Answer in complete sentences at least 7 sentences each question!
How does Wiesel treat his father during the journey to Buchenwald and later during
his dad's illness? How does Wiesel’s link to his father affect his will to survive?
Given their life or death situation, do you believe Wiesel’s attitude toward his father was understandable?
Explain your reactions- Elie weeps (cries) several times in the book; explain when and why. Explain one time he does not weep when it would be expected.
What feelings and thoughts went through your mind as you read about Wiesel’s final experiences
as a German prisoner? What would you say if you could talk to him about this time in
his life? What would you want him to explain to you?
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During the trip to Buchenwald, Elie’s father is very ill and barely able to stay alive. Elie tries his best to keep his father awake so he does not die. The train is packed with 100 people for 10 days. All they can eat is the snow. Sickness and diseases are spreading easily in the carriages. No bathroom breaks were given. Basically the snow that they would eat would be filled with their own bodily fluids. The prisoners were dying and getting sick very quickly. Elie is trying his best to save his father, he believes that the struggle will soon be over and they will soon be free. I believe that Elie’s attitude toward his father was understandable. Elie’s father had suffered so much and I think he was doing whatever he could just to keep his father from complaining or going insane or making his father feel like he is turning against him. Elie most likely regretted giving his father water, knowing that it would only harm him even more, but he did it to keep his father from thinking that he was trying to turn against him. Elie was probably confused with whether he should give the water to his father or not because the water would harm him, but refusing to do it made him feel worse because his father would say things to make him feel bad. After Elie finds out that his father finally is dead, he does not weep. I think that Elie had gone through so much and saw his father suffer so much that it was most likely better off with his father dead so he did not have to suffer anymore. Plus, being dead was basically like getting away from all the pain and suffering the Nazi’s brought to them. I wonder how and what kept Elie going during his final experiences as a German prisoner. If I could talk to him, I would ask him questions like “What were some of the first few things he did when he was free.” “How long did it take for him to feel like he was living a regular free and normal life again.” “Has he gotten into any contact of any family members that survived it also.”
Elie treats his dad pretty good. He is very kind to him, although he is now getting ideas that he should or wants to get rid of his father he just cant. He is now feeling like his father is more of a burden then his blood, his father. Well it doesn’t really affect his will to live or not. Now he is more worried about his own life and his own survival. He does care for his father, he does care that his dad does try to survive and although he wishes that his father wouldn’t die and they would find freedom together he feels he has a harder chance to that with his father. His dad is really sick begging for water, Elie knows his father cant drink water because of the sickness he has. He begs for water and Elie just had to give it to him, he was going to die anyway. I do think they are understandable, it is a life and death situation and his father has lived more than Elie, Elie is just beginning his journey through life, but he could have done more. Elie would cry a lot when he would pray. He would pray and cry because it was part of what he did. I really expected him to cry when his father died because their bond was really close. I think it was a really bad experience. He could use that to his advantage though, he could use it to his advantage because he could’ve grown as a person. He could have also created character. I think if I met him I would ask him how? How could he or did he get over all the horrible things that he saw.
When they were on the Buchenwald Eli was trying to keep his father alive he did not wanted his father to died. His father told him to live him their and go take a shower with the others he did but after that he was looking for his father he saw his father was very sick. He had fiber. He took his father to the doctor but the doctor told him that he was not going to survive but Eli was still giving his father his food. One of the doctors talk to him and told him not to give his father food because he was not going to survive and Eli was just killing him self. I think Eli attitude with his father was understand because he loves his father I think I’ll do the same thing with my father trying to help him. At the end of all the things he past with his dad when his father died he did not cry he say because he did not have no more tires. One of the thought I have was why his father died at the last moment when he had been with Eli this hole time they have been through a lot together I felt sorry when I read that Eli fear of not staying along had already come because he stay along know. What I ask him will be how he supports all the things that happen to him in his live.
