Not long after Eliezer and his father arrive in Buna, Eliezer is summoned to the dentist to have his gold crown pulled. He manages to plead illness and postpone having the crown removed. Then, after he is working in the warehouse and some days go by, the story skips into the future, in which the narrator talks about meeting a girl that he had met in the halocaust after it is over.
After this reference into the future, the story returns back to the concentration camp, where a guard at the camp sees Elie's gold crown and beats Elie's father until he gets it. Later, Eliezer accidentally sees Idek having sex in the barracks, and in order to punish him, Idek whips Eliezer publicly until he is unconscious.
During an air raid on Buna, when every prisoner is supposed to be in their barracks, two bowls of soup were left unattended, and Eliezer as well as many other prisoners watch as one man puts his life at stake to get the soup. The man reaches the soup, but as he stands over the soup, he is shot and falls lifeless to the ground. Elie then tells stories about some of the hangings which he has witnessed.
3 comments:
I though your post was good and it had a good length, but try and put a picture or something in it to spice it up.
you need some pics in here broski. other than that it was good writing. i like your use of the word summoned.
good post zach. Good detail and informative. ps you spelled holocaust wrong
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