Since the beginning, Huck was wary of religion. Huck completely changes his view of his religion when he’s faced with the dilemma of whether or not to help Jim get to freedom. He knows that it is unholy to steal another man’s property and that if he were to help Jim get to freedom that would be stealing. But, he also knows that Jim is a human being and his friend. “All right then,” Huck decides in chapter 31, “I’ll go to hell,” (250).
Here and there he will make small references for the kid even though his belief is cloudy. The kid had a lost childhood; if the dad were gone what would he then have a reason to stay alive then for? The father could also have found a presence of God in his son, “If he is not the word of God then God never spoke.” (5) Its obvious he knows about God and was possibly previously a believer, but he has gone literally gone through hell in this toxic wasteland, so he could have lost that connection to Him. Why would God be doing this to us, maybe there isn’t one? It’s hard to know what he actually thinks but through him we see the previous faith being installed in the son.
The story he reads from the Bible is about whether or not Job will remain faithful through the tough times he is living in, and this parallels Montag’s decision of whether or not to endure despite the difficulty of facing society’s hatred of books. Another important allusion to the Bible is when Faber is directly speaking about Jesus’ gradual distancing from society because everyone has pushed Him away. He discusses how “Christ is one of the ‘family’ now” (77) and wonders if even God recognizes His own son in the ruined society they live in. After Montag’s visit to Faber’s
The interplay of faith and reason in the trial of Job is similar to that of Abraham (and the story of his son), as they are both put to trial in order to test their faithfulness to God. Even though this ‘test’ is beyond logical understanding, reason becomes overridden by their steadfast belief in God, meaning, although God presented challenges that seemed unreasonable to his believers, Abraham and Job both kept faith in Him, even if it meant losing their loved ones and properties, all for the sake of keeping God alive in their life. In detail, Job is a well-respected, god-fearing man who is very devout to his faith. There came a time when Satan approached God so that he may put Job to the test and prove to Him that his faithful servant was only loyal because of his abundance in material wealth. What seems incomprehensible to reason is why God, an almighty and good being, would let Satan freely oppress Job, an innocent man.
“During the day I studied the Talmud.”(pg1) In addition, Elie, at the age of 12 he was already interested in his religion. “One day I asked my father to find me a master to guide me in my studies of the Cabbala.”(pg1) In fact, Elie was trying to learn more by looking for a mentor to teach him about his religion. “One evening I told him how unhappy I was because I could not find a master in Sighet to instruct me into the Zohar.”(pg3) However, Elie was disappointed because he could not find a mentor. Elizer is attempting to understand about his customs and traditions of being a jew during the world war 2. In fact, Elie is trying to adapt to his Jewish traditions.
SOTO REWRITE Gary Soto is apprehensive as he reflects on the sins of the guilty six-year-old he once was. Soto ironically portrays himself as being “holy in almost every bone” then contradicts his statement by informing “boredom made me sin”. Soto wants to be holy, he wants to be good as he’s been taught he knows right from wrong but sometimes he strayed from the good path of the lord. Soto describes a distant but well known memory of a past imperfection conceived in a German market as a young boy. Soto forgets “the flowery dust priests give off, the shadow of angels and the proximity of god” and commits the outrageous sin of stealing
Style Analysis The power and the glory Tone In The Power and the Glory, by Graham Greene, misery and redemption are used to describe the priest's suffering. Since his run as a fugitive began, the priest has gone through much pain. He began to sacrifice his religious beliefs because of all the obstacles put on his path. Diction The priest lives in guilt, with the sin that he is a whiskey priest and it begins to take its toll on him. He is unable to take the "responsibility" of caring for his holy father God, he is "tormented" and constantly "[aching]" of his shame.
Couldn’t he let his own people stand up for themselves rather than being scared and not knowing what to do? Furthermore one Jewish prisoner from the concentration camps during holocaust had said, “If there is a god, he will have to beg for forgiveness!” this shows that many Jews were angry at god as he let his own people suffer without food for many days, being called a disease and being treated as a number rather than human so they stopped believing him. Other people would disagree with the statement because god was testing people’s faith as the bible says, “Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trail, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which god has promised to those who love him.” This shows that people who are patient, god will save and protect them in whatever situation they are but they have to maintain their faith in him. If they had maintained their patients and faith then they will be rewarded as god has promised them! Maybe during Holocaust most people had lost their beliefs on god and started blaming him, so god might have stopped his wish of saving them since they had no faith him.
Close to hopelessness, Hopkins has a revelation: that despair was created by God to be a learning experience, and to provide Hopkins an opportunity to grow closer to Him. “[Carrion Comfort]” uses diction, metaphors, biblical imagery, and parallelism to convey the journey of Hopkins’ own struggle to dispel doubt, thus develop a stronger relationship with God. Hopkins’ favorite form, the Petrarchan, is used in this piece to help support a time line and develop the plot. “[Carrion Comfort]” has three parts: the first stanza, the second quatrain, and the sestet. The first stanza addresses his current overwhelming despair, followed by the second quatrain, that questions the assassin as God the motivation of the attack; the sestet then answers (to the questions posed by Hopkins’ faltering faith) that God was giving a learning experience to Hopkins.
Later on, Silas even believes that god has betrayed him as well and believes that there is no righteous god. “There is no just God that governs the earth righteously, but a god of lies, that bears witness against the innocent” (Elliot 18). Silas says this out of anger, yet there is no doubt that he feels neglect from God. Silas is a very religious man, so it is much unexpected that he pushes God away in such a manner. Feeling neglect and betrayal from god, Silas becomes lonely internally and also becomes depressed.