The book Night of Eliezer Wiesel shows the true story of the first-hand accounts Wiesel experienced as a Jew in several concentration camps. The book traces 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 calm and close-knit community, whose optimism led to its capture by the Nazis. Wiesel writes this book to show the effects suffered by a prisoner of the Holocaust. He also wrote it to try to educate people in a way that would excite the audience and really make them feel the emotion behind the words. The devastation suffered by the prisoners changed who they were, and the changes Wiesel underwent completely altered his personality, changing his relationship with his father, his religious beliefs, and changing his emotional and psychological mindset. Wiesel's relationship with his father goes through a radical change when they are taken to the camps and then develops unexpressed tension when Wiesel's father's health begins to deteriorate. Their relationship between the two barleys existed before they reached the fields. Wiesel explains this by saying that his father cares more about the community and cares 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 pattern of these two not speaking stops when they get to 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 develop a strong bond with each other with each other. A great example of how they bond with each other... middle of paper... mentality is crushed by the Germans and they completely change the person they once called Eliezer. The Holocaust completely changes people, the person who left. in the field into a completely different person mentally. This “new” person turns into a zombie who only cares about his next meal and nothing else. To rebuild mentally would take forever because holocaust prisoners went through terrible conditions, physically and mentally every single day. Wiesel was transformed into a person resembling his past self and the Nazis ensured this by crushing his religious beliefs, playing with his emotions, destroying his psychological mindset, and changing the father-son relationship. This is why Wiesel wrote this book so that hopefully no one will have to go through torture again because if we are not educated on the subject this could happen again..