Sunday, February 6, 2011

Where does the train finally arrive at the end of chapter 7 in Night?

The train in the seventh section of the book is heading to
the Buchenwald camp.  It is here where Elie will be liberated, as this will be the last
camp to which he and his father are shipped.  There are some very important elements of
the story that happen on this train journey. The fact that Elie's father appears dead at
one moment is significant because it foreshadows his eventual death at Buchenwald.  I
think that another significant moment is the scene where the father steals extra bread,
and his son, not recognizing that his father took extra for both of them, helps in
pulverizing his father.  The son then takes the bread for himself.  The ultimate sadness
is when others on the train beat the son to death.  In the end, both corpses are laid
next to one another only to be thrown out to make more room.  This becomes a memory that
haunts Eliezer, again foreshadowing a betrayal between loved ones.  The train journey to
Buchenwald serves to be the essence of the seventh section of the
narrative.

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