Chattahoochee River
Thursday, February 5, 2015
Chapter 7
In this chapter Elie's energy and happiness has been sucked out of him. He is weak and it barely sustaining himself. He can no longer distinguish the dead from the ones (the Jews) who are alive. Since they almost look like corpses he cannot tell whether they are still alive. This appealed greatly to my emotion. "Here or elsewhere, what did it matter? Die today or tomorrow, or later? That night was growing longer, never-ending." His situation is unfortunate because he and many of the others tried their best to survive in the concentration camp. But, they have gone trough too many hardships under the Nazis. The Jews can't rationalize since they don't have enough to eat and have turned against themselves.
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It seems like all sense of perception, time, meaning, and value has completely left Elie. Perhaps this, in a sense, proves he too was a corpse among the corpses; he had no life in him, no resolve to find a meaning of living beyond the horizon. Perhaps he thought of himself equal with his dead comrades.
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