1. What keeps Elie and his father alive?
2. Why does the author write about Rabbi Eliahou and his son (86)?
3. Why does the author write about Juliek and his violin?
4. How do others outside of the Jews react to the running, dying, starving, empty band of Jews? Be sure to cite three reactions from these chapters.
5. Explain what each cited incident from #4 says about how others reacted to the Holocaust.
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1. What keeps Elie and his father alive is each other. They don’t want to lose one another. They make pact that when they rest, they will watch out for one another. Elie doesn’t want to live if his father isn’t there. In one moment in the story, where Elie thinks his father is dead, he say “my mind was invaded suddenly by this realization-there was no more reason to live, no more reason to struggle” ( Wiesel 93). It there bond that keeps them alive.
ReplyDelete2. The author writes about Rabbi Eliahou and his son to show the opposite of the realtionship between father and son. The son try to lose his father on purpose because he wanted to get rid of him and when Elie realize this, he make a pry to God that, he will never do what the Rabbi’s son did his father, to his own father (Wiesel 87).
3. The author writes about Juliek and his violin because he is showing how something means so much to one person. Even when Juliek is be stamped e and he is dying, he is only worrying about his violin, “ My feet are swollen. It’s a good to rest, but my violin…” (Wiesel 89) and even as he dies he playing his violin.
4. Outside Jews reactions toward the Jews running, starving is that stare at them. When they pass a German town, the German just stare at them and they show no surprise in their face (Wiesel 95), the German took interest at the Jews as they fight with each other for food (Wiesel 95) and they react passively, they don’t do anything (Wiesel 95).
5.When they pass a German town, the people from that town are not shock at what they see, they stare at them. When the Jews are fighting for a piece of bread, the German take interest in that and really don’t stop it, it seem as though they encourage it
Things that keep Chlomo and Elie alive are the fact that they are with each other. Elie needs his father and so does Chlomo because they need each other to support themselves. They would always help each other and with courage (86-87).
ReplyDeleteThe author uses Rabbi and his son as an example to Elie. The author uses the relationship between the Rabbi and his son to show to Elie that what he have left (his father) is the most precious thing that he can ever possess. He is trying to show Elie that Elie needs his father to stay alive and so does Chlomo. Rabbi’s son doesn’t take their relationship seriously so the son did not stay alive.
Wiesel writes Juliek and his violin to show Elie that at their last minutes they would be still caring about things they love in their life. Juliek loves his violin so he would bring the violin with him and not let the SS men take it away. This relationship shows Elie that his father and he would always care and protect each other at their last minutes, too.
People react to the prisoners with “lively interest in this spectacle (Wiesel 95)” when they are fighting over the bread crumbs the Germans threw. Another reaction from SS men that they are also “laugh at this spectacle (Wiesel 92).” A third reaction from others is “A crowd of workmen and curios spectators had collected along the train… had… never seen a train of such cargo…of…theses skeletons… fighting one another to the death for a mouthful (Wiesel 95).” They react to the fighting as shows and spectacles. They don’t care about the Jews dying but they took interest in the Jews fighting for food.
The first reaction implies that others take the Jews as a tool of entertainment and nothing more. They are just watching an interesting show of Jews. The second incident shows that the SS men are also watching a funny show by the Jews eating off each others’ shoulders. The third reaction is people would come see this sort of fighting and they would do anything like throwing in crumbs to the prisoners. The Germans don’t care about the prisoners but their own amusement.
1. What keeps Elie and his father alive is that they have each other. They both have support for each other, when one is down the other picks him up. Elie needs his father, and his father needs Elie in the same way. "Not here....Get up....A little farther on. There's a shed over there...come on" (Wiesel 84). This quote is said by Elie's father, he doesn't want him to freeze outside so he gets him and they find a shed where they can rest.
ReplyDelete2.The author writes about Rabbi Eliahou and his son to show the difference between relationships. The son of rabbi Eliahou wanted to run away from his father, he didn't want to be with him anymore.. Elie and his father didn't have this kind of relationship, they wanted to be with each other. So Elie prays that he will never be like Rabbi Eliahou's son.
3. The author writes about Juliek and his violin because whenever they heard the violin play, it brought the people hope. "He was playing his life" (Wiesel 90). Juliek was playing the violin because he probably knew he might not be able to play it again. Every time Elie heard the violin playing, he would close his eyes and think of his Polish friend Juliek.
4. Outsiders reacted to the Jews "a workman took a piece of bread out of his bag and threw it into the wagon" (Wiesel 95). Another one is, "The SS who were watching laughed at this spectacle" (Wiesel 92). The prisoners were hungry and were eating snow and the SS men were laughing. And the last one, "I suddenly noticed that two children were engaged in a death struggle,. "Why not?". "I like to give to charity..." (Wiesel 95).
5. When the Germans were on the run, they had no food, and al they had to eat was snow. When they started to eat snow, the SS men laughed at them as if they were nothing. But the Jews had no other choice. Also when they were on the train, a German threw a piece of bread, and the Jews fought for the crumbs. This shows that the other people didn't feel the pain that the Jews were going through during the holocaust. They didn't care about them. Lastly when that lady threw coins on the floor and both children were fighting for it. She said that she liked to give to charity. She knew that the Jews were desperate for money, and she watched them fight for it.
1. Elie and his father keep both of them alive. Both of them supported each other and not to give up (Wiesel 82). Also they both gave courage to each other saying to never give up and that they are almost at the camp(Wiesel 84).Both of them looked out for each other while they were sleeping to protect themselves (Wiesel 85).
ReplyDelete2. The author wrote about Rabbi and Eliahou his son because he want to show how unfaithful the son is. Elie remember seeing him running away from his father because of his old age. Elie said "My God,lord of the universe , give me strength never to do what Rabbi son has done (Wiesel 87).
3.The author wrote about Juliek and his violin because he wants to show the reader he didn't give up. Elie thought he had died along the way but he was alright when the arrived at the camp(Wiesel 89). The violin represents Juliek's life because he played it his whole life and only left now is his soul(Wiesel 90).
4.The others outside of the Jews laughed at them because they had to pick up snow off a neighbors back for water.They weren't allowed to bend so all they could do is use a spoon to pick up snow.They were given a ration of bread but they were dying of thirst so they only way to get water was to drink snow(Wiesel 92). The workman took pity on the Jews because he threw in a piece of bread out of his bag and threw it on the wagon.Dozen of starving man fought each other to death for a few crumbs.They didn't have food for ten days so all they could do is fight for food.(Wiesel 95).A woman also felt pity on them so she threw in money to see them fight over just a few coins. They were tearing at each other and biting each other.He wanted to give charity instead of seeing people fight because they were only injuring themselves(Wiesel 95).Other people just laughed at them and felt pity on the people so they took the actions of throwing food and money inside the wagon.
