Reading Day 3/10-Night

{ March 11, 2008 @ 2:33 pm } · { Uncategorized }

Today I read the last chapters of Night. Elie and his father are in another camp. His father is very sick. His lips are pale, he can barely talk, and he cannot get up. The sick must stay in a certain block and the others stay in different ones. This means Elie and his father are split up for the first time. Elie goes and visits his father everyday though. They are starving and not being fed very much at all. Sometimes Elie saves some of his soup and gives it to his father, because they do not feed the sick at all. He brings him coffee in the morning too. Still, his father is so weak and can barely go on. Elie knows he cannot fight death much longer. One night, he tells his father goodnight and climbs up to sleep in the bunk above him. He hears the officers come in and hit his father across the head. He doesn’t dare move, he knows there is nothing he can do. He goes to sleep that night. He wakes up, and his father is not there below him. Instead, some other man. He knows that he has died. From the on, Elie does not think of his father. He only thinks of food, of eating. Just trying to survive. Elie is in the camp a while longer, when the day comes. A U.S. military group comes and saves them. They see it pull up to the gate, and they all run for freedom. 

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