Night-Response 4

Pages 62-80

"What are you my god, I thought angrily, compared to this afflicted crown, proclaiming to you their faith, their anger their revolt? What does Your greatness mean, Lord of the universe, in the face of all this weakness, this decomposition, and this decay? Why do you still trouble their sick minds, their crippled bodies?" A part fo what Elie feels about God, something that is totally understandable. He was tired of the hateful way they where being treated, the intolerable Germans feeling superior to them . God was supposed to save them from every horrible moment they where to live in any moment of their lives. God was to save them, to stop this unbearable genocide.

While I was reading on the chapter I made a connection woth the bible which we are reading in class to Elie was very mad with God about everything he has done in the past years, decades and days. "And I, mystic that I had been, I thought: Yes, man is very strong, greater than God. When you were decieved by Adam and Eve, You drove them out of paradise. When Noah´s generation displeased You, You brought down the Flood When Sodom no longer found favor in Your eyes, You made the sky rain down fire and sulphur. But these men here, whom you have betrayed, whom you have allowed to be totured, butchered, gassed, burned, what do they do? They pray before You! They praise Your name!" It´s impressive how convincing he can make such a simple thoght like this. He makes it believable and makes someway perfect for you to feel what he was feeling in that moment. He makes you understand the anger he was feeling towards him in that moment "I no longer accepted God´s silence" he was destroyed inside he was feeling like crap, he was loosing hope.

Probably the sadest part I´ve read in the book was when Elie thought he was going to be separated form his dad because he had been written to go to he crematory. Anyways the happiest part was when he found his dad sitting alone again, they werent separate. Elie makes his writing magic someway, he makes you experience his book as if you where living it.

QUESTions Answered

Where are we going?

In the last pages read the Russian army is getting near their concentration camp they are to be transported somewhere else. They don´t know where.

Night-Response 3

Pages 35-62
What can I say? This book is incredible it portrays everything Elie was feeling, he describes it all perfectly. The book is so good you can´t stop reading you want to know what will happen next you want to know how the Germans had the courage, where capable of being so atrocious. he makes the book calling he makes you feel like you are living it and feeling it. The want to read it is impossible to describe. He even gives you a relief and makes you see his moments of hope "Comrades you´re in the concentration camp of Auschwitz. There´s a long road of suffering ahead you. But don´t lose courage. You´ve already escaped the gravest danger: selection. So now, muster your strength, and don´t lose heart. We shall see the day of liberation. Have faith in life. Above all else, have faith. drive out despair, and you will keep death away from yourselves. Hell is not for eternity. And now, a prayer-or rather a piece of advice: let there be comradeship among you. We are all brothers, and we are all suffering the same fate. The same smoke floats over all our heads. Help one another. It is the only way to survive. Enough said. You´re tired."

Reading this pages was simply heartbreaking it´s impossible to believe that something so awful could happen. It´s simply incredible how someone can find something pleasant in making someone suffer. It´s incredible that god (which they believed in) would let something like this happen "God is testing us . He wants to find out wether we can dominate our base instincts and kill the Satan within us . We have no right to despair. And if he punishes us rentlessly , it´s a sign that He loves all the more." I would be mad enough with god to say he loved me if I was in concentration camp. It´s simply incredible how they could keep the faith when all they lived for in those moments was suffering. I admire the strength Jews had in this moment, the force they had inside them to live althogh, they where scared and tired of living for pain.

QUESTions Answered
Why is life miserable for some people and great for others?
I think this is a question that was probabaly made by many of the Jews to themselves and one made by many people to theselves in this very moment. It´s unfair that not everyone can live a happy life.

Where are we going?
They didn´t know what was going to happen to them if they would die or not, if they would be happy, if they where going to suffer.

Response 2- Night

Page 20-35

In this part of the book Elie his family and other Jews are taken to wagons where they are cramped have barely any place to move any food or ways to be comfortable. They live unbearable moments they can´t breathe well they are given a watning by a German, if one escaped form the wagon the rest would be killed. Also some woman called Madame Schachter wouldn´t shut up and was screaming the whole time that there was fire everywhere, it was totally understandable she had gone crazy because she had been separated from her family. After days of traveling they get to Auschwitz there they are informed about the ovens. They where sowned that mercy wasn´t in their list and that for the "good" they where to be killed, after all they where to disspear stay in history forever. They are then seperated by gender and each leave to their side.

Let´s say this is an interesting story but it´s just like the rest I´ve heard about the Holocaust but, it has been interesting to see this from Elie´s personal perspective to see exactly what he was thinking and feeling in every moment lived. I still can´t believe that something like this could happen, that this Human Right Violation was so big and inhuman, that it was accepted by ANYONE.

Quotes form the pages read

"Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever.

Never shall I forget that nocturnal silencewhich dprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live. never shall I forget those moments which murdered my god and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as ###########. Never."

This qoute called my attention because it shows the heartache, the melancholy children and adults felt when they where in concentration camps it shows how their world became a nothing how it beame misery and loss and tears, tears of sorrow of lament of grief.

A QUESTion Answered in this part read

Why are we here?

I think this is a question that jews may have made to their selves, yes they where Jews but that isn´t a good enough reason to be in such horrific conditions. They also had the right to dream, to live, to enjoy, to occupy, to posses, to love.

Night-Response

Night - By Elie Wiesel- Nobel Peace Price Winner 1986

Chapter #1
In the book Night Eliezer is telling us how he Lived the Holocaust what happened in his case with full details of what he felt and how he reacted to everything. While I was reading this chapter all I thought about was how unfair and how bad it could have felt to be treated as Jews where treated in the Holocaust, all I could think was how the Germans could have created such sadness and sorrow in the Jews.

Then it came back to my memory that I had seen The Pianist also a movie based on a true story of a man that survived the Holocaust. The movie particularly shows the ghettos terribly worse than described in the book. In the book it said they had enough to eat and drink but in the movie it was hard to find a piece of bread which actually made it hard to understand but, then I figured out the Pianist takes place in Poland but this one in Sighet, Transylvania. This shows me that some Jews for their good where luckier than others although at the end many died in the same conditions. I did see the connection between both when they showed all the faith they have to overcome this war and stay alive through it. Anyways I can say that the Holocaust in every way it can be described is still unfair, terrible and disastrous.

When I was reading that Elie´s father went to a meeting with the Jewish council and that he couldn´t be told where they were going to be sent it came to my mind that this was totally unfair and weird. Maybe if they would´ve told him something different would´ve happened because after all they were supposedly there to help each other because they were all victims of the same human slaughter. The Jewish council was there to help wasn´t not letting Jewish know the truth a brutal thing to do? We will never know because nothing can be changed now but what if something good could´ve happened? I also couldn´t believe that the Jewish would actually give themselves to serve the Germans by becoming their soldiers just to save themselves, I mean I wouldn´t like to mistreat the people that have my same beliefs and that are suffering just because they have those certain beliefs."This time there were no Hungarian police . An arrangement had been made with the Jewish council that they should organize it themselves"

"The synagogue was like a huge station: luggage and tears. The altar was broken, the hangings torn down, the walls bare." How bad can that feel? Their world was being teared apart the Germans where trying to make them fall down to make them feel like they are not worth anything. I still think that Germans forgot that such thing wasn´t to be accepted and that although they where sad and fragile they had the power in their hearts to make them stop.

Editing Others Posts

Here are some paragraphs written by other of my fellow students and edited by me.

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