Q. How was Elie able to stay with his father when the selection was made?
How did elie help his father when the selection was made ? He saves him by staying by his side and pushing him on as they were forced to run nonstop from their camp in buna.
Q. What mix of emotions does Eliezer feel after his father’s death?
How does Elie feel after the death of his father? Elie felt numb and was extremely upset about the death of his father but he could not cry for him, for he had no tears left.
Q. What does Elie refuse to give the aide in order to get into a good Kommando?
He asked if Elie wanted to be in a good Kommando. Elie says yes if he is able to say with his father. The aide says he can do it for a small payment, for Elie to give him his shoes. He bribes Elie with a ration of bread with margarine and new shoes but Elie still refuses.
Q. Why is the hanging of the Pipel so emotional for the prisoners group of answer choices?
Why is the hanging of the pipel so emotional for the prisoners? The pipel is so young and angelic looking. Why does Elie end up having to have an operation? With what instrument is Elie’s gold crown removed with?
Q. How is it that Elie and his father survive the first selection off the train?
How is it that Elie and his father survive the first selection off the train? The first selection was men and women, and they had survived because men were painted in a light that they were strong and could do the best work.
Q. Why is Elie angry with his father right after?
Why is Elie angry with his father right after they debark from the train at the camp? His father wanted to give up and be left to die. Elie thought that it would be easier for himself if his father died, but was ashamed for thinking so of his own parent.
Q. What happens to Elie’s father at the end of Chapter 8?
Elie’s father dies in Chapter 8 when he is taken to the crematorium while Elie is asleep. Chlomo’s health progressively deteriorates during their long march to Buchenwald so that he is barely alive, yet Elie desperately keeps him from dying.
Q. What is Juliek’s final act before he dies?
Overall, Juliek’s last act was to play Beethoven on his violin for the malnourished, exhausted Jewish prisoners before he passed away later that night.
Q. Why does Juliek die?
That night, Juliek and his violin are crushed, symbolizing the Nazis’ ruthless crushing of the human spirit in the concentration camps.
Q. What does Juliek fear?
What does Juliek fear? That someone will break his violin. He dies and his violin gets crushed/broke later on.
Q. What prompts Juliek to play that evening?
fragment of a Beethoven concerto on the violin he has managed to keep the entire time he was at Auschwitz. What do you think prompts Juliek to play that evening? Beethoven was a German composer who the Jewish prisoners were forbidden to play, so in a way, this is an act of resistance.
Q. Why was Juliek violin so important to him?
Juliek was a boy from Poland who played violin in the Buna orchestra. He played a concerto from Beethoven before he died. Why is the violin so important to Juliek? It was all that Juliek had left, and a reminder of his life before the concentration camps.
Q. What does the violin symbolize?
The violin and other string instruments represent cold, sadness, tranquility, sympathy, fragility, and joy (Vivaldi’s “Spring” for instance).
Q. What does it mean when you dream about playing the violin?
When you hear a violin in your dream, it’s thought to symbolize peace and harmony in your waking life, which could be within yourself or with those closest to you. Violins are also thought to be beautiful and elegant instruments so perhaps you are thinking of someone who you admire in this way.
