Chattahoochee River
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Chapter 4
I noticed that the tone for this chapter changed slowly. It was rather soft and calm in the beginning, nothing big was happening really, it even seemed that things would get smoother for Elie and his father. However as I continued to read the chapter, I noticed that slowly, things started to take a turn for the worst. I'm not sure where it started to really go down hill, some could argue around the time Elie was beaten by Idek, others might say when he witnessed his father being beaten. Then at the end, I'd say it ended with a sad tone because of the child's hanging. This chapter did not seemed rushed to me, and by that I am referring to the events of the day. The previous chapters seemed almost hurried in a sense, because so much was going on in a short time. But I personally felt that this chapter was a lot smoother with the transitions and events.
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I like that you decided to talk about this because when I first started reading the chapter, everything seemed to be going rather well for Elie and his father. They had the "good life" in that concentration camp and then all of a sudden the chapter began to show all the horrors that were really there. It was almost odd that he chose to put it all in the same chapter. For a moment near the end, I thought maybe I had read on to the next chapter by accident.
ReplyDeleteI think that in this chapter we see Elie go through so much because it was a way for the author to show that they could never really let their guards down -- that no matter how "good" they had it compared to others, they were never truly safe from everything that happened in the camps.
DeleteYoaly, I also realized that in this chapter the events happening seemed to go on slowly rather than a sudden change to the horrors happening around them. I believe this is because he wanted to show that although they had it bad enough with all the terrible things being done to them, there were more happening, one right after the other.
ReplyDeleteYoaly, that stood out to me as well. The slower/smoother transitions that you mentioned I think allowed us to empathize and understand a bit more with a closer look into Elie's life and perspective as he goes through the beating, witnesses his dad's, and saw the little boy being hanged. For each he had shown little empathy except towards the end, almost as if his built (wall of?) tolerance towards the inhumanity towards his people finally fell apart and it affected him and his beliefs
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