(15 sentences) In this section, Eliezer and the other prisoners are fully exposed to the horrible inhumanity of the Nazis. Due to the brutal methods of the Nazis, they are transformed from respected individuals into obedient, animal-like automatons. How does this transformation take place?
Take examples from the book using quotations, tell me your thoughts, and feelings.
Tell me an experience where you can relate to a time when your self pride, faith, ego, individuality or family has been striped away from you.
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Everyone is forced to obey and to go where they are told to go. If anyone disobeys, they are killed. Many people are being killed anyways. They are also taken away from their identity. They are forced to take disinfecting showers. They are watched everywhere they go, they have to stay in line, told where to go, and when to do what. Elie Wiesle tries to tell his father that the SS officers can’t kill everyone because it’s “against humanity” but his father reassures him and tells him, “humanity is not concerned with us. Today anything is allowed. Anything is possible, even those crematories.” I can relate to a lot of the things that happened to them from when I got arrested and put into juvenile hall. They took all my clothes and gave me new clothes to wear. I hated it so much, I wasn’t aloud to see my family. I couldn’t communicate with people on the outs. I wanted to go home, I missed my family, but I knew I wouldn’t be able to go home until the court lets me. Not even my family could get me out unless the court says I’m ready to go. In Juvenile Hall, we can only come in and out of our rooms when they unlock our doors, we are told when and where to eat. We were to cross our arms and walk in double or single lines. No talking. Basically they show you that you’re not there to have fun. We don’t have the freedom we used to have. Everyone is wearing the same clothes, hairstyles, and shoes. Basically no one is different. The only way you’ll look different is if you have a tattoo somewhere noticeable. There is also barbed wires all over the facility to keep you from running away, and you need a key for every single door you go through. The only difference between being in one of those camps and in juvenile hall is, you don’t have to worry about death in JH. You’re actually safe in there. It keeps you from getting in trouble on the outs. But its still not paradise. I can related to a lot of the feelings that Elie felt. He was scared for his life, thought it was the end of everything, lost his family, and childhood. Everything is serious now and he needs to struggle to survive.
The transformation happens because everyone is just so scared at what’s happening. No one was ready for this. It had not clicked in their head yet that they were really going to die, and everything was true until they got there. Everything to the Jews is new. The Nazi’s treat the Jews so bad that the Jews just decided they wanted to revolt against the Germans, but their religion stands in the way. They haven’t yet seen that they are really going to die and if they all get together, women and all, they would probably be able to get away from the Germans and do something just because the simple fact that they are sticking together no matter what. I’m mad because the Germans had no right to kill the babies. If they didn’t want to have any Jewish people they shouldn’t have killed the babies they should have sent them away or just raised them as Germans. I have been taken away from my mother just once. I was about 3-4 I don’t really remember all I remember is that I went to go live with my Nina (aunt) and I would always be getting in trouble and I would always be grounded.
This experience for Eliezer sounded like hell on earth. At first he had to guess whether he was going to work and go on with his dad. He lied about his age, if he didn’t he would have been up in the crematory burning alive. They were treated with no respect, looked at as animals. They had to strip down to only their belts and shoes. They were put through a carwash of clippers, shaving their hair off and later on getting poured with petrol. They had to wear prison clothes. They had to wear trousers, tunic, shirt, and the socks were thrown at them. They had to go through a hot shower, at very high speed. When they were stripped of their clothes, they had to run naked in the wind. I cant remember when I was stripped of my faith, self pride or ego.
when they had to get undressed with each other.
When they were sending families to different sections.
When they were burning there bodies up in flames.
They would put control on there body and the they would put them in a very hot place to take all the infections out there bodies.
some of the families were send together if the were a certain age.
They would use little kids for test.
There was three sections that they had for the people.
One was to put into a hot chainber .
Second one was to put them to work.
Third one was to put them into the camp.
They had a man that would put them into the sections and he was very mean to the people.
They were treated unequal to each other.
All of them did not like what they were doing to them.
The kids were crying for there own parents.
They would shoot them then after that they would put them in the chainber.
when they had to get undressed with each other.
When they were sending families to different sections.
When they were burning there bodies up in flames.
They would put control on there body and the they would put them in a very hot place to take all the infections out there bodies.
some of the families were send together if the were a certain age.