1. What keeps Elie and his father alive is that they know they need each other to survive. They support and help each other. They look after one another and dont want to get separated. On page 82, Elie thinks about death and states that "the idea of dying, of no longer being, began to fascinate me." After he thinks about death, he thinks about his father and begins to say "my father's presence was the only thing that stopped me"(p.82). Elie knows that his father needs him because if he died his father would no longer need to live. On page 85, Elie's father tells him to go to sleep and that he take care of him. They both need each other to survive.
ReplyDelete2. The author writes about Rabbi Eliahou and his son to show the reader how Rabbi was looking for his son and needed his son to continue on. His son though, wanted to get rid of his father because he knew that the end was coming. When Elie heard about this, he prayed and asked God not to make him do what Rabbi Eliahou's son had done to his father. This Elie want to stick to his father.
3. The author writes about Juliek and his violin to create a sad mood. Juliek had always loved to play the violin. He even began to play it in the darkness and cold weather while everyone was weak and cold. He layed as if he knew it was the last time he would play the violin and that he will never play again. After he plays, he was found dead near his violin. The author tells about this also to let the reader know how the jews felt. The was Elie describes Juliek as he was playing, creates a different feeling to the reader telling the reader how awful it was.
4. The others outside of the Jews react differently to the runninng, dying, starving, etc. On page 81, the SS officers made the run faster when it was snowing and freezing outside. They would shoot anyone who didnt and would sometimes make them just fall and die because of the stampede of people. On page 92, the SS officers brought the Jews blankets and some bread. One of the Jewish prisoners was thirsty so he began to eat the snow. Others started doing the same thing and the SS officers just watched and began to laugh. On page 95, a workman threw bread in the wagon where everyone was and everyone was fighting one another for the bread. This made the German workmen watch as if it was entertainment.
5. From how the SS officers and German workmen act, they were indifferent about the holocaust. They thought it was entertaining to watch people starve and freeze to death.
1). Elie and his father keep each other alive. They only have each other as a reason to live if one losses the other they wwould give up and die. Elie says, "No response... He was not moving...Suddenly...there was no longer any reason to live"(Wiesel 99). When Elie thought his dad had dided on the train he had given up hope. He no longer felt like continuing the journey because he thought his dad had died.2). The author writes about Rabbi Eliahou to compare the relationship between Elie and his dad and the relationship between the Rabbi and his son. He wants to show the difference between the relationships and how much Elie cares about his father. The reason they both have such a good relationship is because they are the reason they are alive. They need eaxh other to live. Elie prays that he never turns on his dad like the son did to the rabbi.3). The author writes about Juliek to show the anguish, pain, and sadness of the situation. When Juliek plays the violen he is playing the tune of his life and all the other people. Elie describes his music as, "His unfulfilled hopes. His charred past, his extinguished future. He played that which he would never play again"(Wiesel 95). Julieks music is sad and it represents hopelessness and the end.4). Others outside of the Jews reactdifferent to the situation...the nazis are unforgiven and cruel they scream at the Jews when they do not respond to their commands, "Faster, you filthy dogs!" Elie says, "a worker took a piece of bread out...and threw it into a wagon...The worker watched the spectacle with great interest"(Wiesel 100) "A crowd of workmen and curious passerby had formed all along the train"(Wiesel 101)5). The nazis did not care about the Jews and they did not consider them as people.They added to the Jews missery and offten times made fun of the Jews and killed anyone they felt like killing. The nazis caused the anguish and suffering among the jews. The worker decided to help the jews by giving them some bread. Insead of helping them out he made the situation worse. All the people in the train began to fight over the food that was on the floor. The worker was amused by the Jews actions and their misfortune he used for his amusement. The other passerbys began to form around the Jews. They were all curious and watched what was taking place. Instead of making the situation better they made it worse by looking at the people as if they were animals. They did not think of them as people they only took attention to the Jews for their own amusement.
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ReplyDeleteThe thing that keeps Ellie and his father alive is that they have each other. They were the only one's left of there family and they needed each other to survive. When either Ellie or his father fell asleep they would watch out for each other. If Ellie's father died there would be no point in him living.
Ellie wrote about the Rabbi and his son to show that they didn't try to save each other. The son left his father by himself even though the rabbi was looking for him. The rabbi and his son didn't have a close relationship like Ellie and his father. Ellie shows his love for his father by sticking with him through everything.
Ellie Wiesel writes about Juliek and his violin because it shows the pain that he has gone through. Whenever Juliek played the violin it was to a sad tune that brought despair. Juliek and his violin show hope when he gets trampled to death, he worries about his violin.
The outsiders react to the running of the Jews by staring at them when they run through the town.(Wiesel 95) The Germans keep them selves amused by throwing bread at the Jews and watching them fight over it.(Wiesel 95) The SS officers react to the Jews by laughing at them when they ate the snow off each others backs.(Wiesel 92)
The sitings show that the Jews were not cared about. The examples above show how the Germans saw the Jews as animals or things that can be captured. The Jews were not treated fairly and were forced to leave there homes. They were treated like zoo animals being collected and shown.
1.)THe idea of being together and sticking together is what keeps Elie and his father alive. They both helped each other out, supported each other, and they will not survive without each other. They helped each other not to fall asleep in the cold because it can cause death.
ReplyDelete2.)The author writes about Rabbi Eliahou and his son on page 86 because to show the relationships between them. The realtionship between Elie and his father is nothing compared to Rabbi and his son. Elie and his father support, kept their eye on each other, and take care of each other while Rabbi and his son did not keep their eyes on each other.
3.)The author writes about Juliek and his violin to show the sorrow and the saddness of what happened to the prisoners. When he plays his violin, he plays a sad melony that shows the people suffering and sorrow of their lifes.
4.)The others outside of the Jews react to the running, dying, starving, empty band of Jews in a different way. For example, when the people were fighting over the bread crumbs that the Germans threw out. The people "took a lively interest in this spectacle"(Wiesel 95). Another example, is when the prisoners wenre thirsty so they had to eat the snow off of the ground. "The SS who were watching laughed at the spectacle"(Wisel 92). Lastly, it was an icy wind when the prisoners were marching without faltering. The SS made them run even faster in the cold weather(Wisesl 81).
5.)The others react to the Holocaust is that they noticed that the Jews were not left alone to live peacefully. They were murdered, dying, starving, and etc.
1.What keeps Elie and his father alive is each other. Together they push each other to run, to continue to survive so that they can enjoy their lives when they get out of the camps. At one point when they rest, Elie’s father tells him, “‘ Don’t let yourself be overcome by sleep, Eliezer. It’s dangerous to fall asleep in the snow. You might sleep for good. Come on, come on. Get up’” (Wiesel 84). The two of them watch out for each other so that they do not die.
ReplyDelete2. Elie writes about the Rabbi and his son because it shows how the Holocaust changed people. He is trying to show the readers that the Nazi’s were so strong that they even separated families, caused them to fall apart without even killing a member (Wiesel 87).
