Below, post a quote from Night that you find meaningful and powerful.
People may find in that quote a springboard for their own poem.
List the page number and why you chose this.
This is the link to the Wiesel interview conducted by Oprah if there is a line from that video that inspired you: http://www.oprah.com/omagazine/Oprah-Interviews-Elie-Wiesel
Creative writing suggestions:
Sometimes, after the title, poets include an epigraph, a quote that prepares the reader for what is to follow.Here is a link that explains with examples:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigraph_(literature)
Also, there is a form of poetry called "found poetry" that may inspire you to select and arrange Wiesel's words as a poem. You creativity shows in what you select, how you arrange the words, what you choose to repeat...these links may be helpful to you:
http://www.foundpoetryreview.com/fall-2011
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/found-poems-parallel-poems-33.html?tab=3#tabs
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ReplyDelete"I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name "(Wiesel, 42).
ReplyDeleteI picked this quote because it really stuck out to me when I was reading because I could never imagine being known as just a letter and some numbers. It's horrible just bing known as a number because you really don't mean anything then, names are given to people for a reason. That number he was given doesn't reflect who he is.
That is a powerful observation, Kelly. The photograph on the wall of the tattoo on the forearm, together with that quote could inspire an amazing poem.
ReplyDelete"The doors were nailed, the way back irrevocably cut off. The world had become a hermetically sealed cattle car (Wiesel 24)."
ReplyDeleteI picked this quote because it shows how the Jews were treated more like animals than like humans. They were sealed in train cars like cows and shipped for days crowded with little food or water.
"I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name "(Wiesel, 42).
ReplyDeleteIn class today I had also marked the same quote as Kelly in my book. I think that this quote is very powerful because it tells that the Jews were not adressed as a name, but a number. I think it is sad that the Nazi's tried to take away all of the Jew's personalities and rights, when everybody should be looked at as equal.
The quote I chose on page 50 reads, "I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time." I chose this quote because it demonstrates how everything was taken from the Jews during their time in camps. They were stripped of their possessions, honor, loved ones, religion, and self-respect. The Nazis turned them into animals almost, which was meant to run them down to their own death. I think it is a very powerful statement about how the Jews were treated.
ReplyDeleteThe quote I choose was "I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept kis promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people"
ReplyDelete(wiesel, 81)
I choose this quote because it was said by a Jewish man who was in the hospital with Wiesel at the time. I didn't understand it at first because i thought the man was crazy or something, but then i reread it again and again and it makes sense to me that it is true, the Jewish people lie to themselves all the time back then about how things will get better, but Hilter didn't lie to them, he told them straight up what he planned on doing.
"I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep." (wiesel 112) I thought this quote was powerful because it expressed how much sorrow this jews had to go through. Elie was so close to his father and had gotten almost all the way to freedom with him and he didn't even cry when he died because he said after that that he was out of tears. That is a crazy amount of saddness to be put through to not even be able to cry when your best friend and father passes away.
ReplyDelete"He was skin and bones, his eyes were dead. I could just hear his voice, the only indication that he was alive." Page 78 paragraph 7. This quote i think goes along wiht my picture of the dead bodies because most people were like walking dead and basicaly looked dead for a long time before they acctualy died. So their voice was the only way you could tell a person was alive or dead and that to me is very sad and scary.
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ReplyDeleteThe quote that i decided to use was " never shall i forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky" which was on page 34
ReplyDeleteI decided to pick this quote because i think that it is very emotional of how he had to look at the faces of the little babies and children, then when he looked back he they had been made into ashes and smoke going up into the sky. It is something that once you see it you cant get it out of your head.
"No prayers were said over his tomb. No candle lit in his memory. His last word had been my name. He had called out to me and I had not answered."
ReplyDelete(Wiesel 112)
This quote stood out to me because it shows you how it didn't matter if someone passed away because they were all surrounded by death. Each person who died was treated like trash. They didn't see that every person should be remembered by all; they didn't care all because he was Jewish. It must have pained Elie so much because he was close to his father and no one besides him cared that he was gone.
The beloved objects that we had carried with us from place to place were now left behind in the wagon and, with them, finally, our illusions" (Wiesel 29).
