Chapter 3

   This chapter really created a very detailed image of Auschwitz and Birknau. The author describes how the second they got off the train men and woman, whole families, were separated. Throughout the whole chapter Elie and his father kept getting seperated into groups praying that they wouldn't be in the wrong group that went to the crematorium. The constant fear that the people living in the camps had was probably the worst torture of all. People were worried that they may never see their families again but had to keep focusing on their own survival. Elie and his father had to keep making stories up about the mother and sister in order to stay focused on the day ahead of them. Imagine living in constant fear for your life and being completely helpless of your own fate.