Night Reflection

For me the hardest part to read was the part where babies were thrown into the fire. It’s hard to even picture someone doing that. Reading this memoir really opened my eyes to how bad it was for the people who were in concentration camps. And also how many people didn’t see it coming. I believe Elie survived because his father was there. Having his father there gave him something to live for. A theme that rally stuck out to me was the loss of faith. I noticed over the course of the book that Elie lost his faith over the time that he was in the concentration camp.

Blog for pages 66-84

Part I
The bond and relationship between Elie and his father is stronger than ever. Wiesel demonstrates that him and his father's relationship had grown stronger when he states "We had already suffered so much, endured so much together. This was not the moment to separate.

Part II
Name: Aushwitz
Location: Oswiecim, Poland
size/population: 3 main camps, and 45 sub-camps
conditions: Barracks had rodents, and 700 people and even more would be forced to live in one. Prisoners had to work a minimum of eleven hours a day. Labor was used as a way to kill.

Blog for pages 23-65

Mrs. Schacter symbolizes the crematoriums and the fate of the Jews. On the train she was screaming, "Fire! I see fire!" But in reality there was no fire, until they got to Aushwitz and saw the chimneys from the crematoriums.

 Elie said he was ill when he was sent to the dentist, so that he doesn't have to get his golden crown taken out. The dentist ends up getting arrested, for taking gold teeth and crowns for his own gain. Later Elie allows his crown to be taken out with a rusty spoon.

What I know about the Holocaust

Part I

       The Holocaust was a result  of " the final solution", that the Nazis had come up with to eliminate all the Jews. They killed about 6 million Jews and some other people that they didn't like. Jews were forced to move into ghettos, and when the ghettos were emptied, the people who had lived there were either killed or sent to concentration camps, and more people were moved in. The Nazis but these people in concentration  camps, in which horrible things took place. Their heads were shaved, a number was tattooed into their arm, they were forced to work until they died or were killed, and some were even subjected to inhuman medical experiments. When they were being moved from place to place, they were often forced to ride in cattle cars.

Part II

Image 1: children behind a fence, wearing striped uniforms, everyone has a hat or scarf on their head, clothes are too big and worn looking

   keyword: children

Image 2 : all men, emaciated, boney, crowded together on wooden bunks

  keyword: emaciated

Image 3: lots of glasses, stolen belongings, death, men/women/children

  keyword: men, women, children

video clip 1: candles, smoke, scared children, fear, man shot and bleeding in the snow, people shot, children hiding

keyword: constant fear

Part III

Men, women, and children were emaciated, from lack of food, and lived in constant fear, during the Holocaust.

Refelction

       I can improve on remembering due dates and keeping track of how much time I have left to compete an assignment. I probably should start using my planner too. I did really well on the narrative and pretty well on my scholarship essay too. But with the scholarship assignment I only did two scholarships instead of three. But as a whole my grade was good. I don't find the class blog helpful, unless I am in class. I do not have a twitter so i can't follow Ms. Spriggs on Twitter.