Everybody has experienced a life changing moment at some point in their life. The majority of us will never go through something as horrific as Elie Wiesel did. There is no possible way that anyone could come out of an event, such as the Holocaust, unchanged. This traumatic experience changed Elie Wiesel's outlook on life forever. He was affected in three distinctive ways: physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Physical torment and suffering is very tough for any human being to go through. For Holocaust victims, especially Elie Wiesel, the torture they faced turned them into "walking skeletons." Prisoners were given very little food during their time in the camps. What little food they were given was old and nasty. When Elie Wiesel was rescued, he probably weighed no more than sixty pounds. His personal experience in the death camps provided long lasting physical problems after he was rescued. Weisel learned that the best way to make it through the tough times was to move on because there is no way to change the past. Not only was Elie Wiesel physically changed, but also he was emotionally scarred for the rest of his life. While in the Concentration Camps, Elie's sense of care is run out of him by the need to survive. Unfortunately, his lack of caring made him feel like his dying father was a burden restraining him from survival. Elie Wiesel's spiritual changes after the Concentration Camps could be the most important effect on his life. Before he was taken by the Nazis to Auschwitz, Elie Wiesel was a young happy Jew who believed in God and wanted to further study His word. Once he is taken prisoner, his view changes drastically. It is because of the images he sees, such as babies being thrown into furnaces, makes him question the existence of God. Elie now thinks that there must not be a God if situations like this occur. His struggles can be related to Harold Kushner;s quote, "Things just happen by chance. You cannot have a God t