Section 5

1. In the camp, on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, Elie began to question his faith and everything he was taught his god stood for. Everyone in the camp is on edge and no one touches their meal until after prayer. 2. Elie now feels that the God he believes in, the God he was taught, is responsible for all the terrors and atrocities he has experienced, seen, or felt. Before, at the beginning he was eager to learn the ways of the mystical mysterious God, yet now he feels as though he already knows Him and that he is more powerful than He because He caused so many wrongs and granted so few rights. 3. Elie decided not to fast on Yom Kippur because his father had forbade him, and he had chosen to no longer accept God's silence and he did not fast in an act of rebellion towards Him. 4. The "beautiful present" the SS officers offered the prisoners was a dreaded process called selection in which weaker prisoners were executed. 5. The bell signifies the start of the work day where the group forms groups and heads off to work. 6. Elie's father gives him his "inheritance" which consists of a knife and a spoon because his father believes he will die. Upon realizing that he is alive, Elie returns the objects back to his father. 7. Elie believes Akiba Drumer was selected because he lost his faith in God. They did not fulfill his last request, which was to say Kaddish for him three days after he was gone because they received more blows than food and their work was crushing. 8. The patient says he has more faith in Hitler than anyone else because Hitler alone had kept all his promises so far, to the Jewish people. And the promise to kill was easier than the promise to save. 9. Elie and his father had decided to be evacuated with the rest of the hospital residents, yet after the war Elie learned those who stayed were liberated by the Russians. 10. The Blockalteste ordered the men to clean the block before they left, to show the liberating army that the men who were there still had a part of dignity and were not animals.