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.

Final Blog Post

They had just arrived at Buchenwald. They were in ranks of fives and groups of one hundred. A veteran of Buchenwald told them they were going to take a shower and would be sent to different blocks. Elie was afraid to lose his father. He did all of this to stay with him and help him survive. While they were waiting for “showers”, Elie’s father fell into the snow, where he wished to rest and die. He knew he was going to die if he stayed there. Elie tried talking him out of it, but he knew he was just talking to death. His father was weak and frail. All he wanted to do was sleep. Elie was no longer arguing with his father, but with Death himself. Before they finished this conversation, sirens began to wail, and they were all chased to their blocks. Their first day there, they were serving something irregular. They had black “coffee”. Elie’s father wanted some, but asked Elie to get it because he was burning with a fever. Elie brought him his coffee. They both stayed outside for five hours and were given soup before they were allowed to return to their blocks. Every day his father got weaker. He was suffering from dysentery. His father was stuck on his cot. He was getting worn out. The last thing he wanted to tell Elie was where he buried their gold and silver before they were evacuated. Later on, for a ration a bred, Ellie got to exchange cots with the person next to his father. He was going to take care of him. However, the doctors would do nothing for him and his father was constantly getting beat for his ration of food. In everybody's eyes he was dead. However, Elie wanted him to live. He protected him with everything he had. He would give him his rations and get him water whenever he needed. One of the prisoners told Elie that his father should be giving him rations. He was going to die no matter what. Then, Elie started to reconsider but fought those feelings. As Elie’s father called for him in the night for water, Elie just fell asleep. He fell asleep on January 28, 1945. He woke up on January 29 to find another sick man in his father’s bed. He assumed he was carried off to the crematorium. At that time, Elie did not weep or cry. He actually thought he was free at last.

Sadly, this is my last blog post for my 8th grade career. It has been a good run the whole year. I started off with the Of Mice and Men blog post. Then, I did not know what to do. I was honestly very confused with this "blog post" idea. It was an odd thing to me at first, but I got used to it. As we had our To Kill A Mockingbird and A Christmas Carol blog posts, I started to get used to it. Now I could say I am a professional at this blog post thing. Sadly, it would have been nice if I was able to end this blog post with the end of Night. However, we have one more chapter to go. Even though ending on Elie's father's death was momentus, so would ending on the last chapter. I'm excited for what the last chapter has, but also sad, because this was a book full of tragedy and woe.

Final Blog Post

Towards the end of the book the prisoners had been entering the camo and the S.S. oddicers had been wiating for them. Elie's fatehr ahd been becoming weak and weak as the days would have gone by. Elie's fatehr had been losing his will to live, all he had wanted todo was lay down and rest once the had gotten off the train. Elie's father is slowly dying, but Elie does not want to admitt it. He desperatly does not want his father to die, because Elie loves his father, but also because Elie feels that the only thing that is keeping him going is his father. Later on at the camp Elie's father dysentary forces him to have violent diarrhea, his father had became so weak that he is not even able to stand up and go to the bathroom so he just goes in his clothing and bedding. Others in the room with Elie's father say that is smells horrible so the other inmates beat him, but that does not do anything they could still smell it. Elie had seen this going on and hesays that this is another reason to hate. A block leader then on gives some advice to Elie, talking about his father. He says that his father's condition is horrible and it is very helpless, that Elie can not do anything. He tells Elie that he should stop giving his father food and water to his dad and that it should be the other way around, his father should be giving his food to Elie. He is syaing that if Elie takes his fthers rations, then that would improve Elie's chances of survival.

After a week has gone by of his father being sick, Elie's father was in agony and had been yelling to Elie for water. Elie would have known that water would be bad for his father, but would have given his father water anyways, because he would have wanted it badly. His father had been being beaten, because he had been sick and his smell had been horrible, Elie had been called by his father, but Elie had not responded because he had been affraid of being beat. At some point Elie had fallen asleep and when he had wakened up, his father had been gone. Elie thinks that at some point his father had been sent to the crematory and possibly even still alive. Elie had admitted that he can not cry, it was as if he ran out of tears, he had been surrounded around death the whole time at the camps. Elie says honestly if there were words to discribe his feelings it would be ''Free at last,'' meaning that he does not have to look after his father anymore, and that know he can just worry about himself and him surviving.

Father and Son

In chapter 8 Elie, his father, and the other Jews had to form ranks of five and take a shower. Elie's father was very weak and wanted to rest. when Elie was going to take a shower he told him to go on ahead to the showers and leave him there and come back later. Elie then told his father that he wouldn't leave him there and tried to wake him up. There was a bell that rang all of a sudden and Elie ran to the nearest barrack to get some rest, but he had forgotten his father. The next day came and Elie was looking for his father and his condition had gotten a lot worse than before. Elie found his dad and he found out that his father had a very bad fever. Elie's father was put into the sick group and got to stay and rest while the others had to go out and work. Elie's father wouldn't get any food because it was considered a waste on a man that was going to die very soon. As the days went by Elie's father would get weaker and weaker. He had a disease called dysentery. When Elie and his father were in the barrack he told Elie that there were going to be people who would be you up and steal your food. Elie's father would keep begging Elie for some food but he got to scared at the fact that the SS will beat him up. An SS officer saw Elie's father begging for food and he was beaten to the ground and was taken to the crematory to burn the next day.

