Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Tragedy

Elie, and his father went through the gates, and then the S.S officers ordered them to form ranks of five, and groups of one hundred, and they were told that they were going to head into the showers, there was a ruckus, and the S.S was having trouble putting everyone back in order, and Elie's father say down to rest. Elie did not want him to sit down here, because they were going to rest after the showers, but Elie's father didn't want to wait so he sat down, and Elie started to argue with him, but he couldn't. Sirens started to go off, and everyone headed inside, and Elie liked this, because he was not going to be in the freezing cold, and the wind, when Elie got inside he fell asleep. When Elie woke up he remembered his father, and that he left him when the sirens rang, and he went to look for him, Elie in the back of his head kept thinking though he didn't want to find his father, but soon enough he found hm, and he asked him if he was okay, and his father told him to go bring him coffee, because they prisoners were getting some, and Elie did as he was told. Elie brought his father inside, and Elie went back outside to wait for his soup, and he waited five hours for it, Elie went back to his father, and  asked him if he got food, and he said no, because the guard said that he was going to die soon, and elie gave him what was left of his soup.
Every day his father was getting weaker, because he was suffering from dysentery, and everything he ate or drank, made him more sick. Elie's father was telling him where he buried all the gold, and the valuables, but Elie did not accept him telling him this, because he wouldn't let him die. ELie used a ration of bread to trade places with someone else so he could be next to his father, a doctor came, and Elie told him that his father had Dysentery, but the doctor ignored him, because he was a surgeon, some time later another doctor came in, and he knew that he would also be of no use, for his father. Elie's father was so sick that he could not go to the bathroom, and other prisoners beat him for smelling bad, and they also took his bread, and he asked for water, but Elie knew it was like poison for  him, but he gave it to hime, anyways. During roll call, Elie stayed with his father, because the sick could stay in the block, and Elie pretended to be sick to stay with him, Elie's father started moaning, for elie to bring him water, before, an officer told him to be quiet, and started beating him on the head, Elie's father kept Moaning for Elie, but Elie didn't answer, because he did not want to get beat himself. Elie woke up, the next day, and found that his father was not there, and Elie didn't cry for his father though, and he said that he felt free.
Elie tried to stay with his father, and care for him for as long as he could I admire that, because even though he could've died doing all of this for his father he kept on doing it. Also even though his father tried to tell him where he buried all of the valuables, Elie still would not accept that his father was going to die, he wouldn't let him, and I also admire that. Although his father was dying Elie still completed his wishes by bringing him water, even though he knew that he was going to suffer more. The thing that hit me was when he didn't stand up for his father when he was getting beat, I understand the conditions he was in, and if he got hit, he would've probably gotten injured seriously, so I will accept that he din't do anything. The thing that hit me the most, was when he said that after his father died that a burden was lifted from him, I know what conditions that he was in, but personally I would never consider my father a burden, I will always be by his side.

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