Robby Treadwell
3/13/13
21-43
Period 4
Summary: Everyone is packed into carts where there is barley enough room to even breath. They reach Aushwitz and smell the burn of human flesh when they get out. Eliezer is split from his mom and sister and stays with his dad to learn that they are there to be killed. They see a pit full of dead babies and one of adults.
Quotation: "The Kapos beat us once more, but I had ceased to feel any pains from their blows."
Quotation Significance: In this quote we get the impression that it sounds like the are beaten a lot by the way Eliezer says it. If you could just think of putting yourself in this situation it would be brutal.
Reflection: I have learned from reading this book that the author does not care about planting disgusting, non humane images into your head. Just picturing the cart ride to Aushwitz is hard to wrap my mind around. What really struck me was when they saw the pits for babies and adults. The nazis truly did not have any care for killing the Jews. Im sure that some of them actually did feel bad about it, but they just did it to put a dinner on the table for their family. It is sad to hear the two options the Jews had, work hard or be sent to the creamery.
Discussion Question: What is going to happen if Eliezer's dad is taken from him and killed?
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