B- The various prisoners showed their gradual transformation from their normal behavior as human beings by convincing themselves that the current situation is their permanent fate. They slowly accepted their sufferings and mistreatment as the way of life.
C- Eliezer loses faith in God. He begins to rebel against customs by not fasting and accuses God for not rescuing the community.
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- "There were no longer any questions of wealth, of social distinction, and importance, only people all condemned to the same fate-still unknown."
- Why. but why should I bless him? Every fiber I rebelled. Had had thousands of children burned in his pits? Because he kept six crematories working night and day,on Sundays and feast days? Because his great might had he created Auschwitz, Birkenau, Buna, and so many factories of death?"
- "What are you, my God," I thought angrily, "compared to his afflicted crowd, proclaiming you to their faith, their anger, their revolt? what does your greatness mean, lord of the universe, in the face of all weakness, this weakness, this decomposition, and this decay? Why do you still trouble their sick minds, their crippled bodies"
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