Sections 6,7,8,9

The book turned out like a good choice to read it, but I wish that I wouldn't of read that book because it was too sad and a wake up call for everyone about the Jewish. I was glad that Eli's father did make it that far, but his death wasn't a very pleasent one because he was probably killed in the crematorium by the Germans. I am glad that Eli does reunite with his sisters that were not talked about in the book very much, so hopefully they also got out of there with as little bruising as possible. I am glad that the Americans saved them, but I wish that they would of came much much sooner. It was a sad fact that families would actually do those things to eachother, like the boy who ran ahead so he could lose his father, also on the train when the old man finally gets some food, and his son kills him for a little piece of bread, and the workers off of the train found that amusing. It was also a sad thing to hear that one hundred men started out on the train and only twelve got off the train, and Eli and his father were two of them. Only ten other men survived that train ride. But I am glad that Eli survived this whole thing, and is alive to tell it today, to let everyone know what really happened behind those gates.

Section Five.

I am pretty shocked that Eli and his father are even still alive. They have been through so much, starvation, and cruelty, they were very brave and strong through out this whole thing. Especially when they had to run about fifteen miles, with them already being skinny and on the verge of death. I didn't quite understand how the little boy was playing his violin and laying underneath and on top of dead and/or dieing people. It would of been great pain to have to lie underneath people all crammed up in that little space, gasping for air, and three days without food or water. I do not see how they did not figure it out early to eat the snow, cause its water, but it would of been a little weird to watch the prisoners eating snow off of each others backs. I believe that the Russians are about to come and rescue all of them. Also, if I was Eli I would feel so bad knowing that the prisoners in the hospital got rescued two days after they had evacuated. But if I was in Eli's situation I would of probably kept going with the others, cause there was a good chance that the patients would of been put in the chambers. But I do think that Eli will make it out with his dad in the end.

Section four.

So as we get more into the book I am starting to understand more about the Holocaust, and what all the Jewish people, and people of other religons stuck there went through. For example, the "French" girl, who was pretending to be French so she would not be deported some where else. I found rather odd that they would so happen to me again like fourty years later, but it was a very good thing because he go to finally understand how she talked to him in German. But wow was the book detailed when he got hit twenty-five times on the crate for just accidently walking in on the Kapo and that girl. It wasn't his fault at all, but they usually just wanted to blame them for something and then beat them. Also, when the Kapo was having a bad he decided to just take it out on Eli for no real reason, but they were allowed to do that which makes this all even worse. But it did make the situation a little better knowing that America was trying to help out and blow the places up, but they should of considered that there were prisoners in those buildings that were destroyed, and Eli got lucky that his dad wasn't in one of those. But one thing that I did not understand was why that man who wanted to kill himself for just a little bit of soup crawled in on the gravel? Supposedly he crawled in and then grabbed on to the table, and hoisted himself up on the table and dunked his head into the bowl of soup and then fall and died. I, myself did not understand that part, because was he already dieing from like a wound or something? Or did he crawl in so the SS guards would not see him? And after he had some soup why he did he fall and like stop moving? Well of course he stopped moving because he was dead, i just don't get how he died. Also, I'm starting to understand that the prisoners are becoming a little less human after every hanging, and beating they see. When the man was being hung because he stole during the air raid warning he was hung and Eli didn't seem to mind that, he just wanted to know when they got to eat again. But I was glad that he was sad about the little boy who was hung, but it was horrible that it took him that long to die, and he was struggling the whole time.

Section two and three.

Well.

The book is defiantly starting to become more interesting. I like the book, but sometimes it is kind of hard to handle and take in. Like when we have to listen to the guy on the tape speak as the lady, and scream..the smoke, fire, flames!! Over and over, gets a little nerve recking. But overall what we have read so far, has defiantly been interesting and a good choice by the school board to have us read the book, because it does teach us many things about the time of the Holocaust, even though these are some things that I certainly do wish I wouldn't have to learn. When Eli and his father constantly get beaten over and over by the many SS guards and "Gypsies", it is something that I am really thinking about because I knew that they were beaten over and over, but I didn't know to what extent. So, I am just listening to the tape hopefully finding out that he gets out of this thing with as little buruising as possible.

First Blog-Night.

Already in the book we have read about some of the hardships that the Jewish people had to experience. I think that the Wiesel family was really brave in the beginning of the book because they did not freak out, they stayed calm and they believed that they would make it through whatever were to come there way as long as they stayed together as a family. But I think that the Jewish people should of believed what Moche the Beadle had told them. If I was one of them and someone told me what he had told them about the people having to dig their own graves I would probably not have believed him, but it would of definatly been a good idea if they would have and they would of gotten out of their homes before it was too late. It was really sad for me when Moche the Beadle mentioned that they would throw babies up in the air for target practice. I think that one hundred percent that what the Hungerain police did to not help out the members of their country was defintaly wrong.