3. Elie writes about Juliek to show the readers how music even times of depression can give hope. It is also a way for Juliek to express himself and all his emotions. Juliek plays his violin because he thinks it is the last chance he will get and it makes for such an emotional last stand (Wiesel 90).
4. Other people reacted to the starved Jews. In some parts of Germany the workmen who were on their way to work paid little attention to the Jews because it was no surprise to see them (Wiesel 95). One workman however did find it entertaining to watch some Jewish prisoners fight over a ration of bread (Wiesel 95). After a while, the scene grew intense and more workers began to throw bread into the cars, watching the prisoners fight over bread (Wiesel 95).
5. When the German workers were not surprised to see the prisoners go by on the caravans, it meant that they were use to seeing the Jews being treated this way and did not care. It meant that the Jews meant little to them and that they were more animal-like than humans with needs. When the German worker threw the bread at the Jews it was not meant to help them, he knew that this action would cause a reaction from the Jews. It was his way of taunting the Jews and getting entertainment. He wanted some action. When more German workers saw the reactions from the Jews when they received bread, it was again, their way of getting entertainment. They wanted to have a laugh and see people suffer at the same time.
1. The only thing keeping both Elie and his father alive is each other. Elie, having his father alive and by his side, is willing to continue to keep run until they reach their destination. He didn't dare to give up and let himself die because he knew his father wouldn't be able to survive by himself if he died. He knew he was his father's support. Elie tries to keep his father from dying. He wills him to carry on and not to give up. When he's nearly reaching death, Elie smacks him and wakes him up before death could overcome him.
ReplyDelete2. The author writes about Rabbi Eliahou and his son to show how during the Holocaust, the struggles can change and split a family. Rabbi Eliahou and his son had been together through all the struggles and challenges in the camps. They stuck and look out for each other. But when Rabbi Eliahou asked Elie if he had seen his son because they were separated while running in the snow, Elie said no. But he then remembered that he did saw his son and that his son had wanted to divide himself from his father. He knew that without his father with him, he can fend for himself without his father as a burden on him. He can concentrate more on surviving himself. Elie realized that one day he might feel the same way about his own father and he prays that he wouldn't think this way. The author uses this story to foreshadow the future events of Elie's life during the Holocaust.
3. The author writes about Juliek and his violin to show how music was a way that kept some of the prisoners going during the Holocaust. The music gave them home. It also symbolizes the emotions being felt by them.
4. The people outside of the Jews found it amusing to watch them. When they pass through the German townships, the workmen stopped and stared at them. They showed no surprise.(95) One of the workman threw a piece of bread into the wagon of the Jews. This caused a big riot. All the Jews, going for days without any food to eat, fought each other to death to get a peice of the bread. The workers looked on with interest and amusement in this.(95) When one of the Jews had the idea to eat snow to appease their thirst, all the Jews started to scoop snow off each other's backs and eat it along with their bread. The SS who was watching them laughed at this spectacle.(92) When the Jews were running, the SS were given orders to shoot anyone that stopped and couldn't keep up. The SS didn't deprive themselves of this pleasure.(81)
5. When the workers stopped and stared at the Jews in the wagons when they passed by the German townships, they showed no surprise to see them. This meant that they knew what was happening and what the SS were doing to them. Their lack of surprise meant that they didn't care about the situation. When the workman threw bread into the wagon and the other workmen looked at the Jews fighting each other to death for the food with interest, it shows that they thought it was funny and entertaining . They found it interesting how the Jews were all killing each other just for some bread to eat. When the SS laughed at the Jews for eating snow off each other's backs, it shows that he found the Jews dumb for eating snow. When the SS shot at the prisoners if they couldn't keep up running in the snow, they found pleasure in doing this. They loved to watch them suffer and they didn't care if they died because they found it entertaining to shoot them dead.
1. The thing keeping Elie and his father alive is each other. They both give each other the strenth they need to carry on. Elie is says when he thinks his father died that there is no point in living any longer. When eother is them lacks the strenght they need, the other will offer kind words and advice to make them go on and want to survive. Elie and his father live for each other.
ReplyDelete2. On page 86, the author writes about the rabbi and his son to show what the Holocaust has done to people. The rabbi believes that his son either got lost or died, but Elie noticed that the son intentionally lost the father among the crowd to relive himself of the burden that his father caused. It is all just a struugle for survival and it has made every man for themself. The author write this to show how Elie hopes he will neer have to leave his father like the rabbis son did.
3. The authore writes about Juliek and his violin to show what people are now living for. Before the Holocaust, everyone would have lived to please and love their family members, but now most poeple don't even shed a tear if their family members die. Juliek only cares if his violin is broken, he doesn't even think about loved ones that he might have lost. The only thing that was helping Juliek live now was knowing he had his violin and his music.
4. People besdies the Jews had different reactions to the Jews running. On page 81, it says how the SS officers were able to shoot anyone who wasn't strong enough to continue running "they did not deprive themselves of this pleasure." Then, on page 88 while the Jews were runnning in the cold SS officers occasionally rode by on motorcycles and told the Jews to keep running. It is easy for the SS officers to tell the Jews this because they officers dont have to go throught what the Jews are going through, they react by thinking it is an easy task to run in the cold.
On page 95, the German workers react to the starving Jews by throwing them pices of bread just to see the Jews fight to the death for it. The author says how "the German workmen took a lively interest in this spectacle" this shows how the Germna workemen believed it to be a game, even though the Jews were struggling for their lives, the Germans were able to laugh at them and keep throwing pieces of bread in to make them fight.
5. The reactions of everyone who wasnt a Jew and who didnt have to endure what the Jews did show how they thought of the Holocaust as some sort of game. Each reaction shows how people are able to do whatever they want to torment the Jews. When the officers are able to shoot any Jew they want and said how it pleasured them, this shows how the officers believe that killing the Jews is fun. Then, when the officers can drive on motorcycles while the Jews must run, this is the officers taunting the Jews beacsue the officers find it funny that the Jews have to either run or die while the officers can be switched if they get tired and they can even ride on motorcycles. The German workers laugh when the Jews kill each other for pieces of bread and they continue throwing more pices of bread into the carts. They take it as a joke that each and every Jew in the carts is fighting to survive, it is easy for the Germans to watch this because they know that they will never have to go through what the Jews are going through.
1. What keeps Elie and his father alive, is having each other by their side.
ReplyDelete2. Rabbis Eliahou is a old man, and he is weaker than his son. During the hours of run, Rabbis Eliahou slowed himself down cause he was running out of breathe. His son saw him, and just ran ahead of him, faster, and creating a larger distances between his father and himself. By doing so, he is trying to get rid of Rabbis Eliahou, his father because his father was like a burden to him. Elie realized this, and he promised himself to never do or think like what Rabbi Eliahou’s son did. It is because later on in the novel, he thought of such thing as abandoning his father, similar to what Rabbi Eliahou’s son did.
