The tone from the author in this chapter was that he was angry, but was also sad. The author felt angry in this chapter because of when he was writing, he wrote about how the eve of Rosh Hashanah was the last day of that “cursed year”. Also, in the fourth paragraph of this chapter, he quoted “What are You, my God? I thought angrily.” showing his anger at that moment and when he was writing it, but would end up coming back to his religion sometime later. After he had given up hope for his god, he had felt alone, this showed sadness, and gave the reader an idea of how much his religion meant to him during this period; however, he still threw it away. Elie thinks on pg. 68 “But look at these men you have betrayed, slaughtered, gassed, and burned, what do they do? They pray before You! They praise Your name!”. The author gives some foreshadowing to what happens next in that sentence by continuing to capitalize whenever he spoke of God, showing he would get his faith back, or that he still has some faith left, …show more content…
When Elie decides not to fast, its a sign that he is moving further away from God, and is not accepting his “silence”. The tone now is angry, but still has some sadness. This tone should make the reader think that Elie won’t go back to God, and will keep on rebelling because of his silence towards “his people.” On page 69, the sentence “I looked up at my father’s face, trying to glimpse a smile or something