Elie’s book, Night, has changed the way I look at life. I will forever be grateful to have a roof over my head, a good meal to eat every day, and that I am free. It troubles me that these innocent people had to deal with such a horrible thing. During this study, I have learned so much about the Holocaust and how horrible it was. Imagine being in Elies shoes. Hard right? It must’ve been even harder living that lifestyle for years. He and so many others lost faith and hope in themselves and living. In the movie, Life is Beautiful, there is mentioned that the children and elderly are “given the chance” to take showers. These so-called “showers” were the gas chambers. These innocent people are lead to death just for being Jewish. It's inhumane how one has pleasure in doing such a thing. It disgusts me. Some parts of history are very important, like the Holocaust for instance. It is good for we students to know and understand this horrible event that occurred because it is a big part of human history. I have taken a lot from this unit. I learned things that I hadn’t known before, sometimes bringing me to tears. As if I can not say it enough- It is absolutely inhumane for one to come up with the idea of killing millions and yet take pride in it.
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...
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