Chapter 4 Night

Section 1pg 45

They entered Buna, and the camp seemed empty. There were some prisoners but otherwise it was deserted. They showered off and then met the leader of the camp.They were all given new clothes and were put into two tents. The other prisoners returned to the tents and told them that Buna was a good camp.

Section 2 Pg 45-46

1.The man in charge of Elie's tent was a German who had an assasin's face, fleshy lips, hands like a wolf's paws, and was so fat he could hardly move.

2.Elie kept his shoes by refusing to trade them with the boy, but he ended up getting his shoes taken away in the end.

Section 3 pg 46-49

3. Elie had a gold crown so therefore his name got added to the list

4. Elies unit and the rest of the units had to stop in the orchestra block to all follow the march correctly.

5. The musicians were not allowed to play Beethoven becuase Jews were not allowed to play German music.

6. Elies unit is going to work in a warehouse where they count electical fittings and bulbs.

7. Elie became friends with Yossi and Tibi. They both lost their parents and belonged to a Zionist group.

8. The thre boys decided that if they lived till the liberation that they would not stay in Europe they would leave.

Section 4 pg 49

9. The prisoners in the musician block were entilted to food and privileges.

10. Alphonse was the block leader and he tried to organize extra good for the young people in "his" block.

Section 5 pg 49-50

12. Elie had to go to the dentist to get his crown removed. Elie prevented this by saying he wasn't feeling well.

13. The dentist was later sent to prison and hanged. He had supposibly been running a private traffic of his own in the prisoners' gold teeth.

14.Elie described himself  as a body. His whole life was made up of bread and soup. He was a starved stomach that was aware of the passage of time.

15. In Chapter 4, the Nazis have dehumanized the prisoners by having them have numbers instead of names. They were counted off like cattle and traded. They were fed little bread and soup. They had to give up everything they owned and were treated like slaves. If they did something wrong, or was just in the wrong place at the wrong time they were beaten and punished.

At the end of the selection Elie says that he is no longer human because when his father gets beaten he blames his father for not knowing how to avoid it, instead of blaming the man that beat him. Elie says that is what concentration camp life has made of me.