Throughout the novel, Elie struggles to retain his humanity in the face of nearly insurmountable hardship. His outlook on life, faith, and humanity completely changes as he describes the horrors of living in a concentration camp. For example, his relationship with his father evolves as the child becomes the parent—Elie is forced to care for his father, when normally parents are meant to care for their children. Elie resents this, saying, "If only I could...
Throughout the novel, Elie struggles to retain his humanity in the face of nearly insurmountable hardship. His outlook on life, faith, and humanity completely changes as he describes the horrors of living in a concentration camp. For example, his relationship with his father evolves as the child becomes the parent—Elie is forced to care for his father, when normally parents are meant to care for their children. Elie resents this, saying, "If only I could get rid of this dead weight." It is also incredible and horrifying to Elie that anyone could inflict the kind of pain on others that he experiences at the camp. He doesn't understand how anyone could treat other human beings like they are nothing, and he loses faith in the goodness of humanity.
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