8A Global Studies: This blog is a forum for you to share with the class your reactions to Night, a memoir by Elie Wiesel. You are required to write a post based on the assigned reading. Each writing post should be at least 200 words in length. In addition to posting your response to the reading, take time to read at least two other posts and comment briefly following the guidelines we have set forth in class. If two people have already commented on a post, please choose another.
Tuesday, October 3, 2017
Robbins Blog Post #1
The book leads off with incredible writing and extremely detailed scenes. Narration in the book is an interesting topic with me noticing that he narrates in two perspectives. One is him narrating as his 14 year old self and one at the time of the writing of the memory. An example of this is on page “The yellow star? Oh well, what of it? You don’t die of it…” (Poor Father! Of what then did you die?)(11 Wiesel). Drama and hardship are not illustrated to often in the start of the book However you can see Elie building up to the destructive hatred of the Nazi’s. Moshe is one of the examples of an early story of the horror yet no one believes him because he is known to be an outsider and a foreigner. However There were parts in the book where I found the hardship to be well illustrated for example on pg. 8 “On the seventh day of passover the curtain rose. The Germans arrested the leaders of the Jewish Community. From that moment, everything happened very quickly. The race towards death had begun.” For me this was the turning point were stuff started getting harder and harder to read.
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Henry, I really like how you start off with giving an explanation about how the book made you feel and what scene made you feel that way. However now that we are farther long in the book, are there any other scenes that make you feel this way as well? I also like how you included how he is writing in two different perspectives. I agree with this and I find it interesting on how you can tell especially with the quote you have, that there really is a difference between the two perspectives.
ReplyDeleteHenry, I think your start was well done, I think your quotes were well done, could you incorporate the emotion into the explanation of the quote, I think that would improve the writing!
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