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“I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep. But I was out of tears. And deep inside me, if I could have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like: Free at last!”
Elie says this about his father after his father dies of dysentery. Elie asks God not to make him like Rabbi Eliahu's son, who abandons his father during the death march because he wanted to be rid of the responsibility of taking care of him. Elie ends up just like him. Elie has everything taken from him: first his home and possessions, then his mother and sisters, then his dignity, then his independence, then his Jewish identity, then his own identity, then his very humanity. When his father dies, he has nothing left. He doesn't feel anything, because only humans feel grief.