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.
4. At that moment I couldn’t feel any more cynical about the way my friend was acting out.
Dialectical Journal Chapters 12-18 Vocabulary 1. Contemptuously- Showing or expressing disdain or scorn. 2. What is the difference between a'smart' and a Prerogative- An exclusive right or privilege.
This book has great balances of love interests, actions, and internal conflict with characters. It has an interesting story so far with new pieces coming up every few chapters that are very important. Like Al attacking Tris, Eric talking about Divergents and how the rebels must be eliminated. Tris and Four are developing feelings for each other, which I find weird because he is basically her teacher. They are only two years apart, so the relationship is not that awkward. In this journal I will be predicting, evaluating, and questioning.
In his first account in the story, he is a young boy of 13 years, in the small town of Sighet, Transylvania; In Hungary. He is very religious and is ready to learn more about his faith. It is 1941, when some Jews are taken from Sighet. Years pass until Elie is 15 years old now; Hitler is hovering above European Jewish citizens with a iron fist. With the laws passed in Germany, the Holocaust begins, and The Germans invade foreign land in an attempt to purify the Aryan race. Germans appear in Sighet, and are polite and kind and take residence in multiple families homes. Slowly overtime Jews were labeled, then segregated into ghettos. Soon after Elie and his family learns of the transports to the labor camps. They are then transported; through this misfortune and grief, Elie loses his faith in god, and loses hope. This is where the story truly begins, in the labor camp of Birkenau. Elie and his father were stripped of all their possessions and given painful haircuts, as well as clothes equivalent by those of rags; Here the people are worked like dogs and Elie now endures the pain of the labor camps, both emotionally and physically. He loses sight of his mother and sister who are
Samuels starts out explaining the background of Elie, a child who has a great love for religion. Then, Nazis come and occupy his native town of Sighet. Although held captured and clueless to where they were going, the Jews were indeed optimistic. They had no reason not to be, the Nazis were treating them as they were of importance. However, the optimism was to come to a halt. After arresting the Jewish leader, the Jews were sent to ghettos, then into camps. It wasn't until they reached Auschwitz where Elie for the first time smelt burning flesh. Then the eight words that Elie couldn't forget, "Men to the left! Women to the right!" He was then left with his father, who for the whole trip he would depend on to survive. It was this, in which made him lose his religiousness. In the months to come Elie and his father lived like animals. Tragically, in the end his father past away, and to amazement Elie had not wept. Samuels did an overall remarkable job on this review; however, there were still some parts that could have been improved.
On their way to the concentration camp, a German officer said, “’There are eighty of you in the car… If anyone is missing, you’ll all be shot like “dogs” ”’ (Wiesel 24). This shows that the Germans compared the Jews to dogs or animals, and that the German have no respect towards the Jews. Arrived at the concentration camp, the Jews were separated from their friends and family. The first thing of the wagon, a SS officer said, “’Men to the left! Women to the right!”’ (Wiesel 29). After the separation, Eliezer saw the crematories. There he saw “’a truck [that] drew close and unloaded its hold: small children, babies … thrown into the flames.” (Wiesel 32). This dehumanize the Jews, because they were able to smell and see other Jews burn in the flames. Later on the Jew were forced to leave their cloth behind and have been promise that they will received other cloth after a shower. However, they were force to work for the new cloth; they were forced to run naked, at midnight, in the cold. Being force to work for the cloth, by running in the cold of midnight is dehumanizing. At the camp, the Jews were not treated like human. They were force to do thing that was unhuman and that dehumanized
Six million Jews died during World War II by the Nazi army under Hitler who wanted to exterminate all Jews. In Night, Elie Wiesel, the author, recalls his horrifying journey through Auschwitz in the concentration camp. This memoir is based off of Elie’s first-hand experience in the camp as a fifteen year old boy from Sighet survives and lives to tell his story. The theme of this memoir is man's inhumanity to man. The cruel events that occurred to Elie and others during the Holocaust turned families and others against each other as they struggled to survive Hitler's and the Nazi Army’s inhumane treatment.
