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Night (Click to select text)
My purpose for writing this report is to explain the book and express my personal feeling on the book Night and how I relate to it. CHARACTERS Besides the obvious charter (Eliezer) there are three characters that stand out. I picked characters from the beginning because they foreshadowed what was coming and by doing so that made the reaction of the people who didn’t listen entertaining…in a sick way I know. Moshe the Beadle was interesting. He had so much faith when the book started. It’s not that he didn’t have faith later on, it’s just in the opening he openly praised and gloried. He spoke with Eliezer about God and all his relation with the world and beyond. When he escaped the forest to warn his people and no believed him he stopped praising aloud. He would no long look at people in the eye. His warnings of deaths were ignored and in resulted the town was damn near illuminated. Madame Schachter she was so depressed it drove her insane. And her premonitions haunted her. I felt so sorry for her. First her family was split apart, after that she stars seeing fire, then she got beat for screaming fire and they tied her up, if they would’ve taken her to the hospital she would’ve been killed. What as freaky was how she could see that there were big flames and fires in their near destiny. Eliezer’s Father never showed any emotion until their town was effects by the Nazis. He was strength for the Jewish community. He helped everyone prepare to be evacuated. He was a leader and he helped him neighbors and friends as much as he could. I knew when he was in the back yard talking while they were in the ghetto that something bad would happen, then the nazis come and take him away to a meeting when he came back he told them that the ghetto would be cleaned out. EVENTS I choose the events that I think are most important and should be highlighted. Though the whole book was traumatizing I think these are the most damaging of all. Evacuation: when they gathered everyone into two ghettos was at first but that was easy street. Hell broke loose when they were evacuated and send away. The conditions on the train were unbearable. As I mentioned before Madame Schachter was screaming “fire” constantly. There were 80 people in each cart. There was barely any room for anyone. It was ever hot and there was no airflow. This evacuation was the start of it all. Hangings two prisoners and a young man were suspected of being involved with the resistance. Although the prisoners are all so jaded by suffering that they never cry, as they watch the child strangle on the end of the noose, they all break into tears. One man wonders how God could be present in a world with such cruelty. Eliezer thinks that as far as he is concerned, God has been murdered on the gallows with the child. Since the boy was so bonny it took longer for him to die. The nazis made everyone stay and watch them die. They stood there for approximately three hours. Eliezer watched the boy gasp for air and wished that he could help him, but if he you’ve tried then he would’ve died…what good would that have done? Death of his Father When Eliezer’s father refuses to move and insists on resting in stead of gaining strength he becomes weaker. Soon after his father is inflicted with dysentery (a disease characterized by severe diarrhea with passage of mucus and blood from the bowels) and it’s very dangerous to give water to a person ill with dysentery. Eliezer gives his father his food to give him strength, though a part of him wanted the food for his own well being. Men that surrounded him stole his food. During a check by an SS, Eliezer’s father cried out for water and was beaten. One day a person came to tell Eliezer that his father had died and instead of feeling grief, he was relived as if his father was a burden. Although he felt this was about the death of his father I believe that they were kept together by God to help eachother get that far. And I also believe that if Eliezer hadn’t given up on his father they both would have survived. OVERVIEW In the spring of 1944, the Nazis occupied Hungary. It wasn’t long afterward a series of increasingly repressive measures are passed. The Jews of Eliezer\\\'s town are forced into small ghettos within Sighet. Soon after, they are herded onto cattle cars, and a nightmarish journey ensues. After days and nights crammed into the car, exhausted and near starvation, the passengers arrive at Birkenau, the gateway to Auschwitz. On Eliezer\\\'s arrival in Birkenau, he and his father are separated from his mother and sisters, whom they never see again. In the first of many \\\"selections\\\" that Eliezer describes in the memoir, the Jews are evaluated to determine whether they should be killed immediately or put to work. Eliezer and his father seem to pass the evaluation, but before they are brought to the prisoners\\\' barracks, they stumble upon the open-pit furnaces where the Nazis are burning babies by the truckload. From there are the Jews are excessively faced with trauma of unsafe, uncomfortable living situations and are beaten. Many of them died horrible deaths. With all the chaos in the camps many Jews loose faith in God. With everyone fighting for their survival they turn of eachother in stead of working together to get through the camps. OPINON This was a really good book, thought it was very sad. It’s so hard to believe it’s true, but no one could make that up. Not even a page of it. As I was reading this I felt anger, sadness, pain, and fear for all the victims. Anger because of they way the were treated. They way they were beaten over little things. And I was also angry at how heinous and selfish the Jews became. They fought with eachother and sole from in other instead of coming together. At times they were barbaric and discussing in their behavior. I felt sadness because of all the agony they went through, some in vein. This was sad how the whole thing could’ve been prevented, but no one did a thing about it. And at time the book was so intense and depressing I had to stop to cry. I felt pain because I imagined being betrayed like the Rabbi or Eliezer’s father, and many other Jews. I felt fear knowing that I could’ve been there and that his could happen to me next week or in a year. After reading Night I’m terribly effected. I wonder if humanity truly exists. With reading this book I am confronted by my expectations in humanity. The word now has a bogus sense to me. It’s not fair to blame this all on the book, my faith I people was already fading, but knowing that people can be that fucked up in the head to be apart of something like that willing and how the victims also become the enemy is haunting. And what makes it even more surreal is that there’re still ignorance with all of this knowledge being spread, people are still screwed up.
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