Quote #1
"But why should I bless Him?..Because He had thousands of children burned in His pits? Because He kept six crematories working night and day? Because in His great might He had created Auschwitz, Birkenau, Buna and so many factories of death?" (Wiesel 74)
The Jews were worshipping God on the New Year and thanking God as Wiesel was thinking this. Wiesel wondered why he should thank God when He had killed so many people. Wiesel begins to get angry with God, blaming him for everything that the Jews have been through. Most people can relate with Wiesel in this quote because they have been angry with God at one point in their lives because of tradgedires that they think God is bringing to them
Quote #2
" I shall always rememeber that smile. From which world did it come from." (Wiesel 96)
As Wiesel is trying to warn a man about sleeping in the snow, the man smiles and then goes back to sleep. The Jews saw hardly any smiles in the camp, and so the smile the man showed was rare. Wiesel wonders what world he was in where he saw the smile. He wasn't in a camp where there was death everyday, yet he wasn't in a world full of peace either. Wiesel says that he wouldn't forget that smile. This could mean that he would always keep that smile with him when he was in a hard time.
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Night analysis section 3
Quote #1
"'Father,' I said 'if that is so, I don't want to wait here. I'm going to run to the electric wire. That would be better than slow agony in the flames.'" (Wiesel 42)
Wiesel tells his father that instead of dying in the crematorium he would rather kill himself. When Wiesel says this, it gives you a feeling of what the Jews were going through. Wiesel had only been in the camp for minutes and he already was debating how he was going to die.
Quote #2
" 'There is a long road of suffering ahead of you. But don't lose courage. You've already escaped the gravest danger: selection. So now, muster your strength, and don't lose heart. We shall see the day of liberation. Have faith in life...Drive out despair and you will keep death away from yourselves. Hell is not for eternity....That's all. You can go to bed...Good night.' The first human words" (Wiesel 50)
The words of the man in charge of Wiesels block, shows you that not eveyone was evil in the camp. From the moment that the Jews arrived in camp they had been shouted at and had guns pointed at them, stalking their every move. When Wiesel tells us that the words of the block officer were the first human words, it says to the reader how roughly Jews were treated at the camps and how little the officers cared about the them. It also shows how much the Jews valued the kind, simple words of a human.
"'Father,' I said 'if that is so, I don't want to wait here. I'm going to run to the electric wire. That would be better than slow agony in the flames.'" (Wiesel 42)
Wiesel tells his father that instead of dying in the crematorium he would rather kill himself. When Wiesel says this, it gives you a feeling of what the Jews were going through. Wiesel had only been in the camp for minutes and he already was debating how he was going to die.
Quote #2
" 'There is a long road of suffering ahead of you. But don't lose courage. You've already escaped the gravest danger: selection. So now, muster your strength, and don't lose heart. We shall see the day of liberation. Have faith in life...Drive out despair and you will keep death away from yourselves. Hell is not for eternity....That's all. You can go to bed...Good night.' The first human words" (Wiesel 50)
The words of the man in charge of Wiesels block, shows you that not eveyone was evil in the camp. From the moment that the Jews arrived in camp they had been shouted at and had guns pointed at them, stalking their every move. When Wiesel tells us that the words of the block officer were the first human words, it says to the reader how roughly Jews were treated at the camps and how little the officers cared about the them. It also shows how much the Jews valued the kind, simple words of a human.
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Night: quote analysis section 1 and 2
Quote #1
"A wind of calmness and reassurance blew through our house" (Wiesel16).
Wiesel uses "wind" to describe a calm feeling that had settled in the house months after foreign Jews had been sent away. The way that the author introduces the feeling as a breeze of emotion, makes the reader feel calm as well.
Quote #2
"Fire! I can see a fire! I can see a fire!" (Wiesel33)
The fact that the old woman can "see a fire" when there is none foreshadows the event of the cartload of Jews arriving in camp. When they arrived, the Jews saw fire from the chimney of the crematorium.
"A wind of calmness and reassurance blew through our house" (Wiesel16).
Wiesel uses "wind" to describe a calm feeling that had settled in the house months after foreign Jews had been sent away. The way that the author introduces the feeling as a breeze of emotion, makes the reader feel calm as well.
Quote #2
"Fire! I can see a fire! I can see a fire!" (Wiesel33)
The fact that the old woman can "see a fire" when there is none foreshadows the event of the cartload of Jews arriving in camp. When they arrived, the Jews saw fire from the chimney of the crematorium.
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