Chattahoochee River
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Chapter 4
This chapter was a much longer chapter, and I felt that it just gave small glimpses into spend of the most memorable hardships that Wiesel faces while inside Buna. However, the memory that struck me the most was the hanging of the young boy. The matter of which he died was just so horrible to think about, let alone watch this boy drift off slowly to death. The boy was killed through no direct fault if his own, and he was someone that a lot of the men enjoyed and were saddened with his death. I think that this haunts both the author and the reader because the boys balance between life an death is what every prisoner in that concentration camp were experiencing. The the German officers eyes and weapons were the "ropes" at the their neck and the more time that passed, the more they felt their lives drifting away.
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Kayla, I also thought that the hanging of the boy symbolized how the people were hanging as long as they could in order to survive. Wiesel also felt this impact as he described later that night that " the soup tasted of corpses." I also found it interesting that the boy was so liked among almost everyone and that his death was more saddened than the death of the others.
ReplyDeleteWhy do you guys think Elie included the event and made it so dramatic? Do you think it marked any turning point for his faith or the faith of the Jews as a whole? I think there was some deeper meaning in the death of young boy and the response it created amongst the inmates.
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