Chapter 2

In this Chapter there in a continues the travel inside the dreadful cattle car. There wasn't much food on the trip and pieces of bread throw to them. A Hungarian officer said the put 80 people in that crammed Cattle Car. The man says if anyone was missing they would be shot like dogs. Eli says it was like a trap and world was sealed from him.

Eli notices that a women he knew named Mrs. Schachter was in the car separated from her family. She seems to go crazy and yells "Fire! Fire! I see Fire! She screams this many times throughout this chapter. People thought she was possessed because she kept on repeating it. She is hit after she screams Fire a 5th time. Soon they arrive at Auschwitz which no one had heard of at that time
The women yells fire again and this time everyone has saw it. The trained stopped and they all saw flames. An officer yells everyone out and immediately everyone smells the flames, the flames of the burning of bodies.

I can't imagine how being in a Cattle Cage with 80 people must of been like. Eli shows how the Jews were treated so wrongly already no even being at the concentration camps yet. There isn't alot of food and on top of that there is a women screaming on the top of her lungs fire. These are the worst conditions you can be in. People were probably literately on top of people in these cars. The worst part at the end of the chapter it says they smelled the the burning of human flesh, i don't know how any one could be in the right mind after experiencing all this, and this was just the beginning.

Preface foward

The preface talks about how if Eli Wiesel were only to write one book this one would be it. He rhetorically asks the reader question of why he wrote the story. One was "Did i write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness, the immense, terrifying madness that had erupted in history and in the conscience of mankind? He talks about why he wrote the story and a little bit of history of the holocaust.

The Foward is by Francois Mauriac. He talks about the cattle cars filled with jewish children and how horrible the concentration maps were. He talks about the Dairy of Anne Frank.

There is a poem wrote my the man and uses the repeption of the word Never throughout it.

Chapter 1

The story begins with an introduction of man named Moishe the Beadle. He is a poor man of the Jewish town of Sighet who tell stories. He is known and liked throughout the town. After a summary about Moishe you get to know the boy. He was a teenager when he met Moishe. The boy in this story asks Moishe why they pray. His answer was "I pray to God withing me for strength to ask Him real questions. Moishe Beadle told a story about how he was able to escape a Concentration camp. he was wounded and was left for dead.

The boy is very religious and hopes to venture into the world. The boys father is also religious. The boys parents both run a stories with the help of Hilda and Bea.

The story started about in a mellow mood but quickly went dramatic. Moishe tells of story of how the Nazi officers tossed babies in the air and killed them. This part made me uneasy.This is extreamly horrible and tells you the horrors of the holocaust. After this point you know that the story can only get worse. Problems quicly arise when you find that the Germans invaded Jewish homes. The Germans force the Jews to get rid of their gold and their precious belongings or they would be killed. The Jews were forced to wear stars. Ghettos were created in Sighet. This story hsows that the Germans didn't the Jews as people. They took everything from thrm and made them live in horrible condtions.