In this piece of the memoir told from Elie’s perspective, Elie and his father had just been separated from his mother and sister, and were walking towards the crematorium at Auschwitz. Elie thinks they are going to be sent to the crematory and burned alive. He leans over to his father and explains his plan: “If that is so, I don’t want to wait here. I’m going to run into the electric wire. That would be better than slow agony in the flames.” When he tells this to his father, it gives the thought that sometimes, when people are faced with extremely intense situations and feel a huge pain will soon engulf them, they decide instead to look for an easier way out of the problem so they don’t have to fight against it. An outside example for this can be found possibly when someone is given a very hard task to do, they might look for an easier way to do it, or get out of doing it in general. Possibly when given a hard task as classwork, a student might cheat, look up help, or just not do it! Elie, in a way, has the same feeling. Rather than having to suffer a slow, burning agony inside the flames, he would rather jump out of line and take a quick and painless death so he won’t have to feel the horrible situation of the
In this piece of the memoir told from Elie’s perspective, Elie and his father had just been separated from his mother and sister, and were walking towards the crematorium at Auschwitz. Elie thinks they are going to be sent to the crematory and burned alive. He leans over to his father and explains his plan: “If that is so, I don’t want to wait here. I’m going to run into the electric wire. That would be better than slow agony in the flames.” When he tells this to his father, it gives the thought that sometimes, when people are faced with extremely intense situations and feel a huge pain will soon engulf them, they decide instead to look for an easier way out of the problem so they don’t have to fight against it. An outside example for this can be found possibly when someone is given a very hard task to do, they might look for an easier way to do it, or get out of doing it in general. Possibly when given a hard task as classwork, a student might cheat, look up help, or just not do it! Elie, in a way, has the same feeling. Rather than having to suffer a slow, burning agony inside the flames, he would rather jump out of line and take a quick and painless death so he won’t have to feel the horrible situation of the