Assigment 7 Ch.6-9

Ch.6

1.What happened to anyone who did not keep up with the march? They were abused to death or shot at the moment.
2.How did Zalman die? He had a "stomach cramp" and had to stop;when he stoped they ran over him.

3.What horrible realization did Elie come to concerning Rabbi Eliahou and his son? How did Elie respond to this? He hopes that he wont need to do what Rabbis son did to his father; to be under those conditions where they were fighting like dogs over a piece of bread.

4.What was Juliek's last act? Playing his beatiful violin.
5.How did Elie help his father when the selection was made? By going after his father when he got moved to the left; when he did that he caused confusion and end up with his father again.
Ch. 7
1.How did Elie help his dad when he was on the train? By slapping him which helped him wake up and saved him from being thrown away.
2.Describe the scene Elie witnessed between a father and a son on the train. He remembers of the lady that was throwing money to poor people havind fun watching them fight.
3.How many got out of the wagon? Where had they arrived? Out of a hundred only twelve made it including them. They arrived at Buchenwald.
Ch. 8
1.Explain how father/son roles had been reversed in the case of Elie and his father? When his father gets sick and he takes care of him thats when he starts to think if he should let him die and help him self survive.
2.Why was Elie's father being beaten? He was no longer able to drag himself outside to relieve himself; they would beat him and take away his bread
3.What did Elie think of the advice given to him by the head of the block? He thought about it, but then he felt guilty;and got his father bread and soup and toke it to him.
Ch. 9
1.What happened on april 5th? They were set free.
2.What was the resistance movement? What did they do? When they went against the Nazis, even the people that weren't in the concentration camps.
3.What did the prisoners do when they were freed? They didnt think about anything else than to just get a pieceof bread.
4.Who did Elie see in the mirror on the last page of the book? What did that mean? He though of himself as a corpse, he will always remember that image were he is all skinny and weak.