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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.