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.