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What did you find to be the most moving or thought-provoking moment of Night? What event stuck with you? Justify your opinion with evidence from the text.
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Andrew H.
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I think the most thought provoking moment of Night was how it was surprising how some of the S.S officers who ran the cabins were very kind, and helpful. For example, on page 67, paragraph 11, the S.S. officer had told the prisoners hints on how to succeed in the health check- up. Some tips he gave them were to run there to gain some color, and to sprint back to the camp. Another example, was on page 66, paragraph 5-6, was how some of the officers gave them a New Years gift which was thicker soup which was "given out with great speed". To conclude, the Holocaust was an extremely horrifing event, however some things made a big difference to the Jews, like more soup and tips on how to survive.
I think that the most thought provoking moment in night was at Buchenwald when Elie's Dad died. They had gone through so much together and were only days from freedom. What made me sad was that if Elie had had his Dad sent to the hospital, then he would have lived. They didn't know.
I thought the most thought provoking and moving moment of night was when Elie was debating with himself about god. It brought up really good questions like do you think you would have given up on god if you were in the Holocaust, even if you were as religious as Elie? And if you were questioning god would you have fasted during Yom Kippur? One time where Elie is questioning his religion and what he believes in on page 63 when he says “ What are you my God, I thought angrily, compared to this afflicted crowd, proclaiming to You their faith, their anger, their revolt? What does your greatness mean, Lord of the universe, in the face of all this weakness,…”
In my opinion i think the most thought-provoking part in Night, was when the little boy that everyone loved had gotten hanged. That part of the book stuck to me in a way that i can never forget it. when Elie was talking about having to look him in the eye, i just could not stop thinking about how sad it is. That was not my favorite part. However, that was the most thought provoking thought for me.
The most thought provoking part for me was when they hung people right in front of them. The people couldn't say, do, or help any of them. on page 61 through 62 it says, "Then the march began. The two adults were no longer alive. Their tongues hung swollen, blue-tinged. But the third rope was still moving; being so light, the child was still alive...." This part was so sad because they had to march right by him seeing that he was struggling to stay alive.
I think the most thought-provoking moment of Night for me was the last couple sentences on page 109 paragraphs 7-9. In this part Elie talks about how he looks dead when he looks at himself in the mirror. For me this part shows the physical and mental effects the Holocaust had on the people that survived.These last sentences have stuck with me ever since i read them.
I think the most provoking moment of Night was when Elie's father died. They had been through so much together and struggled to live. They stayed togethe through every camp they had been through. This was very touching to me because Elie's father was all that Elie had left and now Elie was alone in horrible conditions and is left to find his way.
I that think the most thought-provoking moment of Night was when the little boy was hanged (Page 60-62). It surprised me because the boy that was hanged had done nothing wrong, and yet they decided to punish him and give him a slow death. I think it was especially cruel of the S.S. officers to make everyone else walk by the boy struggling to live. It stuck with me because of how wrong and atrocious it was.
The most thought provoking moment for me was the death of Elie's dad. They went through so much together and they were each others motivation to keep on going. They both helped each other and continued to care for each other rather than forget each other like other family members might have. Elie's dad died at the very end, so close from help and the end of their suffering. That I think was the saddest moment of the book, and the most thought provoking because it makes you think that if they had done just one tiny thing differently, he might have lived. Either way, that was something major for Elie.
Andrew, remember that the heads of the blocks were fellow prisoners, not SS guards. The Blockalteste who gave them advice was a prisoner who had been imprisoned in various camps for years.
Eric, do you mean if Elie's dad had entered the hospital in Auschwitz, before the forced march? He didn't have the option of a hospital at Buchenwald. But you're right that he would have lived had they both stayed in the infirmary in Auschwitz. Again, there is the idea of the choiceless choice that we've talked about several times in class.
Emily, the last lines of the book are very powerful, yet written so simply. Once again this shows the power of Elie Wiesel's writing; a few words, a single line convey so much.
I think the most thought provoking or moving moments in Night were watching Elie and some of the other prisoners in the camp lose faith in their god. Elie had been extremely religious before he was sent to the camps and then, when he saw the horror within the camps, he lost all of his faith! He even began to lose it on his very fist night in the camps. An example of this is the first three paragraphs on page 32. An example of someone other than Elie losing their faith is paragraph two on page 72 when a rabbi talks about how he no longer believes in god. It was hard for me to see how much the concentration camps changed people.
