... pieces of bread, and occasionally coffee. An average American would not dear touch the food they would be fed. "At about noon they brought us soup: a plate of thick soup for each person. Tormented though I was by hunger, I refused to touch it. I was still the spoiled child I had always been." (Weisel, ... began defeating him, a man gave Elie advice that was sadly true. "I'll give you a sound piece of advice-don't give your ration of bread and soup to your old father. There's nothing you can do for him. And you're killing yourself. Instead, you ought to be having his ration." (Weisel, ...

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... 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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... 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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... . 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 camps, some Jews who smuggled it in still used it to their advantage. What once could have been worth a few hundred dollars was now exchangeable for a second helping of soup, or a sturdier pair of shoes. Elie's gold tooth was forcefully taken from him, even though its preciousness could only buy so much. The plight of the Jews during World War ... we grew up with and never considered for a moment. Imagine life without knowing that you would wake up to see the next sunrise and with a modest ration of bread and soup to keep you barely alive until the next work day. We think to ourselv...

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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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... 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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... , when someone asked, "Where is God now?" And I heard a voice within me answer him: "Where is He? Here He is He is hanging here on this gallows. That night the soup tasted of corpses." (Night, 62) This to me meant that his faith in God had wounded with the child who not only was hanged and murdered, but who took a half ... ...

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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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... 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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