Hester really has two different sides; internal and external. On the outside Hester was at first ashamed of Pearl's existance and how she came to be. After a while, she grew comfortable with herself and to her peers she is "changed". She has turned into a good person who is helpful and does good things around town. People believe the "A" has done its service and helped save her and make her back into a good member of society. Internal Hester has not changed much. She doesn't think what she did was wrong and hates the "A'. Internally she really has not changed at all. Hester really is a two sided person. People just don't see her "hidden side". Who really is Hester?

Scarlet Letter response

Scarlet Letter is a good book, but most of the time, its hard to understand. Re-reading is a must if you want to understand. The effect of the Scarlet Letter on Hester makes it fun to read, seeing her transform from an abashed widow to a brazen mother. It almost seems as if the book was meant to show people that happiness in life can come from any situation. The evil shown from Pearl kind of shows the overview of whats happen with Hester. Pearl starts off like a normal child being held and nurtured, representing Hester before the sex. Then Pearl became a soft playful joy, with a harder evil like core. This small representation of Hester adds a twist as the two characters develop separately

Slaughterhouse-Five is clearly an antiwar novel. All of Billy’s stories of war point out the bad aspects of people and life. He exemplifies death, murder, and the disgusting parts of human nature. Kurt Vonnegut repeats the phrase “so it goes” several times—always after death. He said Edgar Derby was killed in the war because he stole a tea pot… so it goes. He is always looking at war in a calm point of view, but at the same time disgusted. Vonnegut does not go into detail because everyone dies and not much matters when you are in a war. No one cares that you have a family or money back home, all they care about is winning for their country. The novel also points out that all those who are in the war are babies. He states that it is a “children’s crusade,” and the men do not all know what they are doing. The novel does not have a consistent structure. It is all jumbled up because nothing is really that significant and nothing will matter once something else happens. War is inevitable and will happen in every modern civilization. Kindness is the key to human nature.

#3: the significance

I think the significance of telling the story out of order is to show how crazy and out of order Billy Pilgrims life is. In the story Billy goes back in time a lot and when he does go back in time it isn't in order, that is another reason why the story is written out of order. KV chose this way of writing this story because that's the way he sees his life and the way other people see it. KV says so it goes after someone dies, he says this because Billy doesn't believe in time, so when someone dies they just die, there is no certain time they die at.

Question 3 SH5

The significances of telling the story out of order is that it shows that there is no time and the story doesn't have a beginning, end or middle. Its like a Tralfamadore story, no matter if its in order or not they always see it in order, the whole thing the right way. To the humans the book is out of order and it jumps randomly and they cant see it all at once. It was also chosen to not be in order because it showed that there was no time and everything is happening at once. When he would skip from time to time it would either be in a random moment or when he didn't want to experience something again, like the plane crash. Kurt Vonnegut wrote this story mixed up because he didn't believe in time, he is Billy Pilgrim in the book. KV made a character that is him but has a different name and there is one time in the book where he breaks character. This book also shows that you never die, like the Tralfamador say that they may be dead but there still alive somewhere. This book was not about showing how bad the war was cause he would say "So it goes" after anyone or anything would die, he didn't go into detail about it. Which made you think about it but not really get the full effect. This book was defiantly a anti-war book.

!!!QUESITON 3!!!

In Slaughterhouse Five the structure of the story is out of order primarly to show how time doesn't matter. Kurt Vonnegut chose this structure because he beleives time is pointless. He lives his life not depending on time. He is Billy Pilgrim in the book, and Billy also doesn't follow time. Time should not dictate when we do things, they should just happen. That is how Billy's life was, and he couldn't control it. His whole life was planned out, he knew what he was going to do, and he had no option of when to do it. He only went through the motions already knowing the outcome. The phrase "so it goes" was said after every death in the book. This relates to the concept of time because death is unaviodable, and is supposed to happen without any control. Most people can't control their death. It just is. Billy believed that after you died, you were still alive. You were still living in the past, and were constantly reliving memories. You never really died, you just stopped making new memories, and focused on the old ones. The fact that people base their lives on time, doesn't make sense to him. Everything will happen the way it is supposed to, and people should just go through the motions, not caring what section of time they are in. The structure of this book is cut into many sections to portray that everything happens, and at the time it might not make sense because settings are changing so often, but in the end it will all come together and finally makes sense. The second part of telling the story out of order is to show his emotions about the war. It was the worst time of his life, and he doesn't want to dwell on it for chapters and chapters. Instead of him talking pre war, war, and post war, he jumbles it up so you only read short summaries of the war. If he told page after page about bombings and murdering it wouldn't be as significant because we would get used to it. When he suddenly travels from Tralfamadore to the war, you get more a shock. The book was trying to make an impact on the readers, and send an anti-war message.

and then there's fate..

       The idea of fate versus free will is a very complex and controversial topic. In this novel, the Tralfamadorians say that humans are the only life-form in the galaxy that believe in free will. However, when the outer-worldly beings look at someone, they see their entire life; past, present, and future. Therefore, there is no such thing as free will, because everything is already set in stone. The author of Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut, believes that time is an irrelevant creation of man. Kurt Vonnegut, like the Tralfamadorians, doesn't believe in free will. When Vonnegut was a teenager he was stripped of all of his free will and thrown into the front lines of a war. This is why he decided to write a science fiction novel based off of a character who also has no free will, visited by aliens that reinforce the fact that nothing can be changed about his past because his future has already happened.

Question 3

Kurt Vonnegut wrote Slaughterhouse 5 in a circular structure.The reader knows its end from the start, and the parts are filled in, from all segments of his life, as the Novel progresses. The author cannot use the usual linear narration because the book conforms with the idea of the effect of time, and how time doesn't matter in our lives.Especially because of the firebombing in Dresden and the killing of thousands and thousands of innocent people Vonnegut needs a form that does not appear to rationalize the events. He needed something like a fourth dimension.He tries to show us with this that each character is its own history, not something that exists and has history. Also with the phrase "So it goes" Kurt Vonnegut tries to tell us in an ironic way how dead people are just in a bad condition in this moment but in many other moments they are just fine. So it goes also shows us that the author saw so many people dying in World War 2 that if he would cry about every single one like we do, he wouldn't have any joy in life anymore. So it goes.

question 2

Slaughterhouse-five has a lot to do with fate and free will. It is saying that free will really doesnt exist. Fate is Fate you cant change it. He didnt want to go to war but his fate sent him to war. Our desicions are fated we do make the choices we make but from the beginning our fate is chosen. if we were ever to go back in time we couldnt change it because its fate. free will does not exist in anyway we are all fated to live the life we live and to die when we do, that is just fate.

Fate vs. Free Will

Free will is only what we make it to be therefore it really does not exist. "The creatures were friendly, and could see in four dimensions. They pitied Earthlings for being able to only see three. They had many things to teach Earthlings especially about time." (page 33) Because the Tralfamadorians could see in four dimensions their outlook on things were altered and to them, we humans look more like centipedes. When they look at a person they see "legs of ones life time." It's hard to explain or put into words, but they see several of our heads, like they see one as a baby, on as a toddler, one as a teen... get the picture?

