When everyone left the wagon, the SS ordered the men to go to the left and the women to go to the right.
That's when Eliezer finally realized that he was going to be separated from his mother and sisters forever and
was to be alone with his father. Being at that place, without his mother and sisters he knew that it wasn't going to
be too good. So he made sure that he stood by his fathers' side the whole time they were going to be there.
I'm glad that Eliezer tries so hard to remain together with his father and prevent from being separated from him. In the book, one of the Rabbi's son abandoned his father during the march and the Rabbi was desperately looking for his son, unaware that his son actually abandoned him. After hearing this, Eliezer vows that he will never leave his father like the Rabbi's son had. This shows me that Eliezer and his father has a very close relationship and that Elizer still cares for his father, even during the rough times in the concentration camps.
ReplyDeleteYeah, but later on in the book when Eliezer's dad was giving up, Eliezer too was giving up on him. And when the Blockalteste told him that it's everyone for themselves, he started realizing that he was right. And he too had not passed the test, which he said he would not do what the Rabbi's son had.
ReplyDeleteThis passage sets the scene and the emotion for pretty much the entire book. It shows how Eliezer's one main goal was to stay devoted to his father the entire time, which is something that remained consistant throughout the entire book.
ReplyDeletelike rosemarie said, this scene sets the whole book because through out this whole book Eliezer tries to be devolted to his father through out the book. He actually accomplished that because during the book you always hear Eliezer around his father all those times,
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