When Elie says “That is what concentration camp life had made of me”, this shows how he’s been beaten down to the core. At the beginning of the novel, Elie was EXTREMELY religious and would do anything for god. But when he goes to the camps, he slowly starts losing his faith, up to the point where he’s given into it. When he watched his father get beaten up by Idek, he couldn’t do anything. Because if he had intervened, he would have been beaten up as well, or it could have been even worse. When Elie goes to the camps, his environment and situation start to take over him. Up until the point where he has no hope or faith left.
In the film The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, we follow an 8 year old boy named Bruno who’s growing up during the Nazi regime. His father is a higher up in the Nazi military, and is fed bad information about jewish people. But when they move to the countryside, Bruno meets a young boy named Shmuel who’s in …show more content…
Nazis came into their town and surprisingly didn’t do anything bad…..at first. When the Nazis arrived, they treated the Jews kindly at first. They complimented them and they gave them flowers, chocolate, and etc. The people of Hungary were able to trust the Nazis and had thought that they wouldn’t do anything harmful. But were soon founded to be wrong. The Nazis told the Jews to get into cars and sent them to the concentration camps. The Jews were fine with it at first, seeing how the Germans treated them before, they thought they were fine. But then, reality slowly started to sink in, and they all realized what their fate was going to be. When they headed to the camps Elie realized that they were lured and tricked into trusting them. Just like a mouse trap, the Naizs lured the Jews into trusting them, and then viciously attacked them. The Nazis tricking the Jews is the first example of how the Nazis dehumanized Elie and his