Because they can see a human's whole life time with one glance, free will does not and will not ever exist. Billy Pilgrim does not have free will because he time travels around his life time and knows, understands, and relives his death.
Fate vs. free will is a very strong and/or confusing statement. Humans don't really have much choice to choose our fate, and free will is all about choosing what way you to go. If there was no fate then here would be loads of free will.

#2

Every day you are faced with decisions. What clothes you are going to wear, what you’re going to do or what you’re going to eat it’s your free will to choose. However your decisions will affect your fate. According to the Tralfamadorians, only on Earth is there talk of free will, since they think humans; mistakenly think of time as a linear progression. The Tralfamadorians explain to Billy that there is no such thing as free will and that Earthlings only believe there is free will because they cannot view time as the fourth dimension. Throughout Billy's life he encounters many things that test his free will. When Billy is a child, his father lets him drowned in the deep end of a pool in order to teach him how to swim. However against his free will to stay there, he is rescued. Also, Billy is drafted into the war against his will. When Billy time travels and sees his own death, he chooses not to mess with it. He knows he’s going to die, and he doesn’t want to change fate. This is much like Kurt Vonnegut, because he dose not believe in the concept of time, and thinks everything happens for a reason. Kurt Vonnegut also says that there is no such thing as free will. It does not exist because we choose what we want, and that is basically fate.

Question 3

The book is written out of order to say that there is no such thing as time. It is significant because it says that the past, present, and future are all happening, always will be happening, and always have been happening. He decided to write his novel in this order because he is making the argument that there is no such thing as time. With the book going out of order the reader realizes that a story does not need to have one event flow right after another in order to be understood. Because all time is constantly occurring, Billy is able to travel to any point in his life. Billy says “so it goes” every time somebody or something dies. He says this because when somebody dies this is the way that it was meant to be. The person is still alive in the past but they are dead now and in the future. It is just the way time works; there is nothing anyone can do about it so he just says “so it goes.”

Question One

From the very beginning, Slaughterhouse-Five is a unique novel in the sense that its message is not the typical anti-war message. Vonnegut does not give his opinion or say war is wrong. In contrary, he describes the bombing as beautiful. Vonnegut simply gives the facts of what happened to inform the reader, and says “so it goes” after all the deaths because there is nothing we can change. I am sure living through something as horrible as the bombing of Dresden caused Vonnegut to have many emotions that are hard to deal with. He wants to get the point across that war is inevitable, that no society is capable of having utopia. Therefore, Vonnegut does not go into much detail about the deaths and instead focuses on specific memories that trigger other emotions. In the novel, no one is heroic or evil; everyone is equally unimportant. The “good guys” sometimes die and no one person really has any significance in the big scheme of things. Vonnegut also describes the soldiers, himself included, as babies because war is childish and foolish in many ways. The tone is very straightforward because Vonnegut does not want to deceive the reader or make things seem better than they are. The story lacks a structure for the most part. I think this is because time does not really matter. There will always be problems, whether it is war or not, in the past, present, and future. The main message I picked up from Vonnegut’s novel was to focus on the good times in life because no matter how bad things are at the moment they will be better at some point.

Slaughter House Five: Question 2

In the novel, it is believed that there is no such thing as free will. Billy does not have the choice of deciding what to do next or where he is going to travel in time and when. The Tralfamadorians believe in this because of how they see the fourth dimension, but they also say that Earthlings are the only ones who believe in free will because they do not see time like this. Earthlings think that everything they do is their choice, but according to the Tralfamadorian's, because they can't see the fourth demention, these events have always happened and will always happen, but they just don't realize it. In a way, everything that all living creatures do is fate because it is all played out even before that life had been created. Throughout Vonnegut's life, he has been put through many situations that he never wanted to be in, like the war and the bombing of Dresden. All of these events morphed his view on life and led him to believe in the idea that there is no free will.

Question 1

Slaughterhouse 5 is one of the most interesting anti-war novels that has been written to date. Kurt Vonnegut never made anyone in the war a hero, or a bad guy, they were all just normal people. Because all of the characters were just normal people, when they die, the readers look at the death and start to realize that it was senseless; that many of the soldiers died for pointless reasons, and for a needless cause. He also just gives all the facts, there is no embellishment, everything is simple, and everything is the truth. As a reader you come to understand not the elaborate heroes war, but the actual “children’s crusade”, was terrible, and caused the deaths of many people who should have lived. From his tone you get the feeling that he was very emotional about war, and that it is very hard for him to look back on those days. “So it goes”, might be one of the most important lines in this book in terms of conveying the anti-war message. Whenever anyone dies, whenever something senseless or horrible happens, he uses “so it goes” so that he does not need to go into any more detail than necessary. Overall this book couldn’t strike you as anything other than an anti-war novel.

Queston uno

Slaughterhouse-Five, portrays a perfect anti-war novel, showing the true face of war, not just the epic version that the government shows us today. It shows how scary war really is, how unpredictable is can be, how mercilous and destructive the military can be. The fact that the book was going to be named The Childrens Crusade, shows that children, not much older then we are, have to face these war horrors when not yet matured, or ready to kill. Slaughterhouse-Five also shows how unpredictible war can be with its skipping around of story, since Billy skips around to find himself is a messed up position with no idea of how he got there. The situations in war are not how they seem on T.V. in reality. The POW's during the war were put through the worst situations, but in reality, this is what war is really like, and Kurt Vonnegut does an extreme job of telling this. All of this added up, makes every single word in Slaughterhouse-Five, make you think twice about going to war.

Question 3

Kurt Vonnegut wrote Slaughterhouse 5 out of order to show how time no longer exists to Billy Pilgrim. Billy has to live moments in his life randomly and out of order because he has become unstuck in time. He might be in the forest with the 3 musketeers at one moment, then reliving his abduction by Tralfamadorians in the next. Vonnegut also wrote his book in the same style as the Tralfamadorians, who'se books have no story structure and are out of order because they don't beleive in time. The Tralfamadorians also say that Earth is the only planet that has the concept of "free will" because they beleive in time and dont realize that their lives are determined by fate, and that everything has always and will always happen the same way. An example of this is how the Universe ends. The Tralfamadorians are experimenting with new rocket fuels and push a button, then the Universe ends. Billy asks if they can stop the Universe from ending, but they say that the button will always be pushed. This is why Vonnegut says "so it goes" every time a person dies because they were always going to die at that moment in time and it could not be prevented. This is also shown by the way that Billy relives his life. He goes to a moment in time, but he has to relive it in the same way because he cant change anything. If he had the ability to change something, than it would always have been changed and all the later events in his life would always have been different, which would not be possible because he is constantly reliving those events the same way they were originally, so he couldn't have changed them earlier.

