Last Blog Post ,I'm a Little Happy

We’ve come to the end of blog post. This is the last blog post of the year, and all I have to say is about time. Just kidding, maybe. The blog posts were never that big of a deal. Just, to me at least a way to say opinion on the book in a fun way. I enjoyed this a lot because there are not always many times in Mr. Boyle’s class where we can say our opinion in a less formal way, so I thought that was nice. It was also nice to make comments on the blog posts without feeling like you were editing the post, but instead just adding on your opinion. Throughout the year when we wrote our blog posts I was one of those people that wrote the blog post on a separate document and then copied it onto the blogger website. With this last blog post I have 23 pages on the document with all of my blog posts on it. Honestly shocked that was the number of page numbers I have from writing two paragraphs almost every week. 23 pages just seems like a lot to me.

Changing the subject. In class we talked about chapter eight in the book This chapter is one of the more emotional chapters. To me the saddest part of this chapter is that no one cares about the death of Elie’s father. At times they are even encouraging it. I can understand that Elie doesn’t cry when his father dies because of his loss of innocence. When Elie says that he felt a small amount of happiness when his father died his is the part that really hit me. You can see how dehumanized everyone is. Eile loves his father. He would always motivate him to survive, even saying that his father was his only will to live, but once his father dies he is happy in some way.

The Son and the Father

First the S.S officers told the Jewish that they were going to take showers and Elie was happy because he thinks that the shower will help his father get better, but the thing was that it took long because one hundred printer crowded the area. Later he father said that he can't go anymore and he should just leave him there to die. Then Elie got mad with his father and told him to get back up, but his father said to let the other people around them sleep, but Elie said that they were dead and they will never wake up. Elie said that this conversation continued, and Elie said that his father had already chosen death. When Elie woke up the next day he went to look for his father because he followed the ob and did not took care of his father knowing that he was weak and he abandoned him.

He spent hours looking for him until he found him getting coffee and he told him to get him some coffee. Elie ate soup, but his father did not because he was sick and the germans said that it will be a waste to give food to the sick when they are about to die soon. Elie said that every day his father was getting weaker and they took showers and the sick were forced to take showers. When they were done they had to wait outside because the blocks were not completed yet. Then Elie saw his father and he ran to meet him and when he was by him, his father ran passed him and his father was running. 

Then Ellie ran toward him and called his named and said why he was running and his father looked at him like a complete stranger and he began running again. Later Ellie's father told him where he buried the gold and he said it like he was about to die soon and he kept taking faster, but Elie tried giving hope, but his father could no longer listen to him. Later Elie called a doctor because his father was ill, then his father said to go take him back to the bunker and Elie said to just get sleep. Then another doctor came to him block, but his father refused. Then he heard that the doctor only came to finish off the pancients and Ellie just wanted to beat up the doctor, but he knew that he was too weak to do it. 

When Ellie returned his father told him that he got beaten up by the frenchman and then Elie insulted his neighbor, but they all mocked him. Later his father got beat up again because he had bread and all wanted it, so they all threw themselves at his father and grabbed the berad. One week later a man told him that the doctor and Ellie cannot do anything for him and that he will die soon. Later the S.S officers were giving orders and an officer passed by and his father told Elie that he wanted water and the officer told him to be quite and he shouted again and the officer came close up to him and told him to be quite, but he did not, so the officer hit him in the head and then Elie could not do anything and he heard his father called his name. Then Elie went down and lays down next to his father and his lips were trembling. The next day his father was not their and he was take to the cremontrium and that day his father died and Elie did not cry, but he said that he is mad that he did not cry because it's his father.

