I couldn't stop reading this book until the end. It was pretty short and I don't read on my own time. I like to read more documentary or how to books. I really am enjoying this process.
This part of the book is interesting with thinks getting closer to the end. Elie becomes disabled as he gets an operation on his infected heel on his foot. He gets to hang out in the hospital but is afraid of being there. They all live in fear on dying everyday. He and his father are no longer in the same area but everyday they connect at some point. Rumors swept the camp that liberation was near. Cannons could be heard in the distance.
"It was like an injection of morphine..." this is what the rumors felt like.
The same day they heard this rumor is when they needed to evacuate! The Russians were close and the camp was to be taken to somewhere deep in Germany.
"The camp had become a hive of activity." I like this descriptive sentence. A hive of bees is so crazy with bees flying in all directions making it hard to track where they are going.
This would begin a journey for all prisoners in the freezing cold weather. Elie decided to make the journey even though his foot had not healed yet. If he would've stayed they would've killed him.
"How much longer would our lives be lived from one "last night" to the next?"
"Poor clowns, wider than tall, more dead than alive, poor creatures whose ghostly faces peeked out from layers of prisoner's clothes! Poor clowns!"
Great visual as he describes how they looked as they prepared for the evacuation.
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