1) Page 4
Quote: "Babies were thrown into the air and machine gunners used them as targets."
"Through long days and nights he went from one Jewish house to another, telling the story of Malka, the young girl who had taken three days to die, and of Tobias, the tailor, who had begged to be killed before his sons..."
The first quote seems so unreal. I don't understand how people can be so cruel to infants who have no say in anything so its sad how they just kill them. No one believed the stories Moshe the Beadle had been telling everyone when they were actually reality. I would hate to witness such cruel acts upon innocent people. This story is already getting sad, I can't imagine what the rest will be like.
2) Page 11
Quote: "Deportation"
"Each person will be allowed to take only his own personal belongings. A bag on our backs, some food, a few clothes. Nothing else."
Leaving everything behind except food is such a hard thing to do. For the children, they basically have to say goodbye to their childhood. I would hate leaving everything I grew up with behind. They don't even have a say in the whole situation.
Page 16
Quote: "My father wept. It was the first time I had ever seen him weep. I had never imagined that he could."
To see a father weep feels like the end of the world. You always look up to your father for support and you expect them to be strong and keep you together. But when your father weeps you know something terrible has happened and theres nothing you can do about it.
3) Page 22
Quote: "There are eighty of you in this wagon, "added the German officer. "If anyone is missing you'll all be shot like dogs..."
Page 23
"Jews, listen to me! I can see a fire! There are huge flames! Its a furnace!"
Page 27
"And I did not know that in that place, at that moment, I was parting from my mother and Tzipora forever."
The Germans treat the Jews like dogs and its sad to see them going through so much and not even being able to do anything about it. I would want to kill myself if I was treated like that. No one believed Madame Schachter when she said she saw a fire. I bet she pictures the crematory right before her eyes when she saw a fire. To be separated from my mother and siblings forever would just kill me inside. You don't know how there doing and what kind of condition they're in. The boy also didnt know that was the last time they were ever going to see each other so that must be heart-breaking.
4) Page 30
"They were burning something Alorry drew up at the pit and delivered its load- little children. Mabies! Yes, I saw it-saw it with my own eyes...those children in the flames."
Do they not have a heart or soul, because the Germans don't seem affected one bit killing and toruring innocent human beings. I would be scarred for life if I saw a baby being burnt alive right before me, and I couldn't say or do anything to stop it.
5) Page 46
"Actually he was not looking for decayed teeth, but gold ones. Anyone who had gold in his mouth had his number added to a list. I myself had a gold crown."
What is so great about a gold crown? Is it worth a lot of money? I would hate to lose everything I owned, and on top of that they take the gold in your mouth. Do the people who get written down punished?
6) Page 54
"I went up and saw Idek with a yound Polish girl, half-naked, on a mattress."
The boy shouldn't have been so nosy and minded his own business. He should've taken advantage of having no work. Idek and that young Polish girl must have been so embarrassed. But I find it nasty that he doesn't do it on his own time and somewhere more private. Eliezer got hit with the whip a number of times, I don't know how he could stand the pain. I'm sure Ideks message was clearly understood.
7) Page 62
"But the thrid rope was still moving; bieng so light, the child was still alive..."
That poor little servant died a slow agaonizing death. That must have been torture for him, especially since he knew that theres not a thing he can do to stop it. I feel so bad for the boy.
8) Page 74
I cannot stand the cold so I have no idea if I would be able to live in that weather. Eliezer's foot sounds really bad, the sole was full of puss. How did he walk on it before? Good thing he got the surgery done before it was too late.
9) Page 83
"The commandment announced that we had already covered forty-two miles since we left."
Forty-two miles, wow! I get tired after a mile and they had no choice but to keep going. Everyone was a man for himself out there, they no longer cared for there parents or anyone. Most of them just wanted to sleep, but little did they know that most of them were sleeping for good.
10) Page 92
"As we were not allowed to bend down, everyone took out his spoon and ate the accumulated snow of his neighbor's back."
That is a pretty smart idea, it must have quenched their thirst a bit. I can just picture men eating snow off their neighbors backs. Atleast they weren't thirsty afterwards!
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Vocabulary
1. Prostrate:
1. to cast (oneself) face down on the ground in humility, submission, or adoration.