I found this chapter the saddest from all so far because his father gave up hope, but Elie kept trying to give him hope, but his father knew that it was over for him, but he still kept trying because he did not want his father to die. Then when his father was beating up by the doctor and the men who wanted his bread it got me mad because they would beat up a sick person just for a piece of bread and this whole chapter, his father suffered a lot. Then when his father needed wanted and kept calling his sons name, and S.S officer hit him in the head hard and he said his name again, but very quiet. Then at the end of the chapter he died because he was sent to the crematorium. I felt very bad for his father and Elie because now Elie is all alone and I don't know how he is going to take dthis and someone very important was taking away from him.

Byebye Blog Posts

   Final blog post y'all, even though a lot of people don't really read my posts anyway... (tears). Let us start.
   In chapter 8, it's about Elie trying to keep his father alive and feeling guilty when thoughts of abandoning his father cross his mind. At the start of the chapter, Elie's father was getting really weak and kept wanting to rest, while Elie keeps arguing with him, or since he's grown so irrational it's more like he's arguing with Death, to get and stay alive. After his father got dysentery, it was a matter of time before he died, but Elie still kept trying, even though he knew the logical choice was to end his father's suffering. He would feel guilt and shame whenever thoughts like those crossed his mind, and he would feel like Rabbi Eliahu's son, that he had not passed the test of staying with his father until the end. On his last night alive, he's calling to Elie, and Elie does nothing. His father's last words are his son's name. When Elie woke up the next morning, his father was gone, carried to the crematories sometime during the night or before dawn. He died on January 26, 1945, just months away from the war ending and being freed. Elie didn't weep for his father; he was out of tears, and he knew that if he searched deep in his conscience, he would have found the feeling of something like being freed at last.
   Elie's father's death is really sad because that is just months away from the war being over and everyone being freed. If Elie's father could've held out for another five months or so, he could've lived. We should appreciate Elie's honesty throughout the book; he easily could have lied about everything he did that we would consider inhumane, and no one would have known. Instead, we're able to read about what actually happened at the concentration camps. We should be thankful, or something, to Elie for telling the truth, because all of it must've been hard for him to admit, and that he deeply regrets. If we were put in Elie's position with his father slowly dying, we would've had a difficult time deciding too. Either decision he made, his father was going to physically be in a bad place: suffering, or death. Everything that Elie's said in the book has just been a little glance at what life at a concentration was like. The decisions, beatings, work, and living conditions they were under we would consider unfathomable, but Elie lived through it all and told his story.
   Since this is the last ever blog post that we're ever doing, I just wanna appreciate all the book units we've ever done in Mr. Boyle's class, including seventh grade. Especially this year, I'm really going to miss Of Mice and Men, To Kill a Mockingbird, A Christmas Carol, and Night (Wait Till Next Year is a little debatable). I've loved every book units in seventh and eighth grade and learned a lot from all of them. I'm really going to miss reading them in Mr. Boyle's class and having the section quizzes, because I know high school does it differently. Byebye blog posts, and goodbye book units.

