JOurnal Entery

Date: 29 December 2007

Entery Number: 6

Page/Quote reflecting on: Pgs. 52-53

Personal gain and greediness. That's what Franek was up to. Franek was a foreman and had noticed Elie's gold crown. He tried to persuade Elie to give it to him but he wouldn't. "But alas, Franek knew where to touch me; he knew my weak point. My father had never done military service,and he never succeeded in marching in step...This was Franek's chance to torment my father and to thrash him savagely every day." They ended up giving into Franek but and Elie had to give up a ration of food and his tooth to a dentist who pulled his tooth out with a rusty spoon. Just going to the dentist and getting a filling is painful and that's with shots to numb the nerves. Imagine not having anything to numb the pain and having a rusty old spoon to pull it out instead of actual dental tools. THat would hurt so bad. But anyway. Franek was a real jerk. He beat Mr. Wiesel just to get Elie to give him his tooth and after he finally gave it up he had one of his rations taken away so that the dentist could take out the tooth. What a sleezy guy. After that Franek was a little nicer to him but it didn't last long.