They would use little kids for test.
There was three sections that they had for the people.
One was to put into a hot chainber .
Second one was to put them to work.
Third one was to put them into the camp.
They had a man that would put them into the sections and he was very mean to the people.
They were treated unequal to each other.
All of them did not like what they were doing to them.
The kids were crying for there own parents.
They would shoot them then after that they would put them in the chainber.
when they had to get undressed with each other.
When they were sending families to different sections.
When they were burning there bodies up in flames.
They would put control on there body and the they would put them in a very hot place to take all the infections out there bodies.
some of the families were send together if the were a certain age.
They would use little kids for test.
There was three sections that they had for the people.
One was to put into a hot chainber .
Second one was to put them to work.
Third one was to put them into the camp.
They had a man that would put them into the sections and he was very mean to the people.
They were treated unequal to each other.
All of them did not like what they were doing to them.
The kids were crying for there own parents.
They would shoot them then after that they would put them in the chainber.
The way that the Nazis are badly treated is that they have been offended to be called animals. What I think that there's was no need for them to be treated this way. from my own experiences I have taken my faith away and it was when I found out more about my own religion. what made me change the way that I think about religion is that everyone haves different believes and different gods that they belief in , because of this, it came to my mind that then what god should I believe if different people believe in different gods. If there was only one religion and one god that everyone believe in then probably my faith would have never been taken away.
They were all prisoners that didn’t want to die. What they were really doing is waiting for their death sentence. All of the jews were emotionally unstable they went though unimaginable things. They all got separated from family watched babies burn in front of them. The ride to get to the concentration camp alone was terrible. When they arrived at the camp a few men talked with some them. Anther man asked them what what are you doing here. Someone ells tolled him “what do you think? do you suppose we’ve come here for our own pleasure.” at one of the many camp Dr. Mengele an (ss officer) separated boys from girls. Then he looked for the men that seemed to be healthy and fit. they obey all of the ss officers because they were scared. They don’t revolt against the ss because they want live and stay alive for as long as theycan.
I think that in this chapter it opens up our eyes. Like it makes all of us think in a different way. It open our eyes and our minds and gives a different way of thinking of things. We never seen anything like this ever happen to anybody. If we ever did we wouldn’t know how to react. We would be most likely in shock. Something like this is too much. Its torture and it is inhuman. It was horrible what they used to do back then. They put people on trains and sent them to places without food or drinks. They put them in this cleaning process because they thought they were dirty.
In the story everyone was treated cruel. A man tells them to change there age. Every one in the story were getting separated. The Nazis had different camps for everyone. babies and other infants and teenagers were separated and so were men adults. Women had there own kind of camps. The Nazis separated by age looks and weight. Depending if you looked useful determined your fate whether you lived or died or even were the executioner to relatives or friends you knew that probably live right next door to you. People were getting burned to death. All the thoughts that must of ran thru the head of people at the camps must have been crazy and out of this world. They were forced to strip naked and were prisoner clothes. They were even showered down with Petrol. Miss jade said that it was some kind of gasoline. The Nazis did it to supposedly disinfect the Jews. I would imagine even though I can’t picture it if I tried that it burned extremely.
The experience that Eliezer went through is some thing that I can never imagine myself being in. it makes me think about what it was like and how it made people feel knowing that they were going to die. Families got split up and they watched as babies were burned right in front of them. There was three sections that they had for the people they were to be put into a hot chamber or to be put to work or to be put into a concentration camp. People were forced to strip down to only their belts and shoes. They also had to get shave and remove all of the hair on their body. Then later they were going to be soaked with petrol.
In the face of death man can turn on his neighbor, question every aspect of his faith, and loose what truly sets us apart from the animals. In this section of book it shows two of the three examples and I suspect that the third will also appear later on in the book.
In this Section of the book they were finally taken to one of the camps that would seal their fate and scar them for the rest of their life. “-that’s where you're going to be taken .that’s your grave.” this one line to me showed the first sign that there was no chance left, it was the final nail in their coffin, in my mind they were dead. “….that they could burn people in our age. That humanity would never tolerate it….” As he saw the babies being he lost the will to fight as death approached them they saw the unlikely chances of their survival. burned it was an absolute abomination this was more than likely the point of no return they knew they were dead and they knew that they were walking straight toward it. In a glance at the desperation that this boy felt it showed that death was inevitable and it would be better to brake ranks and be shot than to march into the flames and die.
