Summarizer Chapter #4

The story gets so sad and horrifying... (I want to cry when I read sometimes)

(Obviously) Days gone by and to Elie, the camps seem deserted. And like usual, they went through the showers and officers gave them food. When they got back, they received new clothing and two tents. They had to wait there until they were told the block they were assigned to. When Elie got to the tent he was assigned, he realized that the tent leader was a German. Elie is told that he will be staying with him in this tent for three days and that he will get a medical checkup tomorrow. He also makes a deal that if he get into a new Kommando then he will be able to stay with his father. The medical checkup took place outside and early in the morning.

Elie goes to work and ask to work by his father. He were lucky and got to work with his father and two other boys named Yossi and Tibi. They became friends quickly. On a random day, Elie is sent to the dentist. When he found out that he had to take out his gold teeth, he pretends to be sick. He was told to come later on. But when he did, he said the same excuse and he was excused again. In the warehouse, Elie noticed he worked next to a French girl often. Idek comes over and starts to beat him up. Others tell him to hold in the anger and hate for later on when he can actually have a way he can get back at him.

Years go by, and he meets this girl in Paris while he sat at the Metro, reading a newspaper. She had dark hair and she was pretty. She also had these dreamy eyes that he had seen before. This girl wasa the girl he saw when he worked at the warehouse. He finds out that she is Jewish and she lied and become a Aryan.

There was another time where this time it was Elie's father that was the victim. This German soldier started to beat his father. Days went by and Elie was told to lie down on a crate. He had to go through twenty five of them. "I nodded, once, ten times endlessly. as if my head had decided to say yes for all eternity." Weeks went by and when the Jews came back from their work, they were told to do this ceremony, but there was this man who was told to blindfold the youth but he refused. So he was hung and ten thousand Jews paid him respect by taking their hats off then on. "I remember that on that evening, the soup tasted better than ever..." Elie saw more hanging but he never seen anyone weep. Except for this one person's. In that hanging, he heard a man saying where God was. "That night, the soup tasted of corpse."

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