Section 4 - Ashly Dominguez period 2

    In section four of the book "Night" by Elie Wiesel, Elie goes through quite an adventure. Even though he gets away from the dealing dentist who gets locked up, he still doesn't get away with loosing his golden tooth which is valuable to him. A cruel foreman, Idek, finds his way to get Elie's tooth by torchuring his dad until the point where Elie couldn't take the pain to see his dad suffer any longer. In the book, Elie says, "It was untenable. We had to give in" (56). 

At camp Buna, Elie and his father are never seperated. They are housed to a musicians' block where Elie meets Juliek, and two brothers named Yossi and Tibi. Elie and his father both work in a civilian warehouse where they count electrical fittings. Elie and his working crew are assigned a very violent Kapo named Idek. When Idek is in a bad mood, he torchures Elie and his father for no apparent reason. He has even humiliated Elie in front of a lot of inmates at the camp. Elie says, "He took his time between the lashes. Only the first really hurt." (57). Idek is very selfish and thinks only for himself. Elie has changed toward his father because instead of getting mad at Idek for beating his father, he gets mad at his own father for not being able to dodge Idek's fury.

 One day, as Elie was resting from work, the camp Buna was bombed. All the alarms went off and all the Bloclalteste gathered the inmates in their blocks. Anyone who was to be found outside of their blocks, were to get shot by the SS. Since so many things were happening at this time, next to the kitchen were two unattended cauldrons of hot steaming soup. So many inmates desired for the soup, but fear overtoook hunger. One starving inmate was the only one who dared to try to get the soup, but once he reached it, he was immediately shot. To everyone, he was already dead once he took a step toward the soup. After the bombing was over, Elie and all the other inmates were to clean the ruins that were left of the several flattened buildings. A week or so later, Elie experienced his first hanging in camp Buna. The last hanging he experienced was horrible for him because the boy being hanged was so young and innocent. Because of all his experiences in the holocaust, Elie has lost his faith in God. He doesn't think he should serve a God who is not willing to protect such innocent people.

 I think this section was a rough stage for Elie because he went through so much at camp Buna. From his tooth, the bombings, to Idek constantly humiliating him and lastly to the hangings. Elie has changed his ways toward God and even his own father. Elie is a very strong boy but the holocaust has changed him.

Inmates in Camp Buna being observed by SS.

Camp Buna Factory