Summanihilations In Elie Wiesel's Grapes Of Wrath

In consideration of the fact that Eli has been mentally dismissed by his father and them not having a very tight father, son bond he has been through many beatings in his mind. Never has Elie been through physical annihilation within his childhood for small reasons. The text states, “I tried to protect myself from the blows,”(41). He believes in trying to protect himself from the thing that he fears the most. As a result of this his grandeur slowly seems to dissipate as time seems to change, but very soon after his beating Elie hears the words, “ ‘Don’t lose hope,’”(41). Those words help bring what small nobility Elie had inside him even though his status still remained the same, he was still not a “human” in the eyes of his