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Blog Post #1 - Sander

I thought that the first two sections of Night was very emotional. From the happy times back in Sighet to the tortures moments in Auschwitz and the work camps. One of the most emotional times in Sighet was when on the 8th day of Passover, the Germans finally started to take over the arrested the Jewish leaders made laws like; ¨Jews were prohibited to leave their homes for three days, under the penalty of death, Jews were not allowed to own jewelry¨(10). Even when all this was happening the Jews of Sighet didn't even know that there whole life was being taken away from them so fast. Another very emotional part was a passage he wrote about when he was in Auschwitz, Elie had to watch the women and children be thrown into the fire; ¨Never shall A forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw thrown into the fire that day¨(34).This quote is very powerful imagine having to watch children be burned alive no human would, expect people like Nazis that think that Jews are not people so they feel like they are doing the right thing by extinguishing them. In Elie Wiesel's writing I think he thinks of every detail its not like he is just sitting in a room talking to you telling you a story of their life it is like you are living his life. Night is a very emotionally powerful novel A think that is good for everyone to read this so something like this never happens again. Sander
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  1. AnonymousOctober 9, 2018 at 12:07 PM

    Sander,


    I agree with the fact that no man woman or child should ever have to watch someone burn alive or be forced to make them burn. Taking someone's life like that is inhumane and unnecessary. What could possibly go through someone's mind when burning someone alive? What provokes a human being to think it is acceptable to burn another human? To inflict that much pain and suffering and someone and that not create any remorse is insane to me.

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  2. AnonymousOctober 9, 2018 at 5:49 PM

    Yeah I agree with how traumatic it must have been for all the Jews at the camp to go through such horrors. I like how you mentioned the power that Elie wrote with, it is a very moving book. Why do you think that with such moving and informative accounts of evils like this, history repeats itself. To be honest, it's really beyond me.

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