| Chapter 6 Questions1. What happened to anyone who could not keep up with the march?
In the blizzard and the darkness, the prisoners from Buna are evacuated. Anybody who stops running is shot by the SS. Zalman, a boy running alongside Eliezer, decides he can run no further. He stops and is trampled to death. Malnourished, exhausted, and weakened by his injured foot, Eliezer forces himself to run along with the other prisoners only for the sake of his father, who is running near him. After running all night and covering more than forty-two miles, the prisoners find themselves in a deserted village. Father and son keep each other awake—falling asleep in the cold would be deadly—and support each other, surviving only through mutual vigilance. Rabbi Eliahou, a kindly and beloved old man, finds his way into the shed where Eliezer and his father are collapsed. The rabbi is looking for his son: throughout their ordeal in the concentration camps, father and son have protected and supported each other. Eliezer falsely tells Rabbi Eliahou he has not seen the son, yet, during the run, Eliezer saw the son abandon his father, running ahead when it seemed Rabbi Eliahou would not survive. Eliezer prays that he will never do what Rabbi Eliahou’s son did. At last, the exhausted prisoners arrive at the Gleiwitz camp, crushing each other in the rush to enter the barracks. In the press of men, Eliezer and his father are thrown to the ground. Fighting for air, Eliezer discovers that he is lying on top of Juliek, the musician who befriended him in Buna. Eliezer soon finds that he himself is in danger of being crushed to death by the man lying on top of him. He finally gains some breathing room, and, calling out, discovers that his father is near. Among the dying men, the sound of Juliek’s violin pierces the silence. Eliezer falls asleep to this music, and when he wakes he finds Juliek dead, his violin smashed. After three days without bread and water, there is another selection. When Eliezer’s father is sent to stand among those condemned to die, Eliezer runs after him. In the confusion that follows, both Eliezer and his father are able to sneak back over to the other side. The prisoners are taken to a field, where a train of roofless cattle cars comes to pick them up. The prisoners are herded into the cattle cars and ordered to throw out the bodies of the dead men. Eliezer’s father, unconscious, is almost mistaken for dead and thrown from the car, but Eliezer succeeds in waking him. The train travels for ten days and nights, and the Jews go unfed, living on snow. As they pass through German towns, some of the locals throw bread into the car in order to enjoy watching the Jews kill each other for the food. Eliezer then flashes forward to an experience he has after the Holocaust, when he sees a rich Parisian tourist in Aden (a city in Yemen) throwing coins to native boys. Two of the desperately poor boys try to kill each other over one of the coins, but when Eliezer asks the Parisian woman to stop, she replies, “I like to give charity.” Eliezer then returns to his narration of the German townspeople throwing bread on the train. An old man manages to grab a piece, but Eliezer watches as he is attacked and beaten to death by his own son, who in turn is beaten to death by other men. One night, someone tries to strangle Eliezer in his sleep. Eliezer’s father calls Meir Katz, a strong friend of theirs, who rescues Eliezer, but Meir Katz himself is losing hope. When the train arrives at Buchenwald, only twelve out of the 100 men who were in Eliezer’s train car are still alive. Meir Katz is among the dead.
AnalysisIn these sections, we are told two particularly striking stories about sons and fathers. Rabbi Eliahou’s son abandons him during the death march from Buna, and a nameless son, in the cattle cars from Gleiwitz to Buchenwald, beats his father to death for a crust of bread. In addition to illustrating the depth of the brutality to which people are capable of sinking when they are mistreated for too long, these incidents reflect on another of the memoir’s central themes. They examine the way that the Holocaust tests father-son bonds. Read an in-depth analysis of the passage in which Rabbi Eliahou’s son abandons him. The test of the father-son relationship recalls the biblical story of the Binding of Isaac, known in Hebrew as the Akedah. Critics have suggested that Night is a reversal of the Akedah story. The story, related in Genesis, tells of God’s commandment to Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac as an offering. Utterly faithful, Abraham complies with God’s wish. Just as Abraham is about to sacrifice Isaac, God intervenes and saves Isaac, rewarding Abraham for his faithfulness. Night reverses the Akedah story—the father is sacrificed so that his son might live. But in Night, God fails to appear to save the sacrificial victim at the last moment. In the world of the Holocaust, Wiesel argues, God is powerless, or silent. Read an essay about the significance of Eliezer’s relationship with his father. Eliezer never sinks to the level of beating his father, or outwardly mistreating him, but his resentment toward his father grows, even as it is suggested—for