Personally, this chapter really made me angry. The people in this story are treated so terribly, I could fell myself getting a little hot under the collar. In this portion of the book, we see that the people have high times, and low times. They first arrive at Auschwitz, only to have an evil mad scientist conduct them into lines that decided if your life was extended or not. Once they are there, they are just removed or anything they have on them; including their hair. After that they are given cramped quarters to sleep in.
When they wake up, they do get some food, and that cheers them up quite a bit. They get regular meals,and at the end of the day they must go through roll call. This was a way to make sure all the prisoners were all present and accounted for. Wiesel meets a relative; a cousin. He does not recognize this person at first, but his son does. Out of sympathy, his son lies and tells him his cousin's family is alive and well.
Thought it may not seem it, I like to think that I have a strong sense of justice when it comes to bigger things like this. This really made me upset because this is the kind of thing that would actually happen at camps. To know that this actually happened, and that it's not just a story, really gets to me.
I really the beginning of your first paragraph. It really hooks the readers.
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