A Kapo chooses to serve in a unit of prisoners, and it luckily, his father is in the same unit. Elie meets Juliek, who is a Jewish violinist. His brothers are Yosi and Tibi. Elie plans to move to Palestine after the war along with the two brothers. Abika Drumer predicts that their release from the camps is coming very soon. Not long after Elie and his father arrive in Buna, he is goes to the dentist to have his gold crown removed. He tries to do whatever he can to prevent having the crown removed. Later, the dentist is sentenced to hanging for trading gold teeth illegally. The Kapo in charge of Eliezer and the other workers in his group, Idek, has random fits of violence. One day, he beats Eliezer, and afterwards a girl working next to Eliezer offers him comfort.
Then the narrator goes ahead many years to when, after the Holocaust, he runs into the same girl in Paris. He claims to have recognized her, and she tells him her story. The story then goes back to Elie’s time at Buna. His father becomes a victim to one of Idek’s outbursts. Elie tells how much the concentration camp has changed him. Instead of being angry at Idek, he becomes angry at his father for not avoiding Idek. The prison supervisor, Franek, notices Elie's gold crown, and wants it. Elie refuses to give up the tooth. Because of this, Franek beats Elie's father until he gives up the gold crown. After this, Idek and Franek, are transferred to another camp. Before this happens, Elie accidentally sees Idek having sex in the barracks. Idek whips Elie until he goes unconscious.
During an attack on Buna, some of the camp's soup is out in the open. Many prisoners watch a man risk his life by crawling to the soup. He reaches the soup, and gets up to eat. As he does so, he is shot. The Nazis publicly hang another man who tried to steal something during the air raid also. Elie tells the tale of another hanging. The prisoners break into tears while watching a child strangle. They wonder how God could be present in a world with things such as this occuring. “Where is He?” Eliezer asks, and then answers, “He is hanging here on this gallows.” Throughout the book, Elie's faith has been gradually decreasing. After seeing the hanging of the child, he reaches the low point of his faith.
6 comments:
wow will, this is very good. It has alot of detail. It really tells people what happened in the story because this is pretty much all that happened. Way to go
I like how u include quotes and you show flashbacks and everything. I can see a lot of time and detail were put into this. Thumbs up!!!
I like the photo and your use of detail. Great post.
this is a very good entry mr overstreet. i like the map a lot. makes me want to ead it over and over like a repeat button.
good analysis of the chapter. you went into great detail on the section, without having too much detail. overall, well done. good picture included also.
Good job Will. The details you had were very good. I also liked how you included a map to help your post.
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