Inferences
An inference is a conclusion
based on evidence or reasoning.
Make an inference regarding
the following passages. Explain your thought process by
including the word BECAUSE. You may need more information so I provided page
numbers where you can find each passage.
1. (p.
47-48): “Buna is a very good camp. One can hold one’s own here. The most
important thing is not to be assigned to the construction Kommando…”
What can you
infer about the construction Kommando?
2.
(52): “After your meal, you’ll go to see the dentist.”
Infer
why the dentist wants to see Elie.
3.
(p. 53): “Bite your lips, little brother…Don’t cry. Keep your anger, your hate,
for another day, for later. The day will come but not now…Wait.”
What can you infer the French woman meant by “The day
will come”?
4.
(p.56): Fanek became pleasant again. From time to time, he even gave me extra
soup.
Infer why Franek is treating
Elie nicely. (This is after Franek repeatedly beat his father for not marching
correctly and then ultimately took Elie’s gold crown).
5.
(p. 60): We were not afraid. And yet, if a bomb had fallen on the blocks, it
would have claimed hundreds of inmates’ lives. But we no longer feared death,
in any event not this particular death.
Infer
as to why they didn’t fear death at the hands of the allies.
6.
(p. 62): The thousands of people who died daily in Auschwitz and Birkenau, in
the crematoria, no longer troubled me. But this boy, leaning against his
gallows, upset me deeply.
Infer
why the hanging of the boy upset Elie so deeply, whereas those killed in the
crematoria no longer did.
7.
(p. 65): “Where is He? This is where- hanging here from this gallows…”
Infer what
Elie means by saying his God is hanging from the gallows.
Homework is to read chapter 6
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