PD 8: Day Twelve: How does Elie Wiesel deal with the loss of his father? by Kimberlee Bent https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud Directions: In pages 104-112, Elie experiences many emotions as he watched his father die. What were some of the emotions that Elie experienced? How does Elie act, feel, think and what does he say about his dying father? Use the chart below to help guide you in uncovering Elie’s emotions concerning his father’s death. Aim for at least three (or more) examples for each attribute. en-us 2021-01-05 03:41:05 UTC 2021-01-05 22:41:25 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f494.png "I tightened my grip on my father's hand. The old, familiar fear: not to lose him"(Wiesel 104). Elie does not want his father to die. He holds on to him for as long as he can. Maya Kopacz kopaczmay https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056731609 2021-01-05 18:01:10 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056731609 "And deep inside me, if I could have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like: Free at last!..."(112)- Diya Pindiprolu https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056732817 2021-01-05 18:01:25 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056732817 "I could have screamed in anger. To have lived and endured so much; was I going to let my father die now?" (page 105) espositolau https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056733137 2021-01-05 18:01:29 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056733137 "It was only a fraction of a second, but it left me feeling guilty." (Wiesel 111) https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056734612 Joanne Kim]]> 2021-01-05 18:01:48 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056734612 "They're dead! They will never wake up! Never! Do you understand?" (page 105) campmad https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056735578 2021-01-05 18:02:00 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056735578 "Suddenly the evidence overwhelmed me: there was no longer any reason to live, any reason to fight." (Page 99) Julietta Roselli https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056736847 2021-01-05 18:02:17 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056736847 "And I started to hit him harder and harder.At last, my father half opened his eyes."(99)(BM) https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056737270 2021-01-05 18:02:22 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056737270 "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 could be able to take a good hot shower and lie down?"(Wiesel 105) kopaczmay https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056739885 Elie could not accept the fact that his father could die right when things were about to get better.
Maya Kopacz]]> 2021-01-05 18:02:52 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056739885 "For a ration of bread I was able to exchange cots to be next to my father. When the doctor arrived in the afternoon, I went to tell him that my father was very ill," (page 108). espositolau https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056740079 2021-01-05 18:02:55 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056740079 "... I considered jumping him, strangling him. But I had neither the courage nor the strength." (Wiesel 109) - Joseph Gagliano https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056740318 2021-01-05 18:02:58 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056740318 "He had called out to me and I had not answered. I did not weep, and. it pained me that I could not weep. But I was out of tears." (pg.112) huangala https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056740902 2021-01-05 18:03:05 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056740902 " I knew he has was out of strength, close to death, and yet I had abandoned him" (106) Dani McAlpine https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056741036 2021-01-05 18:03:07 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056741036 "No prayers were said over his tomb. No candle lit in his memory." (page 112) campmad https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056741597 2021-01-05 18:03:14 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056741597 "I knew that I was no longer arguing with him but with Death itself, with Death that he had already chosen." (105)- Diya Pindiprolu https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056742058 2021-01-05 18:03:20 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056742058 "Father! I howled. Father! Get up! Right now! You will kill yourself..." "And I grabbed his arm" (105) Josh Blond https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056744099 2021-01-05 18:03:45 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056744099 AYESHA achandnani05 https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056745523 "Father!" (102).
