Character Evolution Timeline by LANDON BARRON https://padlet.com/2573361/r1l3xjhxh2511t4y en-us 2023-05-16 19:15:10 UTC 2025-12-12 03:23:12 UTC hello@padlet.com Shock: "Fire! I see fire!... It's nothing, Mother! There's nothing there... He pained me even more than did his mother's cries" 2573361 https://padlet.com/2573361/r1l3xjhxh2511t4y/wish/2593608762 Elie was shocked. This is the moment when he realizes what's about to happen to him ]]> 2023-05-16 19:35:11 UTC https://padlet.com/2573361/r1l3xjhxh2511t4y/wish/2593608762 Sad: "I didn't know that this was the moment in time and the place where I was leaving my mother and Tzipora forever." 2573361 https://padlet.com/2573361/r1l3xjhxh2511t4y/wish/2593745044 This is the time in the book when Elie and his father get separated from the rest of the family. ]]> 2023-05-16 22:50:31 UTC https://padlet.com/2573361/r1l3xjhxh2511t4y/wish/2593745044 Hopelessness: "But the third rope was still moving the child, too light, was still breathing..." 2573361 https://padlet.com/2573361/r1l3xjhxh2511t4y/wish/2593746520 There was a mass hanging, and one of the victims was a child. When Elie say the child still hanging alive from the rope, he realized any hope they once had, was crushed. ]]> 2023-05-16 22:53:10 UTC https://padlet.com/2573361/r1l3xjhxh2511t4y/wish/2593746520 Lost Faith: "What are You, my God? I thought angrily. How do You compare to this stricken mass gathered to affirm to You their faith..." 2573361 https://padlet.com/2573361/r1l3xjhxh2511t4y/wish/2593747948 At this point in the book Elie is question his faith in God, and wondering why he would let all of these bad things happen to him. ]]> 2023-05-16 22:55:57 UTC https://padlet.com/2573361/r1l3xjhxh2511t4y/wish/2593747948 Devotion: "Oh God, Master of the Universe, give me the strength never to do what Rabbi Eliahu's son has done. 2573361 https://padlet.com/2573361/r1l3xjhxh2511t4y/wish/2593751700 Elie had seen Rabbi Eliahu's son intentionally abanden Rabbi Eliahu. He then prays to never do this to his own father. He never abandens his father through out the rest of the book. ]]> 2023-05-16 23:02:31 UTC https://padlet.com/2573361/r1l3xjhxh2511t4y/wish/2593751700 Sorrow: "From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me". 2573361 https://padlet.com/2573361/r1l3xjhxh2511t4y/wish/2593753086 This is at the very end of the book, when Elie sees himself in the mirror for the first time after the Holocaust. After seeing himself, he realizes that no one will ever forget what has happened. ]]> 2023-05-16 23:04:57 UTC https://padlet.com/2573361/r1l3xjhxh2511t4y/wish/2593753086