Question 1

Slaughterhouse-Five is said to be an anti-war novel because it is based on characters and society that are not concerned about war. The tone shows how the war events happened and could not be changed, and how the characters just move on with their lives, focussing on the good things that happen. Vonnegut succeeded in focusing on the views of the anti-war society in the world, trying to teach that if we, society, deny war importance and move on with our lives, the past mistakes/events will not repeat themselves in the future.

Prompt number one

Vonnegut's way of presenting Slaughterhouse V as anti-war is extremely unorthadox, but it is still without question an anti-war novel. It is strange how he presents death as almost a non-issue, yet the only reason war is so strongly opposed is because it grants death en masse. Vonnegut makes us see war at a very different perspective than we normally do, in a simplistic, peaceful manner of writing, the opposite from what we would expect in an anti-war novel, where grim descriptions and focus upon the horror of it all should be prevelant. Billy is even indifference to everything going on around him, stating the one time he cries during the war is when he looks at how bad the horses are treated. He never sheds a tear for the thousands killed above him when he is hiding in the meat locker, and this is Vonnergut stating on the condition of the human spirit and war's effect on it. He is saying that you get to a point where the horrors of war stop effecting you, being just another everyday occerance, but you can still be moved by something as poor treatment to horses. Overall the book is very much anti-war, the way it is presented as such is just very subtle.

!!!QUESTION 3!!!

In Slaughterhouse Five the structure of the story is out of order primarly to show how time doesn't matter. Kurt Vonnegut chose this structure because he beleives time is pointless. He lives his life not depending on time. He is Billy Pilgrim in the book, and Billy also doesn't follow time. Time should not dictate when we do things, they should just happen. That is how Billy's life was, and he couldn't control it. His whole life was planned out, he knew what he was going to do, and he had no option of when to do it. He only went through the motions already knowing the outcome. The phrase "so it goes" was said after every death in the book. This relates to the concept of time because death is unaviodable, and is supposed to happen without any control. Most people can't control their death. It just is. Billy believed that after you died, you were still alive. You were still living in the past, and were constantly reliving memories. You never really died, you just stopped making new memories, and focused on the old ones. The fact that people base their lives on time, doesn't make sense to him. Everything will happen the way it is supposed to, and people should just go through the motions, not caring what section of time they are in. The structure of this book is cut into many sections to portray that everything happens, and at the time it might not make sense because settings are changing so often, but in the end it will all come together and finally make sense.

Question # 3

The reason that Kurt Vonnecut wrote Slaughter House-Five out of order is because he wanted to make the book complicated. When he wrote the book he made it so where you actually had to dig deep to understand the book. He already knew in his mind that the book would already be insane so, he made it even crazier. The saying "so it goes" basically means that things happen everyday and its a part of life thats the whole point of him saying "so it goes". The signifance of the book being out of order is that if you skipped a chapter then you will know that you skipped that chapter. This book is totally different than other books, by him making it out of order it pulls you into the book alot more. If he would have just made it a regular war type book then it would be just like the rest of them. He knew that his audience would have to really get into Slaughter House-Five so he made it scattered to catch their attention. Also he wanted to show how time doesnt really matter.Billys life was put in chronlogical order. I think that the main reason why the story is told ut of order is because the author wanted to show that all the things billy went through was a part of life in someway. Also that it doesnt matter how things happen because time is something that rolls naturally. Maybe time is suppose to be how we want it.Time itself doesnt matter its what you do with your time. When you hear the saying so it goes people usually use it when they talk about death or any part of life.

Question 2: Fate vs. Free Will

In the novel Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut expresses his belief that there is no such thing as free will. Free will does not exist because we choose what we choose, and that is simply fate. Having the right to choose is not defined as free will because if we ever went back, we would have to choose the same thing, because the moment is set up that way. In the novel, the Tralfamadorians explain to Billy that there is no such thing as free will and that Earthlings only believe there is free will because they cannot view time as the fourth dimension. Tralfamadorians are able to see everything that has ever happened to any object including other people, landforms, and stars. The Tralfamadorians know everything that has happened and everything that ever will happen, even the end of the universe. When Billy asks the Tralfamadorians why they don't stop the end of the universe they tell him that they can't, the moment is set up that way and it can never change. The Tralfamadorian who blows up the universe if fated to keep making the same decision.

Kurt Vonnegut, the author of Slaughterhouse-Five, tackled the basic question of human existence. He had gone through many things in his life, one of those being the firebombing of Dresden. Vonnegut never wanted to be put in many of the situations he was in, and the fact that he had no control over any of it shows that fate outs free will all together. Vonnegut altered realism in the novel to show human mistakes through other mediums. His ideals are directly represented throughout the book in Tralfamadores, Billy's uncontrollable time traveling, and crazy books created by is alter-ego, Kilgore Trout.

Question 3

The significance of telling the story out of order is that it is showing how that time doesn’t matter and how Billy Pilgrim is just trapped in a circle of time. It shows that there is no such thing as time and time has no point. Why do we even believe in time, what is the point? You will always go to work, and school at a curtain time, your future won’t change because you try and change time, your past, present, and future will always be the same no matter what. Kurt Vonnegut doesn’t believe in the concept of time, he feels that every minute that goes by is like an hour of his life passing by, into time he feels that time was a human creation that we have to follow. “There was nothing I could do about it. As an Earthling, I had to believe whatever clocks said and calendars.” Kurt Vonnegut says “so it goes” in the book after someone has died, he can’t do anything about it, it has happened and he cant change time, it is in the past.

Question 3.

The significance of telling the story out of order is to show that there is no such thing as time and that time doesn’t matter. There is no beginning, middle, or end to the story and KV wants people to understand his own idea of time. He thinks of time as a human creation that men took and twisted into a creation that people now live by everyday but is it real or is it just a figment of our imagination? To him time was almost as if someone was playing with clocks and they would make it twitch which lead to a passing of a year but KV believes it because he has to. But he himself believes that the past, present, and future are all now because all the events in your life are raveled together in the moment now and the future is the choices you make now therefore there is no such thing as time. All moments, memories, thoughts, and events are stuck in amber just as KV said in his book. These moments stay with us and are all bound around you as a person. The world really has no way of explaining time and the only reason we have it is because it’s how people live their lives everyday. They go to school at a certain times or plan to go to sleep at a certain times but what if we didn’t think about time? It is a good question but there aren’t really answers to this. This relates to the phrase “So it goes” because when KV uses “So it goes” it is always used after a death. In his book the Tralmafadorian’s don’t believe in the thought of death. They think of it as another moment of “now” because to them the person is and always will be alive for the rest of forever. Death is just another one of the many moments in a person’s life.

