chapter 5

The Chapter starts with one the eve of the Jewish New Year Rosh Hashanah. Elie calls it a cured year in the book. The story says that there was soup served that night that no one touched.

Eli pray says prayer to God, asking him why he is letting this happen. Eli felt that he was terribly alone without God.

It was Yom Kippur and Eli asked himslef if he should fast or not. Eli felt that it was Yom Kipur all year long.

The SS Doctors were to examine Eli and two others named Yossi, Tibi. Yossi and Tibi passed but Eli worried that he was too skinny, too weak and he would be burned in the ovens. It turned out that they didn't examine Eli. Eli finds out that his father though was weak and he would be killed. Eli finds out later that his ftaher survied but a man named Akiba Drumer was killed. Eli in the winter time hurts his foot. The SS soilders evacuated the building because they though the Russians were going to come. Eli is left in the snow with his foot bleeding.

It is freighting to think that you have to worry about your own life be taken away when your about to be examined. even more you might pass but then you have to worry about a close friend or family member being killed. I still don't know how Eli can still be sane after having to go through all of this.