Tragedy

Elie, and his father went through the gates, and then the S.S officers ordered them to form ranks of five, and groups of one hundred, and they were told that they were going to head into the showers, there was a ruckus, and the S.S was having trouble putting everyone back in order, and Elie's father say down to rest. Elie did not want him to sit down here, because they were going to rest after the showers, but Elie's father didn't want to wait so he sat down, and Elie started to argue with him, but he couldn't. Sirens started to go off, and everyone headed inside, and Elie liked this, because he was not going to be in the freezing cold, and the wind, when Elie got inside he fell asleep. When Elie woke up he remembered his father, and that he left him when the sirens rang, and he went to look for him, Elie in the back of his head kept thinking though he didn't want to find his father, but soon enough he found hm, and he asked him if he was okay, and his father told him to go bring him coffee, because they prisoners were getting some, and Elie did as he was told. Elie brought his father inside, and Elie went back outside to wait for his soup, and he waited five hours for it, Elie went back to his father, and  asked him if he got food, and he said no, because the guard said that he was going to die soon, and elie gave him what was left of his soup.
Every day his father was getting weaker, because he was suffering from dysentery, and everything he ate or drank, made him more sick. Elie's father was telling him where he buried all the gold, and the valuables, but Elie did not accept him telling him this, because he wouldn't let him die. ELie used a ration of bread to trade places with someone else so he could be next to his father, a doctor came, and Elie told him that his father had Dysentery, but the doctor ignored him, because he was a surgeon, some time later another doctor came in, and he knew that he would also be of no use, for his father. Elie's father was so sick that he could not go to the bathroom, and other prisoners beat him for smelling bad, and they also took his bread, and he asked for water, but Elie knew it was like poison for  him, but he gave it to hime, anyways. During roll call, Elie stayed with his father, because the sick could stay in the block, and Elie pretended to be sick to stay with him, Elie's father started moaning, for elie to bring him water, before, an officer told him to be quiet, and started beating him on the head, Elie's father kept Moaning for Elie, but Elie didn't answer, because he did not want to get beat himself. Elie woke up, the next day, and found that his father was not there, and Elie didn't cry for his father though, and he said that he felt free.
Elie tried to stay with his father, and care for him for as long as he could I admire that, because even though he could've died doing all of this for his father he kept on doing it. Also even though his father tried to tell him where he buried all of the valuables, Elie still would not accept that his father was going to die, he wouldn't let him, and I also admire that. Although his father was dying Elie still completed his wishes by bringing him water, even though he knew that he was going to suffer more. The thing that hit me was when he didn't stand up for his father when he was getting beat, I understand the conditions he was in, and if he got hit, he would've probably gotten injured seriously, so I will accept that he din't do anything. The thing that hit me the most, was when he said that after his father died that a burden was lifted from him, I know what conditions that he was in, but personally I would never consider my father a burden, I will always be by his side.

NIght Ch 8

SS officers waiting for them at the entrance. They were directed to the Appelplatz. A veteran of Buchenwald told them they would be taking showers and would be sent to different blocks. His father would not say anything. His father said he can’t go anymore, but Elie refused to think that. Elie didn’t want his father to die. The sirens went off and they brought them to their blocks. Elie went to sleep and when he woke up, he remembered that he had Elie went to look for him and looked for him for hours. He finally found him and he had a fever. Elie will never forget the gratitude that shone in his eyes when he swallowed his beverage. Everyday, his father was getting weaker and his eyes were watery, his face was the color of dead leaves. On the third day, they took showers and they had to wait a long time, the cleaning of the blocks were not completed. Once his father got out, he just kept on running. He looked at Elie like he was a stranger and then ran away.

Elie and his father keep arguing. His father was worn out from arguing. Elie was able to exchange cots next to his father for a ration of bread. The doctor told Elie’s father to go to him, but Elie yelled he can’t. His father went to his bunk, but another doctor came in and asked if the patients wanted to be finished, but his father refused. The neighbors were now beating up his father and his father told Elie to tell them to stop. The neighbors then stole his bread and they didn’t do anything. The Blockalteste asked Elie if that was his father and Elie said it was. They told Elie that his father is really sick and that they can’t do anything. The doctor is saying that Elie has to look out for himself and not his father. Elie listened to him. Elie brought his father soup and water. The SS was giving orders and told Elie’s father to shut up since he was yelling. His father still wanted water. Elie didn’t move when his father asked for water. When Elie came down from his bunk after roll call,  hs father was murmuring something. Elie went to sleep and the date was January 28, 1945. Elie woke up at dawn on January 29. There was another sick person on his father’s cot, so his father must have been thrown in the crematorium. Elie did not weep and he felt that he was free. I feel bad for Elie that he died and that he feels regret for what he did for ignoring him and looking out for himself when the doctor told him to.