In this novel there is basically no freewill, everything happens for a reason which is described by fate. In the book Kurt Vonnegut is played by Billy Pilgrim and Billy is unstuck in time. He does not see the present. He jumps through time and sees everything and lives it all jumbled together. Billy resembles Kurt in the way that they do not care about time and do not see it. Kurt believes that life is important but time has no impact on their life. Billy sees hes birth and death all at the same time and he does not try to change what is going to happen because there is no freewill only fate. Billy knows how he is going to die and he isn't going to try and change it because of fate. Everything happens for a reason. Kurt believes the same thing and wants everybody to know that. Kurt also wants people to know what happened in Dresden and that is had to happen for a reason.

#3 significance of structure

Through out Slaughter House Five the events in the story are completely out of order, I think the author did this to show how irrelevant time is in our lives. Kurt Vonnegut wanted to prove his point of how time doesn't exist, events have always happened and always will happen, it doesn't matter when. Also, this structure supports the idea of how death is inevitable and actually a beautiful thing, it will always happen to everyone no matter what, when it happens is just an idea, it's always happened. This relates to the phase "so it goes" because everything that is going to happen will happen no matter what, so it goes on. In the beginning of the book Vonnegut pretty much tells you all that's going to happen because it doesn't matter when you find out, everything has always happened and always will. Time is non-existent and you see this through out this novel, because of unordered events and the casualty of death. So it goes.

riggs question 1

This novel goes through all the bad things that happen in war and how it affects the people the war. There are a lot of people that die and it shows how people react to it and how the become sad and dont want to fight anymore. It talks about how it was almost going to be called the childrens crusade because of how the are making kids fight wars and how it isnt right. All around the world kids are being drafted in to the war because there arnt enough adults to fight so the are brain washing kids and making them soilders. It shows POW's in there prisons how they suffer and have no fun and the only thing they were trying to do was protect there country but then they end up in a prisin cold and wet and wanting to kill them selfs.

Austin Anti-War

This whole book is anti-war. All throughtout the book Kurt shows his anti-warism. Calling the book the children's crusade is one way he shows his anti-warism. He believes that young, unexperienced people are the soldiers in the war. Kurt hates war because he thinks that the young and uneducated are involved in war. He thinks that there is no point for war but no matter what there will always be war. Overall the book shows through the bombing of Dresden, the P.O.W.s and the characters in war that war is a bad thing. It corrupts people who are involved in it and destroys innocent people that are effected by it.

Question #1

Slaughterhouse Five or The Children’s Crusade is one of the greatest “anti-war” novels of all time. It doesn’t have a hero, or a villain. The book doesn’t make war look glamorous or worth while. There is never any anticipation in the book, because you Vonnegut tells you everything that’s going to happen before hand. This is completely opposite from most war novels. Those books always want to keep you waiting in suspense for who will die or who will kill someone, or who will live. The book has no chronological structure. He tells you about the death of a person, and then doesn’t touch back on their life for chapters at a time. He is simply illustrating his belief that time is non-existent. It also make the reader see someone in the same sense the Tradaformalians see them, in death, at birth, at their moments of glory, and at their worst. They see everything at once. Vonnegut changes subject often. He goes from an anti-war novel to a science fiction novel, and back. He also changes though very often. He wrote in the same sense that someone thinks; completely random, and out of order.

Question number 1.

The tone that Vonnegut uses is a sarcastic tone all the time during slaughter house five. the anti war message in this book is that billy doesn't really care about life which relates to when soldier go back home they just don't care about life as much. Another thing that Vonnegut showed was that time is a big time during our life, billy dosent belive in time but in some parts of the book time becomes significant. Faith in this book is represented very well like when someone goes to war he dosent know is his going to survive or die. Faith is the main topic in this anti war message.


By: Luis Tavares

Question number 1.

KV Number 3

It was significant for Kurt Vonnegut to tell the story out of order because it doesn't matter which order it happens if it destroyed everything and there is no going back. It doesn't really matter what order he tells it in if it all happened. as long as you read the hole book then you are going to find out what happened. Kurt nay have chosen to structure the book this way because all books are structured the same way. He wanted to be different. In all other books the story is written in chronological order. Kurt thought that if it happened it didn't matter what order it was in. This relates to the phase "So it goes." because when ever someone dies it doesn't really matter how he dies if he is no longer in the world today. Kurt doesn't need to explain how they die if so many people do. If he went into detail to explain how everyone died the book would be twice as long. All that he is telling you that you need to know is that a lot of people died in Dresden. it doesn't matter how they died but that Dresden was a tragic event.

option 1 question 5

The author's style is very simple. Sometimes he uses just a word or a fragment instead of a sentence. this style is effective and brings out the emotional aspect of Elie Wiesel's experience. It is shocking how the tone and the mood contrast each other. the tone of Night is very calm and indifferent. on the other hand the novel's mood is very dark and foreboding. people get killed and tortured left and right and the author's tone never changes.

Number 3

Option 3

In the Novel The Night, the Concentration Camps that Elie is sent too, the camps always seem less threatening in the daytime. The night is the the Nazi's greatest ally in the race to get rid of the Jews before the Russians save them. During the Night, the Jews are scared out of their minds as the flame of the crematoria becomes visible, as the scent of blood has an unknown orgin, as the bodies on the ground appear and disappear. Without the night, the jews would be stronger, and have more hope for the end. This is what the Nazi's dont want, they want to kill them on the inside, then the outside. Elie talks to his father about this regularly when they are new to the camps, but it slowly fades away as these fears are more regular, and more accepted. In the day time, the jews can still see that there is a world out there, and that the world hasent given up on them yet. But during the night, all humanity of the world just disappears, and the world as they know it, transforms into hell on earth. The Jews including Elie and Chlomo accept this, and embrace it. The strong ones believe that it will be over, and they can get back to life, but the weak fall over, to their death.

"NIGHT" option 5

The journey of Ellie Wiesel is a very courageous and inspiring tale, but the fact that this actually happened makes it astounding. You feel for Ellie more than you would a fictional character. The memoir aspect also brings the realization that the Holocaust actually happened and was a bad as it has been made out to be. It adds a huge amount of truth to the events. You begin to think more about the events, and you get sucked into the story of a young boy and his fight for survival, and his human qualities. The way that Ellie wrote this book makes it very real, and i realized how horrible the Holocaust was.

significance of "Night": option 1, number 3

The significance of "night" in the novel is that the majority of the events happen at night. Also at night, everything seems to be much more gruesome and scary to the characters as well as the readers. At night, the prisoners had to fight their worries to stay faithful and try to stay positive. "Night. No one prayed, so that the night would pass quickly. The stars were only psarks of the first which devoured us. Should that fire die out one day, there would be nothing left in the sky but dead stars, dead eyes." "There was nothing else to do but to get into bed, into the beds of the absent ones; to rest, to gather one's strength."-p.18

how the concentration camps changed the jews attitude

In the book "Knight" Elie Wissel was very religious. He would pray every night before he went to sleep and while he would pray he would cry. When Elie and his family first arrived at the concentration camp he slowly starting slipping away from god. It started out with him questioning god because he thought that if god was a great god like he once thought he was then why he was at a concentration camp why were all the Jews being killed or treated like dogs. If god was a great god than why was he letting all of this happen? Elie thought that their was a god but not a good god no he thought that it was a bad god. Soon enough Elie even forgot about that their was a god he would not think about god, and when his father passed away no prays were said. Also most Jews lost hope in survival and forgot about their families thinking that they were dead only thought about themselves. The Jews were being treated like dogs and were forced to live in horrible conditions and got food thrown at them like if the were animals and were even being called dogs. Eventually most Jews lost control and were acting like the animals that they were called. Jews would kill each other over a piece of bread, allot of them lost control. They were out of their minds insane. Some even wanted to get away from their old relatives that still lived because they did not want to deal with them or being in risk of dying. They said that in a concentration camp you had no family no friends you only had yourself. That you should only care about yourself and no one else to be as selfish as you can.

