All in all, Mrs. Schacter was a very valuable character to the story, due to her fear and paranoia she projected onto the other characters. Mrs. Schacter was brought into the story as they are all on the convoys getting transported to the concentration camps. She overall was delirious on the trip; claiming to see fire at every turn. However, although the other passengers were in disbelief of her "craziness", her paranoia seemed to prove true after all. As the convoy turned into Auschwitz, her fellow prisoners found that there was indeed a fire for bodies to be cremated, and it was then when all the passengers became afraid of what was to come. Mrs. Schacter represented the fear as well as the pain that was soon to come to the Jewish people during the Holocaust, and her character really helped change the mood of the story into complete fear. A man came up to Elie and his father and said "poor devils, you are heading for the crematorium"; really emphasizing her initial fear that she brought to the group.
Part 2:
Elie had a gold crown filling in his tooth, which proved to be a good source of money for the Nazis. So as prisoners arrived to Auschwitz, prisoners were forced to give up their riches, gold, silver or jewelry. Elie proved to be somewhat stubborn about his filling and decided to fake sick to avoid the dentist. However it was pointless, the new dentist was not sympathetic to the "sick" boy. But luckily he seemed to avoid the pulling after much work. As Elie was in prison and was tired of the criticism that was given to him as he began to teach his father, he took a rusty spoon and removed his "stubborn" gold crown filling.
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