Chattahoochee River
Thursday, February 5, 2015
Chapter 8/9
I found it interesting how much time had passed between the death of Elie's father and the day he was freed. A majority of the book is about Elie and his father and their struggle through the multiple camps. Only three pages are about Elie being freed. This shows that although there were times when Elie did not necessarily show sympathy towards his father, he is showing it through the use of the book. The time between the death of his father and Elie being free meant nothing to him. He really did care about his father, and did not want to believe in the "every man for himself" concept. Had he not cared, a majority of the book would have been about the day he was freed.
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Cielo, I had not thought about the chapter in that way but it makes sense. I agree that he was so tormented with what had happened with his father that he didn't care about his freedom anymore. It was pointless to be free to him I belive because he had lost everything and didn't have his family anymore. He lost his father, the last person that was there for him and now free he had nothing.
ReplyDeleteCielo, I think that makes a lot of sense and I think that, in a way, Wiesel paid his respects to his father through the book -- by really emphasizing how important and vital he was to Elie's survival of the Holocaust.
ReplyDeleteCielo you raised an interesting observation, until you mentioned it I hadn't realized that the whole book was centered on him and his father. His fathers reactions to the events were emphasized almost as much as Elie's were.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you Cielo. The entire novel was centered around the struggles that Elie and his father had gone through. I think Elie did this because he felt as though he had done everything he could to keep his father alive. And in order to show this, Elie wrote the novel demonstrating how he had become the one to take care of his father while they were in the concentration camp.
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