Night Chapter 6

A little bit before chapter six, the prisoners had received some news that they had to be evacuated, and they had to take a trip more into Germany. There would be a good chance that some of the prisoners will not survive, due to the extreme weather. It was cold, and they had very little clothing on, and they had to run, if they had stop running for a second, the prisoner would be shot. The symbolism is that the prisoners would be evacuated at night, and at night evil and darkness fall on the prisoners, the evacuation will be lethal. Before they had to evacuate, Elie and his father wanted to decide if they should leave the concentration camp, or stay in the infirmary. It was Elie's choice to either stay in the infirmary, or evacuate, Elie decided to evacuate, but soon her would learn that it would take his father to be killed when they evacuate. This was a painful admission to Elie because his choice will result in his father's death. When all the prisoners are dying all around him, when they are running, if Elie stopped he would be shot at any moment. Elie refuses to die because he needs to be there for his father, Elie had no right to die. For some reason most people survived, and they had marched and ran for fifteen miles. Sometime later, Elie is awaken by his father, Elie's father woke Elie up because if Elie would die of hypothermia, if he fell asleep. One can sleep up to an hour, or they could die over an hour of sleep. Elie and his father would take turns sleeping, they would sleep less for an hour. A man came into the room, his name was Rabbi Eliahu, and he was looking for his son. Rabbi and his son got separated from the marching, Rabbi's son probably started looking out for himself, and not his father.

The marching to the other concentration camp was very lethal. I feel that they should not have been marching to the concentration camp. They should have been in big trucks, and transport all the prisoners to the concentration camp. At the same time, the SS troops probably want the prisoners to suffer, because they are prisoners, and what they deserve for being a Jew. If I was one of the prisoners, I would stop running, so I would be killed, because if it were you you would not want to suffer anymore, so that is what i would do. I was surprised that most of the prisoners had actually survived the lethal march to the concentration camp that was further more into Germany. If Elie had stayed in the infirmary, Elie and his father would have been liberated, and Elie's father would not have died, if Elie made the choice to stay in the infirmary.