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Post by charles w. creech on Feb 4, 2014 17:09:28 GMT
"mrs. schachter had lost her mind. on the first day of the journey, she had already begun to moan. she kept asking why she had been separated from her family. later, her sobs and screams became hysterical."
this woman recently llost her family, the most important people on her life. also at the same time she is partaking in an adventure that will be treturous, this woman lost her family in a major time of need. she is alone so she sobs and moans, what else can she do? she is helpless and the only thing running through her head is the fact that she may never see her family again. if i was going through the same thing i would also be upset, maybe not that upset but still.. upset.
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Post by Sarah R on Feb 4, 2014 17:10:18 GMT
"Yossi and Tibi, two brothers from Czechoslovakia whose parents had been exterminated in Birkenau. They lived for each other, body and soul."
When you are in a concentration camp, you are lucky if you stay with a family member. You are also lucky if your family is still alive. In this situation, this person is all you have left of your past since they took everything else. You hold onto them and you don't want to loose them. This is like Elli and his father, he does whatever he can to stay with his father. I chose this quote because the two brothers are lucky that each other are still alive. It also says, "They lived for each other, body and soul." Which means that they cared for one another with all they had. They wanted to keep each other safe. You never know if you will ever see that person again, they could be taken away and that would be the last you would see of them. This is the case with Elli too. He wants to know that his father is okay, he wants to see him. If his father was taken away from him, he would be scared. He would be all alone and have nobody left, he doesn't have his mother or his sisters. His father is all he has left.
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Post by diocelin h on Feb 4, 2014 17:13:24 GMT
"Please sir ... I’d like to be near my father."
"All right. Your father will work here, next to you."
We were lucky.
Eliezer and his father, like the two Czech brothers, are lucky that they receive the same labor assignment. It allows them to stay together, watch out for each other, and live for each other.
This is a really deep quote from the book because, the German soldiers tried to always take your identity, and because of that its hard to ever think of youreself as you were before they did that.
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Post by Danielle T on Feb 4, 2014 17:13:37 GMT
"Men to the left! Women to the right! Eight words spoken quietly, indifferently, without emotion. Eight simple, short words. Yet that was the moment when I left my mother. There was no time to think, and I already felt my father's hand pressed against mine: we were alone" Page 29
This quote shows how family didn't mean much to the Nazi's. They were separated in the beginning and didn't have much time together unless they were lucky. Families meant a lot before they were taken. They were supposed to be there with you when you grow up and help you whenever you need it. When they were taken, most of them had to leave their families behind and learned how to move on. Most of them didn't know it but when they were separated, there wasn't a high chance of seeing them again. If you were the only boy or girl in your family you had to go to the camp alone. Elie was lucky that he at least had his father still with him and that they weren't separated. The Nazi's didn't give families special treatment. Since it was so hard for to stay with your family, you needed to treasure it while you had it because you never know how much longer you have with them.
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Post by Calvin Z on Feb 4, 2014 17:14:20 GMT
"At Idek's command, two inmates liften me and led me to him. 'Look me in the eye!' I looked at him without seeing him. I was thinking of my father. He would be suffering more than I."
It shows even after Eliezer has felt much pain, and was whipped, that it still hurts those you love more. He was an example to the rest of the camp, to show what happens when you 'get into Idek's buisness'. When one of your family/friends is being hurt at a concentration camp, or anywhere in general, you feel like you're being hurt more, not physically, but mentally. Eliezer quotes in the book, "I was thinking of my father. He would be suffering more than I"
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Post by Chase T. on Feb 4, 2014 17:14:58 GMT
"Please, sir ... I'd like to be near my father.' 'All right. Your father work here, next to you.' We were lucky."
Before Elie was sent to Auschwitz, he did not spent much time with his father and more with his mother. Now that his mother and sister are dead, his father the only person he could really trust and go to in this camp so he didn't feel alone.
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Post by Joey A on Feb 4, 2014 17:15:22 GMT
"I decided to give my father lessons in marching step, in keeping time. We began practicing in front of our block. I would command: "Left, Right!" and my father would try.
