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"The next morning, we walked toward the station, where a convoy of cattle cars was waiting." (Wiesel, Pg. 22)

The quote describes Eliezer and his family walking towards a station full of carts to begin transportation to the camps.

This quote is important since it marks the beginning of the event that would change the lives of everyone affected. Eliezer will have to figure out how to fend for himself without thinking of the group he is a part of. If Eliezer does not do so, he will be endangering his life.

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"But we were pulling into a station. Someone near a window read to us: "Auschwitz" Nobody had ever heard that name." (Wiesel, 27)

The quote explains after the treacherous journey in the convoy carts, the people in the cart realize they are far away from home in a place called Auschwitz, a place where most would meet their doom.

This quote is important as it is the moment the people make it to the camps where a majority would meet a fate worse than death. Eliezer, whether he likes it or not, will have to try to fend off for himself without care of the rest to have any hopes of surviving the brutal environment they have been entrapped in.

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"I found myself whispering to myself the words: "Yisgidal, veyiskadash, shmey raba...May his name be exalted and sanctified..." (Wiesel, 34)

The quote explains that while Eliezer and his father are marching in line to the crematoriums to be reduced to ashes, he finds himself praying.

This quote is important since Eliezer, during what he believes is his final moments, finds himself praying to the Almighty, despite him being personally angry at him and not caring for him due to them hiding in silence while millions were suffering. Eliezer is struggling with what beliefs he thinks are the correct. He does not know what he wants to believe in. He does not know what he needs to believe in.

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""They're bombing the Buna factory," someone shouted." (Wiesel, 60)

The quote tells us that during a roll call, American planes came and bombed some buildings from the Nazis in their concentration camps.

This quote is important since, for a short period of time, the prisoners have hope of escape. For a short period of time, they are no longer hidden from the world. For a short period of time, their eyes are open. They see what is happening outside. They see the war going on. They see the violence the states are committing, the violence the states are sponsoring. The attacks stop, and their hope once again diminishes.

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"But now, I no longer pleaded for anything. I was no longer able to lament." (Wiesel, 68)

The quote shows how at the end of the Jewish year, thousands of Jews went out and gathered to pray during Rosh Hashanah.

Eliezer, however, doesn't pray. He no longer takes the Jewish god as his. He is angered and enraged at the lord. He questions how they could abandon them in a time like this. A time where they need them the most. Eliezer struggles with religious faith, no longer believing there is a god out there in the skies.

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"I sometimes closed my eyes and it was like running while asleep" (Wiesel, 87)

The quote explains that Eliezer and the entire camp were forced to run through the snow, where countless people were killed and died from exhaustion, being trampled, or being shot.

They run for hours, Eliezer has to make it to the end no matter what, thus must leave everyone alone. He must focus on himself and only himself to live through the unbearable cold and the unbearable exhaustion without a thought of the others in the run. He must only think for himself.

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"He wanted to raise it to his mouth. But the other threw himself on him. The old man mumbled something, groaned, and died." (Wiesel, 101)

The quote explains that prisoners were shoved into carts and are starving. Thus, when nearby people throw bread into the carts, the people inside fight like animals for the piece.

The people fight for the bread, the people kill for the bread. Eliezer, however, wisely stays low for the fight. He knows it is not worth for him to dive for bread for him or his father. He has let go of the thought of others and is only looking to care for his needs now. He knows it would be foolish to risk his life for a single piece of bread, and stays low.

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"No prayers were said over his tomb. No candle lit in his memory. His last word had been my name. He had called out to me and I had not answered." (Wiesel, 112)

The quote explains Eliezer's father, Shlomo, lying in the infirmary, taking his last breaths.

Eliezer lies near him, hearing his father's pleas. Despite this, however, Eliezer ignores them. He laid still, in fear of the officer in the room. Eliezer immediately went to check on his father as soon as he could, but he was too late. His father had perished right next to him. Eliezer didn't cry, however. Eliezer didn't weep, he felt no emotion. He was unsure what to feel. He had no feelings left anymore. At the same time, however, he was freed from the obligations of caring for him. His father, his only family left, was gone. It is now just him.

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"Our first act as free men was to throw ourselves onto the provisions." (Wiesel, 115)

The quote explains how the remaining prisoners were liberated by Americans. Their first thing they did was to get food as they have been brutally starved and mistreated.

Eliezer is finally free. He is freed from the torture he has endured for what felt like centuries. He is freed from the obligation of caring for his father, of caring for anyone else. He is now a free man, no longer being restrained by the Nazis. He has survived one of humanity's largest genocide.