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Death And Dying Theme
One of the themes I chose was death and suffering. There was constantly death and suffering happening in the book.My abstact theme is love. Elie is constantly showing love for his father. Both of the themes are demonstrated in the book however love is not very often talked about. I will start with the theme of death and suffering.
Death and suffering happens all throughout the book. For example with the cattle cars with Mrs. Schachter. Also think to leaving the ghetto because of the thirst and long march with hungarian police shouting at them and hitting them. Another thing to think about is being hit and being called lazy good for nothings by the hungarian police.
That was only the beginning. Then they were sent to the blocks to work in the

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