Eli blog post #5

This unit forever changed my veiw on the Holocaust. Although I can’t  relate to the struggles of a survivor's it is difficult just covering this topic in a classroom. I have new respectance for survivors and their bravery, and for those who perished. Overall this topic has changed the way I thought of the Holocaust. Mainly because I hadn't known much about the Holocaust and this new knowledge horrified and disgusted me.

After reading Night, by Elie Wiesel I realized how scaring experiences

destroy everything you used to love. There is a clear difference in behavior at the beginning and end of the book. Countless times in the book Elie talks about how he has no reason to live. Towards the end of the book Elies reaction to his father's death was blank and emotionless. In the beginning of the book he is a lively happy person. It scared me how people change from one person to another when their survival instincts trigger. I found that people didn't just die  but they were tortured emotionally and physically.

I feel like it would be useful to educate people on the Holocaust based on how little I knew before so they could discuss it respectively.

Eli blog post #4

Hope

Gazing off into the distance

There they went, defeated, their bundles, their lives in tow,

having left behind their homes, their childhood

Time had slowed down.

When had we left our homes?

Her little boy was crying

She looked straight into my eyes

She said

“Hitler will not be able to harm us”

“I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else.

He alone has kept his promises”

After a long silence, he gave No response

In less than three days

I had arrived. In Birkenau.

Hope was still alive.

Eli blog post three

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Woman and their children are getting of a train. They departed of the train into Auschwitz- Birkenau. This photograph was taken at the end of may 1954. By Bernhardt Walter and Ernst Hofmann as a camp commandant. The jews in the picture came from Carpatho, Ukraine. The source I got this picture from told me who and where the people came from.

Eli Blog post #2

In the book Night, by Elie Wiesel one of the most recurring themes is luck. What are the odds that someone would tell Eliezer that he should say he is 18. "No. You're eighteen." (Wisel 30) This is one of the most important scenes in the book, if this hadn't happened Elies tale would've ended in the third chapter. I fell luck is also one of the most interesting themes. It is so weird to think how only a tiny mistake you make could lead you to death. A good sub theme for luck would be family. Mainly because he was lucky to have his father with him. One of the main  reasons Elie stays calm throughout this is because he has his father with him. He has a wise role model to guide Eliezer through the holocaust.

Another lucky thing that happened was when his foot got infected, “Actually, being in the infirmary was not bad at all: we were en- titled to good bread, a thicker soup. No more bell, no more roll call, no more work. From time to time, I was able to send a piece of bread to my father. ” (Weisel 78) This gave him two weeks of rest and no work. The reason the infirmary was good was because you get more food better beds and do not have to work. Even though you still had to go through selection he was still treated better. Which is beneficial due to the fact that it was winter.

Eli blog post #1

In the book Night, by Elie Wiesel the parts I found most moving was how trapped the people seemed. They were forced to wait for a fate which they had no knowledge of.

“They went defeated, their bundles, their lives in tow, having left behind their homes, their childhood.” (Weisel 17)

the people have no choice or say on where they had to go, and if they object they get shot. Another thing I was saddened by was the conditions they were put in. They had to stand in a small building sometimes for days on end without food or anything sanitary waiting for a truck to come and take them to death.

One interesting choice to make in the writing was to have two different narratives in the book. One that explained what was happening in the story and another that explained what was going to happen.

"The yellow star? So what? It's not l e t h a l ...

(Poor Father! Of what then did you die?)” (Weisle 11)

In such scenarios similar to this, there is one narrator giving the characters thoughts or actions. A second narrator then will sometimes tell you the effect of their action, thought.