Even people like Akiba Drumer who were strong in their faith before the Holocaust, lose all hope and give up. Akiba is one of the prisoners that is chosen in the selection and ever since then he saw no point in living anymore. He becomes tired of trying to survive and loses reasoning of God’s ways. He starts saying that he doesn’t understand where God is and how anyone can believe “in this God of Mercy?” (Wiesel 77). Witnessing the things Akiba saw causes him to notice that there is no justice being done. Akiba lets all the terror consume him to the point where he doubts all aspiration. But if he would have just “considered this suffering a divine test” (Wiesel 77) he may have had a chance of surviving the selection. At least that is what Elie