I think the most thought provoking moment of Night was when Elie and his father were on the death march. It was mind boggling how someone so weak, so frail, ran in the freezing cold for forty miles straight with absolutely no food or water. I've still yet to figure out how some people did it. No words can describe how difficult, or challenging that was. It made me think twice about when I say "I'm tired, or starving". Reading this part made me think a lot about how terrible things were back then.
Wow Blue Team Night readers, I am so impressed with your comments. I am wondering if you have noticed if Elie does anything specific with his writing when he wants to make a point. Emily talks about the last sentence of the book. What makes that so powerful? Are there other powerful sentences in this book?
i thought that the most provoking moment of night was when his father was realy sick and dying and that he kept trying to make his dad feel better and not dye and that when his father asked for water he didnt bring it he just kept on ingoring what his father asked
I thought the most thought provoking moment of night was when Elie's dad died.As Eric said they had been through so mugh together and he died at the end when they where so close to freedom.
I think the most thought provoking moment in Night is when Elie and his father are in the train and people are throwing food inside. It's thought provoking because the prisoners are fighting like animals, for example when a man killed his own father for a small piece of sale bread. This really shows their living conditions and how much people struggled to survive in that kind of environment.
There were a lot of thought provoking moments for me. The beginning, where Elie saw the burning children was horrifying..children! And babies. Innocent. It keeps coming back into my thoughts every now and then. Another one was the death march and the people falling to the ground, or people slowing down and getting shot for it. When Elie's father died, just taken away in the night, it was a heart wrenching moment. Can you imagine waking up to see that your father died and you didn't have a chance to say goodbye? And the last one (I was reminded of it from Elena's post) was the last page-when he didn't even recognize himself or who he was anymore. It's unbelievable what the holocaust could do to a person, which leaves me with a question; dying in the holocaust, or surviving and having to live with everything you've seen, heard, and been through?
The most thought provoking piece of night that struck me was the last two lines of the book and the first paragraph of page 86. In both pieces of writing, Elie states that the look of him in the mirror and the look of his father's smile never left him. When I read the last few lines, they way i read it made it seem like not only did Elie see himself in the mirror, but his father as well. In fact, he sees his whole experience in the eyes of the corpse in the mirror. He may have survived physically, but he's mentally dead from the suffering, from watching his god and family killed before his own eyes. The way he writes it, it seems like he and the corpse are two different people. The corpse being during-the-Holocaust and himself outside being post-concentration camp.
One thought-provoking moment in Night to me was when Elie was beaten almost to death. 25 strokes of the whip. He had fainted from the pain. I cannot believe someone would do something so cruel. It wasn't even like Elie did anything bad, or like he was going to tell what he saw to anyone, because he knew that would probably end him up in a very bad situation anyway, so really the SS man didn't have to whip him. It was just horrifying to read and stuck with me ever since.
In my opinion the most thought provoking part in the book was when Elie Wiesel, his father and some other men were walking to the left of the guy who was telling them where to go. They all thought they were walking towards death. In their mind that was the "wrong side". I cannot imagine what that must feel like, knowing (or thinking) your own death is only a few minutes away. Their whole lives probably went through their mind as they were walking. They thought it was all over.
I thought that the most interesting moment in Night was when Madame Schachter thought that she saw the fire. The stressful experience had made her crazy and she had seen things that weren't really there. It was interesting that the thing that Madame Schachter had seen was fire, which had played an important role in the Holocaust. I did not like how the people in the train car beat her up over it, but then in the rest of the book the Jews got crueler to each other. They shouldn't have beat her, of beat each other up for bread later, or steal from each other, or do any of these bad things towards one another. I guess that this is just another one of the terrible parts of the Holocaust. The prisoners were in such a terrible condition that they would do anything to keep themselves alive. The Nazis made it worse by doing things like throwing bread into the train carriage or shooting people who were not good workers. I was surprised that Madame Schachter had gone so insane so early on. The other prisoners in the camps went though stress too but were didn't go insane. I guess the worst part of this event is that the other Jews just turned on her, beat her, and her son was the only person that wasn't a bystander.
I think the most moving part of Night was the last paragraph of the book.I think not being able to take a good look at yourself in the mirror for over two years is very sad. Also adding onto his pain and suffering he had gone in the camps he has lost his whole family and has no one to look up to. I think the way Elie Wiesel wrote not just that section but the whole book was very interesting and made you want to keep reading.
