Ultimately, in the end of the story, despite Elie having renounced his belief in god's power he still offers a prayer where he states, “And in spite of myself, a prayer formed inside me, a prayer to this God in whom I no longer believed” (91), and he prays in the hopes that he doesn't turn out like the other prisoners, specifically like Rabbi Eliahou's son since the son had abandoned his father. To me this informed me that while Elie claimed he no longer believed in God, he still had turned to him when he became doubtful of himself; the impact of this expressed the fact that Elie still had an incompleteness of his loss of faith in God. However, after this instance of prayer, Elie does not mention God and the book ends without Elie saying
