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Outcome

Without his Father, Elie loses meaning to his life

Elie's father was his only family and connection to the past and his old life and traditions. Without him, Elie finds himself wondering what his purpose is. Throughout the last section of the book, Elie doesn't speak of his thoughts or feelings and instead is only concerned of food only.

Elie's only concerns become food after being liberated

After exiting the camp Elie's only thought is of food even though he has went through so much. He doesn't think of revenge or his family, and instead thinks of food, which could mean that he has lost all connection to his life and his identity.

Elie views himself as a corpse; without life or identity

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Main Point
Chapters 8-9 show us the final product of what Elie's time in the concentration camp have done to him. They show us what had happened to Elie's once innocent thoughts and how he reacts to situations differently than he may have previously acted. An example of this is of Elie's thoughts when his father is on the verge of death. A previously unknown part of Elie has now emerged and makes him feel relieved to see his father in this condition. It shows us just how different Elie is from the innocent teenager we knew from Sighet. Elie came out of Buchenwald a shell of the Elie from Sighet.

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Andy - Predicting For Chapter 9 (Unicorns) 

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Andy - Predicting For Chapter 9 (Unicorns) 

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I think the camps will be liberated by the American Troops. I think this because prior to this book, I've had some past knowledge on the liberation of Buchenwald.

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The bunkmates started to hit Elie's father because he is sick, and unable to control his bowel movements. What does this tell us about how the attitudes of once good people have changed?

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What happens to Elie's father when he continues to ask for water?

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Why do the Germans decide to "liquidate" Buchenwald and evacuate the prisoners?

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Why do the Germans decide to "liquidate" Buchenwald and evacuate the prisoners?

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"I could have screamed in anger. TO have lived and endured so much; was I going to let my father die now? Now that we would be able to take a good hot shower and lie down?” Page 105

This quote represents the frustration and disappointment that has engulfed Elie as he has worked so hard throughout the story to care for his father whether that be through teaching him how to march or sacrificing his own food for him and now that they have finally finished the painful and freezing journey to Buchenwald, his father was nearly dead. Thus he seems so angry and he has constantly suppressed his sadness and grief in the fear that his father may die which invited anger. His anger represents his sadness in a more expressible way as it is easier to be angry and yell at someone to blame rather than to accept fate and the sadness that comes along with it. The death of a father is something that is extremely hard to accept and it cannot be understood unless you have experienced it first hand. This is especially hurtful in Elie's case as his mother and sister have already died alongside his father being an important figure in his life as he was role model. At this point Elie had begun "shamefully" thinks of ways to prioritize his own survival over his father's as he accepts what the future held for him.

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prostrate: lying stretched out on the ground with one's face downward

cot: a plain narrow bed, usually collapsible/portable

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I believe they may be liberated, seeing as this is the end of the book. Alongside this, the officers seem more urgent to liquidate the Jews, more so than before. Thus leading me to believe they want to fulfill 🤬's orders before it is too late.

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In the next chapter, I believe Eliezer will not be concerned about his father's death as much as he would have been had it occurred a few chapters before. This is solely because Eliezer's health is at the lowest it has ever been and all his thoughts are consumed by ideas of food.

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Was Eli causing future harm by sharing his food with his father?

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Will Eli be able to begin a normal life after the hard times he had in the concentration camps?

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Was Eli using his thought of food to deny the fact of him missing his parents?

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What does the author want us to remember or learn from the passage?

In these chapters, Elie is focused on the final days of his father and their dependence on each other. Elie’s father looks to Elie for food and help in his dying days up until his last night. After Elie’s father’s death, he discovers his own dependency on his father to give him the will to survive and protect himself. Losing his father was Elie’s last straw before his life no longer had any meaning.

Elie shows what has happened to him as an immediate result of the Holocaust. He now feels lifeless and not human, but is given a chance to recover from sickness in a hospital. Elie may be signalling the end of his experiences in the Holocaust but the beginning of the trauma and recovery he will have to face for the rest of his life.

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What is essential to tell?

Elie refuses to let his father die, despite knowing that his end is near and inevitable. He denies his father’s pleas to have pity on him and provide him with his last desires before his death. Even though he knows death is inescapable, he does not let himself accept it until it actually happens.

Elie is free from the restraints of caring about the survival of his father, but in actuality these restraints tethered him to his last bit of morality. Though he is deeply liberated, he has been freed into mere nothingness.

Elie narrates the last chapter in idleness. In this chapter, he has become an observer of all that happens, not narrating many of his own feelings or thoughts throughout the process of liberation (other than his hunger).

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I think that elie will soon be bak to his home town and be able to retrive the things his father told him and start a new life.

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I think that Elie will soon beecome hopeless and stop trying to stay alive and feels that he has nothing left to live for.

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“That's all we thought about. No thought of revenge, or of parents. Only of bread.”
Previously, as Elie’s father lay on his deathbed, Elie stated that he wanted “to strange to the doctor and the others. To set the world on fire!”. However, in these moments of being free, the day Elie and his father had dreamed about for a long time now, Elie forgets about his father - his best friend, the only family he had left, the reason he had pushed forward all that time. In these final moments, one would think of remembering those that they had lost along the way. The prisoners, however, only wanted food. The prisoners had been so deprived of basic human rights, they had turned into animals who only craved food. They didn’t even want revenge from the people who made them like this - all their starving bodies craved was food.

