Everyone was crouched side-by-side in the train, death was on every ones minds. Eli looked around at all the deathly looking faces and wondered about his father, he called to him and got no response. The train came to a stop and all the dead were ordered to be thrown off, when two gravediggers came to Eli father, Eli began hitting him as hard as he could. Finally his fathers eyes slowly opened and the men walked away. Twenty dead bodies had been tossed from the train.
Every so often they along the journey they would ride through quiet little German towns. One day passing through a German town, a workingman tossed a piece of bread into the car, other spectators took interest and joined in. A piece came through Eli's car, he had decided not to move, a fierce mod devoured the piece of bread. Durring this, Eli witnessed a son kill his father for a piece of bread, then others killed the boy for that same piece of bread. Eli was only sixteen.
In the same car as Eli and his father was a friend of theirs, a Gardner from back in Buna. One night Eli awoke being strangled, he called to his father who was to weak. so he called for the strongest of all in the car, Mier Katz, the Gardner from Buna, who was known to settle the peace. As they came to the end of their journey, the snow continued to fall progressively, the train came to a halt. From the hundreds who were originally on the train, only twelve were left. Mier Katz decided to stay on the train, they had arrived in Buchenwald.
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