The book Night by Eliezer Wiesel presents the true story of Wiesel's first-hand accounts of living as a Jew in several concentration camps. The book takes you through Wiesel's journey from his placement in a slum to his liberation by the Allies. Wiesel lived in Sighet and the story is set in 1944. Wiesel describes his community as a quiet, close-knit community whose optimism led to their capture by the Nazis. Wiesel wrote this book to show the effects suffered by a prisoner of the holocaust. He also wrote this to try to educate people in a way that would excite the audience and make them actually feel the emotion behind the words. The devastation suffered by the prisoners changed who they were and the changes Wiesel experienced completely altered his personality by changing his relationship with his father, his religious beliefs, and changing his emotional and psychological state of mind. Wiesel's relationship with his father goes through a radical change. they change when they are taken to the camps, then they develop an unspoken tension when Wiesel's father's health begins to deteriorate. Their relationship between the two barleys existed before they reached the camps. Wiesel explains this by saying that his father cares more about the community and less about his family (Wiesel 4). With Wiesel's father always away from home or focused on his work, he and Wiesel never have the chance to build a good father-son relationship. This tendency of not talking between these two stops when they arrive at the camps, because they know that the only things they care about are each other and this begins to allow them to reveal their emotions and to develop a strong bond with each other. A good example of their bond with each other... middle of paper ... mindset is crushed by the Germans and they completely change the person he once called Eliezer. The Holocaust completely changes people, the person who went to the camp into a totally different person mentally. This “new” person turns into a zombie who only cares about their next meal and nothing else. Rebuilding yourself mentally would take forever as the Holocaust prisoners went through terrible conditions every day, physically and mentally. Wiesel was transformed into a person who resembled his past self and the Nazis saw to that by crushing his religious beliefs, playing with his emotions, destroying his psychological mindset, and changing a father-son relationship. This is why Wiesel wrote this book so that hopefully no one has to go through torture again, because if we are not informed on the subject it could happen again..