3. The author wrote about Juliek and his violin because every time when he hear Beethoven’s music he would think of Juliek. Juliek played Beethoven’s concerto inside the dark shed where there was many dead, and weak men which is like something that engraved into Elie’s memory.
4. “Wake up. You mustn’t sleep here….(85)” Elie would continuously warn his father. The prisoners had not slept for day as his father mentioned “Its so long since they closed their eyes….(100)” If people fell asleep, they would either die in the cold or be mistaken as one of the dead bodies like when Elie tried to wake his father up from his sleep, “Father! Father! Wake up. They’re trying to throw you out of the carriage….(96)” People that walks near by the carriage would find it amusing. They would throw money or bread into the carriage and the prisoners would fight till death for it. And when Elie saw two children struggling each other for a coin, Elie begged the woman who threw it to not throw anything in anymore, but all the woman said was “Why not? I like to give charity….(95)” To survive from hunger, prisoners ate small ration of bread and to kill their thirst, they ate snow.
5. “Wake up. You mustn’t sleep here….(85)” - Elie kept telling his father not to sleep or that he might be mistaken as a dead body, left behind, or die in the cold weather.
“Its so long since they closed their eyes….(100)” - It was mentioned in the book that they haven’t slept for days, and that was why many people wanted to just sit down and sleep. Elie’s father desired to sleep after the run and being in the carriage with hardly any food for a long time.
“Father! Father! Wake up. They’re trying to throw you out of the carriage….(96)” - Elie’s father was about to be thrown into the pile of dead bodies if it wasn’t for Elie waking him up. Many people might have been left behind while they were sleeping, or died in the cold.
“Why not? I like to give charity….(95)” - People were throwing food and money into the carriage and people will fighting over everything. While those people who threw things into the carriage thought they were doing a good deed.
The thing keeping his father and him alive is knowing that they need each other. They both help out each other and want to be there making sure their ok. His father tries his best to keep himself going and make sure that Elie keeps going as well.
ReplyDeleteThe author writes about Rabbi Eliahou and his son to show what type of relationship they had. It was a comparison between the one Elie had with his father and them. the rabbi’s son had wanted to take his father off his back so he ran away from him. Rabbi Eliahou goes around asking if anyone has seen his son but no one had an answer for him and Elie remembered after he left that he saw his son look at his father and just kept on running away ignoring him and leaving him behind. Elie wants and prays so that what the son did to his father he wouldn’t do to his.
The author wrote about Juliek and his violin to show a mood in that part of the book. It was a sign of hope but at the same time it was sadness going on. People were dying as the violin was playing. Juliek might have had his violin because it was his and he cared for it. His violin was the only thing that was keeping him alive and going on.
The SS made them rum instead of marching. For them it was pleasure and they had orders to shoot anyone that could not keep up. (Wiesel 81)
• The SS didn’t care because they didn’t have to run along with them. They wanted them to run so that they had so fun. They didn’t care if they had to shoot anybody. This shows that they viewed the Holocaust as a game to see who could survive.
“They brought us bread the usual ration. We threw ourselves upon it. …As we were not allowed to bend down, everyone took out a spoon and ate the accumulated snow off his neighbor’s back…The SS who were watching laughed at the spectacle. (Wiesel 92)
• Here the SS were laughing at their misery. They had no pity for them. Again it shows how they didn’t care about the Holocaust since it wasn’t them going through all of that.
“One day when we had stopped, a workman took a piece of bread out of his bag and threw it into a wagon. There was a stampede. Dozens of starving men fought each other to death for a few crumbs. The German workmen took lively interest in this spectacle.” (Wiesel 95)
• They made the Jews suffer over food for their own pleasure. The as well didn’t care as long as they had their fun. It shows that these people were heartless and took the holocaust like a joke where it didn’t matter to them if people died or not.
1) Elie and his father are kept alive for each other. They don't want to give up because they want to be there for each other. Elie says that his father couldn't go on with out him, so he keeps going (82).
ReplyDelete2. The author writes about the Rabbi and his son to show us about losing faith yet again. The Rabbi is a righteous, gentle man, who prays and helps others, and even in this dark times, retains his faith. His son on the other hand, saw the reality of his situation and left his father so he could survive. After this Elie prays, because if losing his faith means losing his father, he doesn't want to do it.
3) Juliek plays his violin because its all he has left. His family is gone, his friends are dead or gone and he still has his violin. He loved music and complained about how he couldn't play Beethoven in the camps, so he plays Beethoven as if it's his last song, because it is his last. It makes the mood of the scene seem like the end of the world.
4)-On page 92, the German officer laughs at the Jews while they struggle to get the snow because they are thirsty.
-On page 95 the people throw change at the Jews, one lady thinking it is "charity."
5)The Germans thought it was a big joke. They took pleasure in watching the Jews struggles. The people found the Jews suffering amusing, like the Jews were toys they could play with.
1. Elie and his father remain to stay alive because they have each other. Elie stayed alive because he wanted to be with his father and vice versa. When Elie and the other prisoners had to run to their new camp, Elie had become very tired and hurt after running for so many hours. The only thing that stopped Elie from collapsing in the snow and dying was his father’s presence (Wiesel 82). Elie’s father would also need Elie to survive because without him Elie’s father had no more support (Wiesel 82). They need each other to survive.
ReplyDelete2. The author wrote about Rabbi Eliahou and his son because he wanted to show how different the relationship was between them and Elie and his father. He also wrote about it to show how Elie and his father need each other and appreciate one another. Rabbi Eliahou’s son ran ahead of his father because he felt that his father was slowing him down and could possibly get him killed, he only cared about himself and not his father (Wiesel 87). There relationship is completely different from Elie and his father because they stuck together through everything. Elie’s father was very weak and continued to get weaker but Elie never wanted to get rid of him, he always wanted his father to be right next to him.
3. The author wrote about Juliek and his violin because he is showing how this possession was very important to him. Juliek played his violin to show his hope and emotions. He knew that he was going to die and that a lot of the other prisoners were too and he comforted everyone by playing the instrument he loved. Juliek was playing for his life, which consisted of his lost hopes and his destroyed future (Wiesel 90). The violin is what Juliek loved and the author wrote about it because it comforted him through this hard time and showed hope Juliek played what he loved until the end.
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1. When the Jews are running to the next camp, the SS officers react to the Jews who stop running or fall to the ground by shooting them. For example if one of the Jews stopped the officers had orders to shoot them such as Zalman who stopped running and would have been shot by an SS but he was most likely trampled by the other Jews who were running (Wiesel 82). This incident shows how others who were like the SS officers reacted to the Holocaust because they had no regard for the Jews and they would just kill them if they stopped running. Even the Jews did not care about the dead corpses they were more concerned about surviving and people like the SS did not care about Jews.