He treated his father really good. He cared for him. Like when they tried to throw his dad off the train he saved him. So he treated him good. Because they want each other to fight. Yes I do think they were good. I would have reacted the same way. You got to do what you got to do. He wept and cried because of his life. I would have been doing the same thing to. If my life was messed up like that I would weep al of the time. A time when he didn’t weep when it would be expected is when they were going to throw his dad off the train. Like damn that stuff is crazy I couldn’t imagine what I would do. I couldn’t imagine myself in a situation like that. I wouldn’t want to ask him so the memory and feeling could come back.
Elie seems to careless about his father, since he is so close to death. His father is weak. I think its 50/50 with his pop, because he loves him always, but at the same time his already dead. He probably wants to end his fathers suffering. I think that Elie understands that his father is getting weaker by the day. So Elie might feel like letting his father go, so he wouldn’t have to suffer everyday. When Elie woke up in the morning, he saw that his father was gone. He didn’t drop no tears. I thought that the German prisoners were treated very poorly. I wouldn’t talk to him about this situation. I would not want to discuss this situation with him.
Elie wants the best for his dad he doesn’t want him to died even though he knows that It would be better for him so that he could stop suffering. He just wants to give him the best for the last moments of his life because he knows that he wont survive since his illness is really bad. Yes, I think that it was understandable that he would act with kindness with his father since he did understand his situation's think that he cries a lot because of his father knowing that he wont make it threw life. but the one that he would be crying out most is his death when he finds out that his dad didn’t make it. what I thought about this was that it was sad that he is fighting for his father to make him feel better but both of them know that he is going to died anyway.
This chapter starts out with Eli and his father traveled for days without food and or water. Eli is alright but the problem is his father Elis father is really ill. Eli’s father doesn't want to keep on going and Eli wants to take a shower and he knows that if he leaves his father behind his father wont make it. At first Eli thought about just leaving his father behind and just taking care of himself. After that Eli thought about what all the other sons had done to their fathers and he didn’t want to do the same thing that they did to them. In this chapter his dad has a disease that he cant drink water or else it will make it worse. Trough out the trip Eli and his dad helped each other. Eli’s dad would give him bread and at the end Eli paid back by helping him out.
I believe that Eli's way of acting towards his dad isn’t understandable. The reason why I think that is because at first when he would see the way that the rabbi son would act towards him and he said that he would never do what they did. I think that at the end he did the same thing that they did because he wasn’t their for his father. I think that if I would have seen all the things that Eli saw I would go crazy. I mean to see someone hit your dad and your dad after that your dad dying and you don’t even cry then I think I would go is already crazy. I mean he saw people die every day so every time he saw someone new die it wouldn’t make a big difference.
One of the times that Eli cries is when he thinks that his dad is going to get send to the crematory. I think that Eli surprised me at the end. When his dad was really sick and needed Eli's help. I would have expected him to cry. Another time was when the SS soldier told him that he should take care of himself and not his dad. The most shocking one was when they hit his dad at the end and made him bleed and crack him I would hate the guy for the rest of my life.
This chapter starts out with Eli and his father traveled for days without food and or water. Eli is alright but the problem is his father Elis father is really ill. Eli’s father doesn't want to keep on going and Eli wants to take a shower and he knows that if he leaves his father behind his father wont make it. At first Eli thought about just leaving his father behind and just taking care of himself. After that Eli thought about what all the other sons had done to their fathers and he didn’t want to do the same thing that they did to them. In this chapter his dad has a disease that he cant drink water or else it will make it worse. Trough out the trip Eli and his dad helped each other. Eli’s dad would give him bread and at the end Eli paid back by helping him out.
I believe that Eli's way of acting towards his dad isn’t understandable. The reason why I think that is because at first when he would see the way that the rabbi son would act towards him and he said that he would never do what they did. I think that at the end he did the same thing that they did because he wasn’t their for his father. I think that if I would have seen all the things that Eli saw I would go crazy. I mean to see someone hit your dad and your dad after that your dad dying and you don’t even cry then I think I would go is already crazy. I mean he saw people die every day so every time he saw someone new die it wouldn’t make a big difference.
