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

father to find me a master who could guide me in the studies of the Kabbalah.” (3) This shows how eager to learn Elie is at the beginning, as well as how devoted he has become to his religion. The next quote I use happens shortly after Elie and his family have been brought to the concentration camp. “Only yesterday I would have dug my nails into the criminals flesh.” (39) This shows how quickly the camp was able to break a person down to the point they are almost not themselves.
From around the middle of the memoir, towards the end of the book, Elie changes his views on religion.

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

mentally.
Elie Wiesel goes through a dramatic change over the course of the book when he survived the Holocaust. When Elie first began his memoir, he was just a young kid who had no troubles really who also wanted to learn more about his religion. But after arriving at the camp, it didn't take long for the Nazis to break him down so he was no longer who he used to be. Although, midway through the book, Elie loses faith in his religion, and refuses to praise the almighty God in an inner conflict as he contemplates whether God is really there, or he isn’t as almighty as he always believed. Also, as shown at the end of the book, Elie no longer sees himself as himself. He completely separated the boy who went to the concentration camp, to the young adult who came out. Elie Wiesel survived one of the most tragic events the world has ever known; as a result, he is no longer the young, innocent boy who started the story, but a man who lacks the emotional strength to continue as if it never happened.