Night makes me feel depressed and I have realized how evil people can really be and how terrible the Jewish people were treated. Do the Jews know how evil they are being?’ Do they ever think about how the Jews feel?” I think Elis choices of words are interestingly descriptive. "Remember," he went on. "Remember it always, let it be graven in your memories. You are in Auschwitz. And Auschwitz is not a convalescent home. It is a concentration camp. Here, you must work.”(p. 38) The Germans decided to put the jews in concentration camps in Auschwitz and the Jews were forced to work. If they did not they would become “useless” and would be tortured and killed. Wiesel explained this very well from the germans point of view. The author made it clear that The Jews were now slaves. “AROUND 5 O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING…. “(36) The Jews were treated like animals. And got NO say in how they were treated. This really struck me thinking about groupthink. Which can be really dangerous because if someone starts something bad and people join in it becomes a huge issue. Overall I think Wiesel's writing is very impactful towards many people, especially me.
The way Wiesel writes his memoir is almost like it’s written in prose, he is extremely descriptive with his writing, and his sentences flow, but he keeps the plot fast-paced and moving like the greatest poems are. There was one part I read that almost brought me to tears: the uncertainty of it, the questions it left, and the horrifying thought that it was pure hope that was keeping these people alive when there truly was nothing to hope for. “Take care of your son. He is very weak, very dehydrated. Take care of yourselves, you must avoid selections. Eat! Anything. Anytime. Eat all you can. The weak don’t last very long around here”… And he himself was so thin, so withered, so weak… “The only thing that keeps me alive,” he kept saying, “is to know that Reizel and the little ones are still alive. Were it not for them, I would give up.” One evening, he came to see us, his face radiant. “A transport just arrived from Antwerp. I shall go to see them tomorrow. Surely they will hav...
Dana,
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading your blog post. It was interesting to see your perspective on "Night". I agreed completely with what you said, and you had a really strong word choice.
Dana,
ReplyDeleteI think your blog had strong points. I agree that the Jew were treated inhumanly and i think that you had a good quote to support it. I also think it is terrible that if the Jews were labeled as "useless" they would be tortured and killed.