losing his passion in God, disconnecting from his father, and maturing when it matters most. At the beginning of the memoir, Elie is an extremely passionate and pious Jew, but as the story progresses, Elie sees horrible things in the concentration camps and, as a result, he gradually loses his faith. Elie displays his extreme devotion from the beginning of his memoir when he states: “During the day, I studied the Talmud and at night, I ran to the synagogue to mourn the destruction of the Temple. I cried because something inside me felt the need to cry” (Wiesel 4). Elie clearly enjoys learning about his religion and connecting to God in a spiritual way. Plus, Elie is only thirteen, so when he says he cries because he feels the need to, he's showing incredible passion. Elijah shows signs of change and begins to lose his faith in God just moments after arriving at the concentration camp when he says, "I will never forget those flames that consumed my faith forever." I will never forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams into ashes” (Wiesel 34). Elijah exclaims that he can no longer worship God because of the horrible things he saw at Auschwitz. He doesn't want to believe in the being who could have allowed these horrible events to happen. This is a completely different Elijah from the loving and caring Elijah of the ghetto. Elie also uses the rep...... middle of paper ......how he became much more independent. His reaction to his father's death also represents this loss of innocence: “I didn't cry, and it hurt me not to be able to cry. But I had no more tears” (Wiesel 112). This scene reveals that Elijah has realized that there are many evils in the world. His lack of emotion and tears shows that he understands how serious the actions of the Nazis were and how cruel the world can be. This realization ultimately represents his loss of innocence and maturation. Elie goes to Auschwitz at a young and innocent stage of his life. Because of his experiences in this concentration camp, he loses his faith, his connection to his father and his innocence. Situations as horrific as the Holocaust will drastically change people, no matter what they looked like before the event, and this is evident with the enormous change in Elijah throughout the memoir Night..