As I continue
to read the text, I can start to accept or get use to the way of life they have
now adapted to. For example, the “showers” and when and how much food they receive,
it all becomes “normal”. Fortunately, I believe that, or how I feel as a reader,
that every time they have to relocated, both fear and hope engulfs them. When
they move to another location, it opens up a whole range of wonders and hopes
for them. Is this place going to be like the one before? What are we going to
have to do? What’s it going to be like? Is the end coming near? Once Elie and
his father get transferred to their new Kommando I question, just like Elie,
why is there a Kommando for music? I don’t understand a lot of motives for why
events happen in these horrible places.
Overall,
Elie has been surviving because of luck. He and his father haven’t been separated,
why, when almost everyone else has been separated from their love ones throughout
their journeys? Then, they both get sent to the orchestra block? That was one
of the best places they could have gotten sent to, under the conditions they were
in. Next, because Elie had a gold crown on one of his teeth he was ordered to
have it removed. He lied and said he was ill, so the dentist would postpone the
removal; he was able to delay the surgery, until the dentist was arrest and was
no longer capable of removing it. How is that not lucky? The young boy weaseled
his way out of this situation, allowing him to save his crown for a later date.
Later on, the camp was being bombed; anyone could have been killed in that
explosion but they were able to survive. Which that brings up a question, why
would an American plane bombed a concentration camp, when we were there trying
to save these people? A daily occurrence on these camps was selection, anytime
officers were ordered to call a selection; anyone found too weak or sick by a
doctor was to be sent to the crematorium. During one of those times Elie’s
father’s number was written down, he had not passed the selection. Fortunately,
his father was able to pass the selection, how? Now came winter, the worst time
of the year, how were they able to survive that time? Around January of that
year, Elie had a problem with his foot. Luckily his leg did not need to be
amputated and he was able to leave the hospital to be evacuated with his
father. Which, he learned much later, that if he had only stayed in the
infirmary, he would have been liberated within two days.
Overall,
not that I agree with this, but if the point of these camps were to terminate
these people, why did they have hospitals? Why didn’t the officers just let
them die instead of trying to cure these inmates? Elie and his father were
lucky to make it as far as they did. They were able to conquer every obstacle
and elude death at every corner. I believe it was strictly out of chance and
good fortune.
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