2. What questions do you have about what happened before this moment?
3. What questions do you have about what happened after this moment?
4.What connection can you make to other texts you have read or movies that you have seen?
- Please read up to page 46 in the full-length book for Monday.
- Please take notes on pivotal moments in the narrative.
- Record any questions about words or history that you might have.
I think that it is horrible that people would make a list of people that they are going to kill. The questions that I have is basically like what is going through someone's mind when they could be picked to go get cremated? I would be freaking out and probably would not be able to think straight. A connection I can make is to the Boy in Striped Pajamas because it is about the Holocaust and in the movie there was only one victim of the Holocaust who appeared and he was a little boy. Just the thought of people killing children makes me upset and furious that someone would even think to kill kids. If anyone wants to kill kids or actually kills them then they are mental. Children cannot defend themselves. You are a psycho if you are one of these heartless people.
ReplyDeleteAfter reading this excerpt I got a pretty good idea of how scary it must've been to live in a concentration camp. Before this moment I would be thinking about what I would do if I got picked. I had the same question as Kelly. What would someone be thinking about while this is happening to them? I would be so scared and wouldn't know what to do. The movie that this makes me think of is Shindlers List because it was based in the time of WWII and had to do with the people kept on concentration camps. Shindler helps some Jewish people and saves them from being killed.
ReplyDeleteFrom the excerpt from the textbook, I think you can get a decent idea of the constant daily fear about how much longer you would be spared in a concentration camp was like. I want to find out more about the 'selection.' What must've been going through the heads of the officers and those living in the camp? This excerpt has a similar plot to that of "Two Friends," where, towards the end, there was the fear of someone with power cruelly taking innocent lives.
ReplyDeleteAfter reading this excerpt I was in shock. It was terrible how heartless people could be and how scary be part of something like that was. Some questions I have would be basically what is going through my mind. If i was in one of the concentration camps, I honestly don't know what I would do, I would be so petrafied. I can make a connection to "After the Ball" which I recently read as a homework assignment. The two were similar because of the cruelty displayed and how people can be so heartless and just torture others.
ReplyDeleteThis is my second time reading this scene, and it is definitely one of the most memorable parts of the novel. I cannot believe that any human could have the indecency to throw another into fire to die a slow, painful death. The fact that this, or any part, of World War II actually happened is surreal to me. My entire family is Polish, and my grandmother never talks about the war and she was just living during the occupation as a Christian (not in a concentration camp). I could never fathom what life was like as a Jew then. This reminded me a little of A Child Called It, because both contain inhuman acts that have happend to people that had the willpower to live through them.
ReplyDeleteReading this excerpt is very powerful and makes me want to read the rest of the book. It is so inconceivable how people could be so inhumane to others. The Holocaust happened before I was born so it sort of just seems like history to me, but then after reading an account like this from someone who actually experienced it, you can really feel how terrible it was.
ReplyDeleteI have already read most of this book so I had already read this part, but this is definately one of the worst moments in the book. How the Jews in the Concentration Camps kept up hope is beyond comprehension.
ReplyDeleteIt's so disturbing how people could treat other human beings the way the Nazis treated the Jews and other people in the concentration camps during the Holocaust. It's really amazing that they were able to keep their faith and survive the terrible conditions and treatment they suffered through. I can also relate this to the movie "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" because that movie illustrated the horrors inside the concentration camps, as this excerpt of "Night" did.
ReplyDeleteBy reading this excerpt it definitely makes you want to read the entire book from beginning to end. Doing this allows one to see how the plot developed to that part of the story and what will happen after. The terrors caused during the Holocaust are unimaginable and seems as if you don't know how bad it really was unless you witnessed it first person or lived through that time period.
ReplyDeleteAfter reading the exerpt in the textbook i really got a good picture of what was actually happening in concentration camps during the Holocaust. I am very impressed that the Jweish people in those camps had any hope left in them at then end of the war. It is truly amazing what people can do. I can connect this with my experience at the Holocaust museum in Washington D.C. The models of concentration camps that they have there, and the stories of the people that were in them never cease to amaze me that they still believed that they were going to live. It also amazes me that a human being can be so cruel to another.
ReplyDeletealthough tragic, these are the types of reading material i like. I enjoy learning about the true feelings of people in hard times. It was very sad to hear about the day to day fear people live in being afraid they will be burned alive but what disturbed me the most was why would anyone have the decency to do this to another human being just becasue you are told to do so? The connection i see right away is to the move "The Boy in Stripped Pajamas. I get the same reaction to both of these storys about the holicaust.
ReplyDeleteAfter reading the exerpt, I was horrified. Like Kelly, I would loose my mind if I were picked. Also like Lindsay, these types of readings and books intrigue me and catch my attention. Reading about people's lives and how they lived is something I enjoy reading about. How could people who know that they are going to be killed even live with themselves? If that ever happened to me I would go crazy. I feel bad for all these people, and what they went through must have been horrifying. Again, like what Lindsay said, How could anyone follow the orders of someone to kill someone else? That disturbs me and in unhumanily.
ReplyDeleteAfter reading the excerpt from Night I realized the fearful nature of the occupiants who had to live in concentration camps. Knowing that any momoent you could be selected to be killed, probably would have snet me over the edge. However, it is extremely brave of those to still hold onto hope even when facing death. The only question I have is how could some commit such atrosities? Even if they were orders, I don't think I could bring myself to kill innocent people who have not harmed or wronged me in any way. I can connect this to The Boy in The Striped Pajamas because in scenes the nazi's selected Jews to go to the gas chambers.
ReplyDeleteReading this section of Night truly opens up my eyes to the way things were during WWII. Being able to see the emotions experienced by a Jewish person during that time through their own eyes provides a great insight into history. The events of the Holocaust were horrific and Elie Wiesels descriptions portray that very well. I read this book last year for school and already know what happens, but it still shocks me every time I read it.
ReplyDeleteThese type books always seem to interest me a lot even though they are very sad and tragic. I would be so scared if I was put on a list to be killed while living in a concentration camp. It is sad to see that a lot of people in todays society are not grateful for what they have and here in the story these people were about to be killed and still had hope. Like Max said, I dont know how anyone could bring themselves to kill other innocent people. It also reminds me of the movie The Boy in the Striped Pajamas becuase it shows how poorly the jews were treated in the concentration camp and how they would lie to the jews but really take them to the gas chambers to kill them.
ReplyDeleteReading the excerpt opened up my eyes to what the concentration camps were really like. It baffles me to think that i person could be so cruel to another human being. It amazes me how anyone in their right mind could do that to someone else and still sleep at night, apparently they weren't in their right mind. It also amazes me how the Jews could still keep hope even know they knew that any moment they could get chosen to be killed, the determination of some people is incredible. I can connect to this because I went to the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. over the summer and wear a necklace everyday from the museum that says "Remember Never Again." At the museum I learned the truths and could picture what the camps were really like and it is very disturbing. This also reminds me of the movie The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas, and how the nazis just picked random people to got into the gas chambers.
ReplyDeleteI am impressed with the thoughtfulness of your responses and with the fact that so many of you have already read books and seen movies, visited museums, and carry these questions with you every day.
ReplyDeleteThis is why we read books like this in school--to make sure everyone thinks about this history, this human experience of a 15 year old boy--and teach people to experience shock and horror when they read, to promise, " Remember--never again."
And still, the horrors happen--
what can we do? What will you do?