In 1941, Eliezer<span>, the narrator, is a twelve-year-old boy living in the Transylvanian town of Sighet (then recently annexed to Hungary, now part of Romania). He is the only son in an Orthodox Jewish family that strictly adheres to Jewish tradition and law. His parents are shopkeepers, and his father is highly respected within Sighet’s Jewish community. Eliezer has two older sisters, Hilda and Béa, and a younger sister named Tzipora.</span>
Mama starts working as a dietician helping the camp cooks.
She does this to pay for the warehouse in Los Angeles where the family furnature is.
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Rousseau talks about some of his experiences from he was younger and he talks about how he started to get involved in literature, he even talked about how some experiences made him very sad for a long period of time but that same sadness became happiness when he became older.
A lazy person - a malingerer is someone who is idle and goofs off
