Thursday, April 7, 2011

Chapter Five Night part 1

Section 1 pg 63

1.When Elie asks the questions at the end of the section, Elie is doubting God, asking What are you, My God?

Section 2 pg 63-65
2. Elie explains to himself that man is stronger than God, because while all these terrible things are happening like being burned, and tortured, man still prays to God.

3.At the end of the section Elie and his father understand that the are both tired and "beaten". Neither of them could muster a smile onto their faces.

Section 3 pg 65-66

4. On the day of Atonement a good jew should fast on this day.

5. Elie decides to eat his dinner because he saw it as a gesture of rebellion, and protest against God.

Section 4 pg 66-67

6. Selection is the process in which the SS men look over all the men and select the weak ones to be sent to the crematory. People that are selected are called a musulman.

7.Elie is most afraid that he showing that he is afraid. The head of the block said  the essential thing is don't be afraid

Section 5 pg 67-69

8.The advice Elie gets on how to pass the selection is don't show that you are scared, run straight ahead don't go slow, and don't look at the SS look straight ahead of down.

9. Elie dosn't have time to see anything as he is running through his selection. When he makes it through he asked his friends if he had been written down.

10. Elies response to "passing" was happiness, nobody else mattered but himself. Others that didn't make it through the selection were crying.

Section 6 pg 69-70

11. Elie's father gives him half a ration of bread in celebration of passing the selection.

12. When Elie thinks of a better world, he dreams of a universe with no bells.

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