Post #1: p. 3-46 in Night
Tell about your experience as a reader of the memoir so far: Explain how it makes you feel. Provide at least 2 specific passages from different parts of the reading (p. 3-46) that you found most moving/shocking/poignant/ surprising/interesting, and explain how they affected you (quote passages directly and include the page number in parentheses). In addition, describe what you noticed about how the author wrote. Comment on Wiesel’s diction (language choices), writing style, the cadence or rhythm of the language. Be sure to include examples from the text that demonstrate what you notice about Wiesel’s writing style and about your experience of the memoir to this point. Your response should be at least 200 words in length.
This experience of the Holocaust affect me on an emotional level. Before this experience I did not know much about the Holocaust I just had heard of horrible man named Adolf Hitler and the genocide he had created. After reading the book Night and after the documentaries and films that we watched I've been slapped by reality. I've been dwelling a lot on my own as well, about how people could have so much hatred on the people who are their neighbors. Just ordinary people that have so much hatred. I'm just so confused how people could just back stab their neighbors as soon as a new political party rose. Ordinary people turning into monsters you don't see that everyday. I've taken away so many things from this unit. I think the thing that just draws me the most from in this unit is to never forget. So many innocent people died just because of what they practiced and what they look like. So the least I can do is memorialize them by never forgetting what happened to them....
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