Elie was being strangled so he calls out for help.]]> 2021-01-05 18:04:04 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056745523 "In fact, that doctor had come only to finish off the patients. I listened to him shouting at them that they were lazy good-for-nothings who only wanted to stay in bed... I considered jumping him, strangling him. But I had neither the courage nor the strength," (page 109). espositolau https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056746166 2021-01-05 18:04:11 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056746166 "I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep. But I was out of tears." (page 112) campmad https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056748813 2021-01-05 18:04:45 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056748813 "I might have found something like: Free at last! ..." (Wiesel 112) https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056750832 This quotation might suggests Elie sensed freedom from the responsibility of taking care of his father. (Joanne Kim)]]> 2021-01-05 18:05:09 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056750832 "I knew that he must not drink. But he pleaded with me so long that I gave in. Water was the worst poison for him, but what else could I do for him?" (Wiesel 110) Elie just wants to make his father feel better at this point. He feels there isn't much else to do for him at this point. - Joseph Gagliano https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056752433 2021-01-05 18:05:28 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056752433 "I went to look for him. Yet at the same time a thought crept into my mind: If only I didn't find him! If only I were relieved of this responsibility, I could used all my strength to fight for my own survival, to take care of only myself...Instantly, I felt ashamed, ashamed of myself forever"(Wiesel 106) Elie wants to be relieved of the burden to take care of his father, but he knows that it would be wrong to leave a family member in need. kopaczmay https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056752601 2021-01-05 18:05:30 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056752601 " I gave him what was left of my soup. But my heart was heavy" (107) Dani McAlpine https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056753006 2021-01-05 18:05:35 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056753006 "Yet at the same time a though crept into my mind: If only I didn't find him! If only I were relieved of this responsibility, I could use all my strength to fight for my own survival, to take care only of myself...Instantly, I felt ashamed, ashamed of myself forever." (Page 106) Julietta Roselli https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056753897 2021-01-05 18:05:46 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056753897 AYESHA achandnani05 https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056755775 "I knew that i was no longer arguing with him but with death itself" (105). ]]> 2021-01-05 18:06:08 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056755775 "I brought him water. Then I left the block for roll call. But I quickly turned back. I lay down on the upper bunk. The sick were allowed to stay in the block. So I would be sick. I didn't want to leave my father."(111)-Jared Marcus marcusjar https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056756880 2021-01-05 18:06:22 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056756880 "I ran to get some soup and brought it to my father. But he did not want it. All he wanted was water." (111)- Diya Pindiprolu https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056757391 2021-01-05 18:06:28 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056757391 "'Father' I said 'you cannot stay here' I pointed to the corpses around him; they too had wanted to rest here"(105)(BM) https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056757862 2021-01-05 18:06:34 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056757862 "Father!" (105) Josh Blond https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056760207 2021-01-05 18:07:04 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056760207 "I ran to get some soup and brought it to my father. But he did not want it. All he wanted was water"(111) - Arianna Campisi https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056763170 2021-01-05 18:07:41 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056763170 "'Father,' I said, 'just another moment. Soon we'll be able to lie down. You'll be able to rest...'" (page 104). espositolau https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056763334 2021-01-05 18:07:43 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056763334 "'Don't drink water, eat the soup...' 'I'm burning up... Why are you so mean to me, my son?... Water...'" (Wiesel 111) Elie is struggling. He wants whats best for his father but he won't listen to him so he obeys. - Joseph Gagliano https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056763547 2021-01-05 18:07:46 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056763547 "With these few mouthfuls of hot water, I had probably given him more satisfaction than during my entire childhood..." (Page 107) Julietta Roselli https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056764450 2021-01-05 18:07:58 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056764450 ayesha achandnani05 https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056765211 "And i grabbed his arm" (105). Elie did not want to loose his father.]]