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#7
December 26, 2007
Page 62 paragraph 1
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"The two adults were no longer alive...being so light, the child was still alive....For more than half an hour he stayed ther, struggling between life and death, dying in slow agony under our eyes. And we had to look him full in the face. He was still alive when I passed in front of him. His tongue was still red, his eyes were not yet glazed."
The saddest thing to see it to watch a child getting hung because they are so light, that the rope doesn't pull hard enought to kill them right after they are dropped. They have to die slowly and painfully. A child is so innocent, and they shouldn't have to go through that torture. Humans have very unjust punishments for crimes that aren't even that bad. They just do it to show their power over everyone.
Friday, January 4, 2008
Night: 6
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#6
December 26, 2007
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"...we began to hear airplanes. Almost at once the barracks began to shake...We were not afraid. And yet, if a bomb had fallen on the blocks, it alone would have claimed hundreds of victims on the spot. But we were no longer afraid of death: at any rate not of that death. Every bomb that exploded filled us with joy and gave us new confidence in life."
They were not afraid because it wasn't them that the airplanes were after, it was the Germans. They weren't afraid of this death because they would die with hope that the Germans were going to die and be punished. They have seen death everyday, but it is death that will get nobody nowhere except the people that were going to die dead. They were happy because the German felt like they did scared, that someone could take their life away. The Germans thought they were invincible.
#6
December 26, 2007
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Quote:
"...we began to hear airplanes. Almost at once the barracks began to shake...We were not afraid. And yet, if a bomb had fallen on the blocks, it alone would have claimed hundreds of victims on the spot. But we were no longer afraid of death: at any rate not of that death. Every bomb that exploded filled us with joy and gave us new confidence in life."
They were not afraid because it wasn't them that the airplanes were after, it was the Germans. They weren't afraid of this death because they would die with hope that the Germans were going to die and be punished. They have seen death everyday, but it is death that will get nobody nowhere except the people that were going to die dead. They were happy because the German felt like they did scared, that someone could take their life away. The Germans thought they were invincible.
Night: 5
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#5
December 26, 2007
Page 42 paragraph 1
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"'Take care of your son, He's very weak and dried up. Look after him well, to avoid the selection. Eat! It doesn't matter what or when. Eat everything you can. The weak don't hang about for long here...'"
The German soldiers would pick out the weak and old that were unable to work to die and be cremated. So the only advice that you could give people was to eat all you could when you were given food. Even when they got food though, they didn't have enough to fill their bellies, so after a couple of months, they would all look weak, so they would have to choose the stronger of the weak. If you didn't want to live anymore, then I guess you'd want to be the weaker one, but if you wanted to stay you would have to prove it. I would try to make myself as strong as possible, I would try to live my life as long as possible.
#5
December 26, 2007
Page 42 paragraph 1
Quote:
"'Take care of your son, He's very weak and dried up. Look after him well, to avoid the selection. Eat! It doesn't matter what or when. Eat everything you can. The weak don't hang about for long here...'"
The German soldiers would pick out the weak and old that were unable to work to die and be cremated. So the only advice that you could give people was to eat all you could when you were given food. Even when they got food though, they didn't have enough to fill their bellies, so after a couple of months, they would all look weak, so they would have to choose the stronger of the weak. If you didn't want to live anymore, then I guess you'd want to be the weaker one, but if you wanted to stay you would have to prove it. I would try to make myself as strong as possible, I would try to live my life as long as possible.
Night: 4
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#4
December 26, 2007
Page 30 paragraph 6
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"Not far from us flames were leaping up from a ditch, gigantic flames. They were burning something. Alorry drew up at the pit and delivered its load--little children. Babies! Yes, I saw it--saw it with my own eyes...those children in the flames. (Is it surprising that I could not sleep after that? Sleep had fled from my eyes.)
Having to see people getting burned, is something no one would ever forget, seeing children and innocent babies being burned is even worse. Just to think that these children died because of their religion, not ever really getting to live their life. Just the smell of burning human flesh would make me vommit. Seeing innocent people is unfair, what did they do to deserve this, I would be angery and scared to think that they could take my life away so easily, and it wouldn't even mean anything to them. It's just unthinkable.
#4
December 26, 2007
Page 30 paragraph 6
Quote:
"Not far from us flames were leaping up from a ditch, gigantic flames. They were burning something. Alorry drew up at the pit and delivered its load--little children. Babies! Yes, I saw it--saw it with my own eyes...those children in the flames. (Is it surprising that I could not sleep after that? Sleep had fled from my eyes.)