ReplyDeleteI chose this quote because I thought it was a huge turning point in the story. This was when the people who had hope slowly began to loose it. It shows that there was no consideration for the Jews, even this early into their removal. It showed that there was no going back and that from that point on there would be no mercy.
The quote I choose is "He told us that having been chosen because of his strength, he had been forced to place his own father's body into the furnace (Wiesel 35)."
ReplyDeleteThe fact that the Nazis were ruthlessly killing all these Jews was already incomprehensible enough, but then that they were forced to dispose of their own family's bodies, or dig the trenches they were to die in? It's horrible.
"An SS officer came toward us weilding a club. He commanded:
ReplyDelete'Men to the left! Women to the right!'
Eight words spoken quietly, indeifferently, without emotion. Eight simple, short words. Yet that was the moment when I left my mother. There was no time to think, and I already felt my father's hand press against mine: we were alone."
I chose this quote from page 29 because it's an important part of Wiesel's life. It was here where he was seperated by his family, besides his father. They were forced from one another and showed how little the Jews were cared about. The SS officer told them where to go without emotion, as if nothing was going on, as if families weren't being seperated and people being killed.
"I refused to give him my shoes. They were all I had left." (Wiesel 48).
ReplyDeleteI chose this quote because Elie shows the readers that he prized the things that he owned before the invasion. His gold crown is another prime example, even though it wasn't large in size it symbolized the past, a time when all was well for Elie Wiesel.
"Behind me, i heard the same man asking: 'For God's sake, where is God?'
ReplyDeleteAnd from withing me, i heard a voice answer:
'Where He is? This is where-hanging from this gallows..."(Wiesel 65).
I chose this quote because it emphesizes the thoughts and negativity from Wiesel and also the other Jews. He felt like there was no such thing as God anymore or maybe the Nazis had perhaps killed God themselves. This quote made me realize that there was little to no hope.
"From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me." (Wiesel, 115).
ReplyDeleteI chose this quote because it amazes me that when he looked at himself in the mirror, he thought of himself as a corpse and as a dead body. He hadn't looked in a mirror since he left the ghetto, and he he looked, he didn't even recognize himself. That image of himself was burned in his brain forever and I'm sure that was tough seeing himself like that.
"In a few seconds, we had ceased to be men." (Wiesel, 37).
ReplyDeleteI chose this quote because it shows how fast people could turn from everyday citizens, into prisoners of a concentration camp. It also shows the emotion of the people who had to live in concentration camps, and how they felt once they were stripped down, and removed of their posessions.
Your comments on each of these quotes shows me how deeply you have felt Wiesel's words, how this memoir brings you to understansing of this moment in history, in just one boy's experience. One of the most amazing components of written language is the power of these words to create bonds between people. Thank you for your respectful openness to the words Wiesel has offered you.
ReplyDelete"He was still alive when I passed him. His tongue was still red , his eyes not yet extinguished." (Wiesel 65)
ReplyDeleteI chose this quote because to me it kind of symbolizes the hope that Jews had in the concentration camps. Through everything, they never gave up on the idea of them being liberated
Where is God? Where is He?” someone behind me asked. ..
ReplyDeleteFor more than half an hour [the child in the noose] stayed there, struggling between life and death, dying in slow agony under our eyes. And we had to look him full in the face. He was still alive when I passed in front of him. His tongue was still red, his eyes were not yet glazed.
Behind me, I heard the same man asking:
“Where is God now?”
And I heard a voice within me answer him:
“Where is He? Here He is—He is hanging here on this gallows. . . .”
I chose this quote because I think it was a turning point for Eliezer. It is a symbol for when Elie's faith in God is at an all time low.
I chose the quote •"What can we expect? It's war..."
ReplyDelete- Elie Wiesel, Night, Ch. 1.
I chose this quote to be significant because it shows just how comfortable wwe have came to be with war and how it is. I mean this quote basically says its war, what are you going to do.. And it is sad just how we look so forgetfully upon the subject.
"As long as one child is hungry, our life will be filled with anguish and shame." (Weisel, 120)
ReplyDeleteI chose that quote because I thought it was very powerful. I understand that forever, as long as they live, survivors of the Holocaust will be greatly effected.