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.