In my opinion I thought that this chapter was very sad because of Elie's father passing away because of his decisions. Elie in the modern world was still struggling because of all of the regrets that he had made in the past. His decisions caused many to die including his father. Elie had multiple chances to save his father but every decision he chose was not the right one. This chapter was one of the saddest in the book because Elie has to bare all of that pain in his everyday life. Elies dad had to suffer a lot during the decisions Elie had made. Elie today feels a ton of regret for every decision he has made. If I were Elie I don't know if I will be able to bare that much pain especially when you are at a younger age.

Final Goodbyes

Elie and his father arrive at Buchenwald, a concentration camp near Berlin. They are told to take showers and from there they would be sent to different blocks. The prisoners were uncontrollable and it took much longer than Elie wanted to to arrive at the showers. His father was very weak and wanted to lie down in the bank to rest and ready to die. Elie wouldn't let him lay there and die, they both argued over it until they were hearded into bunks and Elie fell asleep, WHen he woke up, he realized that he had lost his son and that he was becoming like Rabbi Eliahu's son and was giving up on his father. After finding his father, he realized that he was getting weaker and weaker everyday. Eventually his father began to suffer from dysentary. The doctors said that they could do nothing for him, he was becoming much weaker and could no longer walk. While in the infirmary, he started to say that his roommates were stealing his food and attacking him. On January 28th, 1945, Elie's father would not stop talking when the officer told him to stop talking and began to beat him. Eleis father called out for him, and when he woke up the next morning, his father was gone and a new man was lying where his father should have been.

This is a sad chapter and I feel bad that his father died. Elie said that he was out of tears and did weap over his fathers death. Elie was more relieved by his fathers death. He probably feels as if a weight was lifted off of his shoulder. Elie can now focus on himself and his survival. Another thing that has happedned today is the last blog post that I might ever write. I cannot say that I will miss blog posts, or comments, but it will be weird not doing them every Monday and Thursday night. I find it kind of strange that I don't have any sad feelings toward my last blog post, but it is home work, so maybe it does make some sense. I remember the first blog post I did, I had no clue what to write and looked up memes for OMAM, that ended up being a bad idea because the book was spoiled. The ammount of times that I have forgotten to do blog comments is way too many, but thats fairly normal for me. So, goodbye blogs, I will miss you, but not too much.

Elie and His Father

Elie’s father was not looking well at all, and Elie had to reassure him that they would rest soon, but he had not responded, showing how weak he was. Elie was pretty weary himself too. There were so many prisoners and guards were lashing out recklessly to calm the prisoners down, Elie’s father had said that he couldn’t live anymore and that he was to die that night. He had also told Elie to leave him and come back to get him when they get to take a shower, but Elie had gotten furious, because they had worked so hard and stuck together to live on, so he could not leave his father. His father pleaded for him to leave him to rest on the ground, for he was weak, frightened, and vulnerable. It was then the soldiers had ordered them to get to their blocks and get rest. Elie had awoken and remembered that he had abandoned his father the previous night, so he went searching for him, though he had thoughts of how it’d be much easier to survive and take care just himself, and leave his father, but soon after he was ashamed of thinking such things. Finally after about four hours, Elie found his father in a line to get coffee, his father seemed to have a fever, though Elie still got coffee for his father, he only took one sip. He was very happy and later on in the day Elie gave him a bit of his own soup, but he had done so grudgingly, Elie states that just like Rabbi Eliahu’s son, he had not passed the test. It is sad to see Elie start to drift a bit away from helping his father and at points thinking how much better it'd be if he was not there. The Nazis really had dehumanized everyone at the camps and made them to only think of their own survival.

Every day is it passes, his father was getting weaker and weaker. One time his father had not recognize dhim and just kept on running. His father had gotten dysentery and had been very weak. Elie had traded his bread for a cot right by his father, so he could look after him. His father was hurting very much, but the doctors said they could not help him. Elie told him to rest and left for a bit, when he had came back with bread, he had found his dad had been beaten up by the Frenchman and the Pole, Elie was furious and said it was one more reason to hate the Nazis. Elie had tried to ask his father’s neighbors to watch out for him for bread, but they just laughed and they could not stand his father anymore. The beatings continued and his father was becoming weaker and closer to death each time. After a week, the Blockalteste had come and told that there was nothing the doctor nor Elie could do for him anymore, and that it was every man for himself and that he should stop giving bread and soup to his father, but instead take his rations instead. Elie deep down knew he was right and that it was to late to save his father, he could take his rations and have 2 times the amount just for himself, but right after Elie felt very guilty and went to get his father soup. That night he had gone to sleep and the very next morning, January 29th, there was a new person on his father’s cot. Elie did not weep at all, which pained him that he could not, and he thought deep down that he was free at last. It was very sad when this happened, but at the same time Elie must've felt as if a burden was lifted off of him, and now that his father was gone he had a much higher chance of surviving, since he no longer needs to take care of someone else. Though it was very sad and must've been hard on Elie deep down, even though he did not cry.

