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'Her husband and two older sons had been deported with the first transport by mistake. The separation had totally shattered her". This quote stands out to me because she had been completely separated from her two sons and husband by mistake and is now left with her ten year old son. She was the one who supported their family the most and although that doesn't make much of a difference to the people who deported the family, it broke her to be apart from the rest of the family.

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"Moishe was not the same. The joy in his eyes were gone. He no longer sang. He no longer mentioned either God or the Kabbalah. He spoke only of what he had seen" (7). This quote is important because seeing what was happening completely changed a person when only seeing it. Seeing a girl who was dying for a few days, or the infants being thrown into the air changed a persons perspective on the world and what was happening at the moment left Moishe in shock. Seeing all of this happening, began the realization of not having much faith for God after witnessing what was happening to all of the young and older people.

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Living in the ghetto could be very dangerous in some situations. Depending on where the house was located, it could either be open and safe or had to be sealed if it was located in the corner of the road. If there were any windows facing towards the street, they had to be covered. Although there were a few unpleasant times, the atmosphere was "oddly peaceful and reassuring".

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"The Hungarian police were using their riffle butts, their clubs to indiscriminately strike old men and women, children and cripples" (16). Jews were being forced out of their houses and into the streets in the extreme heat. This led to children crying for water and many people were being hurt. In my opinion, the Jews should not have been hit by the polices riffles or the clubs. Nobody deserves that whether they are young, old, female or male, and especially the already crippled people.

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"There was still some food left. but we never ate enough to satisfy our hunger. Our principle was to economize, to save for tomorrow. Tomorrow could be worse yet" (23). For someone who was not involved or wasn't even born anywhere near the holocaust, and to hear what everyone had been through is shocking. Nobody deserves to "save for tomorrow" not knowing how hard their life would be the next day or how bad they would be tortured in the following days.

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"'There are eighty of you in the car,' the german officer added. If anyone goes missing, you all are getting shot, like dogs" (24). I see this as a problem and/or a "solution". This is a problem because not everyone should be shot for one person going missing. On the other hand, they are as a group together so if one goes down, they all go down. I agree they should be punished for going missing or escaping but being shot will not help the problem because that's one less person or a whole group.

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"Not far from us flames, huge flames were rising from a ditch. Something was being burnt there. A truck drew close and unloaded its hold: small children. Babies! Yes, i did see this with my own eyes... children thrown into the flames" (32). Knowing that the small, innocent babies were being thrown into the flames is extremely sad and shocking. Keeping the young babies would help in the future because they would be younger, be healthy, and stronger compared to the older people who were becoming weaker as the days went on. It is unbelievable to understand what was happening to people of all ages within the labor camps.

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"'Father' i said. 'If that is true, then I don't want to wait. I'll run into the electrified barbed wire. That would be easier than a slow death in the flames" (33). The authors style or word choice in this quote shows that he would rather get it done and over with real quick than doing all of this hardwork just to be burned up in flames and die slowly in the end. Staying alive and not wanting to die sooner than later would keep the son and father together but dying early on will cause the son no harm in the future days to come.

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"For the first time i felt anger rising within me. Why should i sanctify His name? The almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent. What was there to thank Him for" (33). Due to all of the harsh things that were happening to the people in Auschwitz it was hard to believe that God was there to save them. Elie found it hard to thank Him for anything after seeing babies thrown into fires, crippled and people of all ages being hit by the police, and other ages being burnt in fires.

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"'You old loafer!' he started yelling. 'Is this what you call working?' And he began beating him with an iron bar. At first, my father simply doubled over under the blows, but then he seemed to break in two like an old tree struck by lightning" (54). It is out of ones mind to see their own father being beat up right in front of the child. It is unbelievable that the german soldiers thought it was okay to beat a child's father up in front of them. Personally speaking, the soldiers should have found a different way of punishing the others in the labor camps. On the other hand, beating the parents, crippled, and the elderly made everyone scared and they did the job as expected.

