1A. Dehumanization: deprive of human qualities
1B. When the prisoners first arrive at the concentration camps, their hopes are usually still high about the outcome of everything, despite the circumstances. As time continues, people start to care more about themselves and their own survival rather than others. Their main goal is to get out of the camps and survive the duration of the war. Every man for himself.
1C. Eli notices that the sons and fathers that stayed together helped each other at first, but it was always the son that ditched the father. The main reason was the father being too weak to pass the next selection, and should or could not be helped in any way. The sons took their father's bread, even beating them up for it and leaving them for dead in order to insure their own survival. Eli doesn't think that this is the right thing to do, but there's nothing he can do in these types of situations except sit and watch.
2A. "Terror was stronger than hunger. Suddenly, we saw the door of Block 37 open imperceptibly. A man appeared, crawling like a worm in the direction of the cauldrons. Hundreds of eyes followed his movements. Hundreds of men crawled with him, scraping their knees with his on the gravel. Every heart trembled, but with envy above all. The man had dared."
"Not far away, I noticed an old man dragging himself along on all fours... A shadow had just loomed up near him. The shadow threw itself upon him. Felled to the ground, stunned with blows, the old man cried: 'Meir. meir, my boy! Don't you recognize me? I'm your father... you're hurting me... you're killing your father! I've got some bread... for you too... for you too...' The old man again whispered something, let out a rattle, and died amid the general indifference. his son searched him, took the bread, and began to devour it."
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