When Eliezer gets his number, "A-7713", tattooed on his arm, I wondered if he would do the same, and then I wondered about what he would make each number represent. I think one of them would have something to do with his father, because it seems very important to him, that he and his father stay together, and get out alive... together.
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Rosemarie - Connector
I have read very few books about the lives of people in concentration camps, so when they mention getting their numbers tattooed on their arms, it reminded me of the one other book about concentration camps that I read. That book was called "The Devils Arithmetic". That book is about a young girl who somehow gets travelled back in time to the time of the Holocaust. I remember when she got her number tattooed onto her arm, another prisoner explained to her how she remembers her own number. She made something up for each number on her arm. For example, if her number was B-1397, she would say B: for her middle name; 1: for the amount of times she would pray each day; 9: for the number of aunts and uncles she hopes to reunite with after getting out of the concentration camp; and 7: for the number of days a week she prays to go home. I remember her making most of the numbers about having hope that she would soon return home.
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I also read that book! But I didn't think about making the connection about how the number that Eliezer got tattoed on his arm might represent something. Good job (: I think that the "A" might stand for a name of a member from his family, the '7' would represent the number of members in his family (his parents, his sisters, and himself), and the '1' would represent how he was the only one who survived in his family in the end. I do agree that Eliezer's father is very important to him and he tries his hardest to stick together with him and not separate.
ReplyDeleteI think I might have read that book, but I'm not sure. I read a book about a girl going back in time to the Holocaust, but I'm not sure if it was that one. No offense, Rosemarie, but I don't think that, in the long run, it would have been a good idea to have one of the letters or numbers represent his father. Since tattoos are there forever, whenever he look at his tattoo he will remember his fathers death, and that would be depressing.
ReplyDeleteYes, I remember reading that book in 8th grade, and while I was reading The Night, I did think about The Devils Arithmetic and the tattoo the girl had too. And yeah I agree with what you said about Eliezer's father being very important to him.
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