Dr Mengele

Dr Mengele was a sick and twisted soul that used humans as his test subjects for his experiments during World War II. Also referred to as the “Angel of Death” Dr Mengele took Jews out of the concentration camps and used them as his “patients”. These “patients” were put into pressure chambers, tested with drugs, castrated, frozen to death, and exposed to a various number of other traumas. Mengele performed both physical and psychological experiments, the transfusion of blood from one twin to another was often preformed, and he is reported to have bled some to death this way. The Dr would draw a line on the wall of the children’s block between 150 and 156 centimeters from the floor. He would then send those whose heads could not reach the line to the gas chambers. 1.2 million Jewish children, tens of thousands of gypsy children and thousands of handicapped children were murdered under Nazi rule in Germany. Dr Mengele died while swimming, he had a massive stroke and drowned.

fact or fiction

The Holocaust, generally described as the most gruesome period in history, is a total and complete lie. The use of gas chambers is nothing but a rumor. Gas rooms were used to exterminate Jews in large groups, with Jews going in every 30 minutes to an hour. Yet the chemicals allegedly used take 20 hours to air out a room disinfected with Zyklon-B, which makes it impossible for any guards to force Jews into the rooms without burning themselves. In fact it would take over 68 years to kill six million people in these gas chambers. There was also talk of crematoriums, but they never seem to mention where the ashes went to. With over six million people killed in the holocaust we have no idea where remains belong. Looking in an old almanac the Jewish population between 1940 and 1949 was raised by almost 600,000. Europe actually had the most growth rate, with 433,058. Yet, at the same time 6 million Jews died, I don’t understand how this works. The facts don’t add up, the holocaust still has to work out the kinks before it can be accepted as true by everyone.


bytheway, I actually do believe in the holocaust.

Dr. Josef Mengele freezes the stage

Although the Holocaust was a devastating blow to all humanity, thanks to Dr. Josef Mengele’s wicked experiments, we now have a greater understanding of the biological setup of the human body. Most of his experiments were 110% disturbing. One famous experiment was to answer the questions: “How long would it take to lower the body temperature to death? After frozen, what is the best way to resuscitate the frozen victim?” His two main methods of this experiment was to put the victim in a tub full of icy water and/or place the victim outside, naked, in sub-zero temperatures. The result was the “icy vat of water” method proved to be the fastest way to drop the body temperature. The second part of the experiment was to see if you can defrost the human body and see if they could live or not. One method was the use of the sun lamp. The victim was placed under a sun lamp that was so hot that they would burn the skin. One young homosexual victim was repeatedly cooled to unconsciousness then revived with the lamps until he was pouring sweat (he later died after several test sessions). The "Hot Bath" method was one of the best and most successful of all methods. The victim would be placed in warm water, while the temperature would slowly increase. From this experiment, we learned that the human body can unfreeze only if the temperature of the water would slowly increase. If it was quickly increased then the body would go into too much shock and practically fry. Over all, Dr. Mengele's experiments taught the military world that the human body could be saved if the soldier was unconscious and frozen. It also gave a little more insight or understanding to the human temperature.

Option 1: Examples of dehumanization

Throughout the novel, the Jewish prisoners are dehumanized to the point where they lose all the human qualities that separate them from animals. This process started with small steps when the Hungarian police invaded Sighet. They provide the Jews with three rules: they could not leave their house, they were forbidden to own any valuables, and most importantly, they all must wear a yellow star. The yellow star forced them to be seen different than all other people and unequal. Once the Jews leave Sighet forever, they are pushed into cattle cars that are filled with one-hundred people. In the cars, there is barely enough room for one to sit. The incredibly full cars are used to carry animals, and the Jews are being resembled as them. As the Jews arrive camps, they witness people murdered before their eyes. At first they react as any other would on the inside, but on the outside, they remain calm. This is one of the first signs of the prisoner’s dehumanization. As the novel goes on, their dehumanization continues to increase. It reaches the peak when the prisoners are in the cars again. Bread is thrown into the cars and an old man grabs a piece. His own son then kills him for the food, but is soon killed for that same piece of bread. This shows that one will do anything for their own survival in times like this, and all human qualities will be lost. Their dehumanization is the result from the conditions at the camps.

How concentration camps changed Jews...

At the beginning of the novel night the Jews were pretty happy with their lives, they would go about like any normal person on any normal day. When they started to get transfered out into the concentration camps they weren't treated very well at all and they lost sight of how things were good and got to the point of wanting to die. On there journey through it all they were put in harsh conditions, snowing and they are wearing nothing but shoes and carrying there belts. They had to watch there loved ones and the people they cared about that kept them alive die, by either starving to death, getting trampled, shot, burned, beaten, froze, and/or hung from either being to weak, not doing what the SS officer told you to do or not getting passed the selection. The Jews beliefs faded, Elie couldn't figure out how god could be a good person when he is putting them through these things. They also valued the things they could that they had left from there old lives anything they could hold on too kept most of them from letting themselves die. This showed that the littlest things can keep thousands of Jews wanting to stay alive and live through it. At the end of the journey the thousands, maybe millions of Jews had to run 45 miles in the dumping snow to make it to a new camp, many people died during this and didn't make it to the end. All in all the concentration camps changed the Jews attitude tremendously, anyone who survived this long, awful journey was a strong willed person.

Option 1, Number 2

In Night, there are many examples of dehumanization. Dehumanization begins when the Jews are forbidden to go outside of their residences. Their valuables are later taken away and then they are forced to wear the yellow star. After the ghetto is created, life returns to normal. Then Elie’s father gets the news of transports. The Jews are then packed into cattle cars that contain limited air, water, and space. They now resemble animals, they no longer are of any significance and their only purpose is to be transported. During this ride, the Jews begin to forget their morals and beat Mrs. Schachter when she screams about seeing a fire. In the dark of night, the Jews arrive at the concentration camp. When they leave the cattle cars, they are also forced to leave everything they had behind. The smoke rises up and immediately consumes the hope of many. Crematoriums are being filled by Jews with babies and children. Man and wife are separated and so are millions of families. Later, the prisoners get numbers tattooed on their arms and they no longer get called by name, like livestock. They are shoved into packed barracks and are forced to sleep without sheets. Not only are the conditions they live in are terrible, but they are forced to run 42 miles while SS officers shout at them like they are filthy beasts. All throughout the novel, the Jews are dehumanized and oppressed by the Germans.

