Today in class we read that the Buna concentration camp is going to be evacuated, this is bad news but great news at the same time because the Allied forces are coming nearer to liberating the jews. This is bad for Elie, and the rest of the prisoners, because they would have to run to another camp which is hundreds of miles away. Before they got evacuated Elie was looking for any food laying around, but when he got back to his barracks the leader told them that they had to clean, this was to prove that all though everything that the germans had done to them all the beatings they have received, and the disgusting sleeping conditions that they had to sleep in they could not take their dignity away from being human. This is actually very touching to me, because although everything that they have gone through, and they would still clean their barrack, I can barely clean my room (Not that it is dirty in the first place). When they evacuated it was night time, to show that something bad was about to happen, when they went out the gates of Buna, they were ordered to run, and the SS had orders to shoot to kill, anyone who slowed down, or whoever stopped entirely, while Elie was running he could hear the occasional shot.
While Elie ran he had the uttermost to stop to get killed, because he could not go on he could not run anymore, but he told himself no, because it would be selfish, and if he died his father wouldn't want to go anymore, and they would both die. This is also very touching to me, because they were pushed to the point to where they would say that dying would be selfish, and they needed each other, because they were motivated to survive for each other. The prisoners running shows the limits of the human body, and that is incredible, your body as well as their minds had to be pushed to the highest point to survive, this is amazing, because lots of people after a mile are exhausted, while in good condition, while Elie, and the others are starving very weak, but their will power, pushed them all those 15 miles. When they stopped running thay stopped at an abandoned building, Elie and his father were never separated throughout the whole run, which was very good for them. Elie's father saw a shed for them to sleep at, and they got in, and they made a deal that they were going to take turns sleeping, and Elie's father insisted that Elie should sleep first, they did this so that one didn't sleep for to long, because hypothermia was going to kick in, and kill them. This touched me in a way that all of the other things that happened couldn't, Elie's father let him sleep first, this might not seem like much, but Elie's father is looking out after Elie before himself, he doesn't care about himself anymore, he would give his life for elie to go on, and he proves this by doing this, it would've been so easy for him to sleep first, because Elie would of let him, because he is way older than him, and is much weaker than him in that very moment, but this shows the love that Elie's father is showing him.
When Elie woke his father after his turn, the Rabbi came to ask them if they had seen his son. What this shows that even though everyone in the camp loved the Rabbi, his own son started to care more about himself than his dad. They Rabbi obviously cares about his son, because he is looking for him, and starting to get worried.
Overall good job on this blog post sam, you had explained everything that we had read in class. This was a very thorough blog post, and I think it was really enjoyable at the sametime as reading it, except when people had to die. It is very sad that people would die if they would stop running for a split second, I feel that the prisoners should of taken their time, or at least not have been shopped. as we all know the world is not fair. Overall great job on this blog post sam.
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