Journal Entery

Date: 1 January 2008

Entery Number: 10

Page/Quote reflecting on: Pg. 95-96

People through out the years have always had an interest with creatures tearing each other apart. Sometimes for something as small as a piece of bread. This was the case in the cattle cars in which the Jews were contained, where Elie Wiesel witnessed men's madness and willingness to kill for something they desired most. Bread. "One day when we had stopped, a workman took a piece of bread out of his bag and threw it into a wagon. There was a stampede. Dozens of starving men fought each other to the death for a few crumbs. The German workmen took a lively interest in this spectacle." Men fighting men, brothers fighting brothers, sons fighting fathers, all for a piece of bread. It's crazy and really sad. "'Meir. Meir, my boy! Don't you recognize me? I'm your father...you're hurting me...you're killing your father! I've got some bread...for you too...for you too....'" It's absolutely insane that anyone could do that to their father. It's crazy what harsh conditions and lack of food can do to a person. Other workmen and people joined in, throwing bread and watched as the went crazy and killed for food. The first guy didn't know that he was to start what soon became a death rampage for food but the others after him did. The first guy was just being generous not knowing the consequences of his actions but the others after him and maybe him later on just wanted to see them fight and to see to what extent the men would go to for food. People can be so mean, so simpleminded, and very uncaring. Men's desire to see blood has lasted through out the years and nothing good has ever come from it.