Remaining Silent

I would have liked to learn more about why people would throw bread into the cage, and after they saw what happened with the first one, why would they continue to throw bread in. They know that those people are starving, and after watching the first bread being thrown in and having everyone attack and kill each other over food, it is scary to wonder what would happen if you gave them a feast, or if you went in there with them. It is hard to think of what I would do if I were put into that situation, or if someone you know was put into that type of situation. I think that it would have been hard to watch people tear each other apart over food, however, they enjoyed watching people kill each other over food, and they continued to watch them struggle by throwing in more food. I find it very sickening that someone would watch people tear each other apart for food. I think that people shouldn't just stand by and watch as innocent people and children are being killed for something they don't have control over. It is sad to see someone just stand by and watch innocent people dying for nothing.

Another thing that I find saddening is that it continues to happen in the future. Elie sees a women throwing coins to people in poverty. Elie tells her to stop, but she complains that her reasoning is because she is giving charity. To Elie, he sees that as an insult, because he has been the person fighting to grab the bread, and he has been the one trying his best to survive. The people of Germany knew that these people were going to be killed, and they didn't care, instead they stayed silent and told no one. They let the killing go on. Elie blames everyone who stayed silent and didn't tell anyone about the suffering of the people that went through the concentration camps. Elie doesn't want there to be another Holocaust, because of all of the people that did nothing. They could have told people about their sufferings, and maybe they would have been released. However, they did nothing, and they didn't tell anyone, instead they stayed silent, and let the murder continue, just so they could live their lives without the Jewish people.

I am really sad to say this is our last blog post. It has been an amazing year, and I wish it could go on forever, but sadly all things must come to an end. I will kind of miss writing a blog post almost every week. It really shows that we are close to graduating, and high school is coming quick. I really didn't think this year would go by fast at the beginning of the year, but as we got close to the end, I started thinking on how this year went by to fast. I wish we could slow down time to remember that this is our last year at Blessed Trinity. That didn't really sink in till the end of the year. I wish it happened at the beginning, so I could remember to cherish the memories that we make today.

Final Blog Post

In chapter eight of the book Night, there are some very sad scenes. When they first entered the camp they were told to separate into groups. There was a lot of confusion and the S.S. officers started whipping at all the prisoners to get in line. Elie's father was really weak by this point. He just wanted to sit down and rest, and at one point he dragged Elie to a pile of snow and told Elie to leave him there and come back for him after the showers. Elie refused to leave him and screamed at him telling him to get up. Then sirens began to wail and all the prisoners were brought to their bunks. The next day, Elie woke up and remembered about his father. Elie walked around for hours looking for his dad. When he found him Elie found out that his dad was very sick with a very bad fever. He was considered a part of the sick, and he got to stay  in his block while the rest of the prisoners went out. Elie's father didn't get food because it was considered a waste. Everyday Elie's dad was getting weaker. Elie's father had Dysentery, but no doctor wanted to help him. One day, Elie's dad told Elie that the people of his block would beat him and steal his food. Elie told them to stopped but the men just mocked him. Elie layed on the top bunk above his father when his father was dying. Elie's dad was calling for him but Elie did not answer, and in the morning, Elie's dad was taken away and replaced by a new sick person. 

Elie and his father have gone through so much, and it is very sad to see how they begin to get seperated. I feel bad for Elie and for Elie's dad. Elie is going through a very hard time with all of this. He starts to concentrate more on his dad than on himself, and that could be a bad thing in the concentration camps. I feel bad that Elie's dad has to go through all the suffering that the concentration camp has brought him. This chapter was very sad to read with the death of Elie's dad that we knew was coming. This has probably been one of the saddest chapters in the book because of the way things ended with Elie and his dad and because of the death. In my opinion, I agree with what the Blockalteste said. Elie was caring too much for his father and was not accepting the fact that his father was going to die. It is nice that Elie keeps on taking care of his father but I think that Elie also needs to learn how to let go. It is surprising that we are already near the end of the book. To me it feels like just last week we were starting the book. I enjoyed reading this book a lot and I am sad to say my final goodbyes to the blog posts for Night. 

No Tears Left...

In chapter 8, Elie's father and him had survived the journey. They were sent to line up in ranks of five, groups of one hundred. Elie's father was very weak and they could see the crematorium from far. The veterans told the prisoners that they would take a shower and would be taken to their barracks. Elie was desperate and happy about taking a shower and sleeping in a cot. However, his father didn't say a thing, he just stood there. Elie's father wanted to rest a little bit on the snow because he was very weak and couldn't stand any longer. Elie got mad at him because he could die, like the others. Elie then felt his father to go take a shower. He wasn't able to find him and looked everywhere. However, his father called his name out and asked if he could bring him some coffee. Elie did and he saw pleasure in his father's eyes. And his father was getting weaker everyday. He was eventually taken to the crematories, and Elie did not cry, for he had ran out of tears. He had to look out for himself now.

