Elisha was released from the concentration camp and was going to be taken home but he asked if he could go to Paris to begin a new life. He didn't want to see his house where he grew up and be reminded of his parents and his sister. "I didn't want to relive my childhood. To see our house in foreign hands. I knew that my parents were dead and my native town was occupied by Russians" (11). He now lives in Palestine and is in a terrorist group. One of his new duties in this organization is to execute an English soldier that the group has captured and is holding in a cell in their cell in one of their houses.
I would not have to execute a man or be in a terrorist group in my life but he had a choice to join or not and he chose to join.
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Elie's dad was on the verge of death but Elie didn't give up on him. He helped his dad. "Wake up. You mustn't sleep here..." His father said "I'm tired. Leave me alone. Leave me." Elie whispers in his ear "Wake up" (85). He ended up meeting a girl that he use to be friends with a while ago. When it was free work time one day he wondered off to find one of the camp chiefs having sex with one of the girls in the camp and he ended up getting whipped
Elie's life was peaceful until the war when he got put in a concentration camp. He uses words like "smile" (1), said that his "place was at school" (2). He talked to Beadle for "long hours" (3). To me it sounds like he is being starved because I don't think that a small bowl of soup and bread is enough to eat for a day. The camp has been bombed since he's been there. If that was me I don't think that there would be a point of living at that point. Being whipped when you do something wrong or shot on the spot if you get out of the camp.
Lets say his house is the concentration camp for a minute. Him leaving the camp means absolute death no second chances. Me leaving my house without being allowed to leave just means I get in trouble. |
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