Trains with large amounts of Jewish people moved from ghetto to ghetto. After that, came concentration camps where Jews were brutally hurt and abused. Eliezer and his father stayed in the same camp at first. They were separated from their other family. Eliezer and his father were given little
Ruth had cut all ties with her Jewish family. After arriving in the United States when she was two years old, Ruth spent her early childhood traveling
Elie does not want to be separated from his father and be left alone. The Jewish people were first taken to a concentration camp called Auschwitz, and when they arrived, Elie and his father were separated from Elie’s mother and his sister, Tzipora. Later on, they found out that the women and children were burned in a crematorium. The book states, “The baton pointed to the left. I took half a step forward.
Ruth tells James about her past although she avoided and ran away from it for many years. She passed on her actions and reactions to her children, especially James, as she formed a family. James learning about his mother's past made him realize that he resembles Ruth in many ways. They both grieved on their own, but how they grieved was similar. Whether it was drugs or a bike ride, they both had their own way to run.
and he was her happiness. After they got married, they lived happily in Harlem for years with their children. Being surrounded by black people in Harlem, Ruth practically lived life as a black woman. Soon Ruth became a Christian and opened her own church with Dennis. Ruth was a Judaism because her parents had forced her into it.
Eliezer and his father got separated from his mother and younger sisters. For months in the concentration camps, Eliezer witnessed inhumane doings that scarred him for the rest of his life. He was forced to work at Buna, a factory, and run on a daily basis to keep himself alive. He became malnourished because of the unappetizing food that they served. He and other Jews were punished and beaten for no reason.
She grows old with the self-condemnation of staying with Nathan for as long as she did, for if she mustered up the courage to leave the Congo earlier, Ruth May would not have died. Ruth May’s plea for Orleanna to forgive herself, just as Ruth May has forgiven her, presents the possibility of repentance for anyone, no matter how great of consequence their mistakes are. Though she never passed the age of 6, Ruth May seems to have learned better than most the importance of finding strength from and learning from wrong-doings. Urging her mother to “Move on. Walk forward into the light”, Ruth may passes along her own moral reassessment to anyone whom will listen, telling the error in letting so-called sins weigh down ones self forever
On her graduation day, Ruth is fighting herself because she doesn’t know whether or not she wants to walk into the church with Frances. On the one hand, she wants
When Elie and his family failed to flee the country, they were sent to concentration camps. There, Eliezer got separated from his sister and mother, but remained with his father. Through the horrors of the concentration camps, Elie lost his faith. Before the war, Eliezer was very religious, but his journey through the Holocaust and Auschwitz made him lose his faith,
In only around a year Eliezer had already lost everything: his whole family, all possessions, his humanity, and his faith in God. Eliezer writes after release “Our first act as free men was to throw ourselves onto the provisions. That’s all we cared about. No though of revenge, or of parents. Only of bread,” (115).
Soon, Elie and his family are taken away from their home and to the nearest concentration camp, Auschwitz. Here Elie and his father, Shlomo, are separated from his mother and sisters. This is where they
While he was enjoying his find, the grocer spotted him and called the police after him. Babar was brought to court, but the old lady he met earlier helped him out of his predicament. The lady, known as “Madame”, adopted Babar as her son. She was so proud of how quickly he was becoming
Yet, at home, she devotes love and curiosity to her family. This contrasts to multiple other characters, as the relationship between Ruth and her single mother is inspiring. Accordingly, she respects her mother, who provides encouragements like, “It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.” With pure gratitude, Ruth seeks to apply her mother’s words. When bullies trouble Philip, Ruth can empathise with him.
No one knows where they are going and many are excited, except for Moishe. Moishe has learned of the horrors of the Nazis and what they are doing to the Jews. They are killing them in horrible ways, but no one wants to believe Moishe. This really lowers Moishe’s spirits because he knows that what happened to many other Jews will soon happen to all of his friends after they are relocated. Groups of Jews are moved out day by day and Eliezer is in the very last group.
Even though it seemed that she could not find a husband, she still stayed with Naomi. The second instance is Ruth’s loyalty to God. There are multiple times in her stay with Naomi where she could have complained to God. She was content with what she had with Naomi and God rewarded her for that.