2. Another incident was when a workman took a piece of bread out of his bag and threw it into the wagon for all the starving men to fight over. Dozens of men fought for the bread and the German workman found this quite amusing and interesting (Wiesel 95). From this incident others may have reacted to the Holocaust by thinking it’s amusing like the German workman did. They may find the whole Holocaust to be some kind of sick joke. Others may react to this incident by finding it sick and wrong to treat Jews like this.
3. Another incident was when a woman was throwing money to the Jews and watching them fight over it, similar to the German workman (Wiesel 95). She was watching two children in a death battle over the money she was throwing to them. When Elie asked her to stop she said that she like giving to charity. This shows that she liked to watch them fight over something she had, it gave her a sense of power. Others may react in the same way toward the Holocaust from this incident. Other may be like the woman who gained a sense of power by giving them money and watching them fight over it and others may think it is wrong, and that everything being done in the Holocaust is wrong.
1. What keeps Elie and his father alive?
ReplyDeleteThe bond between son and father keeps Elie and his father alive. They both struggle to survive for each other. They both believe they mustn't die because they need each other. During the evacuation they have forced themselves to survive. Elie has forced his father to keep going and caused a ruckus in the selection when his father was on the side of the condemned, and in the midst of the confusion, he was able to save his father. When they stop at a deserted village, Elie fell asleep in the cold weather and his father woke him up because it was dangerous to fall asleep.
2. Why does the author write about Rabbi Eliahou and his son (86)?
He wrote about the Rabbi and Eliahou to foreshadow what would happen with Elie and his father. Elie prays and hopes he would never do the same as Elishou has never done, but he ends up becoming the very same. Elie begins to feel the same way as all the sons do with their father, burdened, tired and selfish (101).
3. Why does the author write about Juliek and his violin?
The author writes about Jeliek and his viol in because it left a deep impression engraved in his heart. Juliek played the violin as if their was no tomorrow. Juliek's feelings, past, and lost future was conveyed through his music. His pure music shows that there were still people that haven't lost their mind and change their ways.
4. How do others outside of the Jews react to the running, dying, starving, empty band of Jews? Be sure to cite three reactions from these chapters.
When they passed through the German townships, the workmen that were on their way to work stopped and stared after them, but showed no surprise (95).
One day when they stopped, a workman reacted by taking a piece of bread out of his bag and threw it into a wagon (95).
After many people had seen them fight over a ration of bread a crowd began to form and they threw in more bread (95).
5. Explain what each cited incident from #4 says about how others reacted to the Holocaust.
The workmen that stopped and stared but showed no surprised shows that it was a regular thing for them. They were used to see cargo of dying and starving Jews. They paid no attention and went with their daily lives.
The people that threw bread in the cargo found it amusing and entertaining. They took advantage of the situation as if it were free television for them. Instead of helping them, they are making them suffer even more for their selfish needs. They create horrible scenes such as the son that attacked his father for the bread.
What keeps Elie and his father going is each other. They are the only thing they got. Elie and his father dont own anything since everything has been taken away from them including their identity. The only thing they have is each other which makes their drive for survival even stronger knowing they have to be there for one another. If one is not there they wouldnt make it like on page 99 when Elie states "Suddenly...there was no longer any reason to live". They each need the other for support knowing that united they will be successful but divided they will fail.
ReplyDeleteThe author writes about the Rabbi and his son to show how Elie was affected by their situation. This inspires Elie to stick by his father even more as the author shows the difference between the two relationships. Elie see's how the holocaust can change people as he says, "he had wanted to get rid of his father!" (Wiesel 87). We see Elie being inspired and affected by this when he starts praying to a God he no longer believed in as he says, "My God, Lord of the Universe, give me the strength never to do what Rabbi Eliahou's son has done." (Wisel 87). We didnt want this experience to change him in the way it had changed the Rabbi's son and prayed to stay close to his father and not be like the Rabbi's son.
The author writes about Juliek and his violin to show an example of how some people expressed themselves and their feelings in these tough times. Juliek was so passionate about his viloin as he says, "My feet are swollen. It's good to rest but my viloin...." (Wiesel 89). He was asking for it in order to be able to express himself. This eventually created a calm but yet chaotic mood like when the band played their instruments during the devastating scene in TITANIC. Everyone was running around but the band played to calm everyone down and played soft melodies to show what kind of mood it was and drain their hearts out of the pain they held just like Juliek.
Other people besides the Jews had different ways of reacting to the struggles the Jews were facing. One example is when some were so thirsty they had to take snow off the ground and put it in their mouths. They couldnt bend down so they would take a spoon. This was amusing to the SS men as the author writes, "The SS who were watching laughed at this spectacle. This shows that they had no sympathy for the Jews and they found laughter out of their situations and sufferings.
A second example is when the Jews marched through townships. They would often coincide with the Germans as they went to work. The author wrote, "They stopped and stared at us, but otherwise showed no suprise." (Wiesel 95). This showed that they were so used to seeing the Jews in these types of situations. That shows how tragic this experience really was. Seeing this was a normal thing to the Germans. This also showed the lack of importance that the Germans gave to the Jews when they showed no interest. This is a result of how normal is was and how unsypathetic they were. They were just a bunch of cold hearts starrin at innocent lives.
A third example is when a workman took a piece of bread on the ground knowing there was many starving others who would jump in and by all means necessary do whatever to get it. The author writes, "The German workmen took a lively interest in this spectacle." (Wiesel 95). This shows how cruel the Germans were. They would do stuff on purpose knowing the consequence. Afterwords instead of helping or stopping the mayhem, they paid great attention and took much curiosity to the cruelty like when two chickens are forced to fight each other for the amusement of others.
--DENISE SHU
ReplyDelete1. Elie and his father keep each other alive. They both help each other out and give each other support. The quote "My father's presence was the only thing that stopped me" (82) was said by Elie when he felt like he was about to die and he was about to give up. But then he saw his dad passing by and that gave him the courage to live on. Elie didn't want to die yet because he was afraid of leaving his father all alone. His father only had Elie for support.
2. Elie writes about Rabbi Eliahou and his son because he was shocked about what happened. Rabbi Eliahou said that he lost his son in the crowds of people when they were running and Elie remembered seeing them and realized that his son was trying to get rid of his own father (87) because he's getting weak. Elie was very shocked by this and tells this story to let people know about how the Nazis changed people's lives. It tore families apart and kept them seperated. It made family members forget about their affection towards one another.
3. The author writes about Juliek and his violin because they represent hope. Elie thought that Juliek had died a long time ago. Realizing that Juliek is alive makes him happier and gives him more confidence. He was so surprised and couldn't believe that Juliek is still alive. This encounter inspires him and makes Elie believe that someday the Jews will get their day of freedom.
4.
--- " 'Please,' I begged, 'don't throw any more money in!' "
" 'Why not?' she asked. 'I'd like to give charity...' (95)
There was a lady on the boat who were throwing some coins to them and the prisoners were fighting each other to retrieve the money. The two children were basically fighting to death just to get the few coins thrown at them.
