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Monday, February 2, 2015

Chapter 6

This chapter basically revolved around death. Their march to the next camp killed a great deal of the Jews involved, and those who survived struggled mightily to find the strength to continue. During their rest, when the Rabbi came looking for his son, Elie recalls that he saw his son push forward without him and prays to ask for the strength to not do something like that to his own father. I found it very ironic that he was praying to a God he himself said he no longer believed in, but I think he needed extra strength and didn't know where else to go.
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  1. UnknownFebruary 2, 2015 at 11:51 AM

    I found that interesting and ironic as well that he was praying to God for strength. It seemed that before, he had given up his faith in God, yet in this chapter we see more hope in Elie. He refuses to abandon his father in anyway, including giving in to death.

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  2. UnknownFebruary 2, 2015 at 10:16 PM

    Andrew, I found this point interesting and ironic as well in how he prayed for strength to God. I also believe that this prayer he made to God in which he asked to not abandon his father, as a sign of weakness. Elie seems to not trust himself to not abandon his own father which is why he may be praying to God once again, although he seemed to lost faith in the previous chapter. I believe he made this prayer in case he did ever abandon his father, so then he'll have God to blame rather than himself.

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    1. UnknownFebruary 3, 2015 at 6:55 PM

      Thats a good explanation for his actions. And it would definitely make sense that he is feeling weakness. He knows his father is slowing down, and he needs to find the strength to stay with him even if it risks his own chance of survival. He had to go to God and pray because he no longer believed he could do it on his own

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  3. UnknownFebruary 4, 2015 at 9:09 AM

    I find lizettes point very interesting because I never connected it to Wiesel trying to find someone to blame for a weakness. But I also want to mention how death was such a popular theme in this chapter. He constantly describes all the way that he is close to succumbing to death.

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