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Saturday, February 16, 2019

How does Elie Wiesel change in response to his concentration camp exper

Everyday, we go through situations and experiences that claim us in someway, perhaps even change us. Different situations have diverse effects. The more difficult the situation is, the more of an effect it has on us. Those punishing times can be called tribulation. How do we, as humans, react to rigourousness? What are the possible effects it may have?An example of adversity is the Holocaust - Hitlers plan to exterminate the Jews. In the memoir, Night, we discover how Elie Wiesel changes in response to his concentration camp experiences. The separation from his loved ones and the horrible conditions of these camps affect Elie immensely. Elie is affected in the following ways physically, emotionally and spiritually. The Holocaust had changed him into a completely different person.Physically, Elie basically changes from a healthy human macrocosm into a walking skeleton. The Jews can be described as shin and bones. They were also extremely weak. Being forced to work at their lab or camps must have been extremely difficult. The lack of food served at the camps, as well as the poor quality of what is being served do him that way. The Jews were only fed bread and soup. It gets to the point where everything revolves around food and apiece persons own survival. For example, on page 104, Elies take claims that the other prisoners were beating him. Elies then says I began to abuse his neighbors...

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