instance, when Eliezer’s father prevents Eliezer from killing himself by falling asleep in the snow—that the father is sacrificing himself for his son, not vice versa. Whether or not this resentment comes to dominate Eliezer’s relationship with his father (indeed, a strong argument can be made for Eliezer’s altruism), it seems clear that Eliezer himself feels great guilt at his father’s death. As has been suggested, this guilt perhaps drives Eliezer to feel that he must record the events of the Holocaust, honor his father’s memory, and repay his sacrifice. Read more about the importance of father-son bonds as a theme. Eliezer’s discussion of the German townspeople who cruelly throw bread to the starving Jews to watch them fight to the death over the crusts of bread is another instance of Eliezer flashing forward into the future to illustrate how the Holocaust has forever altered his understanding of humankind. His digression is rare because it relates an event in which he was not a direct participant; he was a casual witness, and the event was tangential to his life. The parallel between the Parisian woman’s “charity” and the actions of the German townspeople is clear, however, and Wiesel tells the story to show that behavior that is casually cruel is not limited to the Holocaust—humanity has an unimaginably wicked streak in it. Read more about inhumanity as a theme. Juliek's last act was to play his violin "to an audience of dying and dead men". After the grueling march from the camp at Buna, the prisoners finally arrive at their destination, Gleiwitz. In the"pitch darkness" they are "rapidly installedin the barracks". Similarly, why was the camp to be evacuated What did Elie learn of the fate of those who stayed behind in the hospital? In Chapter 5, the camp was to be evacuated because the Russians were approaching. Those who stayed behind in the hospital "were quite simply liberated by the Russians two days after the evacuation". Who died in the train just before the men were? When Eliezer was being strangled on the train, Mr. Wiesel called on Meir Katz to help them. He died in the train just before the men were unloaded at Buchenwald. Why does Eliezer have to have an operation on his leg? After weeks of slaving in the brutal cold, Elie's right foot begins to swell, and he is soon unable to put it on the ground. He goes to have it examined, and the doctor, a Jewish prisoner himself, declares that he must have an operation. Elie is put into the hospital, which is actually an almost pleasant place.
Asked By: Graham Peterson Date: created: Jun 17 2021 Answered By: Hunter Cook Date: created: Jun 18 2021 Confined to his bed, Eliezer’s father continues to approach death. He is afflicted with dysentery, which makes him terribly thirsty, but it is extremely dangerous to give water to a man with dysentery. Eliezer tries to find medical help for his father, to no avail.. Asked By: Jonathan Bell Date: created: Dec 04 2021 Why did Elie feel ashamed of himself while he searched for his fatherAnswered By: Harry Russell Date: created: Dec 04 2021 how did Meir Katz save Eliezer ? … why did Eliezer feel ashamed of himself while he searched for his father ? because he was talking about how he would be happy if he was dead because he wouldn’t have to take care of him or worry (he would take care of himself) why did Eliezer hesitate to give his sick father water ? Asked By: Chase Thomas Date: created: Jul 11 2021 Why is Juliek’s last act and act of defianceAnswered By: Miguel Watson Date: created: Jul 13 2021 How does Zalman die? Zalman dies soon after being trampled by thousands of inmates. … Juliek’s last act was to play Beethoven on his violin as a way of commemorating he dead and dying. Asked By: Anthony Gonzalez Date: created: Feb 26 2022 How is Juliek’s concert an act of defianceAnswered By: Caleb Wright Date: created: Mar 01 2022 How is Juliek’s “concert” an act of defiance? An ugly, twisted expression on a person’s face, typically expressing disgust, pain, or wry amusement. Asked By: Cole Johnson Date: created: Feb 09 2022 How did Elie’s father dieAnswered By: Louis Phillips Date: created: Feb 10 2022 Mr Wiesel’s mother and one sister were killed in Nazi death chambers. His father died of starvation and dysentery in the Buchenwald camp. Asked By: Geoffrey Bryant Date: created: Jun 14 2021 Why didn’t he see his father diedAnswered By: Robert Griffin Date: created: Jun 14 2021 He does not see his father die because he was sleeping and he does not cry because he was all out of tears. … Wiesel, after his father’s death, didn’t care about anything except food and survival for himself, and was completely desensitized. Asked By: Connor Moore Date: created: Jun 13 2022 Where is God now nightAnswered By: Samuel Martin Date: created: Jun 13 2022 “Where is God? Where is He?” someone behind me asked. .. For more than half an hour [the child in the noose] stayed there, struggling between life and death, dying in slow agony under our eyes. Asked By: Graham Peterson Date: created: Jul 13 2021 What event does Elie say he always remembers when he hears BeethovenAnswered By: Jesse Torres Date: created: Jul 16 2021 “Suddenly, he hears the sound of the violin in the