In my opinion, this had to one of the saddest chapters in the book. Elie had lost his only relative in the camp and was alone. Elie tried his best to keep his father alive but still thought of what his life would of been like in the camp if he had only looked out for himself. Elie also mentioned that he had failed the test but I think otherwise. He gave it his all to fight for his father and applied a lot of energy to help him. Elie sometimes would give up bread, soup, and coffee for his father. He would always care for his father and he said that it was not right for him to die because he had to help his father and his father needed him to survive. Elie was not like the other sons who only took care of themselves and didn't care a bit about their parents. It was also sad to me that the sick weren't given any food because it was a waste. They should have received more food so they could become healthier but that's not what concentration camps are about.

A Father's Death and Last Blog Post

I am about to tell two heartbreaking things to all of you. One: This is the last blog post ever for the year, and for myself entirely. I would like to thank you all for all of the positive - and negative - comments you all have told me; it has been a pleasure blogging. Second: Chapter 8 of Night is a particularly tragic one. When the remaining prisoners from Buna are taken from the train, into the concentration camp known as Buchenwald, they are immediately forced to form ranks of five, and to take a shower. Elie, seeing this as a great opportunity to rest, decided to run to the shower, but his father had other plans. His father told Elie that he was going to rest, but Elie said that after all of this time, he could not give up, and he urged his father to come with him. The bell rang suddenly, and Elie, craving some rest, ran for the nearest block, leaving his father on the outside. The next day, Elie saw his father; his condition had gotten worse. He was unable to stand, and he was sick and unable to speak. He urged Elie to give him food, which Elie did. Later that day, Elie realized that his ration was going to waste, as the doctor, and the Blockälteste were both saying that there was nothing he could do to save his father, and his father said that his rations were being stolen by other cellmates, a Pole and a Frenchman. Elie started to cut down on the rations, but his father's urging made him more sympathetic towards him. This happened for a week, until the night roll call of January 28, 1945, where Elie refused to give his ration to his father, afraid that he was to be beaten by an S.S. officer. His father kept begging for food, and he soon was struck right on the head by an S.S. officer who was inspecting the block. The next day, Elie found his father was gone; taken to the crematories to be burned, because another prisoner had taken his spot. His father's funeral and burial had nothing special: no candles, no singing, and no burial. His father was forgotten by the prisoners of Buchenwald, with no remembrance in his name. After his father's death, Elie had a voice in his head that said, "Free at last!" as he had no more burden, his father, on his shoulder.

This chapter was a hard one to read. The way that Elie writes about his father's suffering shakes me deep to my core. Even though I have not experienced permanent loss, I have received temporary loss. I have relatives whom I never see for years on end, and when we meet every other year, we try to make the best of it, and when we leave for home, I normally feel emotional pain that tells me that I didn't have enough memories and time to share with them. This pain goes away because I know I will see then again. Elie, though, will have permanent pain, because he knows he made the decision to evacuate that lead to his father's death, and that he is one of the reasons his father was dead. Also, he knows he will not see his father again, so he will never get more experiences with him. The "Free at last!"part is Elie's mind telling him he had done a good thing for himself, and that he was sure to survive now to write the book, instead of dying and burning in the flames of the crematories like his father had.

The Second to Last Chapter

They have just made it from all the walking and sitting without any food or water and out of the 100 that were put inside the cattle car only 12 made it out. two of them were Elie and his father. Elie is now having difficulties with his father’s health and strength. He has been having these for a long time but until now it has reached rock bottom. His dad is getting weaker and can no longer continue when the allies are so close. His father lost the will to live and to fight from all the hard work they have done and that night they walked for so many miles and just wanted to rest that day.When they were told by a veteran that they were going to take a shower there was a very long line and some of them were sitting on the snow because they were tired.He tells him to wait in line and when it's their turn to run and pick him up. Elie gets very angry as his father says this I would also be mad because after all the things that I would have done to safe my dad for him to give up now. Elie gaved up to many things for him to give up when they are so close of being free. The allies now just need to get to the heart of Germany and save them in time before they all die.Elie keeps and keeps trying to give hope to his dad that they will make it together no matter what. Elie always wants to be beside his father because every time they would be separated Elie would try to find him to see if he was okay.
Elie is just like his distant family because he says that if his family were to die his father he would no longer have a point in living. His father keeps on telling him that he should leave him so that he could just worry about himself and not about him. Elie then tells a doctor that his father is sick but the doctor can't do anything to save him. His father is to weak to move he can no longer stand on his legs or walk. Death kept taking over his dad and he just didn't want to do anything at all. they do roll call again but all the sick are allowed to stay behind from all the food and water he gets very violent diarrhea comes out of him. Since he is very weak he can't get up and go to the bathroom so he does it in his cloth and smells horrible. people then start to beat him because he smells very bad Elie says that he is talking to death and no longer his father. Elie now thinks that if he gets rid of his father he will have a better chance of living then taking care of himself and his father He remembers the prayer that he made when they were walking to the new camp to never abandon his father. Elie's father kept on calling for him until one of the S.S. cam and told him to be quite he didn't and continued they hit his father many times in his head. Elie did nothing because he was afraid of being beat up to. So when Elie wakes up the next day a different sick man was next to him and he knows that his father has been taken to the crementory. The only words that came to his mind were free at last.
This is a very sad chapter because death has taken over Elie's father. So he no longer had the will to live or fight back.Also because the thought of getting rid of his father crosses his mind so that he could live.In the camp you cant think about anyone else you can only think about yourself. When he wakes up his father is no longer their and he knows that his father has been sent to the crementory for how weak he was. He did all he could to save him but his father was not either mentally of physically be able to make any more longer he was being beat up for his rations of bread. the only thing that he wants is water that can be very lethal to him. And the very last words that he says is your name how would you feel after experiencing all of this. I would feel very sad and would no longer have the will to live but in the shoes of Elie I don't think he would feel that way.