> 2021-01-05 18:08:07 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056765211 "Yet at the same time a thought crept into my mind: If only I didn't find him! If only I were relieved of this responsibility, I could use all my strength to fight for my own survival, to take care of only myself...Instantly, I felt ashamed, ashamed of myself forever." (pg.106) huangala https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056765667 2021-01-05 18:08:13 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056765667 "And I grabbed his arm. He continued to moan." (page 105) campmad https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056766061 2021-01-05 18:08:18 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056766061 "Don't drink water, eat the soup." (111) Elie knows that all his father wants is water even though it is very dangerous to drink in his condition. Elie wants his father to live but at the same time the responsibility to take care of his father is not something he wants anymore, he's just too full of guilt to admit it. - Diya Pindiprolu https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056767140 2021-01-05 18:08:31 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056767140 "I gave him what was left of my soup. But my heart was heavy. I was aware that I was doing so grudgingly." (pg.107) huangala https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056767251 2021-01-05 18:08:32 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056767251 Sam Sherry sherrysam https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056768238 "My father was huddled near me, wrapped in his blanket, his shoulders covered with snow. Was he dead, too? I called him. No answer. I would have cried out if I could have done so. He did not move." (110)]]> 2021-01-05 18:08:44 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056768238 "Don't drink water, eat the soup..."(Wiesel 111) Elie must be frustrated that his father is slowly killing himself. Allowing his father to drink water shows that Elie is giving up. kopaczmay https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056768632 2021-01-05 18:08:49 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056768632 "I listened to him without interrupting. He was right deep down, not daring to admit it to myself. Too late to save your old father . . . You could have two rations of bread, two rations of soup . . . "- (111) Jared Marcus marcusjar https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056769532 2021-01-05 18:08:58 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056769532 "I considered jumping him, strangling him"(109). - Arianna Campisi https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056771093 2021-01-05 18:09:18 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056771093 " 'My father is sick.' I answered in his place ... 'Dysentery...' " (Wiesel 108) https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056775852 Joanne Kim]]> 2021-01-05 18:10:13 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056775852 "I brought him water. then I left the block for roll call. But I quickly turned back. I lay down on the upper bunk. The sick were allowed to stay in the block. So I would be sick. I didn't want to leave my father." (Wiesel 111) - Joseph Gagliano https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056776451 2021-01-05 18:10:21 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056776451 " It was only a fraction of a second, but it left me feeling guilty. I ran to get some soup and brought it to my father" (111) Dani McAlpine https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056776566 2021-01-05 18:10:23 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056776566 "I shall never forget the gratitude that shone in his eyes when he swallowed this beverage. The gratitude of a wounded animal." (106) Josh Blond https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056779461 2021-01-05 18:10:59 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056779461 "And deep inside me, if I could have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like: Free at last!..." (Page 112) Julietta Roselli https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056780727 2021-01-05 18:11:14 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056780727 "'Father!' I howled. 'Father! Get up! Right now! You will kill yourself...'" (pg.105) huangala https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056781445 2021-01-05 18:11:23 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056781445 alex ng https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056784797 "Father, I said, you cannot stay here." "I pointed to the corpses around him; they too had wanted to rest here."(105)


]]> 2021-01-05 18:12:04 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056784797 ". . . I considered jumping him, strangling him. But I had neither the courage nor strength. I was riveted to my father's agony." - (109) Jared Marcus marcusjar https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056785542 2021-01-05 18:12:14 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056785542 elvis lielv https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056790492 i could have screamed in anger. To live and endure so much; was i going to let my father die now? Now that he will be able to take a good hot shower and shower and lie down]]> 2021-01-05 18:13:15 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056790492 "He was right, I thought deep down, not daring to admit it to myself... You could have two rations of bread, two rations of soup..."(111). - Arianna Campisi https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056791656 2021-01-05 18:13:30 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056791656 "Father, just another moment. Soon, we'll be able to lie down. You'll be able to rest . . ." - (104) Jared Marcus marcusjar https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056793162 2021-01-05 18:13:50 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056793162 " Try to get some sleep, Father. Try to fall asleep" (109) Dani McAlpine https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056796120 2021-01-05 18:14:25 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056796120 "... I considered jumping him, strangling him. But I had neither the courage nor the strength." baekbri https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056798593 2021-01-05 18:14:57 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056798593 "All he wanted was water... 'Don't drink water, eat the soup'"(111). - Arianna Campisi https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056799320 2021-01-05 18:15:07 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1056799320 I did not weep, and. it pained me that I could not weep. But I was out of tears." (pg 112) HP https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1057660745 2021-01-05 22:38:46 UTC https://padlet.com/kbent1/7v5ad38xg2oyw2ud/wish/1057660745