https://padlet.com/sb207958/gr349xcgy1tuwbop Elie's Characterization en-us 2022-11-10 19:58:07 UTC 2022-12-14 03:56:35 UTC hello@padlet.com sb207958 https://padlet.com/sb207958/gr349xcgy1tuwbop/wish/2379237989
Relationship with his father-

In the beginning of the story, Elie almost has no relationship with his father. His father was a busy man and a figure in the community who did not provide much attention to his son. Elie focused more on studying his religion.

Quote: "He rarely displayed his feelings, not even within his family, and was more involved with the welfare of others than with that of his own kin."

Relationship with his religion-

At the beginning of the story, Elie shows his strong devotion to God and seems very interested in learning more about Judaism. He spends a lot of his time studying in the synagogue and becoming closer to God.

Quote: "By day I studied Talmud and by night I would run to the synagogue to weep over the destruction of the Temple."]]> 2022-11-10 20:12:11 UTC https://padlet.com/sb207958/gr349xcgy1tuwbop/wish/2379237989 sb207958 https://padlet.com/sb207958/gr349xcgy1tuwbop/wish/2383595632 Relationship with his father- Elie had no time to focus on family. The terrible conditions caused Elie to be scared, anxious, and nervous.


Quote: Night by Elie Wiesel states, "It is as though madness had infected all of us. We gave up."

Relationship with his religion- Elie did not have much time to focus on his religion. However, when he learned that Auschwitz was a good place, he briefly thanked god.

Quote:  Night by Elie Wiesel states, " Confidence soared. We gave thanks to God." 

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Quote: Night by Elie Wiesel states. "Mother is still a young woman," my father once said...And Tzipora, she is a big girl now...We pretended for, what if one of us still did believe?"

Relationship with his religion: Elie stops praying and distances himself from religion. However he often hears other inmates speaking of God.    

Quote: "As for me, I ceased to pray...I was not denying His existence, but I doubted His absolute justice."]]> 2022-11-29 19:58:11 UTC https://padlet.com/sb207958/gr349xcgy1tuwbop/wish/2402520616 sb207958 https://padlet.com/sb207958/gr349xcgy1tuwbop/wish/2413431572 Relationship with his father: Elie and his fathers relationship is torn apart. Elie has no emotion left externally to share with his father as he is internally struggling with anxiety and fear.

Quote: "I had watched it all happening without moving. I kept silent. In fact, I thought of staling away in order not to suffer the blows. What's more, if I felt anger at that moment, it was not directed at the Kapo but at my father."

Relationship with his religion: Elie loses all of his faith. Many prisoners in the camp ,including him, lose hope and belief in God as a child is murdered before their eyes.

Quote: "For God's sake, where is God? And from within me, I heard a voice answer: Where He is? This is where-hanging here from this gallows..." 

]]> 2022-12-07 19:59:20 UTC https://padlet.com/sb207958/gr349xcgy1tuwbop/wish/2413431572 sb207958 https://padlet.com/sb207958/gr349xcgy1tuwbop/wish/2413790248 Relationship with his father: Elie and his father get a lot closer. Since Elie gave up on God, the only thing he has left was his father. They stick together throughout selection and other hardships.

Quote: "The choice was in our hands. For once. We could decide our fate for ourselves...I had made up my mind to accompany my father wherever he went."

Relationship with his religion: Elie begins the chapter by being angry at God. He wondered why God was not interfering with the situation and helping the Jews escape maltreatment.

Quote: "What are You, my God? I thought angrily. How do You com-
pare to this stricken mass gathered to affirm to You their faith, their anger, their defiance...Why do you go on troubling these poor people's wounded minds, their ailing bodies?"


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Elie's relationship with father improves and they continue to stick together. Elie fights to keep his father alive and they continue to try and live.

Quote: "My father was sent to the left. I ran after him."

Relationship with his religion:

Elie abandoned his normal religious practices completely. Normally, when someone dies, you are supposed to recite Kaddish to pay respects to them. However, nobody cared enough to do so as they were all struggling mentally and physically.

Quote: "The dead remained in the yard, under the snow without even a marker, like fallen guards. No one recited Kaddish over them."

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In these chapters, Elie's relationship with his father dies. While his father struggles to survive , Elie takes care of him grudgingly because he feels obligated to do so. He does so out of commitment , not affection and love. When his father dies, he does not say Kaddish over his body, he feels relieved; like a weight lifted from his shoulders.

Quote: "Night" by Elie Wiesel states, "I did not not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep...And deep inside me, if I could have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like: Free at last..."

Relationship with his religion: In these chapters, religion has no relevance. He does not pray, think of god, or mention him at all. All he thinks about is his father and liberation. 

Quote: "Night" by Elie Wiesel states, "No prayers were said over his tomb. No candle lit in his memory. ]]> 2022-12-09 20:03:44 UTC https://padlet.com/sb207958/gr349xcgy1tuwbop/wish/2416016081 sb207958 https://padlet.com/sb207958/gr349xcgy1tuwbop/wish/2418506930

“He was more concerned with others than with his own family” (Wiesel 2)."


 “My hand tightened its grip on my father. All I could think of was not to lose him. Not to remain alone” page 3


"“My God, Lord of the Universe, give me the strength never to do what Rabbi Eliahou’s son has done” page 87

Elie protects his father and does not sacrifice him like the Rabbis son did.
"Don’t be afraid, son. Sleep—…I’ll look after you myself” (Wiesel 85).



“Father! I’ve been looking for you for so long… Where were you? Did you sleep? How do you feel?” (Wiesel 101).


Blokälteste, the hairy man tells Elie, “In this place, it is everyman for himself, and you cannot think of others. Not even your father,” (page 110)

“He called out to me and I had not answered… if I could have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like: Free at last!” 

page 112

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