Night option 1 number 2

Option 1, Number 2

Auschwitz and the other concentration camps changed the Jews attitudes about many things. The camps also somewhat brainwashed the Jews into wanting to be the last man alive, not caring about anybody else. One of the main ways the Jews attitudes’ change is how they lost faith in their religion at one point or another. A good example of when Elie lost his faith is when the kapos are telling the Jews to recite “Blessed be the name of the Eternal.” Elie is asking himself why he should bless the Eternal. All that he could think of is how God created the holocaust and is to blame for his encampment. Elie goes on to pinpoint how the Almighty had thousands of children burned and keeps 6 crematories working day and night, even on Sundays and feast days. People have seen their family burned and tortured because of Him. During the march the Rabbi’s son saw him struggling, but continued to run on so that he could stay alive for at least one day. The holocaust and concentration camps changed the Jews attitudes’ in many ways and corrupted their minds.

Angel of Death

They called him “The Angel of Death.” Born March 16, 1911, Dr. Josef Mengele, the oldest of 3 sons, would grow up to be a surviving symbol of Adolf Hitler. He spent 21 months at Auschwitz performing “long-drawn-out rituals of death.” Mengele was the head of the gas chambers and the crematoria. He would sort hiss victims, mostly children, out through processes such as drawing lines across the walls of their blocks. These lines would be around 150 to 156 centimeters (about 5 feet) and if the top of the child’s head did not reach the line they were sent to be gassed. Mengele was responsible for the death of around four hundred thousand souls. He was famous for the medical experiments he preformed on the Jewish people. He would do experiments such as take twins and inject their hearts with chloroform, killing them instantly, and then dissect them. He experimented on children trying to do this like chemically change their eye color, or sew them together in hopes to create Saimses twins Due to Mengele’s particular interest in twins the three thousand some twins who came through Auchwitz were treated better then most other Jews. He would often give the children chocolates and some surviving twins say he was almost like a father figure, and some even called him Uncle Mengele. “The Angel of Death” died in 1979 in South America, and in 1992 they confirmed the remains to be that of Mengele.This man was one who inflicted pain and agony, although making some amazing medical advancements. He was pretty much a turd face.

"Night" (option 3)

“It was close to midnight.” Sleeping was not an option as everyone awaited Elie’s father’s return. He had returned from his meeting at last, his face covered in doubt. The ghetto was to be liquidated immediately. No one slept that night. Everyone was busy packing and preparing for the day ahead, although their minds couldn’t imagine what was to come. But it was night now, and everything was okay. They could relax for the moment because they knew their safely would last throughout the nighttime.
“Night. No one was praying for the night to pass quickly.” Night was a break could where the Jews could forget the harsh life they would face during the day. Night was a time when Jews could dream and escape reality. It was a break from the running, the exhaustion, and the wrath of the Germans. At night they could lie down, sleep, and rest. They could forget they had gone days without food and ran miles without stopping.
Night brought reassurance of humanity. It allowed the prisoners to remember what it was like to live normal again. The guards weren't bothering them and the war was on hold. At night, they could forget the bad and dream about the good. At night, the war didn't matter. At night, they were okay.

Holocaust Camps

Millions of people were killed. It is known as the greatest genocide in history, and it is the Holocaust. Concentration camps and extermination camps were brutal areas where Nazis killed whoever they wanted to, but primarily Jews. The prisoners would work as slaves; everyday they would do labor work, and receive close to nothing in return. There food and water was limited, as well as clothing and material for warmth. Many Jews would work to death. For the small portion of prisoners who survived the work, would suffer and die from other conditions. The main cause for death after extreme labor was starvation and disease. The prisoners were served rations of bread and soup, barely enough to survive on, and many people couldn’t make it. The last main reason for death would be a mixture between exhaustion and being beat. If the prisoners were tired, they would usually be killed for being too weak. They would get shot, be burned, be placed in gas chambers, or they would be killed by each other. Most prisoners who arrived at the gates of an extermination camp were killed within a few hours after walking through the gates. If the prisoner was kept to do labor at the camp, they would work as throwing alive humans into fires, or removing dead bodies from gas chambers. Throughout years of unbearable living conditions, mass murder became a daily routine, killing millions of prisoners.

Dehumanization

Option 1 #1
Throughout the holocaust, the Germans stripped the Jewish people of their humanity in a number of ways. They stuffed the Jews into tiny cattle cars with barely enough space between one another to even breathe, treating hem like animals. Then the Germans took all of their personal belongings and all of their clothes, gave them all similar outfits, shaved their heads, and replaced their names with numbers, stripping their individuality and identity by making them all look the same. the Germans would throw Jewish babies in the air so their fellow officers could use them for target practice. The Jews weren't fed well, forcing them into a "survival of the fittest" situation where the Jews would sometimes have to kill one another for food, some even killed family members. With many other examples of how the Jewish people where stripped of their humanity, just about every single thing the Jews did differently from one another and didn't benefit the Germans was not allowed.

(1) Examples of Dehumanization

The abominations committed by the fascist party called the Nazis were so horrific they shook the foundation on which the human race was built. The Nazis inhumanity was so great it redefined the word. One of the most horrific examples of the Nazis crimes are described in Night as Elie is being transported from Auschwitz in the cattle cars. The German citizens are tossing bread into the cars, turning brothers on brothers, fathers on sons, and changing a group of human beings into complete animals. They are forced by their instincts and their hunger to fight to the death for their survival, all the while being watched as if a movie or play. The men in these cages are not men at all, the cruelty and inhumanity of the Nazis has turned them into something else entirely. They stripped the Jews of all their possessions, their clothes, their hair, and turned them into a number. Now these people are not humans who study Jusdiasm, they are walking corpses, simply awaiting their fate in the cremetorium or by hanging. I personally would be unable to deal with anything Wiesel goes through in Night and I think he couldn't have said it better when he said he wrote Night not so that we may understand, but so that we can know we can never understand.

Dehumanization

The whole idea of the Holocaust was to dehumanize all Jews and strip them from their identity. The moment they arrived at the concentration camp, they got their heads shaved and clothes taken away. They were treated like cattle, receiving demands to move as a group, and give up their valuable and clothes. No one was treated as a human—babies were used for target practice, children dumped their parents into the crematoriums, and they were given just enough food to get out of bed. The Jews were treated like animals and nothing more. They even rode in cattle cars while being transfered from Eastern Europe to Germany. They moved like livestock as they were given orders to march ahead. It was as if the Jews lost all emotion inside of them. They did not react to everything as they did before the Holocaust, and they afraid of much less. As bombs were blowing up the camp they stood in, they were not afraid because death was already so close to them. Hitler’s mission was to dehumanize the Jewish race and exterminate all those who did not have blonde hair and blue eyes. On the other side, the Nazis were dehumanizing themselves as well. No human should act the way they did—the murderous violence that occurred does not well portray the human race. During the Holocaust, dehumanization took place as the Jews were beaten, killed, and their race was discriminated against.

