Section 5-7 Night Questions

Brian Chen Period 5

Chapter 5. 1. All the inmates gathered at the barbed fence of the concentration camp and together they prayed of the greatness of God. 2. In the beginning of the book Elie was a strong believer who wanted to fully understand and follow God and he had a strong faith in Gods justice and fairness. However after he was moves to the concentration camp he saw the death of so many innocent people, children, babies, the elderly, and the weak. They were all massacred and god didnt do anything about it. Instead he kept these crematoriums working all year round killing loved ones. As this continues and Elie saw more injustice, he starts to question himself whether he believes in God anymore and where is God. He slowly loses faith in God and his religion and starts to face reality, yet he still has a small spark of belief left in him. 3. Elie did not fast on Yom Kippur because first of all his dad told him not to, secondly he has lost his faith, why should he pray about a nonexistent being s kindness when hes allowing all these tragedies and sorrows to occur, lastly hes just too tired to do so. 4. The beauty present the SS gave the prisoners was selection, a process where the SS chose the unfit or weak to die. 5. The bells showed when they can meet their relatives and when they had to go back to work, it was a constant pain to Elie to hear the bells because it reminds him that hes still oppressed by the Germans and that the bell is what dictates his life.

6. As an inheritance from his dad Elie receives a knife and spoon. However Elie returns that inheritance to his dad to remind him that Elie was still there and that he believes that his dad needs it more that he does. 7. Akiba Drumer was selected because he has lost total faith in everything, in his religion, god, humanity, but most of all himself. So he didnt even try at selection he just wants to get out of this living hell. He asked the men to say Kaddish for him but they forgot. 8. Elie goes into the hospital for an operation on his foot, which he hurt while at work. There recovering he meets an inmate who tells him that he has more faith in Hitler that anyone else because Hitler always keeps his promises to the Jewish people. He promised to exterminate them, and here they are thousands of Jews being rounded up and killed. 9. Elie and his father evacuate with the rest of the camp to get farther away from the impeding Russians, however it was not the right choice because if they had stayed they would have been liberated by the Russians. 10. The blockalteste ordered the men to clean and tidy the barracks to make it seem as if the Germans treated the Jewish people like actually humans not animals. Chapter6-7 1. The evacuation looked like a crowd of clowns with heavy garments running in the snow. At that point elie was tired to the point where he believes that he can die right there and there. Instead he persuades himself not to because he sees his resilient father even though hes is hurting his father his suffering the most yet he pushes on. Elie understand that his dad needs him so keeps on living. 2. On page 90-91 Elie discusses the relationship between Rabbi Eliahu and his son. Elie realizes that Rabbi Eliahus son purposefully leaves his weak father to escape from him and caring for him.

3. At Gleiwitz, Elie finds Juiek, the kid who worked with him at Buna, he played the violin. They are overjoyed to see each other but were quickly diminished when they get crushed by the more incoming people. While everyone else rested Juliek played a concerto of Beethoven, a concert for the dead. The next morning Elie finds Juliek killed and his violin crushed. 4. The traveling conditions are horrid and cramped with no food or water and 100 men per cart, and the men slowly tuned into animals killing loved ones and others for a morsel of bread, it was a terrifying and surreal ride. The car started with 100 men but only 12 came off at Buchenwald. 5. Meir Katz was an inmate who worked the gardens at Buna and was a friend of Elies dad. He helped Elie in many ways he first gives vegetable to Elie and his dad back at Buna and he also saves Elies life from an assailant who tried to choke Elie.