Eliezer is a young Jewish boy who studies Talmud and Kabbalah. The next day, his teacher Moishe the Beadle a group of deportees are on a train that get hijacked and everyone is taken captive. A very awful, tragic event occurs, the Gestapo (the group that hijacks the train) executes the deportees who were “used as targets” (6). Moishe survives the massacre but is very unstable and is driven to despair and cries “tears, like drop of wax” because the people do not believe him (7). There are now new laws to abide by, every Jew has to wear the yellow star and no longer has the right to perform certain acts. Eliezer and his family are now planning to leave Sighet. They are put into cattle cars, eighty passengers per car and a person is put in charge …show more content…
Eliezer and his father are put in the orchestra block. Eliezer has to get his gold crown removed but decides to make an excuse because he “was a coward;” he wants to keep his teeth (52). Eliezer gets a severe injury from getting beaten up by Idek and breaking like an “old tree struck by lightning” (54). He loses his teeth and gets whipped for getting into Idek’s business. The Buna Factory is getting extremely damaged from exploding bombs. An inmate is executed in front of the prisoners and then another in the same way. Three prisoners are hanged for the possession of weapons the next …show more content…
Eliezer thinks his father is dead but after a little while he opens his eye and is awake. Days pass by and then years, without hardly any food they act like “emaciated creatures ready to kill for a crust of bread” (101). A father and son die from being trampled by other hungry people. Many deaths occur later and everyone cries tears for the loss of their love ones and friends. The last day is the most tragic because the population of the people was at a hundred or so and now the number has gone drastically down to twelve people including Eliezer and his