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The Kommando/SS officer person gives the Jews kind words, The doctor assures Elie that he will be ok and gives him kind words as well

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The doctor in the hospital is willing to let Elie stay and rest in the hospital

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When the families former maid offered to hide the family.

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A prisoner helps his father and Elie stay alive by tipping them how old they should be

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When the French Jewess said kind things to him even though it could get her in serious trouble.

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Elie describes how it was a beautiful spring day. (page 40)

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When the jewish ss officer was nice to the jews and tried to help them get through the camp and gave them words of wisedom.

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When the man who wanted the portions of soup, who committed suicide to eat the soup but no one really cared because right after the factory and the camp was being bombed

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When the kind Kapo told them helping each other was the way to survive.

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When a man told Elie and his father to lie about their ages.

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When Stein gave Elie and his father his own bread rations.

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Stein from antwerp gave Elie and his father extra portions of bread page 44

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When the Pipel on page 63 was being hung and they admired his beautiful face

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When Yossi/Tibi sing Hebrew songs and Elie starts thinking about the majestic waters of the Jordan River.

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When the Blockalteste gave the prisoners an inspirational speech before a selection

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When the man tells Elie to say hes 18 so he won't be separated from his father at the camp (page 30)

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An inmate gives Elie advice on how to pass through the selection successfully. He told Elie to run as fast as he could and not be afraid. (pg77)

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When Juliek plays beethoven for the prisoners.

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A french woman speaks to him in German. She tells him not to give up. Even though she could get caught speaking German and get in trouble she trusted Elie.

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When Elia sees the women at the Métro and calls her beautiful

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A prisoner helps Elie and his father stay alive and together by offering the tip to lie about their ages

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Elie tried to give his father marching lessons so he wouldn't get beaten. He cared and looked out for his father

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An image of beauty among death is when Juliek plays the violin and shows Elie how there is still beauty out in the world.

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When Elie's father gave him half a day's ration of bread.

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When the infants are being burned in the crematorium Elie notices the beautiful blue sky.

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The pipels face being compared to an angel before he was hung.

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Elie causes a distraction so his father does not get killed for being weak.

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When Elie's father gave Elie a knife and a spoon.

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Elie and his father watch over each other while they sleep in the snow

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He and his dad are finally able to really understand each other because of this tragedy. They understand that the other just wants to stay with them and survive.

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Elies relationship changed with his dad the longer they were incamp. When Elies dad was almost killed in the selection, he gave him an"inheritance" because he wanted him to have something to remember him. (page 74-75)

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Elie talks about how the bombs being dropped near the camp filled him with joy and hope. Even though the bombs were killing people he found happiness in them.

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When the Jewish doctor operates on Elie and gives him words of encouragement.

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when the man tells elie to change his age to be able to be with his father

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Elie and his dads relationship is pretty spilt at the beginning of the book. They both see successful in different ways. Elie sees it religiously and his dad sees it finically. But being in the camps brought them closers then ever. They understood each others struggles and hate. They finally understand one another.

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Elie and his dad don't really have a relationship before the camps but after they are each others only reason to live. They finally talk and understand each other and Elie and his father help eachother live.

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Elie and his father had a weak bond before this but during the camps there relationship becomes much stronger.

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at the camp after his father is deemed too weak to work and taken to the side of those to go the crematorium. Elie runs to him, and in the confusion that ensues, both slip back to the safe side

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Sunlight symbolizes hope for the future. One example is when the infants are burning and Elie notices the sky.

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When the Kommando gives them kind and reassuring words to encourage them.

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When a tear dropped on Elie's father's hand, Elie didn't know if it was his or his fathers but they had never understood each other so clearly

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When the sun starts to appear while they have been running means that they would be stopping and resting soon. Music represents his friends Yossi and Tibi when because they know countless hebrew songs. And family (his father) is the only reason why he is still trying to survive because he doesn't know what his father would do without him.

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Sunlight-hope shining through the darkness

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how Elie mentions the beautiful blue sky while infants are being burned

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Sunlight represents hope, even though everything is so dark and gruesome at the time, there is still hope.

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Family represents hope. One example is when Stein is lied to about his family being fine he finds the will to live.

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Elie and his father's relationship is strained in the beginning because of their different views on success. But they later connect in the camp. When Elie and his father are holding hands and staying silent and Elie says that they've never connected more in their lives.

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Sunlight represents the start of a new day in the camps. Music represents hope but

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Music represents hope. An example is Juliek and how he played the violin and showed people how there is still beauty in the world. Another example is Yossi and Tibi because of all of the Hebrew songs they knew and often sung. The Akiba Drumer is also an example of how music gives hope because people liked his beautiful voice.

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Music represents hope. One example is when Akiba Drumer sings and his low voice makes everyone fell good inside.

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When Sholom is selected he gives Elie his knife and spoon. Sholom cares about Elie and wants him survive the camp. He thinks the spoon and knife will come in handy for Elie later.

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When Elie tells Antwerp that his family is ok. This gives Antwerp the strength to push through the tough times.

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Elie making freinds with Yossi and Tobi and making him happy and still want to push through and live his life even though it is very tough.

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Sunlight represents the start of a new day in each camp. Music represents hope, sorrow and sadness. Family represents who you live for and why you keep on living. Friendship represents the people who help you live on in the camps.

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Elie telling the Rabbi his son hadn't seen him fall back because it would have hurt his feelings.

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The Kapo of his Kommando gave him easier tasks after finding out his father would be picked for selection

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Family means someone who will stay with you and be there for you through thick and thin during the camps. It is something worth living for because without family, people don't know why they should keep suffering in the camps.

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sunlight symbolizes hope through the darkness.

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When the SS officers gave the Jewish prisoners words of encouragement.

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Elie and his dad aren't really that close before they are sent to the concentration camps, but after that, their relationship becomes stronger, and they look out for one another.

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Elie wandered around camp making friends and finding people he knew. This makes him have a few moments of joy as he states at the end of the page (page 35)

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Throughout the book Elie stays with his father who is one of the reasons he is able to stay alive.

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Friendship keeps people happy, hopeful, and sane in the camps.

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when people were dying but Elie was focused on the blue sky

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They both have stopped believing in the merciful god Jewish people prayed before. They both knew and understood the other.