8A Night Blog 2018

Learning about the Holocaust has not changed my belief or view on history. Learning about the Holocaust has reinforces my belief that historically people have had very flawed and unequal ideas and that have led to very dark events in history. This is a fact we must accept and for the sake of those who survived, and those who didn’t we must ‘fix’ these problems all humanity faces, in the present, while we still can. Most importantly though we must not try to rewrite and/or fix the past. The present is the best time to, atleast begin to, solidify the facts, that all men are created equal and there is no more genetic difference between people from different ‘races’ than people from the same, and prevent unobstructed uprisings like Hitler’s. The only change I faced was how much the Jews denied before they played into Hitler’s hand. This change was initiated when Mrs. Zanger pointed out that the Jews were in denial that the Nazis were doing what they did, and the sparks lit when, readi...

Time is like fire But, Time only burns when you are against yourself When you are fighting over your life and the Time left Time burns brightest in war When people are fighting for time and against themselves Many don’t realize the fire that is burning inside them And the evil that lives in their clocks Or the weight that burdens them for all eternity Time is a powerful force that lives in good and evil The gray that dwells in the whirlwind of war Time is an entity that lives on your fight with yourself However, though time dwells on evil it can be one of your greatest friends Although, Time needs something to feed on Just like you and me When Time runs out of food Time will die And the world will fall apart So… To you what is Time, good or evil

The fight in Night between Elie and time was powerful and was intriguing to read throughout the book. This fight between Elie, himself and time whether for time  to stop so that he doesn’t have to see what comes next, or Time to speed up to end the infinite suspense in the dead of night, or to kill himself so he doesn’t have to experience the future that happens either way: “If I was going to kill myself, this was the time”(33). That is a very powerful theme to be portrayed with such a powerful event that it is woven into. Time also is more of the “antagonist” of this memoir than the Nazis are, because when looking at how much Elie struggles with the prospect of the future and how he makes it through, or whether he faces it at all, really outlines the way time seems so against Elie than with him (For that matter Time seems to eventually turn on everybody, even the Nazis): “What if it really were the last day?”(66). However, at the end of Elie’s days at Auschwitz Elie said, that the...

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa1091475 "Interior of Men's Barracks" by Lili Andrieux. A painting/drawing of the Men’s Barracks in one of the labor camps.

Elie Wiesel’s Night makes me feel very sympathetic for Elie, but also very hopeful that Elies ability to have faith in what he believes, even though other people don’t, will bring him and his father out of the terrible situation they are in. Night is very fast paced but when there is a large change in Elies surroundings he slows down to give the reader an amazing idea of where he is, even in relation to other people. These pauses to smell the roses which Elie uses to go in depth on his surroundings really help the reader more accurately imagine and feel what Elie is going through and feel his hope to survive. The feeling that Elie is fighting time to slow down so he never reaches the end and to just get it over with sooner rather than later is emphasized by Elie’s diction choices; Elie chooses words that are very direct about how he feels at any given time, this lack of braud words helps to answer any questions there would be about his feelings before they are asked. The way the J...