Doing this for the Jews, signifies that they are giving blessings over the dead and asking protection over themselves. Throughout the book, Elie’s faith in God goes back and forth. “For the first time, I felt revolt rise up in me. Why should I bless His name? The Eternal, Lord of the Universe, the All-Powerful and Terrible, was silent. What had I to thank Him for?” Elie at this point in the story, when he says this, is no longer wanting to praise and thank God because of what He is making all the Jews suffer through. Yet today, when people practice in a religion, they do it mainly without much question, they always have faith and don’t stop believing completely because something doesn’t go the way they planned. People who chose to believe in a religion do it whole-heartedly. But sometimes, just like Elie did, some people do sometimes question if God’s justice or mercy is there. While Elie was in camp, because everything was happening the way they were, he would sometimes question if everything he had believed and grown up with his whole life, was really …show more content…
Families were being torn apart and sent to either the left, for men, or the right for women. Once they were separated, not a lot of them knew that this was going to be the last time they saw each other. After this point in the story Elie is with his dad and that is his only family left now. “My hand tightened its grip on my father. All I could think of was not to lose him. Not to remain alone… It was imperative to stay together.” In the beginning Elie didn’t want to lose his father, no matter how hard it was to make sure they stayed together and alive, he wanted to stay with his father. But later in the story after being in the camp for a while, Elie began to change. Because of everything that was happening in the camp, Elie had to learn how to resent his father because he couldn’t risk getting in trouble and being killed. Once, when Elie and his father were working, his father started being beaten. Elie stands there and lets it happen. “I had watched it all happening without moving. I kept silent. In fact, I thought of stealing away in order not to suffer the blows. What’s more, if I felt anger at that moment, it was not directed at the Kapo but at my father. Why couldn’t he have avoided Idek’s wrath? That was what life in a concentration camp had made of me” Now normally, in this generation, people would do anything to keep their family alive and to keep them from getting hurt. They