In the next stage of Elie’s relationship with God, we start to see him doubting God and thus Elie’s conflict with his faith in God begins. He states, “As for me I had ceased to pray...I was not denying His existence but I doubted His Absolute Justice “ (45). As Elie experiences dehumanization and witnesses atrocities be committed by the Nazis, he begins questioning his and can’t understand why God has yet to intervene. The Holocaust exposes to Elie the cruelty, selfishness, and true evil of which everybody—not only the Nazis, but also his fellow Jews, his fellow prisoners, and even himself—is capable of. This has an impact on Elie as it creates a change in his viewpoint o God and that if the world is so cruel, he feels, then God either must
