Elie Wiesel Research Paper

Elie Wiesel was a Holocaust survivor that wrote a book about his experience about the Holocaust and eventually published his book. Elie was separated from his family and was forced into a concentration camp with his father. In the book at the concentration camp the SS officers told everyone as soon as they got off the cattle wagons “Men to the left, and women to the right” (page 29). But how did Elie Wiesel’s character change before and after his experience of the Holocaust? During the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel changes from a spiritual, sensitive little boy to a spiritually dead, unemotional man. Elie Wiesel changed before and after the Holocaust by being separated from their families. Elie was really close to his family and the girls and the boys were separated so that meant that Elie had to be separated from his mom and his sisters, but he still had his dad to look forward to at the beginning. Elie eventually found out that all of the females eventually died during the Holocaust so Elie had to take time to digest that. When Elie’s father died in the crematorium, Elie was mainly relieved that his dad died because his dad was suffering a lot and Elie did not want to see him suffer no more and being worried about his father the …show more content…
Elie realized that there was a world out there that did not believe everyone was equal and that everyone had to handle it this way. Elie changed his hope on God because throughout the Holocaust, there was no God and nobody has heard from him. Elie saw everyone praying to God and still yet, there was silence. Elie had changed spiritually by seeing the side of Hitler and the SS officers for example, Hitler got soldiers to be on his side and treat people with no respect and give them the worst part of their life all because the one of the controlling men decided he did not like the