Over the years Elie changed because he started being religious but then little by little started rebelling against god. In night Elie one or more like the main character in the story was one of the few who survived the Holocaust. Elie is one of the boys young in age to survive the holocaust.

                 At first Elie wanted to learn the Kabbalah from Moshe the Beetle but his father forbid him because he was too young. “My studies of Kabbalah, “you are too young for that” (end of quote). Even though his father forbid him to study the Kabbalah Elie still studied it. This shows the bond between father and son. The religion is stronger here then a friendly bond between father and son.

                When Elie saw two flaming chimneys he knew everything was going to change. “This time we saw flames rising from a tall chimney into a black sky”. That reveals that there might be a life of hell and torcher in the concentration camps. These chimneys are the foreshadowing of pain and suffering the book is going to bring to the reader. The chimneys were the foretellers of the future.

                At the end when he saw his father death he felt hopeless and feelings towards nothing. “April 11 I call not describes me during that period”. The pain was now able to be compared with all the other Jews who lost their fathers and mothers. This shows the real face of the Holocaust. The holocaust was the cause of all those Jews death.

                The conclusion is the holocaust has all responsibility for the Jews death. The chimneys for toll the pain the Jews would have to suffer. And  last the death of many Jews (including Elie death)was the response of the holocaust.