The book starts out in 1941with a twelve-year-old boy named Elie living in the Transylvanian town of Sighet. He lives with his parents and his three sisters. The family follow strict Jewish tarditions and laws. As a young chile Elie takes an unsual occupation in studying the Talmud, Jewish oral law. Elie studies under well respected teacher Moshe the Beadle.
Transylvanian is annexed by Hungary and the Hungarians force all forgein Jews to leave the country. This forces Moshe to leave the town of Sighet. The Jews soon forgive the Hungarians for forcing foreign Jews to leave. After many months Moshe escapes his captors and returns to Sighet. He tells his fellow Jews that they murdered the others and forced them to dig their own graves. The townspeople believe that Moshe has lost his mind and they don't believe what he says.
In 1944 the Hungarians are taken over by the Nazi germans. The Germans force the Jews to be sent to concentration camps. Untill they are deported the Jews have to live in fenced in areas. Elie's family are one of the last families to be deported. All they Jews found themselves saying "Where were the people taken? Did anyone know?" (pg 18) The chapter ends with Elie's family being deported to Auschwitz where they will be held in a concentration camp. I believe that Elie's family should have snuck away with their former maid when they had the chance. They could have hid from the Nazis and not been sent to the concentration camp.
4 comments:
Yeah i see what you mean Brady. I wonder what could have happened if Elie and his family had attempted to leave while they had the chance. Maybe they could have gotten away or maybe they would have been caught and treaten even worse. Anyway I like the summary, it is to the point.
pat johnson
yea i agree with pat when he said it is to the point, if i didn't read the book, i would still know exactly what it is about, good summary
This is a good summary but i dissagree with your opinion that they should have tried to run away. It would have been very riskey and if they were caught they probably would have been killed on the spot.
I think this is a very good summary of the chapter. I did not understand about the train at first, but now I do. Thanks man.
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