I believe Eli was right. He was sent on a mission from God. Religion plays a huge role in our everyday lives. It brings faith and hope to people. Without hope and prayer we would not have the ability to identify the difference of good and evil. Eli’s faith is the reason he was able to finish his mission that God sent him on. Eli is an emblem of a prophetic voice. He had the gift of speaking upon God’s interest that is evoked specifically by God himself. He walked upon wasteland carrying the hope for humanity's redemption. Despite the arduous obstacles Eli had to face his trust in God never adulterated. God was protecting Eli throughout the entirety of the movie. In return Eli followed his destiny to the west until he was lifeless. He was able …show more content…
He killed men in order to protect the book and himself. Eli’s judgement was trumped by his mission. He was put in situations that made him make unethical and ethical decisions. He did what he thought was right for the sake of the Bible: to help save mankind. Eli was trying to make the world a better place. He used his knowledge and fighting skills to his advantage to defend the book and himself, I do not think there is anything wrong with that. Eli had God on his side. God was there to protect and defend Eli in each oppressive situation. The book is symbolized as mankind's salvation. I believe that the rebuilding of humanity needs to be protected especially after a nuclear war.
Eli would have done anything to finish his mission by bringing the book to the sea. Eli needed to make the decisions and take these actions to rebuild civilization. To give the world a chance. Knowledge is power. This book had the power of guiding the us to finding hope and religion. Just one step closer to building civilization. Eli did everything in his power to bring that book to the sea. He did this to better the world. He had to kill the strong in order to protect the
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Despite his wrongdoings he was able to show kindness and benevolence. He would not kill for no reason, he killed because he was threatened. Eli came across a store to charge his Ipod in. When we went up to the counter the cashier pulled a gun out on Eli. He quickly took the gun and pointed it straight back at the cashier showing ascendence. Eli did not choose to shoot or kill this man. He simply put the gun back down. Eli had a choice. This validates that he is ethically making the right decisions. He gave people a chance in every scenario he was put in. In the bar, Carnegie's men attacked him. Eli stated “From the Earth you come to, the Earth you shall return” Eli warned his men that they were going to die. His men thought nothing of this because Eli was outnumbered. He did not seek violence. He did what he had to do in order to protect the book and finish his mission. Eli never elevated himself above others. He never distinguished superior characteristics towards people unless he had
He could not believe that the God he followed tolerated such things. During times of sorrow, when everyone was praying and sanctifying His name, Elie no longer wanted to praise the Lord; he was at the point of giving up. The fact that the “Terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent”(33) caused Elie to lose hope and faith. When one chooses to keep silent about such inhumanity going on, they are just as destructive as the one causing the brutality.... ...
“Blessed be Gods name? Why? But why would I bless him?” Elie says that on page 67 of this book. To me, when Elie says this, he shows his anger towards God and about everything that he is letting happen. He began to wonder, if he was God, why he was letting all the Germans do horrible things to them. However, this never made any sense to Elie. He was always contemplating the existence of God. On page 69 while supper is being served and the Jews are supposed to be fasting because of Yom Kippur, this Jewish holiday would require them to fast, Elie’s father required him to eat because it was to risky for Elie to starve or become sick if he didn’t. Elie then says, “And then, there was no longer any reason for me to fast.” “I no longer accepted God’s silence.” Elie ...
The choices that Elie made, seemed to be the right decisions. “Here, you must work. If you don’t you will go straight to the chimney. To the crematorium. Work or crematorium--the choice is yours.”
Due to the atrocities of the concentration camps, Elie lost his faith in God. Early on in the story, Elie used to leap over ancient temples and study the Kabbalah. In his old town, he used to complain to Moishe the Beadle “ I told him how unhappy I was not to able to find in Sighet a master to teach me the Zohar.”(Wiesel,5) This shows him complaining about not having a teacher. But as he started to go through the camps, he saw what was going on and started to
In another example, Elie himself witnessed a furnace in action burning infants as the smoke and fire started to pump into the air. His reaction was rather fearful and unsure if he was going to be next when in line. He knew that what he was seeing was real, and that it was truly brutal. And lastly, the march from Buna to Gleiwitz. This was the winter march in which Elie noticed that Hitler was actually sticking to his word about getting rid of all Jews. He keeps saying “It’s actually happening” over and over again to express his fear, concern, and state of mind. With the situation at the time, it was clear to see how one can be fearful of death and how it can strike at any moment. Then again, some just left for dead. The wrong in this was when Elie noticed that the march caused the Jews to turn against each other as some trampled across one another to move or later on when a kid killed his dad for a couple of bread crumbs. In conclusion, free will and conscience reside in any individual and makes it completely possible for one to judge right from
While facing struggle and adversity, a spiritually connected person may battle with his or her faith. In chapter 5, the Jewish prisoners are all gathered together and are a little anxious on whether or not this will be their last day on earth. They have been tormented because of their beliefs and now there are many questioning their quarrels with God. Elie is struggling to understand why God himself is rejecting and punishing those who serve him and give him his grace but yet are rewarding those who permits others to be gassed and killed.
