Pages 47-65

In section four of Night, Eliezer and his father are chosen by a Kapo to work in a warehouse counting electrical fittings after they completed their medical exams. This is an easy job compared to other jobs. Soon after they start working, Eliezer has to have his gold tooth removed, but he is able to keep it after he delays and the dentist is sent away to be hanged. The Kapo in charge of Eliezer's work crew is Idek, who will randomly become very violent. One day, he beats up Eliezer for no reason. Then, a French woman next to Eliezer gives him comfort and kindness, and he later sees her in Paris after the war. Then, soon after Eliezer is beaten, his father is also beaten from Idek, but Eliezer becomes angry at his father instead of Idek. Later on, Franek, the prison foreman, demands to have Eliezer's gold tooth and beats Eliezer's father until he gives it to him. Eliezer also gets beaten by Idek once again when he sees Idek with a girl. Later in the section, an air raid on Buna occurs. During this, a man is shot when he tries to drink some soup out of two couldrons that were filled with it. A week later, the Nazi's install a gallows in the camp, and all of the inmates are forced to watch their friends being hanged. During the hanging of a young boy, someone says "For God's sake, where is God?" and Eliezer thinks "Where He is? This is where- hanging here from this gallows..."

In pages 47-65, Eliezer and his father really find out what people think of them and what the concentration camps have turned themsleves and the Jews into. They are constantly beaten, and they have to watch others being tortured and killed. Eliezer now thinks that bread and soup are the most important things in his life, he no longer looks at his father the same, and he continues to think unfondly of God.

I think that this section of the story shows how the Jews no longer help or care about one another, and all they care about is bread and soup. They seem to be brainwashed from their horrible conditions, even to a point where they don't care about life or death. This shows how the Jews really lived their lives during the worst times in the concentration camps, and I think that this truly explains how horrible the Jews lives had become.