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17. Discuss the section where Elie is beaten. Out of nowhere, Idek comes up to Elie and begins to beat him. The beating goes on for a few minutes, but to Elie it felt like forever. When idek stopped, a French girl who worked next to Elie came over to comfort him. The girl told him to not get angry, and made him feel better. The girl gave him a piece of bread and whispered a few words in perfect German. A few years later, Elie sees the girl on the train, and they both discuss how they made it out of the concentration camp alive. 18. What is the situation involving Idek? One day, Elie walks into a room where he spots Idek having sex with a woman. Elie can not resist, and lets out a laugh. Idek gets extremely mad and says he will …show more content…

Elie was angered with God. He kept questioning how God could allow all these things to happen all these innocent people. Elie now said that men are stronger than God. Elie felt abandoned by God. I believe that Elie’s reason for his anger towards God were completely valid. The horrible things that Elie sees at the camp should not be happening to anyone. Even the people who have done bad things in life don’t deserve to be treated this way. And next to Elie, all these innocent people are being tortured just because of their race. If I was in Elie position, I would feel the same …show more content…

After ignoring it for awhile, one day he could not take it anymore. When he went t the doctor he was told he needed an operation. As he was in the hospital, he enjoyed the food and not having to work. However, Elie soon found out that hospitals had selections too, and that most people who were in the hospital ended up going to the crematory. When Elie’s operation began, he passed out right away. All the pus was removed from his leg, and the doctor told Elie he could walk in two weeks. Unfortunately for Elie, the Germans enemies were approaching, so everyone had to leave the

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And later he died with it in his hand, and when his son recovered it, two men that had been watching, jumped him, and left him dead next to his father. This is one reason Elie didn’t turn inhumane because he knew that he couldn’t get a piece of bread, or even if he did, he wouldn’t get far from all the hungry prisoners. Also he knew that is he died, his father would die because all they had was each other, and also Elie helped him get past almost every problem they had. One example was that when they were getting on the train, the prisoners had to recover the dead prisoners and throw them in the wagon, and that was were Elie’s dad was going to be, but Elie did his best to wake him up. If I was in a concentration camp, it wouldn’t go good.

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In the novel Night, Idek shows evil in every way. Idek beats on Eli’s father countless times once to try to get Eli’s gold crown from his mouth. When he wasn’t beating on one of the prisoners he was taking advantage of a young girl at the camp. We see no sign of family in Idek’s life but plenty of evil outbreaks. Even though Idek is also Jewish just like all the other members of the camps and he too treats the prisoners like the German officers would or even worse.

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He was running next to be, out of breath, out of strength, desperate. I had no right to let myself die.” (86-87). Elie was so tired mentally and thought he couldn’t keep going, but due to his fathers presence, is the reason why he is

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After they arrive at Auschwitz, Elie and his father are greeted by an officer. The officer tells them, “‘Here you must work. If you don’t you will go straight to the chimney. To the crematorium. Work or crematorium–the choice is yours’” (39).

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Hitler began his fourth wave. “”The News is terrible,” he said at last. And then one word: “Transports.” The ghetto was to be liquidated entirely. Departures were to take place street by street, starting the next day.”

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Between the crematory and the point of his father's death Elie and his father had grown a very close bond. Their relationship had flourished and they used each other during certain circumstances as reason to live. The presence of each other in both of their lives gave them a reason to fight the starvation and brutal living conditions. As Elie and his father's time grew longer in the concentration camps so did their age. The older his father, shlomo, got the less healthy his body became.

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To begin with, physical death. Elie uses physical death very often in the story, because it easily evokes emotion from the user. A strong quote that came later in the book is “He collapsed. But his fist was still clutching a small crust. He wanted to raise it to his mouth.

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When in the hospital, Elie got told the SS guards were going to mine the camp or the hospital patients will be finished off. All he could think about was being separated from his father. “I had made up my mind to accompany my father wherever he went” (82). Elie suggested to leave, because it seemed like the safest one of the choices. Later in his life, after the liberation of the camps, Elie learned that the Russians freed the people in the Buna hospital.

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The camp changes Elie, it breaks the link he used to have to his father. Even though they seem inseparable, they are alone when it comes to survival and endurance. Elie’s only wish upon seeing the beating is to get away in case the supervisor attacks him. This moment demonstrates that in the camp survival comes before anything else, even one’s family.

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A single needle attached to a pen holder took away someone’s identity. A pair of disheveled, ill-fitting rags stripped someone of their individuality. Depriving someone of basic necessities took away their soul. Upon arrival at the camps Elie and his father were separated from his female family members, never to see them again. Immediately, Elie along with the other prisoners were subjected to camp life.

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All the prisoners had strong beliefs throughout their life, and this was used to give them hope for a better future. Elie was working in the warehouse like the other Jews when he was abruptly beaten by the Idek for no discernible reason, the reality to many in the camps. As he crawled into a corner to bring himself together, a French girl came to help him recover. She spoke words of hope, saying to him, “Bite your lips little brother… Don’t cry.

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