• At the beginning of Night, Eliezer describes himself as someone who believes “profoundly.” How have his experiences at Auschwitz affected that faith?
However, there were warnings by some people that Jewish people were being deported and killed. Although no one believes these warnings, Elie and his family are taken to a ghetto where they have no food. After being in the ghetto, Elie and his father were separated from Elie’s mother and sister because of selection and were placed in cattle cars where they had no room. They are taken to Auschwitz where they suffer from hunger, beatings, and humiliation from the guards which causes Elie’s father to become weak. By now Elie has lost his faith in God because of all he has been through.
Elie and his father were separated from the rest of their family and they were forced to enter the different concentration camps. When they enter Buna, Franek, a Polish prisoner who was placed in charged, threatened Elie for his golden tooth and he beat his father for the tooth. “Unfortunately, Franek knew how to handle this; he knew my weak spot. My father had never served in the military and could not march in step. But here, whenever we moved from one place to another, it was in step. That presented Franek with the opportunity to torment him and, on a daily basis, to thrash him savagely. Left, right: he punched him. Left, right: he slapped him” (55). Elie sacrifices his golden tooth in order to save his father from the beatings from Franek because he knows his father cannot handle it. This quote shows the external conflict between Franek and Elie’s father because of him threatening and beating him. Towards the end of their journey when they were being transported to Gleiwitz there was a selection. Elie’s father ends up on the bad side and Elie makes a commotion and distracts them and saves his father by bringing him back to the right side. “My father was sent to the left. I ran after him. An SS officer shouted at my back: ‘Come back!’ I inched my way through the crowd. Several SS men rushed to find me, creating such confusion that a number of people were able to switch over to
After first arriving at Auschwitz, Elie first encounters the harsh conditions of the camp as he sees the crematorium for the first time. This scares Elie and he becomes concerned only for his own survival and self being. Once arriving in the selection room, Elie is petrified of the SS and is trying to stay out of trouble. Shortly afterwards, Elie witnesses his own
A fifteen-year old boy, Elie Wiesel, and his family are overwhelmed by the thought of uncertainty when they are forced out of their home; as a result, the family would be forced into a cattle car and shipped to Auschwitz. At first, the Jews have a very optimistic outlook while in
Book Report on Elie Wiesel's Night. Elie tells of his hometown, Sighet, and of Moshe the Beadle. He tells of his family and his three sisters, Hilda, Béa, and the baby of the family, Tzipora. Elie is taught the cabala by Moshe the Beadle.
Mr. Wiesel had intended this book to describe a period of time in his life that had been dark and sorrowful. This novel is based on a survivor of the greatest Holocaust in history, Eliezer Wiesel and his journey of being a Jew in 1944. The journey had started in Sighet, Transylvania, where Elie spent his childhood. During the Second World War, Germans came to Elie and his family’s home town. They brought with them unnecessary evil and despair to mankind. Shortly after young Elie and thousands of other Jews were forced from their habitats and torn from their rights of being human. They were sent to different concentration camps. Elie and his family were sent to Auschwitz, a concentration and extermination camp. It would be the last time Elie sees his mother and little sister, Tzipora. The first sights of Auschwitz were terrifying. There were big flames coming from the burning of bodies and the crematoriums. The Jews had no idea of what to expect. They were not told what was about to happen to them. During the concentration camp, there was endless death and torture. The Jews were starved and were treated worse than cattle. The prisoners began to question their faith in God, wondering why God himself would
Elie goes to Auschwitz at an innocent, young stage in his life. Due to his experiences at this concentration camp, he loses his faith, his bond with his father, and his innocence. Situations as horrendous as the Holocaust will drastically change people, no matter what they were like before the event, and this is evident with Elie's enormous change throughout the memoir Night.