--- "A crowd of workmen and curious spectators....the death for a mouthful." (95)
- There were workmen along the train and they were very curious about what they saw. When tehre were pieces of bread that fell onto the prisoners' wagons, they brutally fought each other just to get that piece of bread. A son even beat his own father just to get the bread he was keeping.
---"..everyone took out his spoon... The SS who were watching laughed.." (92)
- The prisoners were trying to eat the snow with a spoon since they were thirsty. They were eating bread while eating snow. The SS officers were watching this the whole time and were laughing at them.
Jason Grullon
ReplyDelete1. The will of Elie and his father to not be separated and left to die alone. The great ordeal will be dramatizing for a child. Elie doesn’t want to survive if the father wasn’t there. Their bond reinforces their will to keep each other alive.
2. The author writes about Rabbi Eliahou and his son to show the opposite of the relationship that Elie and his father. The son is showed to try to lose the father unlike Elie and his father. The purpose of the author writing about Rabbi Eliahou was to show the story at an obverse perspective.
3. The author write about Juliek and his violin to show the reader it is not over it. Juliek plays his violin because it is his only possession. He is alone in the world and loves music and plays Beethoven as if he ever again. The camps forbid him before so he plays it as if he can’t ever again. A devastating theme which was created throughout the story creating a sense of hope.
4. On page 92, the German officer laughs at the Jew who is trying to drink snow because he is parch.
On page 95, the Jews were starving because they haven’t eaten anything in ten days so they fought for crumbs like barbaric animals.
On page 95, a woman was giving charity not wanting to see people fighting each other for food.
5. On page 92, the officers were barbaric watching the Jews as savages degrading themselves.
On page 95, the Jews were being uncivilized searching for food crumbs like wild animals the workmen took pity on the Jews throwing food crumbs.
On page 95, a woman showed she care about the Jews by giving charity to those in need instead of watching the Jewish savages fighting for foods.
1. What keeps Elie and his father alive?
ReplyDeleteWhat kept Elie and his father alive was each other. While running in the snow non stop being threaten by the SS officers, Elie thought of just stopping and lay there in the snow and get shot, but it was his father that was by his side that kept him going, he looked at his father as they run along side by side, his father weaker then before continuing running with all his might, persuading Elie that he must continue on. The bond they have with each other is what kept them alive.
2. The author writes about Rabbi Eliahou and his son because it tells how a person can treat their own father in desperate times. The author shows the relationship of Rabbi Eliahou and his son is completely different from Elie and his father, the son of Rabbi Eliahou ran off without caring about his father since he realized that his father is just a baggage that kept him down, but Elie didn't see his father as a baggage and they continued to support each other. The purpose of this was to show to opposite perspective of what others saw during the Holocaust.
3. The author write about Juliek and his violin to show what love can make a person do. Juliek loved his violin, it was his only possession, it wasn't even allowed in the camp to have any possession, yet he risked the chance and kept his violin. The result was the violin being smashed into pieces and him dying next to the broken violin. This scene was incorporated to show how tragic things are in the camp, and to the people who had a reason for living.
4. On page 95 while the Jews were put into a cargo cart with 100 other Jews, Germans from outside would throw bread inside to see the Jews fight like animals. They were strangling each other to each since they haven't ate in days.
Again on page 95 a women would throw coins at the people to watch them fight over it and said "I like doing charity" and laughed away. She was not doing charity, she was making fun of the people and how they would react for simply a couple of coins.
From Elie's perspective "They stopped and stared at us, but otherwise showed no surprise" (Wiesel 95) this meant that the Germans looked at them as if they were animals in the streets no surprise seeing them crammed up in a cart.
5. The first one where the Jews fought for food was to show how the Jews would do anything even if it meant killing another to live.The citation with the women throwing coins is to say how she wanted to watch the Jews fight over anything, this time not food, just coins. When Elie saw the outside men just staring at him it showed that the Germans cared nothing for the Jews, they were simply just entertainment, things to kill time with, an object.
1. The will of not wanting to lose another kept Elie and his father alive. They both don't want to live without each other. If one of them dies, then there is no more meaning to living. Elie wants to protect his father and Elie's father doesn't wan this son to die.
ReplyDelete2. The author writes about Rabbi Eliahou and his son to show what a person can do because they want to live. Rabbi's son left his father on purpose to get rid of him. Also, Elie thought to himself and said he should never do that to his own father.
3. The author writes about Juliek and his violin to show how much a possession means to someone. The violin was very important to Juliek because that was the only thing he had left and the only thing to die with. Juliek doesn't want to die alone, so he decides to die with the most important thing to him, his violin.
4. Others outside of the Jews react to the running, dying, starving, empty band of Jews as an amusement. When the workman took a piece of bread out of his bag and threw it into the wagon, he watched it and it was very interesting to him (Wiesel 95). When the lady threw the coins at the Jews, she found it as a pleasure from a game (Wiesel 95). Later more workmen threw pieces of bread at them to amuse themselves of how the Jews are killing each other for it (Wiesel 95).
5. When the first workmen threw the bread, the Jews were diving to get it, he began to feel amuse bread and the people were shock. When the lady throws the coins to see their react, she saw them killing and biting each other for it, and was entertained and was having fun, like playing a game. When more people throw more bread in, their reaction to the Holocaust was that they thought it was interesting and fun in what they are doing to the Jews.
Stephanie Almanzar
ReplyDelete1. Elie had told himself that it would all be worth it. He watched out for his father and made sure that he was with him at all times to watch over him. At the worst times, when even Elie had no strength to carry on his father took control and watched over him. Elie and his father took turns watching over one another because they couldn't let each other die. They stuck together no matter what. They also kept on thinking that it'll all be over soon and that everything is going to be perfectly fine.
2. Rabbi Eliahou and his son are written about by Wiesel to show how everyone else was acting in contrast to Elie and his father. The rabbi had been abandoned by his son simply because his son wanted to survive. Elie would never do this to his father.
3. Juliek and his violin showed the bit of happiness and hope that the Jews should all have. When he played his last song Elie cherished this. Juliek's passion for who he was and what he could do was so strong that he kept on playing even when he was at the brink of death.
4. Those who weren't Jews or the leaders of the camps had two different reactions to the suffering that went one. Germany's workers that passed by the train and saw the enslaved Jews felt bad for them and did the only thing they really could do, give them bread. They didn't try to free them and they didn't try to fight Hitler. They would also watch and marvel at the Jews fighting over their offerings. Coins were also thrown at the Jews and this was seen as an act of charity.
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5. "a workman took a piece of bread out of his bag and threw it into the wagon. There was a stampede."(95)
-The others felt that they couldn't do much to help. They did, however, feel bad for the Jews and their lack of food.
