Friday, April 15, 2011

Chapter 8 and 9 Questions Night

Section 1 pg 99-102

1. When they arrived at Buchenwald the prisoners were asked to form fives.

2.Elie's father said to take pity on him. He had no strength left and just wanted to lie down.

3.Elie points out all the corpses around them of all the men that layed down to rest.

4. Elie was disappointed in himself for thinking that it was alright to leave his father behind.

5.Bringing his father a cup of coffee gave him his father this much satisfaction.

6. Elie wouldn't stay with his father because he had to go to work.

7.Elie's father wasn't given anything to eat because they didnt't want to waste food on someone that was going to die anyways.

8. Elies father ran around like a ghost, silently and Elie was unsure why.

Section 2 pg 102-103

9. Elies father has dysentery, extreme diarrea.

10. Elie brings his father bread and his food to try and help him. As a result of this effort he does not change his fathers ultimate death.

Section 3 pg 104

11. The other prisoners beat Elie's father because he has food and keeps making a mess (pooping) everywhere.

12. Elie gives his father water when he shouldn't. He does this inspite of knowing he shouldn't because his father begs him.

Section 4 pg 104-106

13. The head of the block tells Elie to stop giving his father his food because it won't help, he is dieing.

14.He agrees that he knows his father will die but stands by him because he feels guilty.

15. The last time Elie's father saw him he was bloody and sick and hurt.

Section 5 pg 106

16.  It was unknown whether Elies father was alive or dead when he was taken to the crematory.

17. Elie did not cry when he found out that his father was dead because he had no more tears left.

18. Another response to his father's death was that he felt sad and his last words were Elie's name.

Section 1 pg 107

1. Elie's one thought in ten days was having soup, even just a drop.

Section 2 pg 107-108

2. The SS officer was late in counting them, taking roll. This type of delay was unknown.

3. The childeren were ordered to go back to their blocks.

4. The announcement at the general roll call was that they were going to start evacuating.

Section 3 pg 108

5.On April 10, 1945 armed men suddenly showed up everywhere. The childeren laid down in their blocks.

6.The first American tank showed up at the gate of Buchenwald on April 10.

Section 3 pg 109

7. The first act of now free Buchenwald was to throw themselves in provisions.

8.Elie thinks that maybe they should have thought of something else beside bread

When Elie saw himself in the mirror he saw a corpse gazing back at him.

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