It also shows extreme resilience when Elie’s father passes away. Elie remains living as he did before, and he does not shed a single tear, showing that he is being resilient (Wiesel 112). For a teenager to be as resilient as Elie is through a time like this is astonishing considering anyone else probably would not have been able to keep going when they had to run past the point of exhaustion and act completely normal at a time when his father passes away. Elie Wiesel wrote the book in a way that it showed just how cruel it was, and it allowed the readers to see that this is a serious thing and that it needs to be made sure that it does not happen again. He wanted readers to take away from it exactly what happened within his story, and be fully aware of what went
Eliezer loses faith in god. He struggles physically and mentally for life and no longer believes there is a god. "Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my god and my soul and turned my dreams to dust..."(pg 32). Elie worked hard to save himself and asks god many times to help him and take him out of his misery. "Why should I bless his name? The eternal, lord of the universe, the all-powerful and terrible was silent..."(pg 31). Eliezer is confused, because he does not know why the Germans would kill his face, and does not know why god could let such a thing happen. "I did not deny god's existence, but I doubted his absolute justice..."(pg 42). These conditions gave him confidence, and courage to live.
Instead of brushing this feeling off, he decided to face this feeling and wanted to help his father more by finding him some soup. This action shows that Elie is not a brute because he is still capable of feeling empathy and compassion towards his father.
In the beginning of the memoir, Elie is an extremely passionate and devout Jew, but as the story progresses, Elie sees horrendous things in the concentration camps, and as a result, he slowly loses his faith. Elie displays his extreme devotion in the beginning stages of the memoir when he states, “By day I studied Talmud and by night I would run to the synagogue to weep over the destruction of the Temple. I cried because something inside me felt the need to cry” (Wiesel 4). Elie is clearly very fond of learning more about his religion and connecting to God in a spiritual way. Furthermore, Elie is only thirteen years old, so when he says he cries because he feels the need to cry, he is exhibiting incredible passion. Elie reveals signs of change and begins to lose his faith in God just a few moments after arriving at the concentration camp when he says, “Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever. Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes” (Wiesel 34). Elie exclaims that he cannot worship God anymore due to the awful things he has seen at Auschwitz. He does not want to believe in the being that could have allowed these awful events to happen. This is a completely different Elie from the loving and caring Elie in the ghetto. Elie also uses rep...
When his father was beat up by the guard or even he was getting beat up by the Kapo. Elie could only think of himself, which is a good thing not wanting to get hurt for others in my opinion. Also, when Rabbi’s son ran away from him I would guess Elie would think of the same thing but instead wanted to protect his father. Then last when Elie’s father was about to die his last words was, “Elizer” which was Elies name. Elie was finally think that his duty is over on protecting his father. Also, Elie also thought, “free at last” which meant his can fend for him. So, his relationship with his father wasn’t good. Cause Elie thought the reason he is alive because of his father. That is why his relationship with his father wasn’t a good
...bers that he has a father and he forgot about him in the mob. “I knew he was running out of strength, close to death, and yet I had abandoned him” (p.106). Elie feels guilty for leaving his father when he needed Elie the most. After he wakes up he goes looking for his father. He feels as if he is responsible for taking care of his father. Elie replaces his faith with obligation to his father to help keep him going thought out the holocaust.
Elie is more concerned about his own safety but does everything g to help his father with out endangering himself. In the book Night, he was telling about when the SS guard were trying to throw his father out of the carriage and Elie says" I set to work slapping him as hard as I could.
By wanting to use the Bible for his own selfish means he showed that he was a true non believer. While Carnegie was a non-believer, Eli was a true believer in God. We see that Eli believed in doing God's work, but we also see that Eli lost sight of what was truly important. Eli was so concerned with saving the Bible he forget to try to save the people along the way. He tried to stay out of the fight but if he had to be involved he killed. If Eli had spread God's word as he made his journey west, he would have had a greater impact and he would had saved many lives instead of killing them. In Exodus 20:13 it states, “thou shall not kill,” (Bible). Eli went against his worldview every time he took another person's life. The biggest obstacles that Eli had to face was the post-apocalyptic world that they lived in. There was not enough food or water to go around. The people who managed to survive were desperate and many would do anything to get what they needed to survive. I believe that Eli would not have killed anyone if they had not tried to kill him first. If the times were different and he was making his journey in a more peaceful age, he could have made a journey that agreed 100% with his
This new behavior lead 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 putting them in poor conditions. Elie is usually not a person for 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. 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 now, when he is starting to question his beliefs. He had learned that God will punish evil and save the righteous. However, when Elie saw that God was not helping the Jews situation then asked himself the question, “Is God real?”. Elie became worried because he felt he had lost a companion that always seemed by his side at all times. He lost hope. While Elie was in the camp he had changed the way he acted towards his Dad. Before Elie was sent to the camp Elie had a love hate relationship with his dad. However while they were in the camp together they became closer. Elie showed this when, “I tightened my grip on my