( 15) Eliezer is no longer a boy any more, but men as naked and equal as he had stated in the previous chapter. Elie has changed drastically since the beginning of the book. Now, In a world in which survival is nearly impossible, survival has become Eliezer’s dominant goal. He admits that he lives only to feed himself. p. 60 When his father is beaten, Eliezer feels no pity. Instead, he becomes angry at his father for failing to learn.
Please go back to chapter 1 and compare and contrast the boy Elie to the present Elie in this chapter. Provide at least 2 examples taken from the story, give page number!
Describe Elie's relationship with his father now compared to before the concentration camps.
Tell me a time when you have a hit a turning point in your life, where you realized that you must grow up now. How did it make you feel? What did you do about it?
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A time in my life that i realized that i was grown up is when i didnt get away with as much. When i was a little kid i was able to do what ever i wanted. Nobody would get on my case. they would always say it's ok. They would just let me slid. Even if i were to do it again they wouldn't even yell at me. Now if i do anything i get yelled at. Even when im doing something good they yell. They yell and then tell you should have did it this way. Also people dont give me as much attention like when your a baby, but it's cool. As i get older i am able to things i couldn't do when i was a kid. Sometimes though i reminisce about my childhood and miss all the good times when my life was liven without regretes and daring and without any type of responsibility, i guess i just living an innocent life not know anything at all cuz i realized the more i know the more i suffer and i rather just not know if it's gonna make me suffer in anyway shape or form.Hey but something happens you cant change and go back in time, you can only try to fix, and even that's not enough....for somepeople.
Anybody in Elie’s position would probably change in the way he did. He changed in a more emotional way. He is able to handle more than he would have been able to handle when he was out. He is really cold now. When Elie’s father gets beaten he doesn’t even flinch. Its surprising to me how he doesn’t even try to defend his father. I understand how he would be worried about the guards killing him, but like that one quote says, “Its better to die on your feet than to live on your knees”, he should have done something. Elie changed a lot because before he got sent to the camps he was a really good kid, he would go to his church everyday he would cry when he would pray and he was just really into his religion. Now, he isn't loosing faith, but he just thinks god isn't the man he thought he was. He is disappointed in his god. He isn't really sure that’s the god he believed in and now he is in doubt.
There was a time in my life when i suddenly had to step up and be grown. That time was when my pops dipped. I shall seek revenge on that bastard! Parents get a divorce and it can sometimes leave children confused. It hurts. I thought that my pops made the biggest mistake of his trick ass life. It made me step up and be the man of the crib. “But i had ceased to pray. How I sympathized with job! I did not deny Gods existence, but I doubted His absolute justice”. And in this chapter he walks away from his father, either cause he couldnt see him getting beat, or he just doesnt care anymore.
Before, when they didn’t know about the war and going to camps, Elie’s father was more concerned with others than with his own family. (pg. 14) Now that they are in camps, Elie and his father do not want to separate. Probably because they now know that death is among them and it might be the last time to ever see each other again. It’s a shame that it had to come down to this, I can’t imagine how bad his father feels since he was too busy to be around and love his family as much as he wanted to. Work was basically in the way. On page 18 there is a part where Elie had the chance to move to another country to get away from the near coming trouble, but his father said he is too old to start a new life in a new country. Now that they’re in the position they are in now, he probably feels like he should have went. He is so close to death, and if he did leave to another country with his family, he would be safe. Some people don’t listen to all the signs that are being said and regret everything later on. I’m sure that since they’re in the position they’re in right now, all the chances they had is probably all that they can think of right now. At first, Elie didn’t mind not being around his father. He would spend all his time praying anyways. But now that they’re in camps, all Elie wants is to be around his father.
