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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.

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.
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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.
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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.
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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 to die 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.

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.
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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 to die there.
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ColonelThe movie started Colonel Robert Shaw started in a battle in the civil war and fainted trained them hard for many months, waiting to be assigned a battle. Finally the time came and they crushed the enemy. Soon they were given another chance and to fight. It was to clear the way and hold, waiting for troops to reinforce them, so they could take a fort on the coast. Robert Shaw and his troops were pinned at the forts walls. Shaw found himself in the same situation as in the battle in the beginning, pinned down in the midst of battle. Instead of giving up and fainting he got up and charged. This inspired his troops to do the same, so they did. The man who held the colors fell and Trip, who was offered to hold the colors if the original holder fell, but declined because of personal issues with authority, rushed and held the flag until he was shot to death. This act of sacrifice inspired many thousands of black troops to join the fight against the confederates.
Colonel Shaw was a colonel who was, at first, a coward and just fought for himself. He changed to become a captan and believed firmly in the ability in his troops. He charged in the end because he knew his troops needed a leader, so he lead them into a charge and died doing so.
Trip was originally a man who had no respect for authority because of his past as a slave. He was hot tempered, and had no respect for anyone, especially for Thomas, who was black, but was raised as a free man. He changed in that he ran and grabbed the flag as it fell, and held it until death.
Thomas was an educated black man who had grown up with Shaw. He had not had a hard or physically challenging life, which made training harder on him than anyone else. He was to originally hold the colors if the man holding it were to die.

Colonel Robert Shaw started in a battle and fainted because of cannon fire. He then came home and was made capten of a negro regiment. After that he trained them

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.

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.