Last Blog Post and Elie's Dad

This is my last blog post ever and a sad one too because Elie's dad has passed away. They went to the Appelplatz and they're not even fazed by the crematory chimneys anymore, which is another huge sign of dehumanization. They were in line for showers and the sirens go off so they all ruh in barracks and Elie loses his dad, in the morning he finds him and gives him most of his coffee. After lots of suffering he has died in the night while  Elie was asleep and then brought to the crematory. Elie wakes up to a new prisoner in the spot of his dad. They were all just stuffed in blockades and dying basically and then those who were healthy would stand outside for hours while the clean the barracks . Elie would give his father i\his portion despite being starving himself.
In my opinion Elie's father had been suffering a lot and at this point it was just better for him to die and get rest. Not even doctors were willing to help him, it's not like they could though. He had Dysentery and he couldn't digest water. He is begging his son for water, which is the very thing that will kill him and Elie gives in because he hates to see his dad suffering so much. He couldn't even pass the test to walk in a straight line and this shows just how bad his suffering was. Elie's dad was basically begging for Elie to let him die but Elie wanted to allude it more. Also Elie shouldn't feel guilty for wanting to get rid of him because he was such a "burden" because anyone at that point would think that and would be thinking about self survival. Elie's dad was on the path to death ever since he didn't pass the selection test. Only the mentally strongest people were able to survive the concentration camps. Even the strongest people physically were not able to survive if they were weak minded. You had to have a will to live and a good/independent mentality.
Elie also says that the German Citizens and anyone who knew the Holocaust was going on is just as fault as anyone else because to stay silent is the biggest sin of all. This challenges us to step up and do the right thing because when no one does that it leads to things like the holocaust. if someone would have opened their mouth an stood up to what was happening instead of staying quiet, more people would join in and it  couldn't have been nearly as bad as it was.

Last Blog Post!

This chapter in Night is about Ellie getting situated at the camp with his father. As they were getting situated they were told that they were going to be able to take a hot shower. They were waiting in line and Elie told his father hang on, but got no response and hoped to keep going on with him. They could not reach the showers very easily, especially with hundreds of prisoners fighting for a few shower nozzles. His father after fighting all this way just wanted to lay in the snow and sleep, Elie was frustrated, but kept him going. Then the S.S. forced them to go to their blocks and Elie get separated from his dad becoming a little more like Rabbi Eliahu.

He was close to death and Ellie felt he abandoned him, but found him luckily next day without some creeping thoughts of worrying only of himself however. He looked for his dad for hours and finally found him in a line for black coffee. He got black coffee for him, he is in horrible shape his voice so weak and he is burning with a fever. He also brought him back soup. Though he was extremely grateful for the coffee and soup, and Ellie even remarked it was probably more satisfaction during his entire childhood. His dad then had to go to the infirmary since he was sick and when Ellie met up with him later asked if he ate, but found out that they were not giving him food saying they would all die soon. Ellie then decided to share some of his soup with him. He seemed to maybe even be hallucinating saying he buried gold and silver in a cellar. Ellie kept telling the doctors his dad was sick, but they were not able to help him and probably did not care enough to do so. Even worse his dad’s neighbors were really mad with him, and beating him. They were beating him because he was unable to drag himself outside to relieve his bowels. Ellie promised them food and soup, but they just laughed and continued to do so. They even started stealing his food jumping him, and taking it. He was also begging for water, but Elie did not want to give it to him, it is horrible when dealing with Dysentery. The doctor after a week told him to just worry about himself and use his dad’s rations. Elie a creeping thought had him wanting too, but he refused and continued to share with his dad. He shared his food then went to role call after around a week of him being in the infirmary when he returned he was trembling his dad he remembered that image of his brokenness and then woke up the next morning to find that his dad was gone taken to the crematories. No one mourned him no prayers Elie said what he felt horrible about though was the tiny thought in his head saying free at last.