The way that Elie changes is the way that he is leaving all the childish things that he used do and the way that he used to think, now that he has grown to be a young man that is no longer a child no more .He has change to be a mature person that could take things more seriously. In my opinion, I think that there's a point were you realized that you have to take things more seriously and that there's no more game played. Like I remember back then when I was in junior high I used to behave to childlish,just to have the teachers attention but now that I am a young adult I am taking school really serious like I mean I don’t make myself to be a fool . Sometimes I see young teens that are really close to be young adults that are still acting like if they were 13 and 14 years old. I think that if they keep it up they would never take anything serious and this type of people would always end up with no future. I visual this because I see it around me and have seen It in my family were they wouldn’t take things seriously and they would end up either in jail or struggling to get their life's together.
In the begging of the book elie loves his religion and wants to know more and more. Then he gets put into a ghetto with his family. He is a smart young man with a lot to learn. Know elie is emotionless and doesn't really look forward to any thing. All he does is eat so that he can live and that’s because he has to feed his stomach. The first time that I started to think that I needed to grow up was when I got in a fight. It wasn’t with just anyone it was with my older. My older brother is twenty-three years old. It all got started with a little argument and it just got out of control. He took it to the extreme and out of anger he punched me in the face. Then I tried to get him back but my father grabbed me. One fo my friends that was their grabbed my older brother. Then when every thing settled down I tolled my dad to never do that. I tolled my brother that next time I would get him back. But other than that he doesn’t really mess with me anymore. We get along pretty good now he don’t argue with me and I don’t argue with him.
In the begging of the book elie loves his religion and wants to know more and more. Then he gets put into a ghetto with his family. He is a smart young man with a lot to learn. Know elie is emotionless and doesn't really look forward to any thing. All he does is eat so that he can live and that’s because he has to feed his stomach. The first time that I started to think that I needed to grow up was when I got in a fight. It wasn’t with just anyone it was with my older. My older brother is twenty-three years old. It all got started with a little argument and it just got out of control. He took it to the extreme and out of anger he punched me in the face. Then I tried to get him back but my father grabbed me. One fo my friends that was their grabbed my older brother. Then when every thing settled down I tolled my dad to never do that. I tolled my brother that next time I would get him back. But other than that he doesn’t really mess with me anymore. We get along pretty good now he don’t argue with me and I don’t argue with him.
In the begging of the book elie loves his religion and wants to know more and more. Then he gets put into a ghetto with his family. He is a smart young man with a lot to learn. Know elie is emotionless and doesn't really look forward to any thing. All he does is eat so that he can live and that’s because he has to feed his stomach. The first time that I started to think that I needed to grow up was when I got in a fight. It wasn’t with just anyone it was with my older. My older brother is twenty-three years old. It all got started with a little argument and it just got out of control. He took it to the extreme and out of anger he punched me in the face. Then I tried to get him back but my father grabbed me. One fo my friends that was their grabbed my older brother. Then when every thing settled down I tolled my dad to never do that. I tolled my brother that next time I would get him back. But other than that he doesn’t really mess with me anymore. We get along pretty good now he don’t argue with me and I don’t argue with him.
In the begging of the book elie loves his religion and wants to know more and more. Then he gets put into a ghetto with his family. He is a smart young man with a lot to learn. Know elie is emotionless and doesn't really look forward to any thing. All he does is eat so that he can live and that’s because he has to feed his stomach. The first time that I started to think that I needed to grow up was when I got in a fight. It wasn’t with just anyone it was with my older. My older brother is twenty-three years old. It all got started with a little argument and it just got out of control. He took it to the extreme and out of anger he punched me in the face. Then I tried to get him back but my father grabbed me. One fo my friends that was their grabbed my older brother. Then when every thing settled down I tolled my dad to never do that. I tolled my brother that next time I would get him back. But other than that he doesn’t really mess with me anymore. We get along pretty good now he don’t argue with me and I don’t argue with him.