23 comments:
I think the most thought provoking moment of Night was how it was surprising how some of the S.S officers who ran the cabins were very kind, and helpful. For example, on page 67, paragraph 11, the S.S. officer had told the prisoners hints on how to succeed in the health check- up. Some tips he gave them were to run there to gain some color, and to sprint back to the camp. Another example, was on page 66, paragraph 5-6, was how some of the officers gave them a New Years gift which was thicker soup which was "given out with great speed". To conclude, the Holocaust was an extremely horrifing event, however some things made a big difference to the Jews, like more soup and tips on how to survive.
I think that the most thought provoking moment in night was at Buchenwald when Elie's Dad died. They had gone through so much together and were only days from freedom. What made me sad was that if Elie had had his Dad sent to the hospital, then he would have lived. They didn't know.
I thought the most thought provoking and moving moment of night was when Elie was debating with himself about god. It brought up really good questions like do you think you would have given up on god if you were in the Holocaust, even if you were as religious as Elie? And if you were questioning god would you have fasted during Yom Kippur? One time where Elie is questioning his religion and what he believes in on page 63 when he says “ What are you my God, I thought angrily, compared to this afflicted crowd, proclaiming to You their faith, their anger, their revolt? What does your greatness mean, Lord of the universe, in the face of all this weakness,…”
In my opinion i think the most thought-provoking part in Night, was when the little boy that everyone loved had gotten hanged. That part of the book stuck to me in a way that i can never forget it. when Elie was talking about having to look him in the eye, i just could not stop thinking about how sad it is. That was not my favorite part. However, that was the most thought provoking thought for me.
The most thought provoking part for me was when they hung people right in front of them. The people couldn't say, do, or help any of them. on page 61 through 62 it says, "Then the march began. The two adults were no longer alive. Their tongues hung swollen, blue-tinged. But the third rope was still moving; being so light, the child was still alive...." This part was so sad because they had to march right by him seeing that he was struggling to stay alive.
I think the most thought-provoking moment of Night for me was the last couple sentences on page 109 paragraphs 7-9. In this part Elie talks about how he looks dead when he looks at himself in the mirror. For me this part shows the physical and mental effects the Holocaust had on the people that survived.These last sentences have stuck with me ever since i read them.
I think the most provoking moment of Night was when Elie's father died. They had been through so much together and struggled to live. They stayed togethe through every camp they had been through. This was very touching to me because Elie's father was all that Elie had left and now Elie was alone in horrible conditions and is left to find his way.
I that think the most thought-provoking moment of Night was when the little boy was hanged (Page 60-62). It surprised me because the boy that was hanged had done nothing wrong, and yet they decided to punish him and give him a slow death. I think it was especially cruel of the S.S. officers to make everyone else walk by the boy struggling to live. It stuck with me because of how wrong and atrocious it was.
The most thought provoking moment for me was the death of Elie's dad. They went through so much together and they were each others motivation to keep on going. They both helped each other and continued to care for each other rather than forget each other like other family members might have. Elie's dad died at the very end, so close from help and the end of their suffering. That I think was the saddest moment of the book, and the most thought provoking because it makes you think that if they had done just one tiny thing differently, he might have lived. Either way, that was something major for Elie.
Andrew, remember that the heads of the blocks were fellow prisoners, not SS guards. The Blockalteste who gave them advice was a prisoner who had been imprisoned in various camps for years.
Eric, do you mean if Elie's dad had entered the hospital in Auschwitz, before the forced march? He didn't have the option of a hospital at Buchenwald. But you're right that he would have lived had they both stayed in the infirmary in Auschwitz. Again, there is the idea of the choiceless choice that we've talked about several times in class.
Emily, the last lines of the book are very powerful, yet written so simply. Once again this shows the power of Elie Wiesel's writing; a few words, a single line convey so much.
I think the most thought provoking or moving moments in Night were watching Elie and some of the other prisoners in the camp lose faith in their god. Elie had been extremely religious before he was sent to the camps and then, when he saw the horror within the camps, he lost all of his faith! He even began to lose it on his very fist night in the camps. An example of this is the first three paragraphs on page 32. An example of someone other than Elie losing their faith is paragraph two on page 72 when a rabbi talks about how he no longer believes in god. It was hard for me to see how much the concentration camps changed people.
