Night Notes Pages 104-End

Father Father gives up Abandons father Father’s death Elie becomes angry Abandons father Goes to look for him, but hopes to not find him Rabbi Eliahu Father’s death Freedom?

Dysentery

Elie Anger Doctor’s Advice Final Scene Wants to destroy everything His cry “stays in [his] throat” Doctor’s Advice Elie realizes that he must turn his back on his father Final Scene Corpse Represents irreversible effects of the Holocaust

Key Quotes “This discussion continued for some time. I knew that I was no longer arguing with [my father] but with Death itself, with Death that he had already chosen.” “I gave him what was left of my soup. But my heart was heavy. I was aware that I was doing it grudgingly. Just like Rabbi Eliahu’s son, I had not passed the test.”

Key Quotes “I found my father crying like a child” “In this place, there is no such thing as father, brother, friend. Each of us lives and dies alone.” “And deep inside me, if I could have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like: Free at last!...”

Key Quotes “I shall not describe my life during that period. It no longer mattered. Since my father’s death, nothing mattered to me anymore.” “The Lageralteste announced that the Buchenwald camp would be liquidated.” “Our first act as free men was to throw ourselves onto the provisions. That’s all we thought about. No thought of revenge, or of parents. Only of bread.”

Henri Cartier – Russian Child Released from Concentration Camp, Dessau, Germany 1945