In the Socratic Seminar I would’ve asked at least four questions. First one being, If you were in Elies shoes, how do you think you would have acted? What do you think would have become of you, and why? If someone else asked that I would’ve replied by saying that I would’ve became sane and would most likely hurt someone. Being in Elie’s shoes, he lost his mom and his sisters in the beginning. Whenever my parents/sisters come home later than the usual I worry and tear up with just the thought of one of my family not being in this world anymore. Now imagine being Elie, he had just started in the holocaust and he lost people.. Afterwards in page 24 there was a women, Mrs. Schachter, who would cry screaming “Fire! I see fire! I see fire”. Being in the car with her would make me crazy, I would want it to be quiet. With someone screaming while I’m going to a place that I know is dangerous, I’d really like it to be quiet. Throughout the book Elie saw and experienced cruelness, people were being killed thoughtlessly. Seeing this, would make me only think of myself. I …show more content…
By spiritually, Elie lost his faith in God. In the beginning of the book (page 4) Elie wanted a master who could guide him in his studies of Kabbalah. That shows that Elie wanted to know more of God, he wanted to be closer. But later on, on page 67 Elie said “Why, but why would I bless Him? Every fiber in me rebelled. Because He caused thousands of children to burn in His mass graves? Because he kept six crematoria working day and night, including Sabbath and the Holy Days?” This shows that Elie lost his faith in God and was basically blaming God for allowing such things to happen. Elie did say himself he was blaming God on page 68 by saying “I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes had opened when I was alone, terribly in a world without God, without