Before the camps Elie was a young healthy intelligent boy who showed no signs of any illness, however this all changed due to his time at the concentration camps. At the end of the book Elie looks in a mirror after several years, he explained how when he looked in the mirror a corps gazed back at him. This is due to the appalling food they were given. Many days they would go without food and would have to eat snow for water. There were many occasions such as on the trains in which they would kill each other for a piece of bread.

Elie was a young boy living his life at home with his family. He almost always obeyed his father. However in order for him to survive in the camps Elie had to change. He had to grow up quickly and fight for his life, look after his father and continue to be strong. Elie describes in the book "The child I was had been consumed in the flames." This was because he could no longer live a normal happy life, it is full of suffering. Elie was to forget his old life and concentrate on surviving. Examples of Elie's maturity is when he lied to Stiene about his family being alive and well as Stiene's survival depended on it. Elie also was mature in the way that he didn't respond like a child when he was being brutally hit.

Elie was a very religious boy who lived and breathed god. He would study Cabala by day and Tarhmould by night. Because of the tragic events lived by Elie and millions of other Jews in the camps Elie looses faith in god because he cant believe that god would let such horrible thing happen like babies being used as shooting targets. Elie explains how he shall "Never forget those moments which murdered my god and my soul and turned my dreams to dust". He also asks himself why he should continue to bless god because of all the thousands of kids bur

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