Chattahoochee River
Monday, February 9, 2015
Ch. 7: Bread Fight
What stood out to me in the chapter was how horrible it was when the father and son died fighting over a crust of bread. It was shocking to me how the son didn't care about his father at all and only thought of bread, and treated his father like how an animal would treat someone with food. The son took the bread from his dead father but he too was killed before he could eat it. They both died for nothing and didn't even have the company of one another. The most powerful thing about this part of the chapter was how Elie ended it by dramatically saying "I was sixteen", emphasizing how young he was and how much horror he had witnessed.
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You're absolutely correct about how meaningless their death was. The boy let his father die for a piece of bread and died right after that. I wonder how much regret the boy would feel if he had the opportunity to. This chapter is fu of selfish acts, like the people who throw out the dead bodies for the good of themselves. I think this is the most selfish however, to let your own father go for a piece of bread that he didn't even get to eat.
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