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.
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