8A Night Blog 2018

I feel like I have a new understanding of the holocaust. I used to only know how bad it was on paper and how so many people died, but videos and images gave me a totally new perspective on the holocaust. For example the movie,  Life Is Beautiful, It really showed me the depression of losing family and friends, Starvation, and people losing hope. I feel like this movie was a sadder version of night because they both get you attached to the characters but in the movie it has images not just words. It is a shame that we can't prevent the holocaust from happening but know one can forget about it so a gennoacide doesn't happen again. And when a gennoacide is happening, we can't just be quiet, we need to help the suffering.

A Jewish Family That is what we are No different from others Not better or worse Not more generous or cheaper Equal Not stronger or weaker Not smarter or dumber We are equal The same as everybody else Some people do not know history, So they are doomed to repeat it But in reality We are equal And that’s that

The theme of luck, both good and bad, runs throughout Night . Although Elie experiences bad luck because he is suffering during the Holocaust, I feel like Elie was also one of the lucky ones because he got to work next to his father and ultimately survived World War ll. Most people were separated when they arrived at the concentration camps (unlucky), but Elie and his father were able to stay together (lucky). Elie also experiences bad luck just by being in the wrong place at the wrong time. He is just working when an SS guard comes along and beats up Elie for no reason: “One day when Idek was venting his fury, I happened to cross his path. He threw himself on me like a wild beast. . . crushing me with ever more violent blows, until I was covered in blood. . . Abruptly, he calmed down and sent me back to work as if nothing had happened” (53). If someone else had crossed Idek’s path (unlucky), Elie would have been safe (lucky). Many times throughout the book, Elie worries that his fath...

In this picture, my eye first captures all the snow and the soldiers with guns. The USHMM caption is, ¨Several SS officers stand with their shotguns during a winter hunting excursion.” There are a lot of SS officers with guns. It looks like they are having a little discussion about something. If I knew these were SS officers, I would normally think they would be forcing the Jews to do hard labor or evacuate the freezing cold winter.  Because of what I know about the Holocaust, I was surprised when I read they were just hunting instead of killing the Jews who were too exhausted to run on any longer. https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/u5pGT3Jvsh1xThAIJU6OvakqqIh3NcUSJoYvJEnGfUqceggP_q8662ftTXy5JQb0iOZ4bzRmISA_6HUkr4k8YbQk6RUogT98YZCG-YAlUu4xuzfdJFcgumDWkawypYlCXksPLZCR

I feel that right when I started the very depressing book Night, this horrific tragedy kept getting worse and I’m worried that it will stay that way throughout the book. I wish that there was an extra chapter of joy instead of jumping right into the plot of the book. I found a lot of quotes that made me think in many ways. But I believe Wiesel thought there shouldn’t be a happy part of the book because World War 2 impacted Elie along with millions of people in a horrendous manner. An interesting quote I found shows an inmate asked Elie,” Hey, kid, how old are you”... “fifteen” “no, your eighteen” “ but i’m not, I am fifteen” “fool listen to what I say” “then he asked my father, who answered:” “me, I’m fifty” “No… Not fifty. Your Forty. Do you hear me? Eighteen and forty.”(30) This inmate is saying more or less, if you’re 14 you die, 18 you live, 50 you die, and 40 you live. This strikes me because if they didn’t run into that inmate, than they would probably have died a lot sooner than...