The Devil's Arithmetic
What happened at the first stop at the beginning of chapter 11
Things that happened at the beginning
Things that happened at the beginning
The train ride lasts for four days and nights, during which several old women pass away. The train only makes two stops on its route. At the first the prisoners are allowed some filthy water from a bucket. The dead child is taken from its mother and discarded behind a horse trough. At the second stop their boxcar is not opened.