In the face of death man can turn on his neighbor, question every aspect of his faith, and loose what truly sets us apart from the animals. In this section of book it shows two of the three examples and I suspect that the third will also appear later on in the book.
In this Section of the book they were finally taken to one of the camps that would seal their fate and scar them for the rest of their life. “-that’s where you're going to be taken .that’s your grave.” this one line to me showed the first sign that there was no chance left, it was the final nail in their coffin, in my mind they were dead. “….that they could burn people in our age. That humanity would never tolerate it….” As he saw the babies being he lost the will to fight as death approached them they saw the unlikely chances of their survival. burned it was an absolute abomination this was more than likely the point of no return they knew they were dead and they knew that they were walking straight toward it. In a glance at the desperation that this boy felt it showed that death was inevitable and it would be better to brake ranks and be shot than to march into the flames and die.
“You must never lose faith even if the sword hangs over your head”. Their religion gave them hope and to some degree tolerance of these intolerable acts that they were faced with. Then faced with such a horrible death they were stricken a step back in their religion and led to question it because of the cruelty these men displayed, without religion man is an animal and their religion was taken from them through the acts of these fiends. And in the final act in the section they were stripped of their remaining humanity as they were forced to stand naked, cleaned and disinfected as if they were animals.
I think that this chapter has opened all of our eyes in the way that we see things. I mean this chapter shows so much things that most of us never had a idea that something this horrible ever happened in the world. The truth I didn’t think that the Jews went trough all this. The chapter shows how the people got kicked out of their homes and that is not the worst thing that they did to them they also made them ride a train that was packed with people and the people were crowded and hot they had no food or drinks. Then after they had to go trough all that they got send to a camp in that camp they split the people women from men and they also separate them by age. In the book the boy gets split from his mom and sister and he doesn't know that he is going to split with them for the rest of his life. Then after that a former prisoner tells the boy what to say so he won’t split from his dad. Then after that the SS officer asked him how old he was and so he listen to the prisoner and so he didn’t get split from his dad. Then they scared them and told them that they were going to get burned down. That is when the little boy started to doubt his religion. I don’t think that I have ever been in a position when I doubt my religion or that I feel the same way that the little boy felt.
A similar experience that happened me was my first time I got locked up. I was locked up for a reason though unlike the Jews. The officers like the ones in the story told me remove my clothes and threw old raggy pieces of cloth that was said to be a t-shirt, pants and underwear since they didn’t have boxers. The feeling of striping in front another human being that I know nothing about, the feeling is very uncomfortable. A persons self-esteem can be lowered because it’s violating to a person. This experience remind of the way the Jews were treated……some what.
At this point in the book they are taking to the camps. They are separated from the women. Then the men were separated from one another. I guess they were separated from the ones that looked strong and the ones that didn’t . They could see a chimney with flames. One of the guards there told them “ this is where you are going to be taken, this is your grave”. They transform them into animal-like automatons by treating them bad forcing them to do things. They were practically by having control of their lives. They were also really scared and out of it and maybe that is why they followed orders. The boy got scared when he say all those children and babies being burned. I think that they lost faith. The only thing that helped them was that their religion gave them faith again. Every time they would loose faith someone would help each other out. They were also treated bad because they made them take showers every time they went from one place to another. Also they made them fall asleep standing up. Eliezer was doubting God. The fact that he was with them because he thought how could he let this happen to them. I think that if I was in the same situation I would have lost all my faith and would not be so sure of my religion.
First they were taking away from his mom women had to go somewhere else. Eliezer pass through a lot of bad stuff he saw the Nazis burning people kids he could not believe what he was watching. He told his dad that they could not do that to them he say “what about the humanity” he say they were no humanity to them. Then they took him to this prison were people were crying the SS officers told them to take away there clothes so they could go in showers and make them run and suffer more. Then they had to sleep standing up. I had never been in this position or nothing like but I could imagine that they might feel so bad. I had never been apart from my family so I don’t have anything similar like this to talk about.
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