Night: Changes

Eliezer Wiesel. The name that touches and changes people in ways unknown to those the Nazi death camps left untouched. The modern day's desensitized generations tend to submit to ignorance when it involves what mankind is capable of. Although this Transylvanian's record touches each reader, one never fully understands his messages until one slips on Wiesel's shoes. He places many messages into his account, but some, unfortunately, go unnoticed and misunderstood by the general reader. Many people miss the big messages that Elie places in the small details, such as a loss of sense of time or the changes that oneself and one's relationships go through under such circumstances. In ways unimaginable Elie Wiesel would truly experience night and tells the many different ways he would endure utter darkness, from the effects of people and places to how quickly his relationships would change.

Elie begins, and continues throughout, by examining himself and the reasons why he becomes the person writing his memoirs. The influences of people and places make deep and lasting treads in his personality. The first chapter of his book, "Night,"