chapter 8 questions

Part One:
Wiesel treats his father with support and hope. He tells his father not to give up and that they will make it. Elie gave his father the rest of his soup when they didn’t feed his father. He has to look after his father and make sure he is fine.
I think that his attitude was understandable because its torture and they would want to survive and fight for themselves. Its harder when you have to look after someone else. Its good that even though they barely got any food, Elie sometimes would sacrifice some and give it to his father. I concur with the way that Elie was thinking and his attitude.
Elie cries when he gets whooped. When his father dies, he does not cry even though it hurts him that his dead and it also hurts him that he cant cry.
I just felt that he was a strong person. All the pain and the killing is something most people cant survive. At a young age, he was encountered with pain and torture and I just think what would it be if that was me or my sisters or my family. I felt so sad, so bad, and at the same time hurt because what happened to him was a horrible experience, beyond what words can explain. I don’t even know what to say to him, maybe sorry for all the pain. I just want to know how he felt as soon as he was freed and what happened after that.
Part two:
When an inmate told him that they were going to take showers he was fascinated. They had a long journey that’s why he was fascinated.
It was not easy because hundreds of prisoners were crowding there. The guards were unable to keep order.
His father changed because he longer care about surviving and making it through the Holocaust.
He meant that when he was arguing with his father he felt that he was fighting more with dead than his father because he was giving up on life.
He was ashamed of thinking that it be better if his dad was dead or gone. He was thinking that it be better if his dad was no there and he could probably have more chances of surviving.
He didn’t eat anything because he was thirsty and since he was ill, they didn’t want to feed him because they thought it would be a waste of food.
Elie’s father is getting ill and is losing hope. He seems to not care no more if he lives or not.
You live only fighting for yourself and not think of no one else. There are no fathers, no brothers, no friends. Everyone lives and dies for himself alone.
His last memory was his blood-stained face, his shattered skull.
His father died because the officer dealt him with a violent blow on the head with his truncheon.
Elie did no t cry because he had no more tears. It hurt him because he couldn’t cry.
I think he means that his father is free at last and at a better place.