Question

When the prisoners were liberated, their first act as free men were throwing themselves on the food and other provisions. Why is it significant that they don’t rush to acts of revenge?

Question 7 options:

A. They are too happy to be free.


B. All they care about is returning home.


C. They have lost the will to fight and know that they don't have the strength to stand up to such terrors.


D. They don't realize they have been freed.

Answer 1

Answer: The correct answer is A. They are too happy to be free

Explanation: Elie remembers the events that occured after they were freed.

Our first act as free men was to throw ourselves onto the provisions. That's all we thought about. No thought of revenge, or of parents, only of bread.

These people had endured terrible losses and unspeakable torture at the hands of the SS, but they weren't consumed with revenge or hatred.