Ellie Ironically in a sad twist is becoming more like Rabbi Eliahu's son. He started viewing his dad subconsciously more as a burden. He kept helping him a ton sharing his rations though he slowly started viewing him as a burden and wishing for freedom. Leading to when he finally died Elie thought in his head "finally I am free." Which really probably ruins in the future his last memory or times with his dad was dealing with prayer. His faith may even get worse to despising God as he prayed he would not become like Rabbi Eliahu's son, but in this chapter he is somewhat similar to him. Last blog post!

The Loss of Elie's Father

     In chapter 8 of Night, we experience the difficulties that Elie is having with his father. Elie's father is getting weaker day by day, and he has lost his will and fight to live. When Elie's father wants to rest and sit down, Elie becomes frustrated with his father and tells him to get up as he will get killed if does so. Elie sacrifices so much to try and take care of his father. He tries to give his father hope and care for him through the whole way. He is dedicated to his father and always tries to be by his father's side. Elie's father is the reason why Elie still has the will to live, Elie has to care for his father. However, as Elie's father becomes weaker and loses more will to live, Elie becomes frustrated with his father. Elie tries his best to keep his father alive, but despite the effort, hard work, and sacrifice he puts in to try and help and take care of his father, Elie's father is too tired and weakened to go on. Death has taken over his father, and in the chapter, Elie mentions how it seems as if he is talking to death instead of talking to his father. Elie is getting to the point of where thoughts about his father being a nuisance to his survival is coming into his head. However, he tries to block out these thoughts. After working hard to try and keep his father alive, Elie's father unfortunately becomes too weak to even take care of himself anymore and is taken to the crematory. Elie father's last word was Elie's name, and Elie says at the end of the chapter that he could not weep as he was out of tears, and deep inside of him, he felt as if he was finally free from taking care of his father. 

     This is probably one of the hardest things that Elie had to go through during the Holocaust. Even though there were lethal beatings, being overworked, having a lack of sleep, being malnourished and starved, and more, in my opinion, this may have been one of the hardest things Elie had to experience during his time in the Holocaust. After the passing of his father, Elie must have felt so much guilt and blamed himself for the death of his father. He was the one who made the choice to be transported to another concentration camp, he was the one who took care of his father, he was the one who had thoughts that his father may be a nuisance to his survival, and he was the only one who his father had. With this, after knowing that his father was taken to the crematory one morning, I can't imagine how much guilt, sadness, and frustration he must have gone through. Elie even mentioned at the end of the chapter that when his father called out to him, he didn't answer. Elie worked so hard and sacrificed so much to try and keep his father, however, after his father was taken to the crematories, Elie must have felt like he didn't do enough to try and save his father. He must have blamed himself so much on his father's death, and I would too if I was in the same situation as him. He was told multiple times by the doctors, Blockalteste, and even his own father that he can't do much to try and save his father anymore. If only Elie decided to stay in the infirmary, Elie and his father would have both been survivors of the Holocaust. However, now that his father is gone, Elie also feels a sense of being free as now, he can focus on his survival only. Like the Blockalteste told Elie, this is a concentration camp, a place where a man only cares about his own survival and not about others no matter what. 

Elie's Father!

In the start of chapter Elie and his father are now in Buchenwald and his father is not in a very good condition because he could not keep up. When they got to the camp the SS were waiting for them and they were going to take showers. Elie's father kept telling him to have mercy on him because he kept telling him it's all over for him. He has know become childlike: weak, frightened, and vulnerable. Elie then took him to the doctor for help, but it was worthless because he said he's only a surgeon and to get out of his way because there are others he has to attend. After that Elie saw an SS officer and he told him to stop helping his father because he will not survive and that he's wasting his bread and soup. Elie knew that and he then went to his father telling him to just have the soup, his father asked why he was mad, but Elie knew he failed the test and then gave him some water. His father was said to have soup because he was sick, but no because the SS said that it would be a waste of food,

Things got even worse because Elie's father was been picked on by his inmates. They would team up on him and beat him and take his bread. He would tell Elie about to help him out. Later on Elie heard his father calling him because he needed water. While yelling to Elie he didn't hear the SS officer telling to quiet down. "The officer wielded his club and dealt him a violent blow to the head".(Witsel 111) Elie didn't do anything because he was scared that he would also get another blow to the head. Elie than heard he last word his father said,"Eliezer." In my opinion this chapter was very sad because of Elie's father dying and him quickly telling him where he hid all the silver and gold. I dislike most of the chapter because of Elie's father been beaten and not receiving any help(because it's a concentration camp)

Life or Death Decisions, Zalman

In class today we did a lot of reading. The main thing this reading focused on was the evacuation of the camp. One of the main things I found sad about the reading we did in class was the decision Elie and his father had to make. Elie just had surgery on his foot. He was supposed to stay off of it for two weeks but because of the evacuation of the camp Elie had to make the decision to stay at the camp in the infirmary but risk being killed or go through the evacuation and risk having to get his foot amputated but he might make it with his father. I don’t think I or many other people would be able to make a life or death decision like this but Elie does. Elie decides to go through with the evacuation.

