“They were burning something. A lorry drew up at the pit and delivered its load- little children. Babies! Yes, I saw it- saw it with my own eyes… those children in flames”(p. 30)
When I read this quote, I was shocked. The way he described what he saw happen to these children was disturbing. When I read this quote, I kept thinking of a wheelbarrow full of kids and babies being dumped into a fire. Thousands of kids were burned right in front of you is a scary thought. I thought it was terrifying enough that adults were being beat to death and burned. Finding out that this kind of stuff happened to kids is terrible. I could never imagine being a child during this time and watching other children being burned. Elie could have been one of the kids that were getting burned. He got lucky when the soldier told him and his father to lie about their age. If they didn’t lie they would have both died very early on into it. That one lie saved their lives. Elie and his fathers new age was in the age range of being able to work. Their original ages would have killed them. Also when the family got hung and everyone was forced to walk by and look at the two adults dead and the one child fighting for his life. The child did not die right away because he was so light that his weight didn’t pull him down hard enough. I would never want to see a little kids struggling to stay alive. Even though he wouldn’t survive, he had to suffer longer and die slowly and painfully. If I was in the death camps, I would much rather be killed in a way that it would be sudden, not suffering.
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