Section 7

Elie and his father are on a train and are headed to a new camp. Everytime the train stops, more dead bodies are thrown off the train and it smells horrible. Two men come to get Elies father who is very sick, but Elie awakes him to show the guards that he is still alive. People threw bread into the cars and the people would jump on each other and even kill each other just for a few crumbs of bread to survive. One boy even killed his own father before being killed himself. This shows you how bad the conditions were and makes you understand how awful things were for these people.

Later, they finally reach Buchenwald, and out of the hundred of people on the train, only around a dozen manage to survive. On the way to the camp, they face horible weather conditions, and Elie's father has a hard time keeping up. Elie later starts seeing his dad as dead wait and he thinks he would have a better chance of surviving without him. Although Elie feels this way, he cant just leave his father to die, so he tries to get two doctors to help him, but they cant. He tries to get water, but he is hit in the head, but Elie doses off to sleep because he is so tired. When elie awakes the next morning, his father is missing, and Elie knows he is dead. Elie does not even weep because he is too tired physically and emotionally. This is so shocking that his father just died and he doesnt even feel sorrow or crie. The camp, which was supposed to evacuated was attacked by americans and all the jews were set free. Elies gets sick with food poisoning, and has to be hospitalized. He awakes and for the first time since the ghettos, sees himself and the mirror and he thinks he looks like a living corpes.

Ch.6

The jews are forced to march through the snow from Buna, and it is extremely painful for Elie because of his foot. Elie feels like it would be better to die, but with encouragement from his father, he continues. While Elie is running, a boy from Poland runs up along side him and falls behind and get trampled on. The jews finally stop at an abandoned village which has no roof, so they are sleeping on snow.

Elie falls asleep because he is exhausted, but his father keeps him awake becuase bad things could happen to Elie if he fell asleep in the snow, and the two look out for each other. Later, a Rabbi Eliahou asks Elie if he has seen his son and Elie tells him he doesnt know. Elie then remembers the boys falling in the snow and being trampled on. After they leave the town, the jews are stationed at Gleiwitz. A massive pile is formed becuase the jews are rushing trying to get to the baracks, and Elie gets seperated from his father. Elie finds his father, but he also finds juliek from Buna. Elie falls asleep listening to Juliek play the violine, but when Elie awakes, Juliek is dead. Later, there is another selection but Elie and his father survive another one.

On the eve of Rosh Hashanah all the jews are praying and fasting, except for Elie. He has lost all faith in God and wont pray. He curses the lord and he cant understand why God has abandoned them but in the end, he decides to pray. Elie and his father survive another selection of people who are not able to work and they are placed in a construction unit. Elie later gets his foot infected and has to get surgery. Elie finally has a nice matress again and he has forgotten what it felt like. The doctor told Elie that he would be fine in a couple of weeks.

There is news that the Russian army is advancing and the Germans make the jews leave the camp. The jews in the hospital are aloud to stay, but Elie goes becuase he wants to stay with his father. They have to march through the snow, and Elies foot is bleeding bad but he stills goes on. The jews have no clue where they are going, but it wont be any better than the place before. Elie father is in a bad state and he fears how much longer he will hold on.

If I was Elie, it would be hard for me to pray to. I would feel like God has left me to. Also, I cant imagine what its like thinking that your father is going to die and seeing him look like that. Elie is a strong person and i wouldnt be able to do half the things that he did.

Section 4

It is a little releif for Elie and his father when they are transfered to Buna, becuase they are able to bathe and get a new pair of clothes. People are also aloud to sing some of their religious songs. At Buna, Elie meets a French lady who is Jewish, but she claims she tells the Germans she is Aryan, so she doesnt get beaten. She befriends Elie and tries to comfort him and calls him little brother. There is a man at Buna, Franek, who is a horrible man. He tries to get Elies gold crown, but his father tells him not to give it to him. For doing this, Franek constantly beats Elie's father and hits him for not marching right. Later, Elie gives up his gold crown to save his father from torture.