2. to lay flat, as on the ground.
3. to throw down level with the ground.
2. Interlude:
1. an intervening episode, period, space, etc.
2. a short dramatic piece, esp. of a light or farcical character, formerly introduced between the parts or acts of miracle and morality plays or given as part of other entertainments.
3. one of the early English farces or comedies, as those written by John Heywood, which grew out of such pieces.
3. Reprieve:
1. to delay the impending punishment or sentence of (a condemned person).
2. to relieve temporarily from any evil.
3. a respite from impending punishment, as from execution of a sentence of death.
4. Rations:
1. a fixed allowance of provisions or food, esp. for soldiers or sailors or for civilians during a shortage: a daily ration of meat and bread.
2. an allotted amount: They finally saved up enough gas rations for the trip.
3. provisions: Enough rations were brought along to feed all the marchers.
5. Dysentery:
1. Pathology. an infectious disease marked by inflammation and ulceration of the lower part of the bowels, with diarrhea that becomes mucous and hemorrhagic.
2. DIARRHEA
6. Robust:
1. strong and healthy; hardy; vigorous: a robust young man; a robust faith; a robust mind.
2. strongly or stoutly built: his robust frame.
3. suited to or requiring bodily strength or endurance: robust exercise.
7. Quarantine:
1. a strict isolation imposed to prevent the spread of disease.
2. a period, originally 40 days, of detention or isolation imposed upon ships, persons, animals, or plants on arrival at a port or place, when suspected of carrying some infectious or contagious disease.
3. a system of measures maintained by governmental authority at ports, frontiers, etc., for preventing the spread of disease.
8. Apathy:
1. absence or suppression of passion, emotion, or excitement.
2. lack of interest in or concern for things that others find moving or exciting.
9. Humane:
1. characterized by tenderness, compassion, and sympathy for people and animals, esp. for the suffering or distressed: humane treatment of horses.
2. of or pertaining to humanistic studies.
10. Grimace:
1. a facial expression, often ugly or contorted, that indicates disapproval, pain, etc.
2. to make grimaces.
11. Nocturnal:
1. of or pertaining to the night
2. done, occurring, or coming at night: nocturnal visit.
3. active at night: nocturnal animals.
12. Livid:
1. having a discolored, bluish appearance caused by a bruise, congestion of blood vessels, strangulation, etc., as the face, flesh, hands, or nails.
2. dull blue; dark, grayish-blue.
3. enraged; furiously angry: Willful stupidity makes me absolutely livid.
13. Pious:
1. having or showing a dutiful spirit of reverence for God or an earnest wish to fulfill religious obligations.
2. characterized by a hypocritical concern with virtue or religious devotion; sanctimonious.
3. practiced or used in the name of real or pretended religious motives, or for some ostensibly good object; falsely earnest or sincere: a pious deception.
14. Interminable:
1. incapable of being terminated; unending: an interminable job.
2. monotonously or annoyingly protracted or continued; unceasing; incessant: I can't stand that interminable clatter.
3. having no limits: an interminable desert.
15. Wizened:
1. withered; shriveled: a wizened old man; wizened features.
16. Morale:
1. emotional or mental condition with respect to cheerfulness, confidence, zeal, etc., esp. in the face of opposition, hardship, etc.: the morale of the troops.
17. Infernal:
1. hellish; fiendish; diabolical: an infernal plot.
2. extremely troublesome, annoying, etc.; outrageous: an infernal nuisance.
3. of, inhabiting, or befitting hell.
18. Refuge:
1. shelter or protection from danger, trouble, etc.: to take refuge from a storm.
2. a place of shelter, protection, or safety.
3. anything to which one has recourse for aid, relief, or escape.
19. Oppressive:
1. burdensome, unjustly harsh, or tyrannical: an oppressive king; oppressive laws.
2. causing discomfort by being excessive, intense, elaborate, etc.: oppressive heat.
3. distressing or grievous: oppressive sorrows.
20. Expelled:
1. to drive or force out or away; discharge or eject: to expel air from the lungs; to expel an invader from a country.
2. to cut off from membership or relations: to expel a student from a college.
