https://padlet.com/yl169761/wgxpwpu44819 Made with joy en-us 2019-02-03 21:51:45 UTC 2019-03-21 01:51:40 UTC hello@padlet.com yl169761 https://padlet.com/yl169761/wgxpwpu44819/wish/327117750 Elie's relationship with his religion was very passionate. Elie is passionate about it because he wants to learn a specific part about it known as "Kabbalah". Despite being discouraged by his father when asking him to find him a teacher , Elie finds a different mentor by himself, Moishe the Beadle. 
"I asked my father to find me a master who could guide me in my studies of Kabbalah... finding a master for myself in the person of Moishe the Beadle" ( Wiesel, 4)]]> 2019-02-03 22:16:11 UTC https://padlet.com/yl169761/wgxpwpu44819/wish/327117750 yl169761 https://padlet.com/yl169761/wgxpwpu44819/wish/329022859 Along the trip in the cramped, hot, and lacking cattle car, Elie's relationship was not as passionate, though he still believed. After the people in the car had endured enough of Schachter's screaming, they decided to turn towards violence. Elie was in terror to see his own people change in such a violent way. However, the people had been later given "good news" that the place they were arriving at had great living conditions. Their spirits were uplifted. Nevertheless, when they arrived, the places was not what they were told.
" It was as though madness were taking procession of all of us... they even struck [Schachter]... people encouraged them... confidence soared... we gave thanks to God... smell of burning flesh... arrived" ( Wiesel, 14 - 16).]]> 2019-02-07 23:27:38 UTC https://padlet.com/yl169761/wgxpwpu44819/wish/329022859 yl169761 https://padlet.com/yl169761/wgxpwpu44819/wish/329032039 While at Birkenau Elie and his father are separated from his other family members. He is not sure if he will ever see them again. However, they are confronted by prisoners and told them will die by being burned. His father starts to pray in Kaddish (prayer for dead), but this only makes Elie very upset. He questioned "god" with anger. When going to the barber families rejoin and they are happy. Also, Elie thanked God about his mud covered shoes. 
"The Enternal, Lord of the Universe, All-Powerful and Terrible... meeting friends and acquaintances... filled us with joy... I thanked God" (Wiesel, 19 - 22)]]> 2019-02-08 00:21:55 UTC https://padlet.com/yl169761/wgxpwpu44819/wish/329032039 yl169761 https://padlet.com/yl169761/wgxpwpu44819/wish/332201901 Elie did not mention god much during this chapter. This meant he did not resort to god when he was getting whipped, nor did he thank go when something decent happened, when he got an easy job. However, towards the end of the chapter a man named Oberkapo was suspected of sabotaging a electric plant and then caught with a stash of weaponry. He refused to say anything. His pipel was a young and very beautiful boy. The boy was interrogated and tortured as well. He was later hung and people in the crowd where questioning the presence of god. Elie internally replies that he is dead. 
"hang a child... Where is the merciful God, where is He?... He is.... hanging here form this gallows" (Wiesel, 64- 65). ]]> 2019-02-18 01:35:58 UTC https://padlet.com/yl169761/wgxpwpu44819/wish/332201901 yl169761 https://padlet.com/yl169761/wgxpwpu44819/wish/334573181 In chapter five Elie no longer has belief in God. The setting was Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, and everyone was celebrating. However, Elie angrily questioned the presence of God and why he causes them such pain/ death. He accused God for all of the death and cremation. When Elie went to go wish his father a happy new year, he ended up not saying because they both were dead inside and no longer believed in God or a "happy" new year. Additionally, when Yom Kippur, Day of Atonement, required fasting (act of starving one's self for ritual purposes), the prisoners debated whether to fast or not. Since Elie had given up on the existence of God, he did not fast and ignored Yom Kippur tradition. 
"What are You, my God... though angrily... face of all this weakness, this decomposition... this decay... why should [Elie] bless him... [had] thousands of children burned... kept six crematories working night and day... created... so many factories of death...I no longer believed in [a Happy New Year]" (Wiesel, 37 - 38). ]]> 2019-02-24 14:43:52 UTC https://padlet.com/yl169761/wgxpwpu44819/wish/334573181 yl169761 https://padlet.com/yl169761/wgxpwpu44819/wish/334650658 Elie still has not come back to the belief of the existence of God. When the death march, more like death marathon, was had force many to run for what seem like forever, Elie refused to not die because of his father and not God. Additionally, while Elie and his father was resting, a man named Rabbi came looking for his son. Elie realized that his son might have purposely abandoned his father while they were running. Elie prayed to God that he would not become what the other son had done, leave his father on purpose. However, he noted that he still doesn't believe in God. Even though he may have had a glimmer of belief (because he actually thought about praying).
"My father's presence was the only thing that stopped me [from killing himself]... I had no right to let myself die... I was his only support... a prayer rose in my heart... to that God in whom I no longer believed". ]]> 2019-02-25 00:15:48 UTC https://padlet.com/yl169761/wgxpwpu44819/wish/334650658 yl169761 https://padlet.com/yl169761/wgxpwpu44819/wish/336176185 During chapters 7, Elie is in the open top cattle car, he still does not believe in the existence of God. Along the trip, the cold dead bodies are thrown off the train. When his father seems dead and is about to be thrown off he refused to let his father go because that was what he was living for. He had not prayed to God at that moment. For the rest of the trip, Elie was almost choked to death, but he and his father made it out of the car alive. Yet he did not thank God. This continues in chapter 8, still having no belief in God, his father is sick and an SS officer tries to tell him that he should take advantage of father and let him die. However, since that was what he trying to live for, he refuses to do it (not verbally saying it), he also still loves his father, and doesn't pray to god to help his father either. Nor did Elie pray or weep over his father's death. Lastly m in chapter 9, Elie still does not accept to believe that God is existent and the effects of his father's death leaves him in shambles. He no longer is affected by any emotions. He finds that he had no more purpose of living since his father was dead. Nor does he resort to trying to believe in God. Even at the end when he is saved. 

"he's dead... No!... ins't dead yet!... slapped him as hard as I could... two hands on my throat, trying to strangle me... felt myself suffocating" (Wiesel, 53, 55)
"wept with rage... could I leave my father to die now?... gave him what was left of my soup... I did all I could to give him hope... [SS officer] Every man has to fight for himself and not think of anyone else... ran to find a little soup to give my father" (Wiesel, 57,58, 60)
"After my father's death nothing touched me any more... one desire- to eat... first act... throw ourselves onto the provisions... only of that... not our families" (Wiesel, 63-64)

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