... the imprisonment, they were subject to regular beatings, relegated to very minimal sustenance, and denied adequate medical care. Wiesel reflects on having a cup of coffee in the morning, a plate of soup in the afternoon, and a "ration" of bread at night on a typical day at Auschwitz (p. 40). The physical torment that became commonplace at these concentration camps ranged from baton whacks to ... at these camps, Elie and other Jews were rewarded for compliance with the guards by being offered double rations of bread or soup. Much more often, though, they were punished for their actions b...

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... on the mental agony of personal insult and the demeaning obsession with food. The daily ration of about ten ounces of bread and one and three-quarters pints of watery soup was never adequate for the labor they were forced to perform. The prisoners often fought among themselves irritably. Frankl's observations about the concentration camp combine a certain modesty and humane tolerance ... negative attributes as indifference and irritability with his own reactions. In explaining the heartlessness that develops after the initial shock of incarceration, for example, he remembers complacentl...

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... often Elie is selfish because he is starving. For example, when his father was dying and he thinks to himself "You could have two rations of bread, two rations of soup " (Wiesel 111). Hunger has caused Elie to think selfishly with his stomach. Immediately, Elie feels guilt over thinking of taking his father's rations. That is why he is not always ... on one condition: I want to stay with my father " (Wiesel 48). At that moment, the man wanted Elie's shoes but he said that he'd rather not get his rations of soup and bread. He also didn't want to give the man his shoes because they were n...

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... disorientated, only to follow by his father and guiding prisoners. His life within the camp consisted of rations, black coffee and watered down soup, enough to keep a body alive, not enough to nourish the stomach. "The bread, the soup – these were my entire life. I was nothing but a body. Perhaps even less: a famished stomach." One thought played through Elie's mind ... ...

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... was opened from August 15 1940 to mid January 1945 . The prisoners at Auschwitz mainly consisted of Jews . The prisoners here were feed rations of bread and soup . The bread was usually stale and the soup would have human meat in it or other items such as lip stick , boots , jewelry and teeth . Here the prisoners were worked to the point of ... ...

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... . Even at this time Elie stays by him, but he discovers for himself it's very hard to keep himself and his father alive. " I gave him what was left of my soup. But it was with a heavy heart. I felt that I was giving it up against my will". He himself is very hungry, but he manages to share the food with his ill ... or the crematory the choice is in your hands." At the beginning when Elie is just getting the taste of the life at the camp, he won't even touch the soup, because he is to spoiled. When the hunger and suffering increases it makes him grow up very fast, and then he eats anythin...

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... . The prisoners worked about eighteen hours a day, where the only good thing to look forward to was food and sleep. They would get a piece of bread and a half pint of soup a day. They would sleep crowded and cold. With everything looking so negative it would have been so easy for him to give up and stop fighting but he never gave ... ...

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... of food and hunger was drilled into everyones mind everyday. It was all that could be thought about when all they got for food was a piece of bread and watery soup. Starvation along with abuse brought out the worst in everyone. The old man mumbled something, groaned, and died. Nobody cared. His son searched him, took the crust of bread, and ... ...

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... struggling for a half hour. Wiesel said God was hanging there on this gallows, he had lost his faith. He lamented over all of this and said that "that night the soup tasted of corpses". The final blow to Elie Wiesel's spirit was when his father had died of his illness. He felt helpless when his father was struck in the head ... ...

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... first night at camp. In a way he gets used to the idea that people are being killed everyday. His life becomes nothing but the worries of getting his bread and soup and making it through the next selection. He constantly worries about his father and then he feels relief after his father is taken away because now he can move ahead ... ...

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... each other Page 49: Alohonse- head of his block, an extraordinarily aged face, entirely devoted to the cause of his block, he would try to get an extra caldron of soup for the children weak and all those who were dreaming more about an extra plateful than liberty Page 50-51: Idek - was seized with one of his fits of frenzy ... ...

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... go through the same mental pain of losing their loved one in the death camps and both went through the hunger and not being able to eat because of little soup and bread or not finding any food. The differences in their stories are slight but they always come out with the same meaning of trying not to let the Holocaust ... ...

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... that faith was lost for many, for the rest of their lives, and the reader gets the true impression of what " Night" meant when Elie remarks that "that night the soup tasted of corpses"(77). The hopelessness of night stayed with them most of the time. Darker than Night is the brutality and evil represented by "the notorious Dr Mengele" he ... ...

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... of the camp leaders wanted that, so he always gave Elie more food so that he could get it. Eg: P68 Franek grew kinder. Occasionally, he even gave me extra soup. But that did not last long. A Fortnight later, all the Poles were transferred to another camp. I had lost my crown for nothing. Elie was lucky, that was also an important ... ...

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... prisoners to find beauty even in the simplest things. My favorite part is the following: "One evening, when we were already resting on the floor of our hut, dead tired, soup bowls in hand, a fellow prisoner rushed in and asked us to run out to the assembly grounds and see the wonderful sunset. Standing outside we saw sinister clouds glowing in ... ...

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... asks, "'Where is God now?'" Elie hears a voice within him answer: "'Where is He? Here He is-He is hanging here on this gallows....'" (Chapter 4, pg. 62) That night, the soup tastes of corpses, for Elie. As Elie witnesses the hanging of the young pipel, he feels that it is his God who is hanging on the gallows. Elie identifies with ... ...

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... would get a slap on the wrist or a very small fine. He got very little to eat. For instance, inmates at the camps were only allowed one ration of bread and soup a day. Therefore, Elie became weaker and weaker. Sometime the some of the prisoners did not eat anything because other prisoners would steal their food or the Kapo, the keepers of ... ...

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... four months- (Bedford 86). Food was very scarce. Special groups of people had a maximum of 700-800 calories a day (Bedford 86). The rest of the prisoners were served bread and soup once a day (Bedford 32). When brought into the camps, the prisoners were put in two different lines. One of the lines sent people to the gas chambers, and the other ... ...

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... minute a girl is sick in the hospital and the next another girl is working constantly in a concentration camp where she hardly gets any food and when she does it is a soup that has insects, socks, underwear and many other horrible things floating in it. When Chana first goes to Auschwitz she has to take a shower nude with hundreds of other women ... ...

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... for the strength to go on, but some never received an answer to their prayers. At times prayers would come before eating. "They gave us our evening meal, a very thick soup, but no one touched it. We wanted to wait until after prayers"(Wiesel 63). Even though they were being starved to death, at times they would still hold prayers before ... ...

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