1. to cast (oneself) face down on the ground in humility, submission, or adoration.
2. to lay flat, as on the ground.
3. to throw down level with the ground.
2. Interlude:
1. an intervening episode, period, space, etc.
2. a short dramatic piece, esp. of a light or farcical character, formerly introduced between the parts or acts of miracle and morality plays or given as part of other entertainments.
3. one of the early English farces or comedies, as those written by John Heywood, which grew out of such pieces.
3. Reprieve:
1. to delay the impending punishment or sentence of (a condemned person).
2. to relieve temporarily from any evil.
3. a respite from impending punishment, as from execution of a sentence of death.
4. Rations:
1. a fixed allowance of provisions or food, esp. for soldiers or sailors or for civilians during a shortage: a daily ration of meat and bread.
2. an allotted amount: They finally saved up enough gas rations for the trip.
3. provisions: Enough rations were brought along to feed all the marchers.
5. Dysentery:
1. Pathology. an infectious disease marked by inflammation and ulceration of the lower part of the bowels, with diarrhea that becomes mucous and hemorrhagic.
2. DIARRHEA
6. Robust:
1. strong and healthy; hardy; vigorous: a robust young man; a robust faith; a robust mind.
2. strongly or stoutly built: his robust frame.
3. suited to or requiring bodily strength or endurance: robust exercise.
7. Quarantine:
1. a strict isolation imposed to prevent the spread of disease.
2. a period, originally 40 days, of detention or isolation imposed upon ships, persons, animals, or plants on arrival at a port or place, when suspected of carrying some infectious or contagious disease.
3. a system of measures maintained by governmental authority at ports, frontiers, etc., for preventing the spread of disease.
8. Apathy:
1. absence or suppression of passion, emotion, or excitement.
2. lack of interest in or concern for things that others find moving or exciting.
9. Humane:
1. characterized by tenderness, compassion, and sympathy for people and animals, esp. for the suffering or distressed: humane treatment of horses.
2. of or pertaining to humanistic studies.
10. Grimace:
1. a facial expression, often ugly or contorted, that indicates disapproval, pain, etc.
2. to make grimaces.
11. Nocturnal:
1. of or pertaining to the night
2. done, occurring, or coming at night: nocturnal visit.
3. active at night: nocturnal animals.
12. Livid:
1. having a discolored, bluish appearance caused by a bruise, congestion of blood vessels, strangulation, etc., as the face, flesh, hands, or nails.
2. dull blue; dark, grayish-blue.
3. enraged; furiously angry: Willful stupidity makes me absolutely livid.
13. Pious:
1. having or showing a dutiful spirit of reverence for God or an earnest wish to fulfill religious obligations.
2. characterized by a hypocritical concern with virtue or religious devotion; sanctimonious.
3. practiced or used in the name of real or pretended religious motives, or for some ostensibly good object; falsely earnest or sincere: a pious deception.
14. Interminable:
1. incapable of being terminated; unending: an interminable job.
2. monotonously or annoyingly protracted or continued; unceasing; incessant: I can't stand that interminable clatter.
3. having no limits: an interminable desert.
15. Wizened:
1. withered; shriveled: a wizened old man; wizened features.
16. Morale:
1. emotional or mental condition with respect to cheerfulness, confidence, zeal, etc., esp. in the face of opposition, hardship, etc.: the morale of the troops.
17. Infernal:
1. hellish; fiendish; diabolical: an infernal plot.
2. extremely troublesome, annoying, etc.; outrageous: an infernal nuisance.
3. of, inhabiting, or befitting hell.
18. Refuge:
1. shelter or protection from danger, trouble, etc.: to take refuge from a storm.
2. a place of shelter, protection, or safety.
3. anything to which one has recourse for aid, relief, or escape.
19. Oppressive:
1. burdensome, unjustly harsh, or tyrannical: an oppressive king; oppressive laws.
2. causing discomfort by being excessive, intense, elaborate, etc.: oppressive heat.
3. distressing or grievous: oppressive sorrows.
20. Expelled:
1. to drive or force out or away; discharge or eject: to expel air from the lungs; to expel an invader from a country.
2. to cut off from membership or relations: to expel a student from a college.
