They were becoming more strict and demanding. They were also getting lower rations of bread and soup. We also saw people’s moods change in the beginning. They were optimistic and in the middle, they were giving up hope, and they knew that the Red Army would be invading some camps soon so they had a change of leaving. People also started doubting their religion asking if there was such a god why would he do such a thing. At first Elie thought that the Nazi’s would bring him and his family to a better place when the end was nearing. He didn’t like the Nazi’s becasue of what they had done. Weisel grew up in the amount of time we saw. He had to deal with seeing death everyday, hard labor, and everything else in the Holocaust, all at the age of