As they say goodbye that day, his father gives him a knife and a spoon—the family inheritance. But at last, he takes them and marches off with the construction group. That night, he returns to find his father is still alive, having passed the second selection. Eliezer gives the knife and spoon back to his dad. Akiba Drumer, one of their fellow prisoners, is selected. He asks them to remember to say the Kaddish for him after he dies. They promise… but they forget to say the Kaddish.
Winter arrives and makes everything worse, more unbearable. So Eliezer enters the hospital. Life in the hospital is a bit better —more food, thicker soup, and even sheets on the beds. What Eliezer fears most is that he will be selected at the hospital while recuperating.
The operation is successful and the doctor tells Eliezer he just needs to rest for two weeks. While he waits in the hospital, rumors fly that the Russians are not far away and the camp is going to be evacuated.
Religious fervor is strong in the fall during celebration of Rosh Hashanah, a holy day marking the beginning of the Jewish year usually in September. At the camp, 10, Jews leave their meal and gather to pray. As the chant of the officiant rises, Elie can only accuse God of forsaking the prisoners, for allowing the crematories to operate. Alienation descends so relentlessly that Elie feels himself turned to ash. On return to his father, Elie kisses his hand and, in silence, experiences a deep sense of unity and understanding.
During the celebration of Yom Kippur, Elie obeys his father and does not fast. He interprets the act as a defiance of God. In the former devout heart lies emptiness. An apprehensive shiver unsettles the camp as the SS begin the selection process to separate the strong from the weak.
Only older veterans can laugh and recall harsher times when Kapos filled a quota of rejects each day. Elie has transferred to a building unit and daily drags heavy blocks of stone, while fearing for his father, who is rapidly aging. Following Tibi and Yossi, Elie runs past Dr. Mengele to demonstrate his strength and healthy resilience.
Days after the selection, the Blockaelteste, the leader of the block, calls Elie's father and nine others from Block 36 for a second examination. Fearful that he will never see Elie again, Chlomo bequeaths his son a knife and spoon, a pitiful inheritance. At the end of the workday, the old man jubilantly reclaims his belongings. Enfeebled by camp life, Akiba loses hope because he realizes that he cannot pass selection and requests that his friends recite the Kaddish in his memory.
Three days later, work and punishment become so insufferable that Akiba's friends forget their promise. One side is if they are going to die and the other side is if they are going to work until deaht. Some people that are not strong enought to work in the camps can not pass the selections and the ones that are still "useful" are likely to pass the selection. In the selection the SS doctors would choose whether the prisoners were weak or strong.
If you were weak, you die, and if you are strong you would keep on working. Many prisoners got scared and nervous when they hear the selection is coming. During the selection prisoners try to look very strong and show the SS officers they are able to work. Elie was worried that the SS doctors were going to choose him as a weak one, so he ran as fast as he could to show them he was strong. Elie was also worried about his dad.
It doesn't count if all you do is repeat what someone else said. You must add your own insights. Selections happened consistently throughout the period of a prisoner's imprisonment. It was not something that happened only at the end of the war. Monday, February 14, Chapter 5 pages : Selection. Explain "Selection. What do they do? What is the result for Elie and his father? Posted by Ms. Diana February 14, at PM. Cecilia February 14, at PM. Carl Finley February 15, at PM.
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