Elie has changed dramatically in many ways over the course of time he has been in the concentration camps. As the holocausts go on Elie hope that he and his family make it through the horrors. Elie has seen the starting and ending of life during his time in the holocausts. Elie’s family is slowly lost one by one at the hands of the nazis. Elie has seen things a 14 year should never bear eyes on. The concentration camps changed Elie emotionally, physically, and spiritually. Concentration camps changed Elie emotionally. The males and females are separated, mom and sister are leaving. Elie said “I saw them disappear into the distance; my mother stroking sisters fair hair” (27). Elie is feeling left aside from his mother and sister. Therefore this changes Elie from ok to sad with the loss of his mother and sister. People are being through alive into the fir filled ditches. As Elie saw the lorries drive up to the fire ditch “delivered its load of children. Babies!” (30). Elie is now terrified from the seen he just …show more content…
Elie is going to be whipped for messing with someone else's affairs. Elie said “ I was aware of nothing but the strokes of the whip” (54). Elie has changed because he’s never been whipped for something he did wrong/scars. This is physical to the next level. All the jews in the camp have to leave and go to another. Elie is being physically tested “Don’t think. Don’t stop. Run.”. Elie is forced to push the limit on his endurance or he will be shot/over worked. Pushing the physical support Elie has to the breaking point. Elie is in a hospital after food poisoning and gets to see himself in a mirror. As Elie was getting closer to the mirror he didn’t know what to expect, “A corpse gazed back at me” (109). Elie went from a innocent 13 year old to looking like a corpse in three years. In this time Elie changed a lot with work and looks. In conclusion Elie went through a lot of physical changes like work and