darkness in the middle of the night,” Jamner said. Elie recognized the music as Beethoven’s violin concerto, and realized it must be coming from Juliek, a prisoner from Warsaw who played in the orchestra at the Buna concentration camp. Asked By: Austin Lewis Date: created: Jun 21 2021 What was Elie’s father’s last wordsAnswered By: Bryan White Date: created: Jun 21 2021 He assumes that his father has been taken to the crematory and recalls that his father’s final word was “Eliezer.” Too weary for tears, Elie realizes that death has liberated him from a doomed, irretrievable burden. Asked By: Caleb White Date: created: Jun 26 2022 What kept Elie from giving up and dyingAnswered By: Alex Johnson Date: created: Jun 29 2022 What is it that keeps Elie from giving up and falling out of line during the evacuation? The only thing that stops Elie from falling out of line and just letting himself die was the presence of his father. He was his father’s sole support, and Elie’s father was Elie’s sole support. Asked By: David Adams Date: created: Jun 15 2021 Why does Mr Wiesel warn Elie not to go to sleep in the snowAnswered By: Albert Anderson Date: created: Jun 18 2021 Wiesel warn Eli not to fall asleep in the snow? Because if he does he may not wake up. … How long did Elie stay at Gleiwitz? He had stayed there for 3 days. Asked By: Ashton Thomas Date: created: Mar 20 2022 Why does Elie get beat badly by IDEKAnswered By: Reginald Flores Date: created: Mar 23 2022 After several days, Elie and his father were assigned to work in a warehouse for electrical equipment. The job itself was easy and not dangerous. The problem was with Idek, the Kapo, who was subject to bouts of madness, which caused him to act irrationally and beat the prisoners. Asked By: Matthew Hughes Date: created: May 01 2021 What did Elie realize about Rabbi eliahou and his sonAnswered By: Ashton Butler Date: created: May 04 2021 What did Elie realize about Rabbi Eliahou and his son? He realized that the son had been trying to lose his father as the men were running. At the same time, the Rabbi was looking for the son who had deserted him. … Elie heard a voice that he recognized, Juliek, the muscician from Warsaw who’d played the violin at Buna. Asked By: Elijah Murphy Date: created: Jul 17 2021 What was the last thing that Juliek did before he diedAnswered By: Matthew Robinson Date: created: Jul 19 2021 Overall, Juliek’s last act was to play Beethoven on his violin for the malnourished, exhausted Jewish prisoners before he passed away later that night. Asked By: Matthew Nelson Date: created: May 14 2021 Who was IDEK in nightAnswered By: Howard Barnes Date: created: May 16 2021 Idek. Eliezer’s Kapo (a prisoner conscripted by the Nazis to police other prisoners) at the electrical equipment warehouse in Buna. Despite the fact that they also faced the cruelty of the Nazis, many Kapos were as cruel to the prisoners as the Germans. During moments of insane rage, Idek beats Eliezer. Asked By: Jordan Peterson Date: created: Aug 11 2022 Why does IDEK beat ElieAnswered By: Nathaniel Anderson Date: created: Aug 12 2022 Idek beats Elie’s father because he was on edge, and when he exploded, his victim was Elie’s father, yelling at him about how he was not working. … When Idek sees Elie out of his place and not working, he decided to whip him. Asked By: Cyrus Hall Date: created: Nov 16 2021 What advice does the head of the block give ElieAnswered By: Timothy Morgan Date: created: Nov 16 2021 What advice does head of the block give to Elie regarding his father? He said that he should only think of himself and not give his father any bread or soup. Asked By: Caleb Williams Date: created: Apr 24 2022 What relative does Elie meet shortly after arriving Why does Elie lieAnswered By: Rodrigo Bennett Date: created: Apr 24 2022 What relative does Elie meet shortly after arriving? Why does Elie lie to him? Elie meets Stein from Antwerp. Elie lies to him because he would’ve been devastated if Elie had told him the truth. Asked By: Malcolm Davis Date: created: Dec 27 2021 Why does Elie’s father wake him up when he is sleeping on the snowAnswered By: Logan Watson Date: created: Dec 27 2021 He was shot by the SS and then trampled to death. Why does Elie’s father wake him up when he is sleeping on the snow? It is dangerous to sleep in the snow because you might not wake up. … Juliek died the night he played Beethoven’s concerto. Asked By: Nicholas Lopez Date: created: Oct 22 2021 What does Juliek do before dyingAnswered By: Landon Gonzales Date: created: Oct 25 2021 Juliek is a young man from Warsaw who played the violin in the Buna band, which is where Eliezer met him for the first time. The night he dies, he plays his violin. … Asked By: Douglas Stewart Date: created: Apr 21 2021 Why did Elie’s father refuse to let him sleep when they stopped for a whileAnswered By: Henry Lee Date: created: Apr 21 2021 Some time later, Elie was awakened by his father. Why would he not let Elie sleep? He was afraid that if Elie really slept in the snow, he would never wake up. … Elie and his father agreed that they would watch out for each other and not let the other fall asleep. |
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