Sunday, January 4, 2009
Night Questions
Questions for Consideration: Elie Wiesel's Night
1. Wiesel's childhood home was in a small town Romania, Transylvania.
2. The cabala is a the world of mysticism, and the mystery or God and the universe itself.
3. Elie wanted proof that God was there and that he truly existed. He didn't understand the fact that God was there with him, and this moved him to study the cabala.
4. Moshe the Beadle is a significant character because he told everyone the reality of concentration camps and how they treat people. He was the reason that Elie kept kept his faith in God, but ever since the deportation he came back a different person. All this changed what Elie thought and believed.
5. The people of Sighet ignore Moshe after he returns because they all think he is a mad man just making up stories to make the people pity him. They also thought the war would ne over before anything happened.
6. Madame Schachter was in the same vehicle as Elie, and she kept crying out that there was a fire even though there really wasn't. When they arrived at Auschwitz, they saw the fire. Madame Schachter and Moshe the Beadle were alike because they warned everyone of the evil ahead, but they were ignored.
7. In the passage Elie says he will never forget all those horrible moments of his life where God did nothing to save him. Elie had to suffer because God was not there to help.
8. With everything Elie has seen and experienced at Auschwitz, he is led to believe that God doesn't exist. He no longer had faith in God and he realized it was pointless to believe in someone who never saved anyone. He let people be tortured, punished, and burnt, and he didn't do anything to stop it. Obviously one would question the man he believed so much in.
9. Throughout the entire novel, Elie's views change drastically. At one point he thought God was killed and that there would be no one to save them from the pain and misery they were going through.
10. Night has many meanings to it, for example it could mean that they were sent into darkness not knowing there faith and what they were in for. It can also mean that night is when everyone goes to sleep, it can be there only way to escape.
11. Night is such a slim book but there is so much detail and thought put into it, I'm sure writing about that time was a hard thing for Wiesel to do as well. The readers can fully understand the depth and meaning of this memoir.
12. Night is a memoir of both tragedy and triumph. Elie lost his family and everything he cared about. The triumph is when Elie survived all the hardships he went through. With God with him every step of the way he was able to stand the tragedy and triumphs.
1. Wiesel's childhood home was in a small town Romania, Transylvania.
2. The cabala is a the world of mysticism, and the mystery or God and the universe itself.
3. Elie wanted proof that God was there and that he truly existed. He didn't understand the fact that God was there with him, and this moved him to study the cabala.
4. Moshe the Beadle is a significant character because he told everyone the reality of concentration camps and how they treat people. He was the reason that Elie kept kept his faith in God, but ever since the deportation he came back a different person. All this changed what Elie thought and believed.
5. The people of Sighet ignore Moshe after he returns because they all think he is a mad man just making up stories to make the people pity him. They also thought the war would ne over before anything happened.
6. Madame Schachter was in the same vehicle as Elie, and she kept crying out that there was a fire even though there really wasn't. When they arrived at Auschwitz, they saw the fire. Madame Schachter and Moshe the Beadle were alike because they warned everyone of the evil ahead, but they were ignored.
7. In the passage Elie says he will never forget all those horrible moments of his life where God did nothing to save him. Elie had to suffer because God was not there to help.
8. With everything Elie has seen and experienced at Auschwitz, he is led to believe that God doesn't exist. He no longer had faith in God and he realized it was pointless to believe in someone who never saved anyone. He let people be tortured, punished, and burnt, and he didn't do anything to stop it. Obviously one would question the man he believed so much in.
9. Throughout the entire novel, Elie's views change drastically. At one point he thought God was killed and that there would be no one to save them from the pain and misery they were going through.
10. Night has many meanings to it, for example it could mean that they were sent into darkness not knowing there faith and what they were in for. It can also mean that night is when everyone goes to sleep, it can be there only way to escape.
11. Night is such a slim book but there is so much detail and thought put into it, I'm sure writing about that time was a hard thing for Wiesel to do as well. The readers can fully understand the depth and meaning of this memoir.
12. Night is a memoir of both tragedy and triumph. Elie lost his family and everything he cared about. The triumph is when Elie survived all the hardships he went through. With God with him every step of the way he was able to stand the tragedy and triumphs.
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