One of the times that Eli cries is when he thinks that his dad is going to get send to the crematory. I think that Eli surprised me at the end. When his dad was really sick and needed Eli's help. I would have expected him to cry. Another time was when the SS soldier told him that he should take care of himself and not his dad. The most shocking one was when they hit his dad at the end and made him bleed and crack him I would hate the guy for the rest of my life.
Elie treats his dad different I the journey to Buchenwald. He is a lot more hard on him. Mainly because he realizes that his father grows week and that he has a better chance of survival without him than with him. when his dad becomes ill he sees that now he is going die. He will join him if he didn't let go so he becomes cold hearted and just lets go. This affects elie because now he will be on his own something that he has never experienced.
Given the life or death situation his attitude was very understandable I mean at this point what dose it matter if he is caring for his father when there just empty shells, shadows of the men they once were.
In the book elie cries a couple of times. In the beginning of the book elie cries and he says he did it just because he felt like it. After this he changed dramatically he then sees many people die but he becomes so used to it that he doesn't even cry. When he gets hit he doesn't cry an yet he cries when he sees the lady see the imaginary fire but he dose not cry when his own father dies he would have bin expected to weep in these points but he doesn't. It just shows how strong a person he is.
As I read elile experiences I thought many things. One was how can he put up with this? I would have just given up. It shows how strong elie is, and how he overcomes the most inhuman obstacles' would ask him to describe to me his physically condition with vivid detail like how it felt to be him and how it affected his mind what he thought during the moments of fear
It shows how strong elie is, and how he overcomes the most inhuman obstacles' would ask him to describe to me his physically condition with vivid detail like how it felt to be him and how it affected his mind what he thought during the moments of fear This chapter starts out with Eli and his father traveled for days without food and or water. Eli is alright but the problem is his father Elis father is really ill. Eli’s father doesn't want to keep on going and Eli wants to take a shower and he knows that if he leaves his father behind his father wont make it. At first Eli thought about just leaving his father behind and just taking care of himself. After that Eli thought about what all the other sons had done to their fathers and he didn’t want to do the same thing that they did to them.
Later during the journey Elie was the one taking care of his father. And in the beginning, his father was the one taking care of him. I do believe his reaction to the situation was understandable. In the book Elie cries a couple of times. In the beginning of the book Elie cries and he says he did it just because he felt like it. After this he changed dramatically he then sees many people die but he becomes so used to it that he doesn't even cry. I felt sorry for the decisions he had to make. Putting myself in his situation, I do not even know what I would have done. But based on what I did read, I was not too surprised at the ending. I did not expect a fairy tale ending because this was far from a fairy tale story. This is a real story based on real life and real life is never fair.
Eli treats his father the best he can. His father is hurt and he doesn’t have a way to help him. He encourages him to stay strong for him because that is what he is doing for him. He is always there with his dad. Eli’s father is a very big part of him. It is the only thing he has left. What ever happens to Eli’s dad will affect him greatly. If Eli’s dad dies he will not be as ancient or strong to live. I think that Eli’s attitude is understandable. I think that what ever he was feeling it is ok. One time that Eli cries is when they are taken into the camps and he sees all these people die. One time I think that he is suppose to cry is when they hit his dad. I would think that that is a good reason. I think that everything he went thru is horrible and I feel sad that people would treat each other that way. I think that I would tell Eli to be strong. That everything would be ok. I would want him to explain to me why no one did anything abut it. Why no one stood up. And also what happened to the women. I would like him to explain to me why they would believe the German after what they had already herd.
