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Prompt: How has Wiesel changed through the book?
Eliezel Wiesel has changed a lot in the book, one example is religion. In the beginning of the book he wanted to practice it and found Moshe and asked him to teach him all about his religion. "Why did I pray?... Why did I live? Why did I breathe?" Elie started questioning things like if God was actually watching him and why would he let this happen to them. Instead of being really religious he started losing faith in his religion.
Elie has changed emotionally too. When his father died he said, "I did not weep, and it pained me that I couldn't weep." Elie said this once he woke up and saw that his father had been missing. He also states earlier in the book that most people to be hung never cried, since they were out of tears. Elie is way less likely to cry now than before.
Elie and many other prisoners are now on survival instinct. They'll do anything to help themselves. For example, Kapos are Jewish prisoners turned into leaders. One told Eliezer, “Here, every man has to fight for himself and not think of anyone else… Here, there are no fathers, brothers, no friends. Everyone lives and dies for himself alone.” Eliezer had a though that he should be getting his father's rations and he shouldn't help him, then feels really guilty afterwards for even having that thought.
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