Night. Pages 81-98.

Robby Treadwell

3/18/13

Period 4

81-98

Summary: The prisoners run from Buna 42 miles to Gleiwitz camp, where Juliek is killed in the middle of the night. They are put on cattle cars attached to a train. On the train they travel through German towns where bread is thrown in for them. A boy kills his dad for a piece of bread, and 12 of the 100 in Elizier's cart lived. 

Quotation: "The last day had been the most murderous. A hundred of us had got into the wagon. A dozen of us got out among them, my father and I. We had arrived at Buchenwald." (98)

Quotation Significance: This quote proves how brutal some of the living conditions were on the train. It seems that Eliezer and his dad are getting very lucky by continuing to survive in situations like these.

Reflection: These two sections were very sad to read. The author, Elie Wiesel does a very good job in the first scene of portraying an image  of a bunch of jews running for their lives. It is scary to read about how Eliezer falls asleep right next to Juliek and then when he wakes up she is dead. It seems Eliezer and his dad are running on thin ice. The worst part about these two sections was reading about how the kid killed his dad just for a piece of bread, and then that kid was killed by someone else! This book truly is brutal and shows how bad the holocaust was. 

Discussion Question: What is going to happen to them at Buchenwald?