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A Character Analysis Of Elie In Buchenwald

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Elie was still in Buchenwald until April. At this point Ellie was feeling anxiety and uncomfortable. “Since my father’s death, nothing mattered to me anymore.” (Page 113)While the front had grown ties, the Germans decided to pay off the camp. But in the tenth of April, while the prisoners crowd for a meet, the camp defiance took over Buchenwald. The Germans didn’t dispute. At dusk, American tanks showed up. The first thing the prisoners did was go through the arrangements. They didn’t think of attacking, not even their own families, but the three days later they get rid of Buchenwald, Elie suffered from food poisoning and spent two weeks in the hospital between life and death. Guido dies by trying to save his wife from being free and his son from being seen. When the whole camp was empty, Joshua came from the box or cabinet where he was hiding and saw a tank and he thinks it’s his prize. Then he saw …show more content…

Probably because they didn't have any other place where they could go, but in the movie everyone left the camp and went somewhere. This was probably a way to symbol freedom. The book said that the people didn't think of revenge but only about food, in the movie nobody showed symptoms of them being so hungry, which couldn’t be true ,the people who are nearly starving from last few months didn’t even try to get any food. In life is beautiful there is only one scene where killing is shown, when Guido is taking his son to the bed after he had dinner with German kids. And it makes the film different from what happened during the Holocaust because in the Holocaust it was a period where lots of people were killed, but Benign has erased from the important part of the Holocaust and it was more about the story. It fitted the situation of the holocaust ,but the ending of the movie didn’t really fit the situation.It looked like it focused more on the story than making the meeting of Joshua and Dora more

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Elie was given the new name A-7713 and was deprived of a name, self esteem, and his identity. They were barely given any food and forced to work under inhumane conditions. They had to death march and take a train ride to Buchenwald, and eventually his father dies of malnutrition an dysentery. Then on April 11, 1945 American tanks were at the gate of Buchenwald. After Elie saw himself as a victim, executioner, and a spectator, after affirming he was all three he was able to find his identity

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Later, the remaining Jews arrive at Buchenwald, yet another camp, and find themselves mired in snow. They “jostle” each other in order to enter a broken down warehouse just to get the opportunity to rest in the snow. Due to the pollution of the resources available to the Jewish prisoners, Elie’s father contracts dysentary from drinking the contaminated water. Because of this, Elie’s

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During chapters 8 and 9, I felt joy for Elie. At the end of chapter 9, Elie and the prisoners were finally liberated when an uprising was started by the resistance movement and American tanks came into the scene, which caused “The SS [to] [flee] and the resistance had taken charge of the camp. At six o'clock that afternoon, the first American tank stood at the gates of Buchenwald” (Wiesel 115). When the American tanks had arrived, it heralded the end of the oppression and the end of the concentration camp in which Elie resided. When the fighting broke out, the resistance movement joined in the fight for liberation and won.

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9. Chapter Nine Following his father’s death, Elie Wiesel continues to stay in Buchenwald for a number of months. Despite the length of his stay, he refuses to describe his life during the period, as he believed it wasn’t important. This was mainly because of the death of his father, and the fact that “nothing mattered to [him] anymore,” after his passing (113).

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The arrival of American forces at Buchenwald means that, the Jewish people will not only be liberated, but also properly fed and taken care of. Because of the armed forces coming to set the Jewish prisoners free, Elie will be able to go back to his life. At the end of the book, hope is shown for the final

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In the text, Elie talks about what things he will never forget about his first night in camp and he states “Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever….Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.” (Wiesel 34) this shows how on the first night in Auschwitz that he starts to question why his god would let something like this happen and he starts to lose faith that his life will get better. While Elie was in the Buna camp he and the other prisoners were forced to watch the

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This is important to remember because when they arrive at the camp, everything changes. After the Germans contained the Jews in the ghettos, the whole community was deported to Auschwitz. No one had ever heard that name. Before they get sent there, on page nineteen, Elie's father starts to cry, and Elie says it’s his first time seeing his dad cry. As soon as they got there, a man told Elie not to say he was young enough, and this is pretty much the start of how Elie changed throughout the book.

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Ellie and his family are sent to Auschwitz. There they are separated. “Eight simple, short words. Yet that was the moment when I left my mother.”(29). Once Elie arrives at Auschwitz he is separated from his mother and 2 sisters never to see his mother and younger sister again.

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From Auschwitz, the two are moves to two other camps, and participate in a death marth to Buchenwald. As Elie spends more time in the camps, he becomes angry and resentful, toward the camp itself, as well as his father for falling ill and not being able to care for him. In Buchenwald, his father dies, from illness and a beating from the SS, only three months from liberation. As the story progresses, Elie also begins to lose sight of his faith, becoming bitter, and stating “Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust” (Wiesel, 32). Being subject to the cruel and continuous torture of the Holocaust left Elie

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