Sophia-Blog Post #2

In this section the author has shown many examples of family.  Elie is slowly but surely losing his family. For example “yet that was the moment when i parted from my mother” (29). When Elie gets separated from his family he doesn't realize at the time that he won't see her again. He is obviously worried, scared and confused but he does not understand the extent of the situation. Throughout this section Elie had many family troubles and he lost so much faith and hope. "I stood petrified. What had happen to me? My father had just been struck, in front of me, and I had not even blinked” (39). Elie had just seen his father being tortured and beaten. He had no clue what was happening and out of nowhere his father gets hurt by a German soldier and he doesn't know how to feel. He’s asking himself what his father did that was that bad. His father did one thing that the German soldiers didn't like and he gets beaten. His family was separated and now his parents are getting attacked for little things. Elie is beginning to loose his father emotionally. As the book goes on both Elie and his father are beginning to change. They are both second guessing everything they ever knew Elie is living through the worst and he has to live with these images and thoughts forever. Elie is losing hope and faith more and more and his family begins to fall apart.