He asks his father to find him a teacher. His father .
believes that he is not old enough to learn about it. So then, Elie decides to talk to Moshe .
the Beadle, a worker at the synagogue. He agrees to help Elie; he teaches Elie about .
religion and about God. Moshe, one day is arrested by the Hungarian police, no one .
knows where he is taken. He returns three months later and tells all the Jews what .
happened and how many Jews were being tortured and babies were killed. No one .
believes him, they think that he has just gone crazy during the time he was gone. Elie .
tells his dad that he should consider moving to Palestine, but by the time they know the .
Germans arrive to Sighet and take all the Jews. Throughout the book Elie is moved from .
Auschwitz to Birkenau, then to Buna then to Gleiwitz and finally ends in Buchenwald, .
where the United States Third Army free the prisoners.
Themes.
The main theme is the horror that comes out from extreme prejudice. Since Hitler, hated .
Jews he ordered for them to be imprisoned, tortured and killed in the worse ways possible .
to mankind. Elie is taken and has to go through cruel treatment. The book is about Elie .
talking and describing his horrendous experience. Another theme in this novel would .
also have to be faith because many of the prisoners have faith in God, that he will help .
them endure. He will give them the strength to go on and get out alive. While many of .
the Jews have faith in God, some others start to lose faith because they are treated so bad .
that they begin to question if there really is a God. During the hanging of the sad-eyed .
angel someone in the crowd asks, "Where is God? Where is he now?"(61) .
Mood.
The mood of the novel is depressing. These people are thrown into wagons like animals .
and are forced to ride all crowded on a long trip. They had to ride in the wagons, .
hundreds of people in one cattle wagon, they can't sleep, eat, drink water, or go to the .