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“Don't forget that you are in a concentration camp. In this place, it is every man for himself, and you can not think of others. Not even your father. In this place, there is no such thing as father, brother, friend. Each of us lives and dies alone. Let me give you good advice: stop giving your ration of bread and soup to your old father. You cannot help him anymore.”

In this quote, a man explains to Elie that he is all alone in the concentration camp and he has to fight for himself. He can no longer think of his father, he needs to think about himself and his own life. In the concentration camps, prisoners lost their sense of humanity. The only thing on their minds, as Elie states many times in the book, was food. Not being rescued, not their families, but getting a ration of food. Prisoners became robots, losing their emotions and sense of sanity. The man explains to Elie how at the end of the day, his life is in his own hands. His family can’t save him and he can’t save them. Explaining that he needs to stop helping his father is a terrible thing, and in a way builds up guilt inside of Elie when his father does finally die.

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Some Words You May Not Know:

Appelplatz: the location for the daily roll calls in Nazi concentration camps

Lagerkommandant: the chief commanding position within the SS service of a Nazi concentration camp.

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"And deep inside me, if I could have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like: Free at last!"

When Elie's father passed away, Elie couldn't even cry because of all the crying he had been doing prior due to the camps. Instead, he was driven by the need to survive the camps so if he were able to get his thoughts together somewhat, all he would be able to think about is how he wouldn't have to take care of his father anymore.

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"From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating
me."

After Elie had escaped and was able to look at himself for the first time since the ghetto, he described himself as a corpse because of everything that he went through in the concentration camps. He was no longer recognizable as a living human, only a corpse.

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Appelplatz - A word to describe the place where roll call happened in the concentration camps.

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Chapter 9
Who was involved?

Elie

After the death of his father, Elie believed his life no longer mattered. He only cared for extra rations of soup and did not think of his parents. When he was in the hospital he saw a corpse looking back at him. The corpse represented the death of who he used to be and how much he changed.

Prisoners

They helped the younger children stay safe by moving to the back of the group. Although they suffered as well, they still wanted to help others live. The prisoners represented the little humanity that was left in the Jews.

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Chapter 8

Who is involved?

Elie

He was determined to save his father but unfortunately, his father grew very weak. As Elie took care of his father, he wanted to be free of this responsibility and survive for himself. When his father eventually died, Elie felt free.

Elie’s father

At this point, he’s no longer able to support himself. His exhaustion had reached its peak but he carried on. Unfortunately, the SS deemed him dead and sent him to the crematorium.

Blockälteste

Tries to help Elie realize the truth of his father’s condition.

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What if Elie never wrote this book?

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What if Elie gave up one of those many times he thought of death as a better option?

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Why did the Jews never seek revenge on the Germans?

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Why did Elie take care of his father instead of having a better life for himself, much like other children did?

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Why did Elie's father not acknowledge him after coming from his shower?

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Chapter 9

Elie was transferred to a children’s block, there were around six hundred children.

The frontline is getting closer to the camp, the Germans start to evacuate the camp, 10 blocks a day.

By April 10th, only 20,000 inmates remained in the camp, they haven’t eaten in six days.

On the morning of April 11, while the Germans prepared to evacuate the last batch of Jews, the underground resistance took control of the camp.

In the afternoon American tanks appeared at the camp.

Elie says their first action as free men were to fill themselves with food.

Elie gets food poisoning and is admitted to a hospital, where he spends weeks recovering.

When he recovers he looks at himself from the mirror, only to see a corpse. The image never left his mind

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Chapter 8

After being transferred Elie’s father had given up hope and Elie tries his best to keep him alive.

Elie for a moment feels that his father would give up, so he would be rid of all his responsibilities. Then Elie feels guilty for think such thoughts

Elie’s father has a fever, so Elie brings him a cup of coffee, drinking the coffee, Elie’s father smiled at him like a wounded animal.

Elie’s father has dysentery and he knows he won’t survive for long, he tells Elie where he buried the gold and silver

Elie takes him to the doctor, the doctor dismissed Elie saying he is a surgeon, and its not his business

Elie’s father’s neighbouring inmates beat him when Elie was outside, the next day they took his rations.

The Blockälteste, the block leader told Elie, he should give up on his father, that there are no relations and that they are on their own in the concentration camps.

On the night of January 28, 1945, Elie stays next to his father for some time before he goes to sleep.

When Elie woke up in the morning of January 29, 1945, someone else was vacant in Elie’s father’s bunk. Elie learns his father was taken to the crematorium.

Elie hopes his father wasn’t breathing when he was in the crematorium. Elie didn’t cry, which bothered him.

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I think that unfortunately Elie will soon get over the fact that his father is dead and start worrying about himself. We have read multiple times where he thinks to himself about letting go of his father and taking his bread and rations. The end of the road also seems near. Nazi Germany will soon fail and Elie will be liberated.