“‘Blessed be the name of the eternal!’ Why, but why should I bless Him? In every fiber I rebelled. Because He had had thousands of children burned in His pits?”. In Night, Elie goes through an internal struggle with his belief/religion. In chapter five of this book it is more visible than ever.
In an excerpt of chapter five, Elie goes on to talk about the times in the Bible that man had betrayed God. In this thought he thinks, “When You were deceived by Adam and Eve, You drove them out of Paradise. When Noah’s generation displeased You, You brought down the Flood.” This shows that Elie recognizes that men have made mistakes in the past. Elie says You instead of God to emphasize his hatred to God. Elie is angry because he thinks that it is God's fault for how much he and others had suffered through. He goes on to talk about how the men around him continue to stay faithful to God, even though they have suffered so much. In his hatred he thinks, “But these men here, whom You have betrayed, whom You have allowed to be tortured, butchered, gassed, burned, what do they do? They pray before You! They praise Your name!” Elie is angry at God for what has happened, and shows
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In the beginning of his speech story, God was everything to him. He worshipped him and prayed to him every day of his life. Then the Holocaust began, and his faith started to dwindle as he suffered more and more. His suffering and pain of others are causing him to stray away from God, and he starts to rely on his feelings and his personal health. His life was once dominated by God, but now he does not care about his religion as much as he once did. Elie continues to think, “Once, I had believed profoundly that upon one solitary deed of mine, one solitary prayer, depended the salvation of the world.” This shows that he thinks that it no lingers matter if he continues to pray. This shows that his religion was once everything to him and now he has lost a bunch of his faith due to the