Eli's Mistake: A Narrative Fiction

From the time where Elie had to decide to fight for his father’s life, to the time where he questioned his beliefs, Elie has had to make many life-changing decisions. As some of his decisions left negative consequences, some were left a positive outcome. In the end, all the decisions Elie had made in the camps has made his life miserable or at its best. For better or for worse, the events that Elie encountered makes his life unforgettable as realizes there was more to life than he had thought of

This shows Elie’s change in his thoughts on God and having faith. At the beginning of the story, Elie strives to be a spiritual kid and is fascinated by learning about God. He goes behind his father's back to learn about God with Moishe the Beadle, and has intense prayers everyday which he cries during. However, he becomes bitter towards God, angry about all the pain he has inflicted on the Jewish race. This change in perspective was brought on by the torture, abuse, and inhumane treatment by the Nazis. It causes Elie to question how God, who is supposed to be helpful and good, could ever allow such horror. This connects to loss, and how the traumatic

In Jared Diamond’s “The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race” he kicks off by telling readers the negative effects agriculture has placed on our world that still follows us today. He believes that “with agriculture came the gross social and sexual inequality, the disease and despotism that curse our existence” and that this will continue on until a change occurs (Diamond1). He explains the progressivist perspective as well but uses their reasoning as a way to back up his. Diamond is correct that human’s worst mistake is beginning agriculture because more problems occurred than it actually solved and humans are not better off this way.

How they were making them feel worthless and how they were making them feel all these negative things, Ellie tried to keep his faith but at the end of it he just couldn't do it anymore. One piece of evidence that supports that is “PRESSED TIGHTLY AGAINST one another, in an effort to resist the cold, our heads empty and heavy, our brains a whirlwind of decaying memories” (page 98). This shows that Elie is losing himself in the process of being physically and mentally abused by these people and he can’t take it anymore. Which this also goes along with the theme, by how it represents that Elie is going through this traumatic experience and he's losing himself along the way. Another piece of evidence is “AT THE ENTRANCE TO THE CAMP, SS officers were waiting for us. We were counted… The old, familiar fear: not to lose him” (page 104). When Ellie says that he doesn't want to lose “him” he's talking about his father. His father is the only family he has now that his other family members were taken away, Ellie is living inn in the dark and in fear of losing his father, he's scared. This connects to the theme by how he is once again in fear, of many things, but his main fear is losing his father and he's losing everything and he doesn't want to lose anything else he doesn't want to become any less of a person he doesn’t want to become any less emotionless.

All three fathers came to this terrible place with their sons. Only one father survived after their sons left them. Elie didn’t want to leave his father, he was the last thing that kept his father alive. Elie would do anything to be with his father. The other sons changed, they knew that their fathers were falling behind. Elie didn’t let his father fall behind he pushed him to stay alive.

In the story Elie was whipped savagely by the Kapo, and all he can think about is his father. Later in the new camp Elie's father is giving up on life and Elie tries to make him move. There is an allied air raid and for the first time Elie leave his father.(wiesel pg. 106) This proves he finally gave up on his father. He started off in the story really caring about his father sacrificing his own safety just so he could stay close to him. After his father was struck ill in the new camp he gave up on him. In the story Elie wanted to keep his shoes even if that meant he would get tormented even more. This show he has a very strong will and loves things that give him a glimmer of hope. At the end when his father died he stopped caring and lost all hope in surviving the

Sometimes in the worst conditions we turn from God, losing faith in him and give into the present events. This happened to Elie Wiesel author of Night which accounts the events of him surging the Holocaust and losing faith in God. Weisel previously was a Jewish bible scholar but after going to through the horrific events the holocaust held, he started to not believe and lost hope. If he had remembered some of the many verses he had learned he could have kept his faith.

In Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie wrote about his journey through the Holocaust and how it impacted his faith. Before the Holocaust, Elie became very passionate about Judaism, but his learning was stopped abruptly because the Nazis had arrived. The Nazis took away his teacher, along with his neighbors. Soon, the Nazis came back for the remaining citizens and loaded them into a train. This was the beginning of the Holocaust, in which Elie would experience many horrific events. Throughout Night, Elie’s faith decreases because of the harsh conditions of concentration camps and the declining health of his father.

This quote is making you feel for Elie and his father because you want to have pity on his father but you also want to feel the way Elie does because his father has caused him so much pain.

The experience Elie goes through during this time period changes his perspective on his faith and beliefs greatly. Before being taken by the Natzis Ellie cared highly about his faith and wanted to pursue the study of God. However, when captured by the Germans, he starts to question where his faith lies. After witnessing and undergoing the concentration camps, Elie loses all faith and hope in God, as he is left with nothing to believe in anymore. The holocaust is one of the most important events to be aware of in our history and the effect it had on so many people and on an individual as well, as shown in the way it changed Elie and his faith forever.

Elie’s faith in his Lord and his instinctive love for humanity are put to their final tests as the novel approaches its climax and conclusion. After witnessing the malicious, brutal hanging of an innocent child, Elie comes to the

What would he do without me? I was his sole support,” (86). By this, Elie reinforces the idea that one could not live without the other; they were each other’s support system. Elie lived for his father and his father lived for him; without this unstated arrangement between the two, neither would have attempted to endure the countless trials they were thrown into any longer. After finally being allowed to stop running, the exhausted men that made it through, wanted nothing more than to

Elie starts to have doubts about god he misses his mother and his sister but he lost all hope because the camps were dehumanizing him and made him lose his character and who he used to be but his old self never thought to ever look down on god but he had no other options but too he didn't know if he would ever make it

“Behind me, I heard the same man asking: “Where is God now?” And I heard a voice within me answer him: “Where is he? Here He is—He is hanging here on this gallows…”” (Chapter four, page 62). This is the most significant quote because Elie is expressing how he is losing faith in his God that he has lived for since he was a boy. He is revealing how he feels about God’s non-existent actions to try and help him, his family, and everyone else in those camps. This quote represents how much the camps have immensely changed his life for the worst and how he does not think that his situation could ever improve. He is no longer believing that God is on his side in this war. Elie took the death of the child as a sign that God was not helping anyone

This book interested me because it is a great example of what so many people went through in concentration camps throughout Europe in World War II. So many books have been written about personal accounts of war hardships suffered by the Jews but so few capture the true problems faced by prisoners. The impossible decision between survival and family was a difficult one faced by many during this time. Elie had an unfaltering will to live when his father was alive with him but once his father died the reason for living disappeared. But he once was faced with the decision of helping to keep his father alive or let him die and have an extra ration of food. How can one be stuck with a decision like this and not choose survival? Only true unselfishness can cause you to help someone