By the end of the novel Elie had most definitely changed in character. That is a big deal, too. Your character is who you are. It's what you believe and how you act, what you feel and who you know. When we first met Elie he was a young, independent, very driven 15 year old boy. As the novel progresses and we read the torture that Elie goes through we can kind of predict that he isn't going to be the same. He comes out of the Holocaust a survivor, but had lost all hope in what he knew. In this final section of Night I felt as if I was there with Elie going through the death march, throwing out the dead bodies of the men that have died, and being tormented by German townspeople as they cruelly throw little pieces of bread into the street just so they can watch the Jews fight over it. Reading about the bread being thrown into the street made me sick to my stomach. You would think I would be used to reading about this sort of treatment by now, but I guess I kept thinking to myself that things couldn't get any worse; and then I kept reading and saw that. We learn that this instance changed Elie's perspective on mankind, and if I was in his position, I think I would have questioned that a long time ago. In this last section we also read about the death of Elie's father which broke my heart. On the journey to Buchenwald, Wiesel becomes very weak, so weak that he doesn't have the ability to push through the pain any longer. His son does the best he can to try and take care of his old man but because of the fear of being scolded and hurt by an officer he has to let his father go. That night, January 28, 1945 when Elie finally falls asleep the last words that he had heard come out of his father's mouth was his name. "Eliezer..." he weakly said. Janury 29th, the next morning, he did not see his father lying down in his cot. Instead there was another soon to be dead Jew.  "I did not weep, and it pained me not to weep. But I was out of tears. And deep inside me, if I could have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like: Free at last!..." (112). This quote, in my opinion, was when I knew that Elie did not care about anything anymore. His only goal was to try and live, although he did not know what to live for. He had nothing to believe in. The time he spent at that camp, he learned that it was every man for himself. No one was there to look out for each other, so how was anyone supposed to survive? It as almost as if everyone that was part of this disgusting Holocaust turned into lifeless souls. But then again, I would probably be the same way. What really got to Elie, I think, was just before his father died what one of the Blockalteste said to him. "In this place, it is every man for himself, and you cannot think of others. Not even your father. In this place, there is no such thing as father, brother, friend. Each of us dies and lives alone" (110). Elie was alone. Without a mother, father, sisters or friends. But that did not seem to phase him in the end. Nothing did, not even being alive really. This boy went through a series of very unfortunate events along with millions of others; but he was able to survive. He left the concentration camp knowing he did not have a father or a mother or anyone for that matter. The poor boy had nothing, nothing but his dreadful, sickening past that will forever haunt him.