At the beginning his faith in God is absolute, but that faith changes by his experiences during the Holocaust. When times get rough Elie would defy God and curse him angered with their sense of injustice,”The Almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe, choose to be silent.” (33) E lie felt sentiment toward God after seeing people and children being burned in the Hawkins 2 crematoriums, but it isn't until the lowest moments he turns back to God. The time he he felt as if he was going to betray his father, like Rabbi Eliahu’s son has done, “Oh God, Master of the Universe, give me the strength
As Elie was becoming stronger his father Chlomo had a dramatically opposite effect and was slowly loosing faith. This was shown when Elie saw his father, a well-respected and stern man, crying after finally realizing his family’s fate. ‘My father was crying. It was the first time I had seen him cry. I had never thought it possible.’ At that point was when Chlomo and Elie’s relationship changed as Chlomo relies on Elie in order to get through the rough times they had ahead in the camps.
Even of his father..."(pg 105). Eliezer Wiesel loses his faith in God, family and humanity due to the experiences he has during his incarceration in the Nazi concentration camp. 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.
When Elie says, "I was thinking of my father. He must have suffered more than I did," it shows how he thinks about his father’s well-being even before his own. Although Elie helps his father, his strength is in himself. A Kapo told Elie, "Here there are no fathers, no brothers, no friends. Everyone lives and dies for himself alone.” Before the camps, Elie was religious and had a relationship with God.
Elie struggles to find trust in God, for he feels his God has abandoned him, allowing his people to live in such pain. Eventually, Elie find that his faith has deteriorated, diminished from his resilient childhood beliefs. Although strongly religious before his journey in the Holocaust, Wiesel went through a dramatic deterioration of faith during the horrific events he experienced in Auschwitz, ultimately leading to his distant relationship with God by the end of the memoir. When he was only a young boy, Elie realized his calling in life was profess his faith in the study of Kabbalah, representing his strong connection with God. Determined to master his faith, Wiesel asks his father, “to find [him] a master who could guide [him] in the study of the Kabbalah” (4).
Eliezer prayed that he will never behave as Rabbi Eliahu’s son behaves. However, his father was sick. One officer told him that did not forget that you are in a concentrate camp. It is everyone man for himself, and you cannot think of others. Not even your father.
The gift that the father passed on to his son, the narrator, was meant to be a bond shared between only father and son. This is evident because the father only introduced his gift to his son on a personal level and between the two of them. Also, the specialists were not able to find the water which made it clear that this gift was exclusive only to the father. The fact that the father’s gift was going to be exposed in a film to people outside of the village caused negative impact on this particular family’s tradition. Another shift in this story comes from the generation gap between the father and son.
Sadly Nathan’s inability to provide his family with more right then wrong began when he was a soldier during World War II. There, Nathan escaped the Battaan Death March, and almost faced the death it brought. Because he escaped the fate of death the rest of his battalion, he views himself as a coward who is despised by God. He vows never to be a coward again and he devotes his life to saving as many souls as he can, through his missionary work. It becomes increasingly clear as the novel progresses, that Nathan is not brave but cowardly, and not a man selflessly devoted to a cause but a man devoted to nothing and no one but himself.
However true that may be, that he did commit a final act of loyalty for his father, along the way he still continuously lost and found an inconsistent faith that lead him along a questionable heroic path of glory. Hamlet did not die as he lived; he accomplished his task but not admirably so. He disregarded everyone that sincerely cared for him, igniting a series of events that would eventually lead to their suicides and or murders. Hamlets did what he was meant to do, but the way in which he went about leaves many wondering at the true nobility of his
To begin with, his relationship with his sons, Biff and Happy, is nonetheless strained, especially after not being able to achieve the success that he told them was so easy to take hold of. Willy’s sons received different traits from their old man, and as such, can be seen by the reader as two separate personifications of his fragile psyche. Biff, for starters, represents Willy’s acknowledgment of his failure. In the altercation with his dad near the conclusion of the story, Biff tells