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"'Here take this knife,' he said 'i won't need it anymore. You may find it useful. also take this spoon. Don't sell it. Quickly! Go ahead, the what I'm giving you!" (75). This showed that nobody had hope to make it through the Holocaust. Elie's father didn't think he was going to make it at this point so he felt it was necessary to start giving Elie the objects that meant something to him. It is heartbreaking that because of the torture the people went through during the Holocaust, they believed they weren't going to make it especially when they have to break the news to their family that they aren't going to make it much longer.

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The picture is what the infirmary looked like in the 1940's during the Holocaust. In the passage, Elie says "Actually, being in the infirmary was not bad at all: we were entitled to good bread, a thicker soup. No more bell, no more roll call, no more work. From time to time, I was able to send a piece of bread to my father" (78). One of the only good things that happened at the camps was how well they were treated once they were injured. Although they were unfortunate for getting injured, it was nice to have a place where they could be properly be taken care of.

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The prisoners were forced to work no matter the weather. In the story, Elie described "We went off to work as usual, our bodies frozen. The stones were so cold that touching them, we felt that our hands would remain stuck. But we got used to that too" (78). After some time, the prisoners started getting used to the idea that working was their only option. The younger kids sat in the cold and some were even working if they were strong enough yet.

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"Unfortunately, Franek knew how to handle this; he knew my weak spot. My father had never served in the military and could not march in step. But here, whenever we moved from one place to another, it was in step. That presented Franek with the opportunity to torment him and, on a daily basis, to thrash him savagely" (55). The guards and other people in charge of the camps would constantly look for the prisoners weaknesses and torture them from there. Not only did they torture them because they were prisoners, they also punished them for each thing the were too weak to do.

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"Happily, i caught sight of my father" (61). This short quote means a lot more than any other quote. After trying their hardest to stay together throughout everything, they were separated for a small amount of time. After being separated and alone it made it much easier for Elie emotionally to be reconnected with his father while going through the camp.

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"The idea of dying, of ceasing to be, began to fascinate me. To no longer exist. To no longer feel the excruciating pain in my foot. To no longer feel anything, neither fatigue nor cold, nothing. To break rank, to let myself slide to the side of the road. My father's present was the only thing that stopped me" (86). Although Elie did not give up and result in just dying instead of finishing, dying was a resolution to "free" themselves from the terrible things happening to them. Dying is not the ideal solution but in this case, dying would be better than to continue going through the awful pain and torture that they were put through.

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"When I became conscious of myself again, I tried to slow my pace somewhat. But there is no way. These human waves were rolling forward and would have crushed me like an ant" (87). Elie wasn't even able to slow down even a little because the people behind him would trample over him, and leave him behind. They had to either run at the same pace the entire time or they would have to run faster if the people in front were willing to let them pass. If they started out sprinting as fast as they could, that's most likely how they would have to run the entire time resulting in them being extremely exhausted which could have led to them dying.

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"It was late. The guards came to unload us. The dead were left in the wagons. Only those who could stand, could leave. Meir Katz remained on the train. The last day had been the most lethal. We had been a hundred or so in this wagon. Twelve of us left it. Among them, my father and myself" (103). Out of at least one hundred people, only twelve were able to get off of the wagon on their own. At least eighty-eight people were so injured or close to dying that they weren't even able to stand up on their own. There had been twelve survivors at the time that were at the very least, able to stand up on their own. The holocaust was torture for all of the people.

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"They didn't give us anything... They said that we were sick, that we would die soon, and that would be a waste of food. 'I can't go on'. I gave him what was left of my soup. But my heart was heavy" (107). The prisoners were so sick that the people taking care of them didn't even bother to give them food since they were to die anyway. They could have given them a little food to give them a little more time since they had been tortured for all of this time. But instead, they didn't want to waste food, therefore, they only gave it to the healthy ones. Since Elie had a big heart and cared about his father, he decided to give what was left of his soup to his father which was extremely nice of him, in my opinion.

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"Our first act as free men was to throw ourselves onto the provisions. That's all we thought about. No thought of revenge, or of parents. Only of bread" (115). The prisoners, including all of the kids, didn't care about their parents, or revenge towards the Holocaust, they only cared to get some food as they had been starved for a week. All they could think about once being freed was food and that is upsetting. They should not have been starved, especially the younger kids or the sick people.