"A crowd of workmen and curious spectators had collected along the train."(95)
-Everyone found the men fighting over money and food to be a sight. They wanted to watch and see what was going on. They saw the Jews as some sort of display.
1. Elie and father keep each other alive. However, Elie makes wise decisions that risk his life to stay with his father. Both cannot bear to think of leaving each other alone to survive. They sought to each other for advice and reassurance. They were all each other had and both were not willing to let that go. There have been several times where Elie could have left his father stranded, during the march, on the snow, but he didn’t.
ReplyDelete2. The author writes about Rabbi Eliahou to stand as a mirror image of what Elie and his father could have been if they did not care for each other the way they did. The Rabbi’s son abandoned him and left his father in fear. However, his son might have felt he was carrying to much responsibility just as Elie thought.
3. The author writes about Juliek and his violin to bring back the idea of possession. Juliek could not leave his violin because it was his very own. He brought his past into his future. Juliek wanted to die knowing he brought along what was his. The violin brought peace to Elie.
4. The others reacted in such a demeaning matter. When they drove through the town, workmen stopped and gazed with no emotion.(95) A women once then through in a piece of bread into the wagon.(95) After watching the Jews fight over a single piece of bread, many more outsiders began to throw more bread to watch them kill one another. (95)
5. The workmen were not surprised to see the wagon because it had become a normal routine for them. There were hundreds of wagons before so another one meant nothing. The throwing of bread was encouraging the Jews to continue fighting each other. It was the outsiders who they should have been fighting against because they continued to make a mockery of them.
Ahmed Atieh
ReplyDeleteElie and his father are living for one another. They set a pact to take care and watch out for one another. After having thought that his father died on the train, elie felt no reason to live anymore. His father was the only thing that he lived for because he knew that his father needed him and he needed his father to survive in these horrible conditions. Elie writes about rabbi eliahou and his son to show elie how valuable his relationship with his father is. The rabbi’s son does not like his father and he leaves him alone. Elie realizes how important his and his father’s relationship is and prays that he will never become like the rabbi’s son. Elie realizes that him and his father must stick together and not let the Nazis break them apart. The author writes about juliek and his violin to show how music gave them hope. Juliek plays the violin before he dies to give all the jews hope. Although juliek dies, I guess he was trying to send the message that as long as the jews keep hoping there will be a time in which they get out of this torture and suffering. Juliek still had hope, even when he died. The SS officers laughed at the jews when they ate the snow off each other’s backs(pg 92). The outsiders stare at the jews as they run around the town.(pg 95). The Germans entertained themselves by throwing bread at the jews and seeing them fight over it(pg 95). The Nazis or SS officers had degraded and shamed the jews to the lowest level possible. They did not care about what they were doing and they were happy about it. They even found enjoyment in degrading the jews.
Joseph Nagiub
ReplyDelete1) A father-son relationship is what keeps Elie and his father alive. The will to keep each other safe and alive is what helps them continue to live.Their love to be with each other forever helps them fight whatever comes at them. The help from each other helps them stay alive.
2)The author wrote about Rabbi Eliahou and his son(86) to show the difference of Elie and his dad and the rabbi and his son. The rabbi wondered around looking for his son but really his son left him. His son believed that he was about to die so he walked faster away from him.His son believed it was the end and felt that leaving him was the only way to survive(87). Elie and his father give each other advice to help each other stay alive. They wouldn't leave each other to live.
3)The author writes about Juliek and his violin because its a way that Juliek expressed his emotion and how he felt during this time.The music showed depression and sadness in the people. it made them think about how their lives will end up.
4)Others outside the jews reacted careless and just watched the jews be disrespected when running,dying,and starving.The s.s officals had another selection and Elie runs after his father(91).The jews began to eat snow for thirst and the s.s officals were watching and laughing at them(92).The german workman watched the jews go crazy for bread crumbs(95). The people that were non jews just watched the jews barely live and fight to eat and survive.
5)The people that saw the jews starving and dying did nothing but watch them and laugh at the things they did.The other people had care for the jews but only to see them die.This was wrong and unfair to the jews. The officals laughing at the jews(92) showed no careness for the jews.
1.The thing that keeps Elie and his father alive is the fact that they have each other. Both need each, for hope and survival. They have a bond and are able to keep each other alive by watching out for the other. They push one another to live, like when the camp was evacuated and they had to run. They made sure that the both ran. Also when Elie begins to sleep, his father keeps him awake making sure he doesn’t fall asleep, he knows that if one goes to sleep in the cold, he might never wake up (Wiesel 86). Elie and his father needs each other to stay alive, they are each others hope, each others support.
ReplyDelete2.Elie writes about the Rabbi and his son because he wants to show the difference in people. Elie prays he never becomes like the Rabbi’s son and treat his father like the rabbi’s son treated him (Wiesel 89) . He also wants to shows how people have changed. He wants people to know what becomes of men when it comes to survival, he wants to show the animal like ways people act when it come to life and death situations.
3.Elie writes about Juliek to show that in the time of despair people find hope in the simplest thing. Juliek’s hope is his violin, when he thinks he is going to die he begins to play his violin. In what Juliek believes to be his last moments, he begins to comfort himself with music (Wiesel 91). Elie writes about Juliek and his violin to show, how even the simplest things, like music, can bring hope and joy in times of hardship and depression.
4.People didn’t care for the Jews in there hard times. While the Jews were in the carts traveling in terrible condition, people didn’t react at all and the seemed to be used to the site (Wiesel 96). There was one person however, who through bread into cart and watched with amusement, the Jews fighting each other (Wiesel 96). As the cart travelled many Germans began to throw bred in to the cart and watched as the Jews fought for it (Wiesel 97).
5.The site of the Jews did not surprise the German people. They were used to seeing Jews in the bad conditions, and this showed the value the Jews had. The people didn’t even care and passed by as if there was nothing going on. Also when the first person, and later on many people, began to throw bread at the Jews was a sign that people during the holocaust in Germany didn’t care. The bred wasn’t thrown to help the Jews, but to amuse themselves. The fact was that the germens enjoyed watching the Jews fight like animals, and they felt superior to the Jew. When they through the bred, it was like the germens were treating the Jews like hungry dogs. They would throw them food and watch each other kill themselves over it. During the Holocaust the Jews were treated and looked at as lower forms of life, they were looked at as animals.
Elie and his father rely on each to get through their hardships. He held his fathers hand for fear of losing him (Elie 99)Also Both of them not want to die. The desire to live at any odds was the driving force for their survival
ReplyDeleteElie writes about the Rabbi and his son to compare their situation to his. The son like Elie has an aging father that is dragging them him down. He wanted to show what may eventually happen to him.
He writes about Juliek and his violin to signify the suffering he and the other people endured. He uses the violin to show the pain his soul. Juliek was playing the violin as a final farewell for he knew he would be able to go on.
