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... very faithful in God. “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky. Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever…” (pg 32) Elie had just spent his first night in Auschwitz. This paragraph alone shows how much faith he had lost through out the whole story, just midway. It is amazing that such a strong faith in God can be diminished in one night. That shows how bad nazi Europe was. In his first minute in Auschwitz, Elie had seen the walking dead, the prisoners. He had seen the prisoners in the camp, which were all in such bad shape. He had been separated from his mother and sisters, which he never got to see them again. Not knowing if they are dead or alive. He saw babies being thrown into fires, and men being beat to death and/or shot. It’s no wonder he became unfaithful to his belief God. "Do you see that chimney over there? See it? Do you see those flames? (Yes, we did see the flames.) Over there-that's where you're going to be taken. That's your grave, over there."(28) When Elie and his father go to see Dr. Mangele, a man points to the furnace and says that that is where he and his father are going to end up. Although it is more of a statement than a threat, it could also be foreshadowing the fact that Elie’s father is going to die, but he does not end up in the furnace. "But I had no more tears. And, in the depths of my being, in the recesses of my weakened conscience, could I have searched it, I might perhaps have found something like-free at last!” Elie’s father had just passed away, and those were his feelings afterwards. His feelings toward his death, makes the reader feel that he is glad that he passed away, for he is “like-free…” “Where is god now?’ And I heard a voice in me answer him: ‘Where is He? Here He is-He is ha...