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The Book Thief By Elie Wiesel Sparknotes

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The terrible actions Elie Wiesel had become victim to changed his faith in religion and what he lived for. Amazingly through it all he refused to die which left us with his terrifying memory ”night”. Throughout the memoir Elie is faced with many challenges that make him question his faith and change his morals for his father. Despite his father’s asserts Elie was very religious for such a young boy; He would study Talmud day to night.He tried to believe the stories of the camps from Moishe the Beadle, but couldn’t; he didn’t think his God would let such a thing happen. Only feeling pity he keep his faith according to pages 7-8 “ Even I (Elie) did not believe him (Moishe)...all i felt …show more content…

He believed if they could make it out alive together that they would be all he needed. Throughout the memoir Elie's father slowly starts to rely him more and more; it is as if all the horrifying things they encountered pulled them closer together. While being transferred from one camp to another by train while snowing many of the jew froze to death and was thrown off the train; Elie’s father was huddle beside Elie not moving. Elie started to worry that his father was in fact dead. Suddenly two “gravediggers” appeared thinking that he was. If his father was dead Elie would have had no other reason to fight; this is asserted by a desperate Elie on pages 98-99 “What if he were dead...there would be no longer a reason to live… I threw myself onto his body… I hit him harder and harder… my father half opened his eyes… breathing faintly… you see I cried” Elie was relieved to see his father alive; he started to cry. Even if it was freezing outside and he was on the verge of death his main priority was his father. Toward the end of the memoir Elie’s father gets extremely sick and is put in the crematorium. Elie no longer had a reason to fight; no one to lean on. Elie wrote on page 113 “ I shall not describe my life during that period… nothing mattered to me anymore.” Elie spent most that time doing nothing; if he did it was lazily. He didn't think his life mattered, so nothing mattered to

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