One day when we stopped a workman tooak a piece of bread out of his bag and threw into a wagon there was a stampede dozens of men fought each other to the death for a few crumbs. The German workmen took a lively interest in this spectacle. (Elie 95)
A crowd of workmen and curious spectacle had collected along the train, these audience stared at these skeletons of men (Elie 95)
A mouthful of bread and a spoonful of snow the SS who were watching laughed at this spectacle (Elie 92)
Other people did not even care about the holocaust. They saw the human rights abuse of the Jews as normal. They even found it a spectacle often instigating the action.
1) Elie and his father keep one another alive. Elie continues for his father because he knows the paini it would cause him to see his only son die and The father continues for Elie because thats his son and he wants to survive with him. As Elie gets stronger mentally, Elie's father gets weaker physically. Elie's father sees that his son can manage on his own so he begans letting go.
ReplyDelete2)The author writes about the Rabbi to foreshadow the relationship between Elie and his father. If ELie gives up on his father the same thing would happen to them and he prayed to god that it wouldnt happen to them, and Elie held on with his father until the very end.
3) The author writes about Juliek and his Violen because it represent the last cry in a way to the people. He played a song to dead corpses which kind of signified a lasting memory to the ones who were striving for life. This also shows Julieks passion for his violen and how he was so desperate to find it.It symbolizes strength as well as determination.
4)Others outside of the jews find this very amusing and comical. People actually went out there way to watch others suffer.
a-"A mouthful of bread and a spoonful of snow. The SS men who were watching were greatly amused by this spectatctle". (96)
b-" Dozens of men fought desperately over a few crumbs. The workers watched the spectactle with great interest". (100)
c-"Why not?' Said she. 'I like to give to charity...".(100)
Each incident show how ignorant people were about what was going on in during the Holocaust. Im sure if the old woman who was throwing the coins knew about everyd etail that went on she would have reconsidered. Others were selfish like the SS men, who knew what was going on, but let the torture continue because of personal pleasure
1.) Elie and his father rely on eachs other to survive. Elie makes sure his dad is always in good check so they can stay together and survive the holocaust together, and just so he has a reason to live and not see his son die. Elies father is hanging in thier to satisfy Elie.
ReplyDelete2.) Elie writes about the Rabbi and his son to compare the father/son relationship, the Rabbi's son leaves his father for death, while Elie does the opposite and stays with his father until his final hours.
3.) Elie writes about Juliek and his Violin to show the final cries of the dying and he played one last song for the dying, so they die to peaceful music.
4.) Others outside the Jews watch the Jews run and they just watch them and played sick and twisted games with them adding to thier suffering. "A mouthful of bread and a spoonful of snow. The SS men who were wtaching were greatly amused by the spectacle."(P. 96)"Soon pieces of bread were fallign into the wagons from all sides. And the spectators observed these emaciated creatures ready to kill for a crust of bread."(P. 101)"Why not" said she. "I like to give charity..."(P. 100).
5.) Each incident showed how the people found suffering a pleasure for the people watching during the Holocaust.
1. What keep Elie and his father alive is each other. They strive to survive to see each other. After all it’s their last family member.
ReplyDelete2. The author writes about Rabbi and his son because they are the opposite of what Elie and his dad are. Rabbi is an old man who is very wise and brings joy to everyone and his son was the only thing left to him that kept him alive. His son on the other hand tried to get rid of him. When his father had bread he just attacked him and took it all away from him. Elie prayed to the god that he didn’t believe to exist that he wouldn’t turn out like that.
3. The author writes about Juliek and his violin because it was a very touching moment to him and it was amazing how Juliek was playing with his soul. It was Juliek’s last action before dying.
4. In the first towns they saw nothing had happened, the Germans just looked at them and did not care about them it wasn’t surprising at all (wiesel 95). As they progressed people took entertainment from these actions and began to throw coins and bread into the wagons (wiesel 95). These people were spectators of such acts and when Elie told them no to throw any more coins, a woman replied that she likes to give charity (wiesel 95).
5. These German people didn’t care about the Holocaust. They just threw bread to make the last of them fight each other for it. They were amused.
1. What keeps Elie and his father alive is the fact that they are still together, that they have one another. Without his father Elie wanted to die and Elie's father does everything possible to help his son, always.
ReplyDelete2. The author included the Rabbi and his son because he wanted to show the extremeities people were forced to go because of the situation, how people were affectetd and changed, to show how different a father/son relationship can be from another. He includes it to llow the reader to understand just how harsh things were that even a son could leave his father behind to survive.
3.The author includes Juliek and his violin to show how something simple, a simple joy that can be taken forgranted today became so important to people that had been stripped of their identities and possessions. He wanted to show how a simple joy was enough for someone to fight for even in the mots bizarre cases. It represented the hope that people wished to find in anything they could.
4. The others reacted to the jews as if they were entertaining, inferior. They acted indifferent to the reality of what they were seeing and instead enjoyed the savageness of it all. The SS men were greatly amused by the Jews that were eating snow off each other's backs (Wiesel 96), the SS were also picking through dead bodies treating them lke trash, almost mistaking Elie's father for a corpse (Wiesel 99). Even German labourers were amused by how violent the Jews would get over a crumb of bread and teased them by throwing bread in the wagon (Wiesel 100).
5.The SS men that were amused by the Jews eating snow goes to show how they felt superior and felt the jews were ignorant, they loved that they were forced to eat snow to survive, they liked being in power. The jews to them weren't even equivilent to humans.
The SS men also were undressinf corpses with no respect towards the dead, this shows that they were completely manipulated by what Hitler had to say and what they were told to do. They were told the Jews were the enemy and therefore they humiliated them.
The German workers as well were quite convinced that the spectacle they caused was amusing. It made the jews seem like a joke to them and as if the Holocaust should be going on.
1. Elie and his father have each other’s back, therefore bringing faith in each other to keep on going. I think that the love that they have between father and son reinforces the reason to be alive.
ReplyDelete2. The author mentions about the Rabbi Eliahou and his son because it shows betrayal amoung family and the fear to be killed. He also mentions this because he wants to reinforce the idea of him and his father having a strong relationship and he has faith into not leaving his father behind like the rabbi’s son had done.
3. The author mentions Juliek and his violin sort of like a funeral of an upcoming death. This sort of reminds me of the dwarf in The Witch and the Wardrobe when the dwarf plays his flute upon Lucy so he could bring her upon her death. However in this book it’s a violin and Juliek does end up dead.
4. Others outside of the Jews take them as entertainment. For example the Germans threw bread at the Jews to enjoy the fighting over the piece of bread. That was really cruel. A rich woman from Yemen throws a coin to two native boys and finds them almost killing each other for the money sort of amuses her. When Eliezer asks her to stop she replies “I like to give charity.” This quote I found rude because the author made her words seem cruel and mean. Another person tries to strangle Elie and is saved by a strong friend.
5. The cited reactions from the people show that they take it as a joke. As if the holocaust was some sort of entertainment which happens to be cruel and disgusting.