Question

How does Eliezer respond when he fears his father has been “selected”? When he discovers that he has indeed been “selected”? When he learns his father has avoided the “final selection”?

Answer 1

Answer:When he thinks that his father was selected, he feels immense worry and anxiousness and is scared for him, and fears that he may lose his father, someone who is one of the only important people left in his current life. When he learns that his father may have been selected, he receives a gift from him, a knife and spoon, his final legacy and inheritance (as thought by him at the time), and is in immense pain and shock. When he finds out that his father avoided the final selection, he feels like a wave of relief washes over him, and he thinks of this as a miracle, and also as a sign that things may have a chance of improving in the future.

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Answer 2

When Eliezer fears his father has been selected, he is scared. He fears he will finally lose his father.

When he learns his father has been selected, he receives his father's knife and spoon. These items are the only things his father can give his son before he dies.

When Eliezer learns his father has avoided the second selection, he is happy and relieved. He views it as a miracle. Soon, he and his father choose to be evacuated rather than stay in the infirmary when the Russian army closes in.