Moishi the Beatle was an important character in the book, because he was a harbinger. He knew what those people could do, and he knew that something was coming. Moishi was the lovable homeless man in Elie's home town. Moishi was also beginning to teach him about Kabbalah. After Moishi was taken, assaulted, then left for dead he returned, telling of all his trials and the things he had seen, but no one believed him. The people said "This cannot be true." and all began to wonder if he had lost his mind.
Elie's family (especially his father) was optimistic about the situation. I think that part of his father's optimism was to keep the people around them calm because he was a large influence among the people. That optimism faded when the Hungarian police (the first faces of darkness) started rounding up the people of that town and sending them away.
Reflection 2:
Mrs. Shachter was a woman in her fifties who was deported on the same train as Elie. She had been separated from her husband and her older son, which had
greatly disturbed her. She was sitting in the car when she suddenly saw flames. She cried out to her fellow Jews, but no one would listen to her. Thrice she tried earnestly to warn them of the coming flames, and thrice she was tied up and beaten.
When they arrived Dr. Mengele inspected each person quickly and sent those who weren't able to work to the flames. Elie witnessed the SS throwing babies into the flames. That day threw Elie into a darkness of soul that would grip him to this day.
Auschwitz was a large work camp in Germany that killed many thousands of people. It was hundreds of football fields long and wide. It had electrified barbed wire surrounding it's perimeter and SS guards armed with machine guns, keeping its the captives in, it had several burning chimneys to dispose of the dead, and finally it had flea infested bunkers to house the millions of people sent todie there.
Reflection 3:
Elie was called into the dentist to get his gold crown removed. Elie wondered if he could get out of it by saying he felt sick and asking if he could come back later. It worked. So he tried it the next week and it worked once again. Elie was then blessed by the transfer of the dentist because of the dentists use of the gold to buy rations. Elie began to feel distant from his father, more of a good friend than his own father. There was a raid on the camp and planes bombed factories. This gave the inmates hope because now they knew for sure that the ailed troops had, in fact, experienced success in Europe.
Reflection 4:
The jewish year was ending, so some of the inmates gathered to praise God. Elie gathered with the crowd, but didn't praise God, for Elie felt anger towards him for letting these innocent people suffer and die with out lifting a finger. He also skipped fasting on another jewish holiday. One week later there was a selection. Elie's number wasn't written down on the medics sheet. Elie met up with his father, relieved that his number had also been left alone, however when the SS officer came to take those selected it was reviled that Elie's father's number had in fact been taken down. Elie's father left Elie with his inheritance and was taken away. Soon Elie's father was returned to him, for he had passed the second selection.
Elie gave back his father's inheritance. That January Elie's foot swelled up because of the cold. The medics operated on Elie's foot and saved his leg. Roomers washed the camp and said that the red army was coming. Because of Elie's injury he and his father were given the choice to evacuate or stay in the infirmary. Elie and his father chose to evacuate, so they cleaned the blocks with the rest of the inmates and left. Elie had to wrap his foot to continue the march. After the war ended Elie found out that the people who stayed behind in the infirmary were freed two days earlier.
Reflection 1:
Moishi the Beatle was an important character in the book, because he was a harbinger. He knew what those people could do, and he knew that something was coming. Moishi was the lovable homeless man in Elie's home town. Moishi was also beginning to teach him about Kabbalah. After Moishi was taken, assaulted, then left for dead he returned, telling of all his trials and the things he had seen, but no one believed him. The people said "This cannot be true." and all began to wonder if he had lost his mind.Elie's family (especially his father) was optimistic about the situation. I think that part of his father's optimism was to keep the people around them calm because he was a large influence among the people. That optimism faded when the Hungarian police (the first faces of darkness) started rounding up the people of that town and sending them away.
Reflection 2:
Mrs. Shachter was a woman in her fifties who was deported on the same train as Elie. She had been separated from her husband and her older son, which hadgreatly disturbed her. She was sitting in the car when she suddenly saw flames. She cried out to her fellow Jews, but no one would listen to her. Thrice she tried earnestly to warn them of the coming flames, and thrice she was tied up and beaten.
When they arrived Dr. Mengele inspected each person quickly and sent those who weren't able to work to the flames. Elie witnessed the SS throwing babies into the flames. That day threw Elie into a darkness of soul that would grip him to this day.
Auschwitz was a large work camp in Germany that killed many thousands of people. It was hundreds of football fields long and wide. It had electrified barbed wire surrounding it's perimeter and SS guards armed with machine guns, keeping its the captives in, it had several burning chimneys to dispose of the dead, and finally it had flea infested bunkers to house the millions of people sent todie there.
Reflection 3:
Elie was called into the dentist to get his gold crown removed. Elie wondered if he could get out of it by saying he felt sick and asking if he could come back later. It worked. So he tried it the next week and it worked once again. Elie was then blessed by the transfer of the dentist because of the dentists use of the gold to buy rations. Elie began to feel distant from his father, more of a good friend than his own father. There was a raid on the camp and planes bombed factories. This gave the inmates hope because now they knew for sure that the ailed troops had, in fact, experienced success in Europe.Reflection 4:
The jewish year was ending, so some of the inmates gathered to praise God. Elie gathered with the crowd, but didn't praise God, for Elie felt anger towards him for letting these innocent people suffer and die with out lifting a finger. He also skipped fasting on another jewish holiday. One week later there was a selection. Elie's number wasn't written down on the medics sheet. Elie met up with his father, relieved that his number had also been left alone, however when the SS officer came to take those selected it was reviled that Elie's father's number had in fact been taken down. Elie's father left Elie with his inheritance and was taken away. Soon Elie's father was returned to him, for he had passed the second selection.Elie gave back his father's inheritance. That January Elie's foot swelled up because of the cold. The medics operated on Elie's foot and saved his leg. Roomers washed the camp and said that the red army was coming. Because of Elie's injury he and his father were given the choice to evacuate or stay in the infirmary. Elie and his father chose to evacuate, so they cleaned the blocks with the rest of the inmates and left. Elie had to wrap his foot to continue the march. After the war ended Elie found out that the people who stayed behind in the infirmary were freed two days earlier.