When the novel begins Eliezer is a strong believer in God but, through his ordeal in the concentration camps, his faith begins to crack. He does not totally reject God, but by the end of the war he says he cannot accept "God's silence". He "had ceased to be anything but ashes, yet I felt myself to be stronger than the Almighty." He says he is now determined to live just as a man and to survive. He does not want to die because, "survive—something within me revolted against death." He no longer believes that God is just and merciful but he is also determined to survive because the believes the concentration camps are "madness". His experience has made him question his faith, and in the end he survives but feels like he is a corpse "just waking up from the long night."
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