Examples Of Dialectical Journal Night

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Night Personal Reading Journal Chapters 1-3 Chapter 1: Summary: Readers are introduced to the protagonist, Eliezer, and his family of three sisters and two parents. His youngest sister, Tzaipora, is blonde, and his other two sisters are older than him. The setting of the novel is the year 1941 in Sighet, specifically a Transylvanian town, and his family is well and prosperous. Eliezer is Jewish and studies the Kabbalah, under the guidance of a poor man named Moishe the Beadle, although his father does not believe that he should pursue this study until he is thirty and old enough to understand it. However, Eliezer’s studies take a halt when Moishe is deported, along with all of the other foreign Jews, by the Hungarians. When Moishe returns …show more content…

To silence her, she is gagged and beaten by other people in the car. The train finally arrives at a station at Auschwitz where there are large, smoky chimneys that reek of burned flesh, and the newcomers are processed at Birkenau, the concentration camp where they have arrived. Emotional Response: It is horrifying to think about the conditions that the Jews had to endure, and it is disgusting how the Jews were treated like animals and put into cattle cars as if they were cattle. Also, it is sickening and heartbreaking to read about and see the effects of loss and solitude that many face, some losing their sanity as a result. Chapter 3: Summary: The Jews at Birkenau have to undergo selections, and during this process, Elie and his father are separated from the rest of their family. At the start of their arrival, they meet other inmates and there is a spark of rebellion. Dr. Mengele determines the fate of the arrivals and sorts Elie and his father to the left in the same group as the workers. Elie lied to him and claimed that he was an eighteen-year-old farmer. The prisoners begin to understand that the camp is meant for burning and killing people and …show more content…

Elie and his dad get lucky and are chosen as one of the easier blocks, the electrical block. Elie meets some musicians and makes friends. At the beginning of the arrival to Buna all of the prisoners were examined for their health and gold crowns, of which Elie has and was noted for having. The camp dentist calls Elie to come so he can pull out his gold crown, but Elie lies and says that he has a fever and asks to come back at a later time, which the dentist allows. However, later on the dentist is hanged and Elie keeps his gold crown. Idel, the head Kapo of the electrical block, beats Elie for no reason, and once Elie comes back to work the French girl who sits next to him speaks to him kindly in German. Later on in Elie’s life, he is reunited with this woman on a Metro and they reminisce at a café. Elie is starving and is only concerned with his survival at this point, and when his father is beaten by Idek, he becomes angry at his dad and not Idek. The prison foreman, Franek, who was once pleasant demands Elie for his gold crown, which Elie refuses. Franek beats Elie’s father until he gives him the tooth. One day while working in the warehouse, Elie finds Idek having sex with a Polish girl in a small room. He laughs and Idek becomes enraged, and whips him 25 times. After this, all of the Polish prisoners at Buna are transferred to a different concentration camp.

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