In the begging of the book elie loves his religion and wants to know more and more. Then he gets put into a ghetto with his family. He is a smart young man with a lot to learn. Know elie is emotionless and doesn't really look forward to any thing. All he does is eat so that he can live and that’s because he has to feed his stomach. The first time that I started to think that I needed to grow up was when I got in a fight. It wasn’t with just anyone it was with my older. My older brother is twenty-three years old. It all got started with a little argument and it just got out of control. He took it to the extreme and out of anger he punched me in the face. Then I tried to get him back but my father grabbed me. One fo my friends that was their grabbed my older brother. Then when every thing settled down I tolled my dad to never do that. I tolled my brother that next time I would get him back. But other than that he doesn’t really mess with me anymore. We get along pretty good now he don’t argue with me and I don’t argue with him.
In the begging of the book elie loves his religion and wants to know more and more. Then he gets put into a ghetto with his family. He is a smart young man with a lot to learn. Know elie is emotionless and doesn't really look forward to any thing. All he does is eat so that he can live and that’s because he has to feed his stomach. The first time that I started to think that I needed to grow up was when I got in a fight. It wasn’t with just anyone it was with my older. My older brother is twenty-three years old. It all got started with a little argument and it just got out of control. He took it to the extreme and out of anger he punched me in the face. Then I tried to get him back but my father grabbed me. One fo my friends that was their grabbed my older brother. Then when every thing settled down I tolled my dad to never do that. I tolled my brother that next time I would get him back. But other than that he doesn’t really mess with me anymore. We get along pretty good now he don’t argue with me and I don’t argue with him.
Elie was a good boy in the beginning of the story. He was always praying. In his mind if he had faith he would be protected. Elie was a boy who didn’t want to be separated from his family. He was separated from his family at a young age. Right now he is basically ruthless. Who knows maybe he's just ruthless. He beat his dad up. He's probably just mad at his dad. I think the correct word for Elie is insane. When I realized I had to grow up was when I was in juvenile hall. The judge and district attorney were talking about sending me to the youth authority for eight hundred four days. Fortunately they didn’t send me. So I got out and did my thing and did what I had to do and got off probation. I’m still in school not giving up. On the side of school I have a job. So I’m making that money.
I think that every one has to get to a point when they have to start acting different and start being a man. The thing is that it sucks because there are some eighteen year old guys that have jobs and everything but they still act like little kids. I think that when a guy at age eighteen doesn't act mature enough then he will never grow up and be a man. Elie is a different story the boy is fifteen and already knows that he has to act more mature. I think that Elie grew up fast because there are fifteen year old boys that still act like 9 year olds and that don’t know how to stay quiet. I think that the fifteen year old boys that I know should learn from Elie and grow up. Elie know when to stay quiet and he knows what he is supposed to do and how to be a mature boy. The difference from Elie from now and then is that before when Elie first got to the camp is that at first he wouldn’t want to eat the soup or anything that he didn’t like but now he knows that he has to eat what ever they give him. Before he also had everything that he needed but now he doesn't have nothing and he has to work hard labor. I think that the difference the way that Elie acts in this chapter to chapter one is that before when he was in living in the Ghetto he wouldn’t really do much but study and be a kid. Now he has to work march and has to obey to the soldiers. Another thing that he has changed in is the way that he thinks about his religion. In the beginning of the chapter he would pray every day and he loved his religon. Now he doubts his god and he is sad because he isn’t doing nothing about what is going on to them.
Well before everything was all good and everything and now after everything that has happened they have a very different relationship. The son fight with his father and everything just isn’t how it used to be. A time when I think I hit a turning point I think was when one of my closest cousins passed away he got shot and it made me think about a lot of things I just couldn’t believe it. I felt really bad and I didn’t know what to say about it. Well I couldn’t really do anything about the situation I mean he was dead and that was it. I went to his funeral a week later.
Elie was a good boy in the beginning of the story. He was always praying. In his mind if he had faith he would be protected. Elie was a boy who didn’t want to be separated from his family. He was separated from his family at a young age. Right now he is basically ruthless. Who knows maybe he's just ruthless. He beat his dad up. He's probably just mad at his dad. I think the correct word for Elie is insane. When I realized I had to grow up was when I was in juvenile hall. The judge and district attorney were talking about sending me to the youth authority for eight hundred four days. Fortunately they didn’t send me. So I got out and did my thing and did what I had to do and got off probation. I’m still in school not giving up. On the side of school I have a job. So I’m making that money. Oh yeah and if it weren’t for Miss. Jade and Mr. Silva I wouldn’t be out right now. I’d be up state in a juvenile prison.
