Honestly, I feel as if with every chapter everything gets worse and more depressing. In this chapter, the Nazis are treating the people as horrible as always but with more emphasis. The Nazis call the people dogs and treat them horribly with “filthy dogs...flea-ridden dogs”. I also am amazed that Elie is still good to his father and had the courage to not betray or abandon his father like he rabbi’s son did earlier. It must have been so hard to not betray his father since a lot of the people changed and sometimes they changed in order to survive. Also, it was scary towards the end of the chapter when Elie’s father was to the left for being weak for the selection. Fora moment I thought that this was when his father would die. However, Elie somehow saved him him from the crematorium. But, at the same time he caused many to get shot.
His father is all he has left so he works really hard to protect him. They have a buddy system when one stumbles the other is there. I agree Hermelinda that this takes a lot of courage. I think people would have gotten shot because they were weak and Elie's interference actually saved lives because they were able to switch lines.
ReplyDeleteHis father is all he has left so he works really hard to protect him. They have a buddy system when one stumbles the other is there. I agree Hermelinda that this takes a lot of courage. I think people would have gotten shot because they were weak and Elie's interference actually saved lives because they were able to switch lines.
ReplyDeleteI also felt as if the events kept getting worse, but maybe everything had always been bad, and as the time goes on Elie's view on the situations get worse. I think he just starts to notice so much more of the bad and really starts to see the truth instead of hiding behind the innocent mind of a child. He has experienced so much that no child, no human, should ever experience and as it goes on, his eyes open up more and more, his mind grows from that little boy who first arrived at the camp to an experienced veteran who has seen it all.
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