This section starts off with Elie and his dad on the train. On the train Eliezer's dad is very week and almost gets thrown out with the dead. The people on the train that are alive throw out the dead people whenever they stop. Also they fight over and scraps of food that gets thrown on the train. They end up having the huddle for warmth and when they try moving they can't because so many people are very weak.
Eventually they stop at a concentration camp. Here they are given hot showers and not much else. Eliezer's dad is too weak to go into the showers and eventually dies because he is dragged off into the crematorium. Eliezer is conflicted with feelings as he is happy he is lifted of the burden of his father, but at the same time that is a bad opinion. Eventually the Jews are freed as the underground resistance takes over and the allies move in. Eliezer is poisoned by something and has to go a hospital where he fights it for two weeks. Elie finally gets freed.
Now that i have finished the book i feel as though i have learned a lot. I always here about how terrible the Holocaust is, but i have never really understood it's true cruelty. The detail put into this book really had me thinking about how lucky I am and how terrible it was for the Jews. I really grew close to the Character of Eliezer, and by the end i felt terrible for him. His struggle to find his religious beliefs is something all teens go through, and i am making this book a must-read for all teenagers who don't understand the severity of the Holocaust
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