In a way, it reminds me of Stella from The Shawl. Just the coldness of Eliezer grows more and more throughout the narrative. Of course, there are times where he is trying to motivate his father to go on only to lose him in the end. The reoccurring moments where he questions God and wonders why no help is showing up ties into him just being cold at the end. He has experienced so much pain and once someone has experienced so much pain then pain is all they are accustomed to. Eliezer became a product of his own surroundings and loses more hope the more he acknowledges his friends and family suffering and becoming more separated from the peaceful society they knew and loved to the nightmare that they were forced