Having to see people getting burned, is something no one would ever forget, seeing children and innocent babies being burned is even worse. Just to think that these children died because of their religion, not ever really getting to live their life. Just the smell of burning human flesh would make me vommit. Seeing innocent people is unfair, what did they do to deserve this, I would be angery and scared to think that they could take my life away so easily, and it wouldn't even mean anything to them. It's just unthinkable.
Night: 3
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#3
December 26, 2007
Page 26 Paragraph 3
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"In front of us flames. In the air that smell of burning flesh. It must have been about midnight. We had arrived--at Birkenau, reception center for Auschwitz."
The horror that these people had to experience is horrific. I would not have been able to stand it. Staving, dirty, tired, thirsty, scared, and over worked, I would be so depressed. I don't know how the German's could live with themselves. Burning innocent people. I would go crazy, beyond repair.
#3
December 26, 2007
Page 26 Paragraph 3
Quote:
"In front of us flames. In the air that smell of burning flesh. It must have been about midnight. We had arrived--at Birkenau, reception center for Auschwitz."
The horror that these people had to experience is horrific. I would not have been able to stand it. Staving, dirty, tired, thirsty, scared, and over worked, I would be so depressed. I don't know how the German's could live with themselves. Burning innocent people. I would go crazy, beyond repair.
Night: 2
Journal
#2
December 26, 2007
Page 12 paragraph 4
Quote:
"It wasn't until after the war that I learned who it was that had knocked. It was an inspector in the Hungarian police, a friend of my father. Before we went into the ghetto, he had said to us: 'Don't worry. If you're in any danger, I'll warn you.' If he could have spoken to us that evening, we could perhaps have fled....But by the timewe had managed to open the window, it was too late. There was no one outside."
I would be so mad if I later learned that I could have prevented my family from getting split up and killed. Elie must have been devastated when he learned this. It had to happen though, because if he hadn't gone through his experiences in consentration camps, he never would have written Night for the world to read and learn about what it was like to live like he had to live. He may never have become an author. All of this stuff has to happen to each person, it defines each person to shape us to make us who we are and are going to be. It shaped Elie to be an author that told the inside story about being in a consentration camp.
#2
December 26, 2007
Page 12 paragraph 4
Quote:
"It wasn't until after the war that I learned who it was that had knocked. It was an inspector in the Hungarian police, a friend of my father. Before we went into the ghetto, he had said to us: 'Don't worry. If you're in any danger, I'll warn you.' If he could have spoken to us that evening, we could perhaps have fled....But by the timewe had managed to open the window, it was too late. There was no one outside."
I would be so mad if I later learned that I could have prevented my family from getting split up and killed. Elie must have been devastated when he learned this. It had to happen though, because if he hadn't gone through his experiences in consentration camps, he never would have written Night for the world to read and learn about what it was like to live like he had to live. He may never have become an author. All of this stuff has to happen to each person, it defines each person to shape us to make us who we are and are going to be. It shaped Elie to be an author that told the inside story about being in a consentration camp.
Night: 1
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#1
December 26, 2007
Page 4 paragraph 7
Quote:
"Moshe had changed. There was no longer any joy in his eyes. He no longer sang. He no longer talked to me of God or of the cabbala, but only of what he had seen. People refused not only to believe his stories, but even listen to them."
People are mainly concerned with what happens to them or where they are, so if someone says something bad is going on somewhere else, they don't really care or think much about it because it's not happening to them. Moshe has experienced what it's like with the German's, and is trying to warn the town that he went to school, but nobody will listen to him because they don't think anything bad will happen to them. They think that Moshe is crazy. They want to believe that everything is happy and okay, but it's not, bad things are going to happen to them, they just don't know it.
#1
December 26, 2007
Page 4 paragraph 7
Quote:
"Moshe had changed. There was no longer any joy in his eyes. He no longer sang. He no longer talked to me of God or of the cabbala, but only of what he had seen. People refused not only to believe his stories, but even listen to them."
People are mainly concerned with what happens to them or where they are, so if someone says something bad is going on somewhere else, they don't really care or think much about it because it's not happening to them. Moshe has experienced what it's like with the German's, and is trying to warn the town that he went to school, but nobody will listen to him because they don't think anything bad will happen to them. They think that Moshe is crazy. They want to believe that everything is happy and okay, but it's not, bad things are going to happen to them, they just don't know it.
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