The saddest part about this sense to me is that this decision would result in the death of Elie’s father. If they would have just stayed in the infirmary Elie and his father would have been freed after two days. Eile must have a lot of guilt from the decision he made even though he had no ability to know what would happen to the people in the infirmary. Another sense that I find to be very sad is when Elie talks about a young polish boy named Zalman. Zalman was running next to Elie and he started to have bad stomach pains. He starts to complain about how bad it hurts. Elie trys to tell him that they will stop soon ant they just have to keep running, but this doesn’t work and Zalman falls to the ground and is killed by the thousands of other prisoners running past.

This scene is really disturbing to me. It’s sad how Zalman couldn’t run anymore because of something he couldn't control. I can’t even think about how painful of a death he would of had and I don’t want to understand. This is also just more evidence on how dehumanized all of the prisoners have become. They don’t even try to help Zalman instead they run on top of him killing him. Eile probably didn’t even look back when Zalman fell onto the ground. Everyone is out for themselves.

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The whole camp of Buna had to be evacuated. Elie had the choice to stay in the infirmary or go. He chose to go because it all came down to his foot. Those who stayed in the infirmary were liberated two days later. However, before they left, the barracks leader told them to clean up because they wanted to let the Red Army know that men lived there and not pigs. They had to run all of the way. They left at night, and the prisoners had been running throughout the night under the orders of S.S. guards. The S.S. were told to shoot those who stopped running. Anyone who stopped running would be shot on the spot. Those prisoners who were too weak for the journey would quickly get tired and slow down. They had to run all night. Elie had the choice to stop running and get shot. He thought he could die right there. It would be so easy for all of this pain and suffering to stop. Everyone had to run, even the Germans. However, they had vehicles. They had to run 20 kilometers or about 15 miles. They had to march or run the whole way so no one would find out what the Germans were doing. 

All of the prisoners were tired, but they could not fall asleep. Elie and his father could not fall asleep at the same time. They had to take turns sleeping and look out for one another. If they were to both fall asleep, they were most likely to not wake up again due to hypothermia. It would have only taken forty minutes to an hour. Then, they come across a man looking for his son. It was Rabbi Eliahu. They lost each other while marching. They were separated. This was because they only cared for themselves at this point. They did not care about one another. It was every man for himself, unlike Elie and his father. Elie wouldn't allow himself to be away from his father. He was the only reason he was carrying on. I feel bad for Elie and his father. I've been winter camping as a boy scout, and there are some times I just want to pass out in the snow. Sometimes it feels good, but I know it won't do me any good. They also have little clothing protecting them. What a dilemma. They could just end it all of they were to stop marching.

Chapter Six of Night

Before chapter six, the Jews heard terrible news that they would be evacuated to another camp since the Soviets were starting to get closer and Elie had the decision to stay in the infarmory, or leave with the other Jews, but he decided to go with the other Jews because he did not wanted to die there. Then he later heard that those who stayed in the infomry lived and got liberated. So Elie was saying that he is the reason his father died because if they stayed none of this would be happening. In chapter six the Jews are forced to leave the camp that they are currently are in, which is Buma and they have to leave because the Soviet Union is pushing Germany. They had to walk all the way to the other concentration camp and it was very far away, and also it was very cold and they had not that much food to eat. So the prisoners were forced to run through the night and the S.S officers were orders that if the prisoners stop running, they will be shot, and those who were weak would be shot too. Everyone around Elie is dying, so the evacuation is lethal. Elie could of giving up at the start, but the only reason he wanted to continue was because of his father and he did not want to leave him there a lone. Later Elie and his father made an agreement to take turn sleeping for about 45 minutes because of hyperthermia and his father took the decision to let Elie sleep first time he is his son and he cares for him a lot.

In my opinion, Elie's father remind me of Atticus a little bit because he had the courage to not sleep, even though he is very tired, and let his son sleep first because he cares for him a lot. I feel very bad for the prisoners who got shot and killed because they could not run anymore and they were tired. I think most just wanted to die because they wanted their suffering to end already so most gave up early because they wanted too. I wonder what would've happened if Ellied decided to stay in the infarmory with his father and instead of them suffering more, they would of survived and get liberated early and also his dad would of survived. I think Ellie had a lot of courage to keep going even though he wanted to stop, but he did not want to leave his father a lone, so he kept going for him.

