How Does Elie Wiesel Change Throughout The Novel

There were many situations that Elie Wiesel has experienced which brought about a change in his character. In the memoir, Night, Elie Wiesel changes in response to his concentration camp experiences. The separation from his loved ones and the horrible conditions of these camps affected Elie greatly. The Holocaust affected Elie physically, emotionally and also spiritually.
Elie changed physically by being a healthy human being into a walking skeleton. The Jews can be described as “skin and bones”. The Jews were extremely weak. They were forced to work at labor camps, which must’ve been extremely difficult. The lack of food served at the concentration camps, as well as poor quality of what was served made him that way. They were only fed stale bread and thing soup. They were eating as little as 300 calories a day! The average person should be having 1500-2000 calories a day. It gets to the point where everything revolves around food and each person’s survival. According to page 104, Elie’s father claims that
The reason why Japanese victims were taken in camps because the U.S thought they were threats since the Japanese American citizens’ ancestors were originally from Japan. Since Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, the U.S was extremely paranoid. Jews were forced into concentration camps because Germans truly thought they were the reason why they lost to WWI. Hitler believed white European people to be the founders of culture and specifically blonde hair blue eyed northern Europeans to be the peak of human kind, Jews did not fit these ideas culturally or racially. Jews were seen as non-German and alien to German culture. Conditions in some of the American internment camps were certainly harsh, and some guards were petty minded. However, the intention of the extermination camps and the forced labor camps was to kill the Jews, not to intern them. (Chris Fryer,