This shows how life truly was in the camp. Everyday his father was being beaten and thrashed because of his military steps. Being so close because of the war and what has happened. Elie tried to help him get through the hard and rough times by showing him how to march properly. It just shows that they had to stick up for each other because the only way they were going to get through this. Family is important to have through these times to have some chance of hope and survival.
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Post by Ashley B on Feb 4, 2014 17:15:55 GMT
"I tightened my grip on my father's hand. The old, familiar fear: not to lose him."
At the new camp, Eliezer tries to stay close to his father as long as he possibly can. After being through so much, losing his father still frightens him the most. As his father begins to grow weaker and begins to die, Eliezer struggles to help him because of his want to keep his last family member alive. This quote describes the new place of family because it shows how hard the camp will get and the struggles Eliezer will have without his father.
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Post by Rose S. on Feb 4, 2014 17:16:12 GMT
"My hand tightened its grip on my father. All I could think of was not to loose him. Not to remain alone." (Page 30) I've selected this quote because this same theme comes up frequently in the book. Elie wants to be with his father constantly. His father is all he has left that shows, or reminds him of love and freedom. The place where he was raised, friends, and most of his family have been removed. His faith is left in question, but his father is there, and keeps Elie going. On page 45 of the book, after Elie and his father encounter their relative who they lied too, the relative gave up, knowing that the family is gone. Family is what inspires people to live, and keep going.
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Post by Gavin M on Feb 4, 2014 17:17:43 GMT
"I saw them walking farther and farther away; Mother was stroking my sister's blond hair, as if to protect her. I walked on with my Father, with the men."
This quote is a good choice to describe how family is seen in the Concentration Camps. Many of the families in the camps were separated, and Elie and his father were lucky enough to be in similar shape and of course gender, so they were saved from the crematorium during selection. However, he was separated from his mother which means he had to make the sacrifices needed for survival. So overall, when someone is in the Concentration Camps, they will always have their family their, just sometimes they may not be physically with them and they may have to make choices that could result in the separation or even death of a loved one but it will result in ones survival. Could not add any interactions.
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Post by Gavin M on Feb 4, 2014 17:47:54 GMT
"Please, sir... I'd like to be near my father." "All right . your father will work here, next to you." " We were lucky."
This quote by Sylvana is very accurate because she is touching upon the subject that Elie really wants to stay with his family even though it is very difficult to do so. I also like how you dicussed the need to make sacrifices and suffer the consequences to be with your family
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Post by Nick H on Feb 4, 2014 18:02:20 GMT
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Post by Connor M on Feb 4, 2014 18:04:08 GMT
"Would you like to get into a good Kommando?"
"Of course. But on one condition: I want to stay with my father."
Elie was willing to undergo large amounts of pain and suffering just to be in the same Kommando as his father. Elie was willing to make sacrifices for his father and him to be together this is because his father is the only thing he can hold on to. Elie's father is Elie's only possession.
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Post by Nick H on Feb 4, 2014 18:05:55 GMT
"Please, sir... I'd like to be near my father." "All right . your father will work here, next to you." " We were lucky."
I think this is the best quote that represents family because he asks the man if he can work by his father the man that he was very close too. Family means to stick together through good times and hard times. That's exactly what Elies' intentions for this quote were. He knows what it was like when he was in Auschwits and his father was part of his family. Other than him the closest thing hes got to family are the people working with him.
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Post by Lucy H on Feb 4, 2014 18:06:15 GMT
"Yossi and Tibi, two brothers from Czechoslovakia whose parents had been exterminated in Birkenau. They lived for each other, body and soul."
when you are at Auschwitz, it is very hard to be alone because you feel like you have no one to talk to or who feels your pain, even with so many people surrounding you. you are lucky to have family that is there with you because at any point it can be taken away. you have to hold on to each other and never take for granted that they are there. this is why Yossi and Tibi live for each other. they want to have their family with them and they never want to lose them. they want to be there for each other. family can also bring hope because if they can get through this, they will still have someone they love with them. people who don't have anymore family might give up hope because once they survive, they will have no one to share their joy with and they will still feel very alone. people who have family with them still know that they are alive, but the people who have nobody probably fear that their family is already gone, because they haven't heard anything about them. this is probably why Ellie told the man that his family was still alive. it was to give him hope so he doesn't feel lost.
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