Elie later gets beaten by a guard, because he has spied on him with a women and he gets lashed twenty five times. The man tells Elie that he will beat him more if he tells anyone. On Sunday, there is an air raid in Buna, which brings hope to many of the people. They feel that help is coming and that they will be rescued. After the raid, the Jews have to clean up the debris from the blown up buildings. A week after the bombing, Elie witnesses something horrible. Jews are being hung, and a thirteen year old child is hung and he is so skinny that it takes him thirty minutes to die. After the hanging, the prisoners are forced to uncover the heads of the dead, and Elie said that it tastes like death that night.

I think what happens to the Jews is horrible. It is thing after thing and they can never catch a break. People are dying all the time and prisoners have to dig holes to through them in. Bodies are burned and it smells like death in the air.

chapter 3

In the chapter, the Jews are starting to get settled down in the camp. The men are seperated from the women and Elie gets to stay with his father. They never see the mother or the daughter again. They lie about their age so they can work and not be killed. They only had two options, to work hard or be killed. In the prison, the Jews see terrible things. They see a pit where babies are burned and thrown into, and another one where adults go.

The Jews want to rebel but they are warned not to, so they start becoming very relgious and praying to God. Elie, however doesnt want to because he doesnt know why he should thank God for what is happening to him and his family. When the Jews get to their baracks, they are striped of their clothes and shaved. They are then washed with gasoline and got uniforms so they could work.

Later, Elie's father asked if he could use a bathroom and he is beaten bad by an German official. Elie is terrified at what he saw and was upset that he just watched it and didnt help his father. Everyone was weeping because they knew they were all going to die and they couldnt believe waht was happening to them. The living conditions were so bad and the sights were unbearable. They are finally moved on a four hour walk to Buna, where he will be for a while.

Night Ch2

The Jews are packed in small cattle cars and everyone is hungry and thirsty. Barley no one can sit down and the living conditions are so unbearable. The germans nail the Jews into the trains and threaten to shoot anyone who breaks the rules. The Jews start to go crazy and loose their minds. The best example of this is Madame Schachter.

Madame Shachter is with her ten year old son on the train and she starts screaming "Fire." There is no visible fire, and she just scares all the rest of the Jews. She is bond down and gaged so she can not scream anymore. She eventually breaks out of her bond and starts to scream again. This time, she is beaten into silence. the Jews have no idea what is in store for them, but most of them try to stay optimistic.

Days and nights go by, and the Jews on the train see a sign the says Auschwitz. None of the Jews knows what this means because none of them have ever heard of it before. Madame Schachter starts yelling again and the Jews ask to take her to a hospital, but are not allowed. Jews then hear that in the station, they will be treated well and kindly, so they start to get all excited hoping that it wont be as bad as they expected. It turns out the were totally wrong, and there was a foul smell in the air of buring flesh and dead bodies and fire. The jews were now at a concentration camp, one were many were going to die.

Night ch. 1-2

Night starts out as a peaceful story of a Jewish community in Sighet, but eventually turns into a horrilbe nightmare. Elie is a young boy living in Sighet and he meets a man nicknamed Moshe de Beadle and befriends him. Moshe de Beadle prays with Elie and teaches him about religion.

Later, police come and kick out all foreign Jews, and Moshe de Beadle is one. He is taking out and was forced to build drenches for the German army with many other people. After he was done, everyone was shot but Moshe managed to escape and get back to Sighet. He tried to warn everyone that danger was coming but no one would listen to him. The German army took over Elie's town and at first seemed very nice. Eventually, they forced Elie and many other out of their homes and pushed them into the little ghetto.

They were not allowed to take any valuable possesions and had to wear the yellow star of David on their shirts so the Germans knew they were Jewish. They were then transported out of the little ghetto in little caravans full of eighty people. The Germans assigned someone leader and if anyone escaped they were shot. They had no clue they were going but wherever it was it wasnt good.