Rick Grimes Character Analysis

Elie's faith was once strong but now it is weak because of the Germans. Once he arrived at camp Elie's faith had already weakened. Once experiencing everything at the camp Elie stopped praying and taking part in Jewish activities. This should encourage others to make up their own minds. You can make your own opinions and have your own

The Book of Eli is the Bible. The worldview depicted in the movie is that of Theism. Eli held this worldview through his belief of Christianity in my opinion. Although the movie never actually states that Eli is a Christian, he was tasked with delivering the words of the Bible to the west. The bible is considered to be a written record of how God communicated with man. Although they are many different types of bibles, the common factor is this book is full of scriptures and text considered sacred. Eli is on a mission to head to the west, I feel it is God telling him to go west to complete this extraordinary task. Along the way he encounters Carnegie and his followers. You have heard the phrase knowledge is power, and power corrupts.

While Elie was in the concentration camp he changed the way he acted. This new behavior led him to develop new character traits. While Ellie was in the concentration camp he became angry at many things. For example “I would have dug my nails into the criminals flesh” (Wisel 39). Elie shows extreme anger when the Nazi officials are beating Elie’s father. Elie was angry because the Nazi soldiers were not treating them nicely and keeping them in poor conditions. Elie was usually not a person to display anger, but he shows this when his family members are being hurt. Elie wants to stand up for what is right and for his family members. Despite his studying, Elie wavered in his belief in Kabbalah while he was at the camp. Elie was a religious boy before he went to Auschwitz, but while in the camp, he became angry at God. In the book Elie says, “‘Where are You, my God?’” (66). Elie is wondering why God is not helping the Jews. Elie had complete faith in his religion until he experienced and witnessed such horrible suffering. He had been taught that God will punish evil and save the righteous. However, when Elie saw that God was not helping the Jews situation,

Elie and his family never thought the rumors would ever reach them. Until one day it did. Sending them to ghettos, making them leave their lives behind. “I looked at my house in which I had spent years seeking my God, fasting to hasten the coming of the Messiah, imagining what my life would be like later. Yet I felt little sadness. My mind was empty.” (page 19) Elie didn’t know what to think. No one had a clue as to where they were going to be located now. The place where he used to worship his god was beginning to be taken away from him. He doesn’t realize that his god would make him feel so betrayed and little

On page 91, he sees that the Rabbi’s son starts to abandon his father to empty himself of that burden. Elie prays that he doesn’t become selfish enough to turn against his father. “Oh God, Master of the

At one point, Eli and the rest of the prisoners witness a little boy being hung. He had been there, hanging from the gallows, between life and death for more than half an hour. Behind Eli, he heard a man asking, " For God's sake, where is God? And from within me... there he is-hanging from the gallows"(pg 65). The quote shows Eli starting to lose his faith because he feels like God is just there watching the people suffer but not doing anything to stop

Eliezer's main conflict that governs the story would be sustaining his belief in God. This

Understanding how his life is centered around religion is important in understanding how he has changed throughout the story. On page one of the book Elie states “During the day I studied the Talmud, and at night I ran to the synagogue to weep over the destruction of the temple”. The way he spends his time and his life devoted to his religion shows how dedicated he is. On page sixteen as he leaves his house before going to the ghetto one of the last things he states is “ I looked at our house, where I had spent so many years in my search for God; in fasting in order to hasten the coming of the Messiah; in

At this point I was convince Eliezer wasn’t Elie anymore. That his nickname ringed in his ears with emptiness and not a trace of sweet or aching reminiscing. He already lost his foundation at first - everything he grew up to know and everyone he grew to love. If that wasn’t enough his faith in God was stomped on and all of of his passion and love, along with nearly every other emotion, was forgotten and he could no longer remember all of the happiness he felt before. His heart was hollow. All he was now was a soulless boy who was forced to be a man too

Elie was deeply devoted to his faith at the beginning but as the story progresses he loses that devotion and barely believes that there is a God that exists. The first signs of him losing his faith was when he arrived at the first camp and saw the horrible things people were doing to the Jews. Other people around him had already lost faith in God and Elie was beginning to doubt God due to Him allowing people to do this to others. “His

No matter how hard life can be, we can overcome it with God’s help. He is the reason he survived. He is the reason we are here. Elie kept his faith through the whole experience. That is amazing for someone who faced that much persecution and kept on worshiping

During Kaddis is when Eli finally realized that he has lost his faith. He no longer wanted to be a part of anything. “But now, I no longer pleaded for anything. I was no longer able to lament. On the contrary, I felt very strong. I was the accuser, God the accused,”(68). Even though he no longer was devoted, it opened another door for him, just like the saying when one door closes another one opens. All the events that Eli went through were traumatic and it took him so long to lose what he loved, faith.

We encounter Elie’s lost of faith throughout the book. Once he was separate he was brought to an area where bodies were being thrown into a fire. He started losing his faith in humanity once he saw the cruel things that were happening. When people lose there faith, they lose their faith in God and themselves. They start looking on the negative side of life and just lose their focus for what they wanted. Elie would want to study the Cabala but his father didn’t approve of it. He would always look out for not just his family but the people around him. Elie would always pray but wouldn't know why. He fascinated with Judaism so he goes without his father’s permission to learn more. “Never shall I forget those flames, which consumed my faith forever.” on page 45 clearly tells us that his faith was lost due to the fact that bodies were being thrown into the flames. As the book

I believe that becuse in the Novel of Night Ellie had The choice to stay with his dad running in fear from the SS Officeirs or to just let the SS Officers get him dad then get punished. I think that was a hard decion to make for elie. Becuse some of the results were either Death and or getting seriously hurt by doing.

"Disoriented", the one word Rick Grimes uses to describe the moments he has been through before reuniting with his family. In a world driven into a apocalypse, filled with the undead and anarchy, everyone's will and faith are tested. One will either be changed for worst or for the better. This essay will analyze the actions of Rick Grimes, present my ideas if I were in Ricks position, and to answer for the actions of one more character.