Option 1, how ignorance led to oppression

The Jews of Sighet refused to beleive Moshe the Beadle when he survived the deportation of the foreign Jews. They assumed that Moshe the Beadle was crazy and nothing bad like the things he described could ever happen to them. They doubted that Hitler was even attempting to exterminate the Jews at all. Even when they hear about the Germans attacking Jewish shops and synagogues in Budapest, they convince themselves that the Germans will stay there. The German army comes to Sighet a few days later. The Germans are in their own town, but the Jews continue to think optimistically and that nothing bad could happen to them. Eventually, the Germans shut down synagogues and arrested the leaders of the Jewish community. They are forced to live in a ghetto, but still they still think they will be rescued by the Red Army before the Germans have a chance to deport them. The Jews are then loaded onto trains and sent to concentration camps. The ignorance of the Jews of Sighet absolutely led to their deaths at the hands of the Germans. They knew what was going to happen, but they refused to believe it. They had months to escape before the Germans arrived, but they continued to stay.

Option #1 choice #2 How do the concentration camps change the Jews attitude

In the beginning of the novel, the jews were happy and content with how they lived. After passover, the Germans made the Jews wear the yellow star and divided the town into two ghettos. Two weeks later they were evacuated and sent to Auschwitz. Their names were changed into numbers, elkminating classes or different types of people; no one judged you because of what you looked like or how rich you were: everyone was the same and no one was an individual. They were a thing that was killed because of what they blieved in. Their attitudes changed because of the creatoriums and seeing one another being killed. They questioned God's absolute justice, some denying his existance. The Jews began not caring for each other, turning their backs on one another for food and water. In the camps, you could not trust anyone, and if someone saw you with a piece of bread, you would most likely get mauled and killed for a bite. Humanity forgotten, Jewish imates behaved like animals in order to survive.

2. Discuss how concrentration camps change the jews attitude?
The Jews that did survive the Holocaust will never escape the pain they endured. They didnt understand why this was happening, they wondered where was god in this horrible times. Some had to fight to survive, often giving up faith when they were in concrentration camps. Though tired, they knew giving up meant death. To see their family be sent one by one to crematories was hurtful. When they were in the camps, inmates began to turn on each other because of food; some were even killed over bread. They soon forgot about their morals life and some complained about wanting to die because of all their tasks for survival. In the book Night, someone stated to Elie they had more faith in Hitler then anything else because he kept his promises. They felt powerless towards the SS soldiers, and therefore everyone in the holocaust had a diffetrent perspective on life in the camps and when they made it. Wittnessing and expereinceing these horrors, survivors can move on, but never forget.

Option 1- The significance of Night"

"Never shall I forget that night, that first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed…” Night is the time when the SS officers came for the Jews in the communities before they were evacuated to the concentration camps. The Jewish prisoners had gone on a long journey at night, running endlessly for miles. Also, it was a time when you could think about what was going on. The Jew’s are going through many things that are implausible and night is the time when they can mentally escape. With some exceptions, Night is when they could relax and didn’t have to work or worry about dying or how hungry they are. In addition, day and night are like black and white. Just like how their life’s had changed since they had arrived.Its significant how people usually sleep at night, and these guys are not sleeping. Overall, night is when Jew's escape and constipate all that is going on , it shows how everyone has changed since the concentration camps.

Option 2

Because the Jews were so ignorant, Hitler led them to believe in his specific reasons describing why they were killed and encamped. Hitler simply hated the Jews and because he felt so much hatred towards them he knew he had the right to get rid of them. They were said to be the reason the Germans were defeated in WW1, so Hitler rounded them up and encamped them as well as slaughtered them. No one had wanted to go to war and because the Jews brought war upon the people Hitler thought they deserved to pay for it. Although he hated them he also believed they were a plague. He feared that the plague required extermination for the survival of families and the people of Germany so he simply killed them. As well as the Jews simply being a problem, Hitler had a view and his view was an Aryan race consisting of Aryans and only Aryans. He was convinced that the Jews, gays, and other races were too weak for Germany and were only holding Germany back from its full potential. It is not possible that any of these reasons were reasons enough to wipe out a whole population of people and Hitler must of know that.

12 million people were massacared during the Holocaust from 1933 to 1945 in Germany and Poland. The point of the Holocaust was to come up with the perfect race called the Arians. Hitler was the leader of all of this and was very power hungry. He killed poles, Romanians, soviet civilians, soviet prisoners; people with disabilities, and homo sexual were killed. Most women and children were killed right away and the men were sent right to work with barley any food or water everyday. Prisoner were to be shot if they were to do anything wrong. There were over 20,000 concentration camps built all around Europe to make it easier to eliminate the Jews. The Nazis were very good at going into towns and fitting in and then moving everybody to concentration camps. The main killing machine that was used was the gas chambers. They would tell the prisoners that there getting a shower and then put gas into the rooms and kill everybody.

option 1- #1

The Germans dehumanize the Jews in just about everything they do. All the Jews are stuffed into cattle cars on their way to the concentration camps. they are treating the Jews like animals. When they arrive at the camps the Jews are stripped of everything they own or anything of value. they are forced to take off their clothes, even their underwear, they are given clothes identical to each other. A barber shaves their heads identical to each other, and are given a tattoo which says a number that is their new name. The Kapos throw babies up into the air and use them as target practice. The Jews aren't getting fed enough so by the end of the book they are killing each other for food. a child kills his own father for another serving of bread, but after the Kapos kill him. While Elie's father is in his bunk his neighbors start to beat him up and during the night they steal his portion of soup and bread. Another example is when every one is marching and a child starts to march faster to get away from his father. Then later the father comes in looking for his child. Every one is starting to turn against each other. Now it is one man for himself. The Germans Dehumanize the Jews with just about every thing they do.

Option 1 Number 2

"...a corpse gazed back at me."-Elie Wiesel

After their time in concentration camps, the prisoners came back empty corpses, just a shell of the human beings they were years ago. When the terrorizing first began for the Jews, they were scared, but they still had hope. However, in their hope was ignorance. They had no inkling of the hardships they were yet to face. Herded into cattle cars, the Jews were on their way to Auschwitz. Terror overcame them at the smell of burning flesh and unwelcoming conditions at the concentration camp. Already they were starting to question their faith, which was most important and unfaltering to them. Family, at the beginning, was important but not worth risking their own lives as well. Nothing was said when a loved one was getting beaten, it was every man for himself. This was understandable for survival, but it only got worse in the later years of being in the camps. Faith was all but completely forgotten after awhile. There was no reason to think that God should be blessed in any way. Not for creating a living hell. Not for eliminating an ethnic race that had believed so profoundly in Him. Soon, family did not matter. If an elderly member was of any inconvinience, he was left behind. Sons were killing their fathers for scraps of food. There was no compassion or recognition in their eyes, only ravenous hunger. Upon the release of the concentration camps, all faith was gone, and their soul had vanished. They were empty.

option 1

Examples of dehumanization.

