https://padlet.com/sv183424/6iy0eqat93ai en-us 2019-02-04 22:22:05 UTC 2019-02-26 23:01:02 UTC hello@padlet.com sv183424 https://padlet.com/sv183424/6iy0eqat93ai/wish/327566968 Ellie is very religious and his religion is very important to him. This is shown through many things such as him wanting to learn about kabbalah. Elie wants to become as close to his religion as possible and he wants to study it in depth as much as he can. He even disobeys his father to learn more about it, when his father tells him to wait to learn kabbalah and he pursues it anyway, with Moishe. "Why did I pray? A strange question. Why did I live? Why did I breath?" Elie compares his need to pray to his need breathe. This shows how close he is to his religion.]]> 2019-02-04 22:26:41 UTC https://padlet.com/sv183424/6iy0eqat93ai/wish/327566968 sv183424 https://padlet.com/sv183424/6iy0eqat93ai/wish/327573869 Elie's relationship with his religion has declined, because he does not write about it at all in chapter 2, other than when they got information on where they were going they thanked god that it was a labor camp with good conditions. "There was a labor camp. conditions were good. families would not be split up.... We gave thanks to god," This is the only time that Elie ever gives mention to his religion in the whole chapter and it is very brief. He does not pray once in the 3 days on the cattle car, and he seems much more out of touch with his religion, although this could be expected, as it would be hard to pray in a small room with a carrying capacity of 20 people when there are 80 people. It would also be expected that his spirit would be down, as he has been in these terrible conditions with little food and water for days and he is probably sad.]]> 2019-02-04 22:55:35 UTC https://padlet.com/sv183424/6iy0eqat93ai/wish/327573869 sv183424 https://padlet.com/sv183424/6iy0eqat93ai/wish/328504155 Ellie becomes angry at god in the third chapter. This is because of when his fellow jews say the kaddish, a prayer used for the dead in Judaism, which says that god will "create peace for [them]" Elie is mad at god for not creating peace for them and helping them get away from the Germans. Elie still believes in god, but is also angry at him and wonders why he hasn't done anything to help better their situation. ]]> 2019-02-06 21:16:05 UTC https://padlet.com/sv183424/6iy0eqat93ai/wish/328504155 sv183424 https://padlet.com/sv183424/6iy0eqat93ai/wish/331549770 Ellie feels that god is dead. When the young pipel is hung and everyone walks by his writhing body someone asks "'where is God?'" and Ellie says that he hears the answer within him: "'hanging here from this gallows...'" This shows that some of the recent events of the chapter have made Ellie's beliefs in god fade until he is where he is now, and feels that god is dead.]]> 2019-02-14 22:15:29 UTC https://padlet.com/sv183424/6iy0eqat93ai/wish/331549770 sv183424 https://padlet.com/sv183424/6iy0eqat93ai/wish/332490850 Elie becomes very angry at god, and even is unfaithful in this chapter. "'Blessed be the name of the eternal!'
Why, but why should I bless him? In every fiber I rebelled"
This shows ElIe becoming angry at god, even on the rosh hashanah, which is normally a day to praise god. Instead he questions why he should praise god. Later him and his father both don't fast even though that is the Jewish tradition, and most other people fast, they don't because they think that god has left them to die, so why would they go a day without food which might kill them for him.]]> 2019-02-19 00:00:38 UTC https://padlet.com/sv183424/6iy0eqat93ai/wish/332490850 sv183424 https://padlet.com/sv183424/6iy0eqat93ai/wish/334595825 Elie does not even believe in god anymore. He is not faithful in god anymore, although he does ask god for strength he says that he does not actually believe that god exists, and thinks that his wish will not be granted by god. "in spite of myself, a prayer rose to my heart, to that god in whom I no longer believed. My God, Lord of the Universe, give me strength to never do what rabbi Elaihu's son has done." Rabbi Elaihu's son had previously abandoned his father, in hopes of getting rid of him, so he would stand a better chance of survival. Ellie literally says that he does not believe in god anymore.]]> 2019-02-24 17:34:16 UTC https://padlet.com/sv183424/6iy0eqat93ai/wish/334595825 sv183424 https://padlet.com/sv183424/6iy0eqat93ai/wish/335677863 Elie does not talk about his religion or god at all in these chapters. Elie is not really focused on god right now, as he is caring for his father, and waiting for liberation. "Suffering from dysentery, my father was prostrate on his cot,
with another five sick inmates nearby. I sat next to him, watching
him; I no longer dared to believe that he could still elude Death." Elie gives up on his father's life although he still wishes his father could live, he accepts that his father will die. He doesn't even pray ato god to help his father, which shows how far much he has changed since the beginning of the book. In the beginning he would always want to become closer to god, and his religion, and he would pray everyday, while he did not even know why he was praying. Now he is not even praying for his father to live when he is sick.]]> 2019-02-26 22:45:24 UTC https://padlet.com/sv183424/6iy0eqat93ai/wish/335677863