In this section of the book night Elie Wiesel has actually felt his father as a burden this presented a problem In Elie’s mind as he had promised himself that he would not abandon his father as the Rabbi son did his. Cholmo was sick and on his last days caused a drift in their relationship. In a previous Blog entree I wrote about the crucial relationship between Cholmo and Elie, how the act of surviving has caused others to turn against the other and abandon each other. This was proven in this section as Cholmo’s dependency on Elie grew and he became further detached from his father. He actually considers the fact that his father may not return and is not devastated by it but almost relived that he does not have to burden with his fathers new fetal approach to life at the concentration camp. He is instructed by an officer to forget of his father, to steal his fathers ration in stead of offering his own to the dead, he was in a concentration camp and the only survival he should be concerned about is that of his own survival. As the father was beaten more of Elie’s dependence on his father showed more as each beating he claimed that a little more of his fight for survival died. His fathers last words were Elie, and when his father passed Elie did not shed a tear. This same thing happened when to one of Cholmo’s friends as he mourned and shed tears not at the day that he lost his son life but much later on and when he did he lost all his will to fight and decided to give up. The relationship that was present in the first section was not present was present at first as Elie had the same fear that he would not separate from his father. But later in the chapter when the father lost his strength and kept moaning that he could no longer keep going Elie lost that bond that he had with his father and actually separated himself from him while still knowing that his father would be at the end of the line but hoping that he had just given up and he was no longer their to keep him standing. His survival know is not trough the hope that he and his father would make it out but that he just lives to see the next day.
The attitude that was displayed in the face death is acceptable, not exactly honorable or morally right, but it is acceptable because it was survival, survival at its fullest. If you have to amputate an arm to save the body would you loose affection for the arm? Would you let the arm consume and bring you every day one day closer to death? When Cholmo was ill Elie wanted his father to get better but not exactly so that he would get well but that his father would lose the dependency on him. Losing this dependency was top priority of his survival. Food was all they had, because they consistently beat him to steal his food Elie ended up giving his ration to his father thus lessening his chance of survival and prolonging the inevitable for his father. Unfortunately he could not have it both ways he had to chose between his father and him. So he decides not to turn to his fathers cries out for water he instead stays in rank and watches his father receive a beating when he stand in rank.
Elie treats his father differently by the way his father feels. In the beggining the father was the one that was taking care of him. But after they started to go on their little jorney to Buchenwald the scripts flip. The fathe rgets sick, very sick and Elie is the one that starts to take care of him. It starts to affect Elie cause Elie is now taking care of two not just one. So he starts giving him his ration and his food that he gets, and is feeding himself less.
I think that the life or death situations that Elie and his father had went through are understandable. I think I felt sorry for what they had to go through. I dont deal with death very well and show a lot of sympathy for people that have died or someones loved one that has past away. He had cried when he thougth that he would lose his father. I had thought that he would have cried when his father actually was gone but he didnt.
The title of the book if life and death in hitters Europe. I see pictures of Jews and concentration camps. and Jew being tortured step by step the Nazi began by passing laws that stopped Jews from working in cretin job. Them they moved on to pass laws that stopped Jews from using the same transportation , schools public facilities even park benches as non Jews. Then they began working to make Germany and the country they controlled judenfree-Jew free. in occupied country's Jews were herded into walled off ghettos in cities and were not allowed to live anywhere else once Jews were cut off from other people it was easier for the Nazis to work even further against them. I think that the Germans were the most self centered race ever. And there hate for Jews was wrong.
The boy is really nice to his father in the journey. He even gave up his bread and soup to his father so he can get better. His father has dysentery and he is dying. The boy did everything to try to keep his father alive. He even gave his food up so he can be next to his father. He even carried his father to the doctor but the doctor didn’t do anything because he was a surgeon. Finally one day he woke up and his father wasn't there anymore.
I think his attitude was understandable. The father was already dead and he already dead. Now he had to worry about himself. One guy even told him to stop giving his ration to his dad and even take his fathers ration. They also told him that in there it was everyone for themselves, that there was no brothers and sisters or fathers or sons. The boy now needs to start worrying about himself now. He needs to forget all about his father.
I think that the boy doesn’t really cry a lot in the book. If I were Ellie or any person in the holocaust I would probably cry a lot. I also didn’t understand why Ellie didn’t cry when his father died. Maybe he didn’t cry because he didn’t see him die. Still he should of cried because the most important person in his life just died. I would cry all day and night. He probably was better of without his dad because his dad was getting the boys rations so he could survive.
If I could talk to him, I would ask him questions like “What were some of the first few things he did when he was free.” “How long did it take for him to feel like he was living a regular free and normal life again.” “Has he gotten into any contact of any family members that survived it also.” I would tell him that everything is going to be okay. Iwould also give him food and sweaters if I could. I would take him to the United States of America.
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