Throughout Night there are many examples of dehumanization. It starts when the Nazi’s enforce all sorts of rules before and during the time they were in the ghetto. They were still at their own homes and they were being given all sorts of rules. When they were being transported to Auschwitz they were taken in cattle carts. 80 of them had to fit in one cart. When they had to be transported again later on in the book they were in cattle cars too, but this time they had to fit 100 of them. When someone would die they would throw out the dead bodies and keep moving on. During that trip 100 got on and 12 got off. As they arrive at Auschwitz they are stripped of there names. They no longer have names; they have numbers tattooed on their arm. This is taking away their identity and what is left of them. Taking their names away forms them into nothing. They thought it would be easier to kill nothing then something so they took away their names. The Jewish culture is one they will soon forget. The Nazi’s only let them celebrate their god at the holiday. It’s taking away their culture and freedom; those are human rights. The reckless killing going on all around them at all times doesn’t help. All they see are dead people and people dying. After a certain time in the book it doesn’t even affect them anymore. They are so used to see the dead there is no more sympathy or fear. That is not human. As the book goes on they get treated like animals more and more. Sometimes they don’t get food for days, they get whipped, and then they start acting like animals. They kill each other for food and other rations. At the end they hardly have any control over themselves. They are being dehumanized and it shows in their actions.

Option 2 Austin

The Nazis have many reasons behind killing all of the Jews they killed. The nazis thought they were doing the right thing in killing all of these people. Many German people were persuaded that Jews were the reason of their economic crisis. Nazis even blamed Jesus' death on Jews. It's said that Hitler hated Jews because of a early lifetime experience. Hitler's main reason of killing them was to make the perfect race. They called it Aryan and Jews were looked at as non-Aryan, so they killed them off so they could have this perfect race. This race was non-Jewish, and caucasains with German or Nordic ancestry. Hitler and the Nazis thought that they were doing good killing off all the Jews. The Jews were not thought to be normal people. They were looked as not even people at all, like a different kind of being. Not human, different than everyone else. Thats why it was so easy for the Nazis to kill so many of them, because they felt like they weren't killing people. They felt they were killing a different race, different species. This "species" was bad for Europe, for Germany.

Option 1

the significance of night

The novel Night reveals how important events often occur at night. Eliezer always describs very well all the nights thought the novel. One of those times was when it was new years, elizer described the stars and how most of the Germans were happy, except for him and his dad. The German during Rosh Hashanah started saying ''blessed be the name of the Eternal''.Another time was when eliezer and his dad were in the railroad. He described how people died and how he felt the nights were "endless" for him. Eliezer always asks god why are this people going to this hard time, and how the germans stopped to get rid of all the dead people by throwing them to the snow. Another thing that elizer described in the railroad was when all the people got in a fight of a pieze of bread. This is how significant the novel night is.

option one # 1

Through the entire period of the Holocaust, for about four years, dehumanization took place. These men, women, and children were tortured, killed, and lived in concentration camps just because of a different way of thinking and looking. To be transferred around Germany and Eastern Europe, the many people were packed into cattle train cars, putting them on an equal level as livestock. They were treated as if they were animals, living in places that were unsanitary and filthy, getting fed old rations of food just so they can barely stay alive, and working day after day just as farm animals. Also, they got their identities taken away by having tattoos of numbers on their wrists. They were called by numbers and didn’t have names anymore. Imagine getting taken out of your house and taken from your normal life as being a regular civilian to living like a pig and being forced to be less than human. Another example of dehumanization happening was when they got blamed for the economic and social problems of Germany. With propaganda from the Nazis the Jewish got out casted from the rest of humanity. The dehumanization was organized by the Hitler and his many followers to try to get the Jewish to feel as little human as possible and to get rid of as many of the Jews as they could. They did this because they believed Jewish people shouldn’t live and they were against the “ideal” race Hitler was trying to build which was the Aryans, with blonde hair and blue eyes. This made the Jewish feel as though just because they didn’t fit these requirements they didn’t belong, and didn’t look at themselves as humans, because that was how they were treated.

Unvent an opposite

Stacy Rodriguez
Creative writing
UNVENT AN OPPOSITE ……………

The opposite of hug is a push when I was little my older brother would always give me nice big warm hugs and a kiss on the check I loved it! I would always be so happy and the I would just ask my brother to hug forever and to never let me I did not want my brother to leave. My brothers hugs were always that magic touch for me I could be crying in my room mad at the world but my brother would come in and give me that big hug of his and everything would be better for me. But I remember that this one time when he came from his mothers house and I was sitting on the couch watching cartoons but every second or so I would see the time and when my brother came in I ran to him and standed their waiting for his hug and their was no hug he just sort of push me and said what’s up little sis I did not say anything I just stood their motionless thinking that it was just some sort of joke so I let that one slide but then the next couple of visits were the same I was so upset with my brother and I did not want to tell him that I wanted a simple hug from him not a push but I was scared that he would just look at me weirdly and say no so every time that my brother would come I would just go to my room and stop waiting for him their times when he never even came in my room so say hello but I was over it myn and my brothers relationship slowly separated over the years and it all started with him not giving his hugs and me simply not asking for one.

Note for Mr.Jones

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Night HW

Chapter 1

"I believed profoundly.” Pg 1


“,,,,every questions possessed a power that did not lie in the answer. Man raises himself toward Gd by the questions he asks Him.”pg 3

What does Moshe talk about after returning? How do the people react?

Why don’t the Jews leave Sighet?

“From that moment, everything happened very quickly. The race toward death ahd begun.” Pg 8

Timeline the main for the remainder of the chapter, leading up to boarding the cattle wagons. Inlcude that you believe to be 2 important quotes.

Chapter 2

Describe the train ride.

What is the significance of Madame Schacter? How have they already begun to turn on eachtoher?

Chapter 3

What happened to the Jew’s illusions? Why?

Where was the smoke coming from? Why is it called a crematorium?

What advice is Elie and his father given in order to survive the SELECTION?

What things would Elie never forget?

How are the jews stripped of their dignity and identities after loading into the barracks?

What is the name of the concentration camp they are held in?

What happen to Elie’ s father when he iwas “seized with collie”? What is Elie’s reaction?

How does the seeting sontrast the mood once the prisoners head outside?

“Work is liberty!”

Describe the interaction with Stein, their relative, and its siginificance.
How has Elie’s views of God changed in the last pages of Chapter 3?

What are the SS offiers doing with the girls? Why is this significance

Lesser homework the better?

So I decided to cancel the blogging for homework. Instead, we will be doing it in class on Tuesday. Hope you are enjoying the weekend.

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