Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Night Selection 3 - Rachel Ocampo Period 3


                       Elie and his father has been separated from his mother and sister. "Man to the Left! Women to the Right!"(29). "My hand tightened its grip on my father"(30).  Elie was frightened on walking with a crowd, so he grabbed his fathers hand tightly. 



SS officers went around and asked people how old they were. "Hey, kid, how old are you?... fifteen..No you're eighteen.. I'm fifty... No you're forty"(30). The SS officers went around asking people their age and then changing them because they are getting people to work and their is a certain age limit for the people that can and cannot work. After everyone being registered of there suppose age, they were sent off to the field and started working. While working in the field they all of a sudden hear someone asking for his father. "Do you know where the family Wiesel from Sighet is?" 
 Elie and his father do not recognize him and he is husband with Elie's mother's aunt. Elie then remembers him but then lies to him because he looked very anxious in knowing how the family is. Elie tells him that they are perfectly fine. Then he had to leave because the officers were coming directed there way. the next day he would come and visit them. He would warn his father that Elie has to eat more because he is too skinny and it is tough working here and not eating he could die. 

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