6/15/2023 0 Comments North by night book summaryA prisoner demands to know where God is to himself, Elie replies, "He is hanging here on this gallows." Elie is incensed by the fact that the boy is so undersized that he takes over half an hour to die of strangulation. Later, in retaliation for the sabotage of the camp power station, the SS torture a Dutch Oberkapo and hang three more people, including a small, angelic-looking thirteen-year-old. A week later, Elie and his fellow workers witness a pre-breakfast hanging of a young man from Warsaw who stole during the alert. The prisoners rally, even though they have to remove an unexploded bomb from the prison yard and clear away debris of damaged buildings. Elie remains unafraid as American planes bomb Buna for over an hour. M., block leaders secure prisoners as air-raid sirens wail. He faints and is forced into consciousness to promise to keep Idek's dirty secret. For this indiscretion, Elie is forced to lie on a box and receive twenty-five strokes. On a Sunday, Elie angers Idek by laughing after seeing him with a naked Polish girl in a room adjacent to the warehouse. In desperation at his father's torment, Elie allows a dentist from Warsaw to extract his gold crown with a rusty spoon. (Years later, he encounters her in the Paris subway and spends an evening reminiscing about their brief friendship and experiences at Buna.) Franek, the foreman, torments Chlomo for marching out of step as a means of preying on Elie's feelings for his father's suffering and thereby extorting the gold tooth. A French Jewess who passes as an Aryan soothes his bloody face. Without warning one day in the warehouse, Idek falls into a murderous fit and lashes Elie, who restrains himself and remains silent. The camp dentist demands Elie's gold crown he saves it by pretending to have a fever. Elie enjoys Hebrew chants and songs with other Zionist youth and discusses immigration to Haifa.ĭespair reigns as savagery becomes more prevalent. A band composed of congenial Jewish musicians plays a march as prisoners trudge to the warehouse to work. One of the doctors searches for gold teeth. Following a three-day quarantine, three doctors examine the hundred inmates. Veterans warn them to avoid the building unit. At Buna, the new camp, which is virtually deserted, Elie and his father undergo the usual shower, new clothes, and waiting period then they wait in a tent.
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