Before when the book stared Eli was a nice guy he will pray everyday and believe in his god. Thought that if he had faith that will protected him of everything. He was a young boy that was always with his family did not want to separated from his family. When they separated him from his mother and sister he had only his dad he was always wanted to be with him. Know he is acting with anger with his one father he doesn’t have faith like before he was a lot of anger. In one time he act like he did not care that they were butting his dad he felt anger for him. In another time he was showing his father how to march in a bad way in page 63. in this time of my life is when I feel that I have to grow up and think better for my own good. One is because I’m having a baby and I have to be a good mom for him/her.
In the Book Night it shows the time that a boy spent in a small town leading him into one of the concentration camps. The change in land and conditions caused several changes in his character including in loosing his childhood.
Ellie was a small boy at the age of twelve who believed so strongly in his faith that he would be move to tears, it said on page 14, “I wept because--because something inside me that felt the need for tears.”. This not only showed a strong connection to his faith but it also showed that he was very affectionate wasn’t scared of letting his tears flow but in contrast on page 62 it read, “I had watched the whole seen without moving. I kept quite ”he was scared beyond belief he could cry, shout all in the fear of him being next he simply thought of getting further away and how it was his father fault, he should have been working harder. His faith has been rattled in page 14 it read, “I was twelve. I believed profoundly.”, for a twelve year old boy to be so deeply involved with religion that he considers to move deeper is astounding. He was very religious and probably never questioned his faith as much as he has in his first day at the concentration camp. At the camp he showed us that in page 53 “I did not deny God’s existence but I doubted his absolute justice.” This showed his questioning his faith and is one of many inferences just listed in the book. He sees this cruelty and wonders why is God not intervening to save his own people. This change is the most important they took pieces of his humanity leaving him empty “a stomach” leaving him with nothing of the past except his father.
His relationship with his Father was first very strong they would discuss liturgy in the temple long after the congregation had left. He now has a stronger bond with his father as he seems to be the last thread of his family and his past left. He still seeks council with his father as shown on page 62 when he asks his father what he should do with the gold tooth that the officer wants surprisingly his father has him keep it and is beaten constantly for telling him to do so. This shows that he is willing to sacrifice for him even if it means his life. He is still feeling anguish and suffering each time his father is punished but he now keeps it inside or even blames it on his father I think that it is just another way that he is facing the all of the torment he has been put through he has become unaffectionate not really living and not yet dead.
In the beginning of the story Eliezer is taking about how every time he prays he cries. And that Monche always asks him why does he pray. He responds that doesn’t know why he cries he just does. Like he doesn’t know why he breathe or why he lived. At this point in the story he really doesn’t know why if God is still going to be unfair. Back then he had God to turn to and give him answers to his questions. Now he doesn’t even ask why because he feels like it doesn’t matter. Before if anyone hurt his dad he would have been there to defend him. Now its like he doesn’t really care. Now he is only there to take care of himself. When the guy was hitting his dad he didn’t even flinch he moved away. Like it didn’t matter if his dad was being hurt. I think that he is mad at his dad because he cant help him and get out of there. I think that he is just angry at everyone and most of all depressed. I think he feels that he needs to grow up and be strong for his dad and he is scared that he isn't going to make it. I realized I had to grow up when I got kicked out of my other school because I would either stay home or go out with my friend and that only brought me more trouble and drama. I realized that I didn’t want to end up like them in their twenties and still living with their mom also when it comes down to it my friends are not going to give me my education and are not going to pay my bills so then I started to look for a job and a new school. I realized that it was time for me to be responsible. I was only getting older so yeah. I figured it would be what is best for me.
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