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Monday, January 26, 2015

Ch 5

In this chapter when Elie said that he had chosen to leave the camp and found out that those in the infirmity had been liberated two days after they had left, I thought about the lesson of choice and chance. The choice that he made of leaving was his own. He had the chance to stay or leave and he left. That choice that he made lead him to the rest of his story. If he had chosen to stay it could have ended there but, his choice affected the rest of what would happen in those years of his life. However what were the chances that those in the infirmiry would be liberated?
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  1. jschulzJanuary 27, 2015 at 12:32 PM

    Great application Arlene to the concepts we talked about in class. I like your assessment of choice and chance in this instance.

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  2. UnknownJanuary 27, 2015 at 8:30 PM

    This is an excellent point Arlene. I noticed that this directly correlated to Mrs. Schulz's theme to look for. He made the choice to leave instead of stay, believing that it would improve his chances of survival.

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  3. UnknownJanuary 29, 2015 at 10:16 PM

    I found your post to be very interesting, Arlene. Elie was give an opportunity in which he had to choose what direction to let his life go. I believe the reason he left was cause he thought maybe he had more chances of surviving, since he was a Jew, rather than staying there. Although it was ironic that the ones in the infirmary were liberated while Elie's reasoning for leaving was precisely that, if Elie had stayed it may have not gone the same way as it did.

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  4. UnknownFebruary 2, 2015 at 7:09 PM

    I really enjoyed how you applied the choice versus chance discussion to your post. I believe that Elie and his father had the chance to stay and be liberated but made the choice to leave. This was probably a regretful choice for both of them.

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  5. UnknownFebruary 3, 2015 at 2:25 AM

    Is interesting your post Arlene and true. Elie felt that his changes of survival where higher if he goes West with the other prisoners than waiting for Red Army to arrived. I can see why he made this choice. Going West gave him higher changes of being liberated by the Western Allies who would treat Elie as a war refugee. He felt the Red Army would not guarantee that.

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