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.