I think the most thought provoking moment of Night was when Elie and his father were on the death march. It was mind boggling how someone so weak, so frail, ran in the freezing cold for forty miles straight with absolutely no food or water. I've still yet to figure out how some people did it. No words can describe how difficult, or challenging that was. It made me think twice about when I say "I'm tired, or starving". Reading this part made me think a lot about how terrible things were back then.
Wow Blue Team Night readers,
I am so impressed with your comments. I am wondering if you have noticed if Elie does anything specific with his writing when he wants to make a point. Emily talks about the last sentence of the book. What makes that so powerful? Are there other powerful sentences in this book?
i thought that the most provoking moment of night was when his father was realy sick and dying and that he kept trying to make his dad feel better and not dye and that when his father asked for water he didnt bring it he just kept on ingoring what his father asked
I thought the most thought provoking moment of night was when Elie's dad died.As Eric said they had been through so mugh together and he died at the end when they where so close to freedom.
I think the most thought provoking moment in Night is when Elie and his father are in the train and people are throwing food inside. It's thought provoking because the prisoners are fighting like animals, for example when a man killed his own father for a small piece of sale bread. This really shows their living conditions and how much people struggled to survive in that kind of environment.
There were a lot of thought provoking moments for me. The beginning, where Elie saw the burning children was horrifying..children! And babies. Innocent. It keeps coming back into my thoughts every now and then. Another one was the death march and the people falling to the ground, or people slowing down and getting shot for it. When Elie's father died, just taken away in the night, it was a heart wrenching moment. Can you imagine waking up to see that your father died and you didn't have a chance to say goodbye? And the last one (I was reminded of it from Elena's post) was the last page-when he didn't even recognize himself or who he was anymore. It's unbelievable what the holocaust could do to a person, which leaves me with a question; dying in the holocaust, or surviving and having to live with everything you've seen, heard, and been through?
The most thought provoking piece of night that struck me was the last two lines of the book and the first paragraph of page 86. In both pieces of writing, Elie states that the look of him in the mirror and the look of his father's smile never left him. When I read the last few lines, they way i read it made it seem like not only did Elie see himself in the mirror, but his father as well. In fact, he sees his whole experience in the eyes of the corpse in the mirror. He may have survived physically, but he's mentally dead from the suffering, from watching his god and family killed before his own eyes. The way he writes it, it seems like he and the corpse are two different people. The corpse being during-the-Holocaust and himself outside being post-concentration camp.
One thought-provoking moment in Night to me was when Elie was beaten almost to death. 25 strokes of the whip. He had fainted from the pain. I cannot believe someone would do something so cruel. It wasn't even like Elie did anything bad, or like he was going to tell what he saw to anyone, because he knew that would probably end him up in a very bad situation anyway, so really the SS man didn't have to whip him. It was just horrifying to read and stuck with me ever since.
In my opinion the most thought provoking part in the book was when Elie Wiesel, his father and some other men were walking to the left of the guy who was telling them where to go. They all thought they were walking towards death. In their mind that was the "wrong side". I cannot imagine what that must feel like, knowing (or thinking) your own death is only a few minutes away. Their whole lives probably went through their mind as they were walking. They thought it was all over.
I thought that the most interesting moment in Night was when Madame Schachter thought that she saw the fire. The stressful experience had made her crazy and she had seen things that weren't really there. It was interesting that the thing that Madame Schachter had seen was fire, which had played an important role in the Holocaust. I did not like how the people in the train car beat her up over it, but then in the rest of the book the Jews got crueler to each other. They shouldn't have beat her, of beat each other up for bread later, or steal from each other, or do any of these bad things towards one another. I guess that this is just another one of the terrible parts of the Holocaust. The prisoners were in such a terrible condition that they would do anything to keep themselves alive. The Nazis made it worse by doing things like throwing bread into the train carriage or shooting people who were not good workers. I was surprised that Madame Schachter had gone so insane so early on. The other prisoners in the camps went though stress too but were didn't go insane. I guess the worst part of this event is that the other Jews just turned on her, beat her, and her son was the only person that wasn't a bystander.
I think the most moving part of Night was the last paragraph of the book.I think not being able to take a good look at yourself in the mirror for over two years is very sad. Also adding onto his pain and suffering he had gone in the camps he has lost his whole family and has no one to look up to. I think the way Elie Wiesel wrote not just that section but the whole book was very interesting and made you want to keep reading.
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