Night Blog Post 2

Night
By: Elie Wiesel
Pages: 48-112 (End)

Prompt:

How do Elie's experiences during the Holocaust change him as a person?

          -Identify at least two major changes, and 'prove' using textual evidence and interpretation, how Eliezer transforms by the end of his memoir.

Throughout the book Elie experiences some major changes in himself. One Major change Elie experienced was in his religious belief. In the beginning Elie narrates, "...I became convinced that Moishe the Beadle would help me enter eternity..." This shows how Elie was really into his religion and believed Moishe could help him enter eternity, at the time at least. Towards the end of the book we see some changes in Elie's beliefs. This is true because in the book Elie says, "And in spite of myself, a prayer formed inside me, a prayer to this God in whom I no longer believed." This shows how toward the end of the Holocaust Elie did not believe in God due to His lack of help.

          Another major change Elie experienced was his behavior towards his father. I see this to be true because in the beginning if the memoir Elie loved his family and never thought of being upset at them. But when Idek started to to beat up his dad he thought, "...I felt anger at that moment, it was not directed at the Kapo but at my father. Why couldn’t he have avoided Idek’s wrath?" This shows how Elie's behavior has changed towards his dad because of the concentration camps in the Holocaust. I can see why he was upset and he was just upset at the fact that his father was getting  hurt and he knew his father could defend himself.

           One last major change Elie experienced was probally when Elie he realizes that this traumatic event should be shared to prevent such actions from happening in the future. I say this because in Elie's "A God Who Remembers" he said, "anything received must be shared." This shows how after thinking about the Holocaust and what happened to him he realized that what happened need to be shared to help prevent something like the Holocaust from happening again. So basically he thought he needed to share his Holocaust experience for the better.

Night Blog Post

Night
By: Elie Wiesel
Pages: 0-46

Prompts:
1. How has the main character changed throughout the story?
2. Why do you think the author wrote this?
3. Write a quote from what you are reading that has meaning for you. Explain

why you chose this quote.

          The main character, Elie Wiesel, has changed a lot since the beginning of the story. For example, in the beginning of the story Elie was very interested in his religion. I know this because in the text Elie says, "...I became convinced that Moishe the Beadle would help me enter eternity..." (5). Later on Elie started to loose confidence in his religion. This is true because in the text Elie says, "As for me, I had ceased to pray. I concurred with job! I was not denying his existence, but I doubted His absolute justice" (45). This shows how is loosing confidence in his religion because he is doubting that what his god is doing is correct.

          I think Elie Wiesel wrote this book to show how horrific events from the Holocaust have scared him and other Jews for life. For example, when Elie sees innocent babies being thrown in a fire to burn is an event that he can never forget. Another event Elie probably will never forget is when he was numbered A-7713. I know that Elie was numbered because in the text he says, "I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name." (42). Elie will also never forget watching his father get slapped just for asking to go to the bathroom. All of these instances are very traumatic but by him writing this memoir he helps young readers like me understand what is going on in a first person point of view.

          In the book I found a quote that had a lot of meaning. The quote is, "Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never." (34). This quote had a lot of meaning to me because Elie is basically saying that he will never forget these things that he has seen and that has happened to him for as long as he lives. I find this very meaningful because Elie is basically scared with traumatizing memories. He even says, "Yes, I did see this, with my own eyes... children thrown into flames. (Is it any wonder that ever since then, sleep tends to elude me?)" (32). This shows how traumatized he is because sleep tends to escape him.

Holocaust AoW Impressions Blog

          One thing I learned from the AoW gallery walk was how Holocaust survivors can relate to Syrian refugees. A way the Holocaust survivors relate to Syrian refugees is because they both share the same horrifying experience of running and hiding constantly to be safe. Now, Holocaust survivors feel sympathy towards these Syrian refugees and want to help by asking Israel to allow more refugees in. Basically, Israel says no but this won't stop these Holocaust survivors from helping these refugees who have the same hardships they did. I say this because more and more Holocaust survivors are becoming aware if the Syrian refugee crisis and want to help immediately.

          Another thing I learned from the AoW gallery walk was how a United States Nazi hunter has one last active case. His name is Eli Rossen Burn and he is believed to have found the last living Nazi. Eli Rossen Burn is going to put this Nazi on trial. The Nazi is 92 years old and may be to old to remember much of what happened. I believe that this case will be rather unfair do to the fact that that this Nazi has a few years left in his life.

Butterfly Thinglink Project

 
Pain Strikes Sparks On Me, The Pain Of Terezin
By: Anonymous

Fifteen beds. Fifteen charts with names,
Fifteen people without a family tree.
Fifteen bodies for whom torture is medicine and pills.
Beds over which the crimson blood of ages spills.
Fifteen bodies that want to live here.
Thirty eyes seeking quietness.
Bald heads that gape from out of the prison.
The holiness of the suffering, which is none of my business.

The loveliness of the air, which day after day
Smells of strangeness and carbolic.
The nurses that carry thermometers
Mothers who grope after a smile.
Food is such a luxury here.
A long, long night, and a brief day.

But anyway, I don't want to leave
The lighted rooms and the burning checks,
Nurses who leave behind them only a shadow
To help the little sufferers.

I'd like to stay here, a small patient,
Waiting the doctor's daily round,
Until, after a long, long time, I'd be well again.

Then I'd like to live
And go back home again.

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Berlin Memorial Blog

Prompts:

1- What did you learn?
2- Why do you think this monument was built?
3- What did you notice about the number of laws passed in certain years?
4- Which restrictions do you think you would have the most trouble dealing with and why?

          I learned about a lot about laws passsed against the Jews in Germay from 1933 to 1945. Today we were able to look at about seventy of the the laws. I learned that and noticed that there was a lot of laws passed between 1933-38 and they only got more and more strict as the years wet on. For example, in 1942 Jewish children were not allowed to go to school which is crazy. I beleive the city of Berlin built the lamppost memorial to show how Germany respects the Jewish now because Hitler clearly showed how Gemany didn't before. This memorial also shows what the Jewish lost in pictures, so the people can possibly reflect on what/how they would have done/felt.

          There was the most amount of laws passed in 1933, 1938, and 1942. I think there was a lot of laws passed in 1933 because that was the start of Adolf Hitler's rule as chancellor of Germany. There were lots of laws past in 1938 because this was the year of the "Night of Shattered Glass (Kristallnacht) and thousands of Jews were put in concentration camps. There was most likey a lot of laws passed in 1942 because war was ending soon and with these laws he started to take away the Jews' civil rights.

          Most of the unbearable laws/restrictions were passed in 1942. One of the laws passed that I would have not been able to deal with was that Jews were not allowed to have milk. I say ths because milk is an essential part of life you need milk in order to have healthy bones, I also drink milk every morning and for lunch. Another law passed that I would not have been able to deal with is having to turn in electrical appliances, bicycles, typewritters, and records. I would not be able to deal with this law because I enjoy riding my bike during the summer and without records I wouldn't be able to listen to music, this law would basically leave me with nothing to do because it is taking away all of the enternament I would have.