Father's Death

Elie and his father were at the entrance of camp, a veteran of Buchenwald told them that they would be directed into the showers. They would take a shower, and be directed to a block to sleep in their cots. Elie began to tell his father soon they would be able to rest. Many prisoners were so weak, that many would sit on the snow. Elie’s father wanted to do the same, he moaned saying that he could go any longer. Elie’s father begged Elie to leave him there and to continue without him, Elie began to yell saying that he wouldn’t leave him. Elie began pointing to the corpses around them, they also wanted to sleep. Elie began to yell at him saying that they weren’t sleeping, but they were actually dead. They continued to argue for a long time, they weren’t fighting with each other but with death itself. The sirens began to wail, and all the prisoner were rushed into blocks. The next morning, Elie recalled that he ran with the mob and abandoned his father. Elie Went out to look for him. After, some time looking, A voice from behind him called for him to bring them coffee. It was Elie’s father, Elie grabbed a cup of coffee like a wildebeest, he took a gulp and gave the rest to his father. Everyday, Elie’s father was getting weaker and weaker. His eyes were watery and his face the color of dead leaves. Elie's father was suffering from dysentery, Elie would exchange beds for bread with others to be able to be with his father, Elie would take him to a doctor. However, the doctor rejected them and said he was a surgeon.

His father began to cry saying that people were beating him. It was some of his neighbors, they could no longer stand Elie’s father. The following day, he complained that they had taken his ration of bread.  A blockalteste asked about Elie’s father, he told Elie that in the condition his father is in the doctor isn’t able to do anything for him. He told Elie that he should remember that is is in a concentration camp, it is all about survival and that in there, there's no father, brother, or friend. He told Elie that he should stop giving his food to his father, and that he is hurting himself. He said that Elie should be getting his father's ration, Elie began to agree with him, but began to feel guilty. Elie laid down on the upper bunk. In front of the block were a SS officer, Elie’s father began moaning and calling for Elie. The SS officer told him to be quiet, he didn't stop so the officer violently hit his head. Elie didn’t move, his father groaned and called his name. The next day, another person was on his father’s cot. They must have sent him to the crematories, his last word was Elie’s name. Deep inside he felt fee from his father. Last blog post.

Prisoners: "What's that smell?"
Father: 

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When all the prisoners had to gt off the train. Elie's father just wants to get off the train, and wanted to rest and sleep. By this point, Elie's father is very weak, and seems to be losing the will to live, he is near to death. Elie's desperately does not want his father to die. This is because he loves his father, but also feels to only thing keeping him going is his father. There was alarm that had set off, and the prisoners were forced to get back into their blocks. The air raid sirens go off and the allies are bombing the area. They are forced inside their block, so they won't be bombed. The next day when Elie was trying to find his father, everyone was split up during the air raid, and Elie had a feeling that he would not find his father the next day, and does not want to find him, because he feels that his father is a burden to him. He would be free of his father, and focus on his survival. Elie's father dysentery forces him to have violent diarrhea. He is too weak to go to the bathroom, so he get his diarrhea in his pants, and it smells horrible. The other inmates would beat him up, because he smells bad. Also Elie is told by several people  that his father is very sick, and he will die, they also said that Ele should not give food to him, because he was feeding a dead man, and that Elie should be the one taking food from his father. Elie's father was in agony, and was yelling to Elie for water, his father was then beaten. Elie does not respond, because he is afraid that he would get beaten too. Elie then falls asleep, and when he wakes up, his father was gone, at the same point he was taken to the crematory, possibly alive. Elie admits that he did not weep, he feels regret that his father's last words, was Elie's name, and Elie did not respond to  him.

 This is very said that Elie's father to die, just because he was asking Elie for water, and Elie did not respond. If it were you that were Elie, and I think that you would of done the same, so you would not be beaten up. It is also very sad that Elie did not weep when his father was gone when he had woken up. This shows us that the concentration camp has not only changed everyone, but it also changed Elie as well, and how dehumanized they are. It's sad that no one would weep for someone that they loved, and were close. If you had lost a love one, then you would obviously weep for their loss, and remember what they had done for you.