Night Chapter 6

A little bit before chapter six, the prisoners had received some news that they had to be evacuated, and they had to take a trip more into Germany. There would be a good chance that some of the prisoners will not survive, due to the extreme weather. It was cold, and they had very little clothing on, and they had to run, if they had stop running for a second, the prisoner would be shot. The symbolism is that the prisoners would be evacuated at night, and at night evil and darkness fall on the prisoners, the evacuation will be lethal. Before they had to evacuate, Elie and his father wanted to decide if they should leave the concentration camp, or stay in the infirmary. It was Elie's choice to either stay in the infirmary, or evacuate, Elie decided to evacuate, but soon her would learn that it would take his father to be killed when they evacuate. This was a painful admission to Elie because his choice will result in his father's death. When all the prisoners are dying all around him, when they are running, if Elie stopped he would be shot at any moment. Elie refuses to die because he needs to be there for his father, Elie had no right to die. For some reason most people survived, and they had marched and ran for fifteen miles. Sometime later, Elie is awaken by his father, Elie's father woke Elie up because if Elie would die of hypothermia, if he fell asleep. One can sleep up to an hour, or they could die over an hour of sleep. Elie and his father would take turns sleeping, they would sleep less for an hour. A man came into the room, his name was Rabbi Eliahu, and he was looking for his son. Rabbi and his son got separated from the marching, Rabbi's son probably started looking out for himself, and not his father.

The marching to the other concentration camp was very lethal. I feel that they should not have been marching to the concentration camp. They should have been in big trucks, and transport all the prisoners to the concentration camp. At the same time, the SS troops probably want the prisoners to suffer, because they are prisoners, and what they deserve for being a Jew. If I was one of the prisoners, I would stop running, so I would be killed, because if it were you you would not want to suffer anymore, so that is what i would do. I was surprised that most of the prisoners had actually survived the lethal march to the concentration camp that was further more into Germany. If Elie had stayed in the infirmary, Elie and his father would have been liberated, and Elie's father would not have died, if Elie made the choice to stay in the infirmary.

The Frostbitten Leg

The winter had arrived, nights were unbearable for the prisoners. They would have to work outside in the freezing temperatures, Due to Elie working in the construction area. He would have to pick up heavy stones, they were so cold that they felt their hands would remain stuck on the stones. Around the middle of January, Elie's right foot began to swell and it hurt him whenever he would stand on it. So, Elie went to the infirmary, the doctor was Jewish and a prisoner like them. The doctor told Elie that they would have to operate it immediately, if they waited his toes or his whole leg would have to be amputated. Elie was placed in a bed with white sheets, Elie had forgotten that people slept on white sheets, which was kinda sad. Elie described that being in the infirmary wasn't bad at all, they were fed well, no more bells, no more roll call, no more work, and sometimes he was able to send bread to his father. It was time for Elie's operation, he was taken to the operating room. Elie wasn't put to sleep during the operation, the operation lasted one hour. Elie ended up passing out from all of the pain, when he woke up the operation was completed. The operation went well, the doctor told Elie that he would have to rest for the next two weeks in order for his foot to fully heal. If Elie walked or ran with his foot if he didn't rest, his foot would get infected again and possibly he would have to get it amputated. This was bad because, if he stayed there to long the S.S could send him to the crematory.

After two days from Elie's operation, rumors were said that the Red Army was getting closer to Buna, and that they will soon be freed. However, Elie's faceless neighbor who had dysentery, said that all the jews would die before being freed by the Red Army. He said that Hitler would keep his promise of killing all of the Jews, like how he described in "Mein Kampf." Sadly, they were told hat they would have to soon evacuate Buna. The doctor told the patients that they would be able to stay in the infirmary, while everyone else were being transported. This made them wonder if the S.S would actually leave them behind and not take them to the crememetories. In the end, Elie asked his father what they should do, it all depend on Elie. Was he able to run on his foot, Elie decide to not stay in the imray and leave with the other with his father. After the war, Elie learned that the patients that stayed in the infirmary were later saved by the Red Army. In the beginning of the book, we were told that Elie's father didn't make it. Now we know as to why.

Night Ch 6

    They had to evacuate Buna because the Soviets were coming and they had to be sent to another camp deep in Germany, so the Germans could hide what they were doing. There is a good chance that most of the people will not survive the trip because of the cold, their lack of sleep, and they are starving. Elie and his father have a choice to evacuate or stay in the infirmary, but Elie makes the choice for both of them to evacuate, even though Elie's foot might get cut open again. Those who stayed in the infirmary were liberated two days later the evacuation. This is painful for Elie because the choice he makes results in his father's death. If they would have stayed, both of them would have lived and not have evacuated. Before they had to evacuate, the block leader wanted the barracks clean, so the Russians will know that men lived there and not pigs. They still have their humanity. They evacuate Buna at night, so they evacuation is going to be lethal.

      The S.S would shoot anyone who stopped running and those who were weak were quickly killed. Elie is using metaphors and similes trying to say that he can be killed at any moment. Everyone is dying around him and it is tempting to stop and die, but Elie refuses to give into death because he wants to be there for his father. He has no right to die. They marched and ran fifteen miles. Most of the people survived and it was freezing cold. They survived because they have a will to human survival. They arrived at an abandoned village and Elie and his father took turns sleeping because if they both slept, then hypothermia could kill them both. They could only sleep for an hour because if they slept more, it could be lethal. When Elie woke up his father, his father wakes up with a smile. Elie's father was dreaming about a better world and Elie would never forget his father's smile. Rabbi Eliahu came in where they were sleeping and he was looking for his son and while they were marching, they got seperated. His son had gone looking for himself.