Eliezer's Struggle
He has been struggling with himself. He has started to lose his faith and now with the overwhelming situation he is afraid. He doesn't know what to do. Seeing as how the child was afraid to look and see the horror of what the child could've imagined. He is clinging to the wall and using it as support.
In my opinion, Eliezer feels abandoned by his God and he doesn't understand. He starts feeling this hatred towards God, unknowingly grudging everybody and everything besides his father. He is struggling within himself. In the beggining, he was solid about his faith and beliefs as to now he has abandoned what he believed. He struggles with what he wants to believe and what his lost mind is telling him. I think he wants to believe in God but at the same time his mind is contradicting the thought bringing him to conclude that there is no God, and if there was, then God would have put a stop to their suffering.
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