How Does Elie Wiesel Change

The Holocaust was a traumatic event that left those sent to concentration camps to fend for themselves. In the early 1940’s World War II began, Adolf Hitler was the Nazi party leader of Germany. Throughout the war, Hitler took away Jews rights forcing them into ghettos, and eventually forces them into concentration camps. Elie Wiesel was a Jewish teenager during this time, and he was to the most known concentration camp, Auschwitz. In the camp Elie is forced to do intense laborious work alongside his father, and sure enough, the camp broke him. Elie changed, to the point where things he normally would have done, normal reactions, were completely gone. Elie Wiesel goes through a dramatic change over the course of the memoir when he survived the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel begins to tell his story when he was thirteen years old, telling the reader a little about his life and religious beliefs. Although, once he arrived at Auschwitz, he even noticed the change in himself and it's only been a day. The following quote from the book shows an example of how Elie was before the going through the traumatic event. “One day I asked my

It doesn't take long for the Nazis to completely destroy Elie’s faith in God. The following quote by Elie Wiesel shows how much he has changed. “How could I say to Him: Blessed be Thou, Almighty, Master of the Universe, who chose us among all nations to be tortured day and night, to watch as our fathers, our mothers, our brothers end up in furnaces?”(67) This demonstrates Elie not wanting to support his God. The next quote shows how he separates himself completely from the boy who entered the camp to the one who came out. “The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me.” (115) In the statement before he refers to himself in third person implying that he no longer sees himself as who he was, not only physically but