We consider the multiplicity of the solutions for the elliptic boundary value problem with $C^1$ nonlinear term decaying at the origin. We get a theorem which shows the existence of the nontrivial solution for the elliptic problem with $C^1$ nonlinear term decaying at the origin. We obtain this result by reducing the elliptic problem with the $C^1$ nonlinear term to the el-liptic problem with bounded nonlinear term and then approaching the variational method and using the mountain pass geometry for the reduced the elliptic problem with bounded nonlinear term.