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Why did Elie let it happen? What could Elie really have done as an alternative to save his father from dying? He could not have helped his father from being beaten up by the SS guards but he did try to help him from being attacked by his own men in his sleeping barracks. Elie really wanted his father to live. Elie does everything possible to help his father unless it would do harm to himself.
Elie could not have helped his father from being beaten by the SS guards because on Page 284 in the November 2000 issue of Oprah's Magazine, Elie and her have an interview and during the interview he tells about the times in the camp when his father was being beaten and he said, "And i realized that is was when my father, who was sick, called out to me- and I didn't respond, because I was afraid to be beaten up. I let him die." He also was afraid to stand up to the people in the barracks because he said, "That day my father got his portion of bread, and somebody who saw that he was......

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