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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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