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Night, By Eliezer Wiesel: Character Analysis

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One moment could change your life forever. Whether in real life or literature, when you least expect it, something could happen that changes everything you’ve ever believed in. In Eliezer Wiesel’s Night, after much speculation, Eliezer and his family are captured and taken away to a concentration camp for a year where he and his father were forced to live in torment of the German officers. As Elie lives through 4 different concentration camps,his views about family and self preservation begin to change. At the beginning of the novel, before going to Auschwitz (Birkenau), Eliezer believed that family was the most important thing. During chapter 3, Eliezer asks his family to run away to avoid the Ss, but his father refused. For example, “Naturally

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