... latter had not made his bed properly. The old man was crying softly while the boy shouted: If you don't stop crying at once I shan't bring you anymore bread. Do you understand?" ( Wiesel, 70). This shows a son yelling and verbally abusing his father because he didn't make his bed properly. It's a task ... that can be easily done, but the son makes his poor father do it for bread when he is in a weaker condition. "... his son had seen him losing ground, limping, staggering back to the rear column. He had seen him. ... old man dragging himself along all fours. The shadow threw itself upon ...

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... his friend, Juliek. A body on top of Elie almost suffocates him to death. Elie is barely able to free himself. After three days in the barracks of Gleiwitz without any bread or water, the prisoners are forced to march again because the Russian front is advancing. For water, they eat the snow accumulated on each other's backs. The guards find this ... only food available is snow. After ten days of travel, a German workman throws a piece of bread into the passing wagon. There is a stampede for the morsel of bread. Elie even witnesses a boy named Meir kill his own father over a piece of br...

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... place it all just becomes a routine to him, he becomes inhumane, that is what the concentration camps made of him. Elie and his father's lives form around bread and soup in order to survive. "As for me I was thinking not about death but about not wanting to be separated from my father". (Wiesel ... battle to survive. An example of this is when the book states, "Meir, my little Meir! Don't you recognize me you're killing your father. I have bread for you toofor you too" (Wiesel, 101) In this scene it describes a young boy beating his father (on the train to the concentration camp) in order...

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... gratitude for his father, more so later in the novel rather than in the beginning. We can see this when Wiesel writes, "For a ration of bread I was able to exchange cots to be next to my father" (94). A ration of bread might not seem like much but these Jews went sometimes six to seven days without eating, and a ration of ... bread was like a gourmet meal to them. By seeing he would give up a ration of bread to be next to his father shows the love and compassion many could relate to when thinking about the love of a father. By examining Elie Wiesel's Night, and ... ...

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... jewel smuggling. From there they were sent off to be put in wagons that tightly fit eight people, one window with bars so no one could escape a few loaves of bread and two buckets of water. In the wagon they were not allowed to lie down; they were only able to sit if they others decided to stand and take turns ... and that would be on Sunday, on that day they could do almost whatever they wanted. They were even treated a little better by receiving an extra portion of food or bread that is all the Jews were served. Because of these conditions the older Jews began to die because their bod...

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... search for food. "The first act as free men was to throw ourselves onto the provisions. We thought only of that. Not of revenge, not of our families. Nothing but bread (Wiesel, 109)." These victims had been so beaten down that their first reaction was to nourish themselves. They did not consider possibly being reunited with family, or that their lives ... ...

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... trucks and trains, 100 to a cart where the German people treated them as a spectator sport. German's loved to watch how the Jews pounced on each other when one crumb of bread was thrown into the train. However, the most incomprehensible act of indifference was done by the Nazi's themselves. It is almost impossible to understand how these human beings could so ... ...

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... , we marched to the station, where a convoy of cattle wagons were waiting. The Hungarian police made us get in-eighty people in each car. We were left a few loaves of bread and some buckets of water. The bars at the window were checked, to see that they were not loose. Then the cars were sealed. In each car one person was ... ...

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... ghettos and controlled their lives with fear. The people of Sighet were forced to leave their homes. They were packed into cattle wagon trains and given buckets of water and bread to eat. They stayed in the train for many days and were not allowed to get out to go to the bathroom so they were condemned to live amidst filth ... ...

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... they had all obeyed their every command, running through the streets of the ghetto towards the train. There were eighty people placed into each car, along with a few loaves of bread, and a few pails of water. For Elie and his family, the train ride was the longest, most uncomfortable journey of their lives, but only a taste of the hell they were ... ...

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... crimes they 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 ... ...

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