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I have looked throughout chapter 4 and have still not found it.

The only things that Elie took interest in were his bread and soup.  This is stated in the book at the very end of the section where Elie describes his encounter with the camp dentist and explains how he managed to keep from having his gold crown extracted.  He writes, "Bread, soup--these were my whole life.  I was a body.  Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach.  The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time" (Wiesel 50).  He is trying to explain why he could not feel remorse or sorrow for the fact that the dentist was sent to prison to be hanged, why he actually felt pleased with the turn of events.  It is another way to show the loss of humanity and faith he reached while in the hands of the Nazis.

Survival.  It as this point in the work where we begin to see the life aspect to Eliezer take on the meaning of survival.  One critical element of this chapter and those that follow display the reality that the Nazi treatment of so many robbed them of "living" life through dehumanization.  In the process, many might have been living, but they had stopped living a life worth living when captured by the Nazis.  This chapter in the book marks the point where life became about survival, losing any element of being "human in the process.