Monday, May 13, 2013

Final Thoughts on "Night" and this project!

When Elie’s father had died I got somewhat mad and upset and no longer wanted to continue reading the book, but there were only a few pages left so I continued. I also was not very surprised that he had died because of the way the book was going before that part. When Elie’s father had died and he felt that his life no longer mattered that was devastating. And all the way at the very end when Elie himself was sick was horrible considering his father had just passed away. If I had to choose one theme to represent this whole book it would be choiceless choices. Choiceless choices represent this whole book in multiple ways weather being a choice for someone or sometimes they were bystanders due to having choiceless choices. Because if they didn’t just remain a bystander they could die and if they just remained a bystander the victim would be harmed more.


By reading this book I have learned through the eyes and memories of a survivor of what the Holocaust had been like from the conditions to family to death. I have learned that the memories never leave them and that they had a really difficult time and words never leave them. This is an important project for teenagers to be apart of because they will deeply understand the life in the Holocaust more than they did by just learning about it. By reading a book from a survivor about their experience in the Holocaust teenagers will feel like they are there with that survivor and feel what is happening and will better understand what happened during this time period. As for the blogging portion of this project teenagers will be able to put their own thoughts out there about the Holocaust and have others react and talk to them. This is general was a very great and fun project that I loved being apart of. Finally thank you so much to every contributor during this project. You were all so helpful and are very kind to spend some of your time reading and replying to us. I really appreciate you all for doing that. Once again, thank you.

1 comment:

  1. Thank you for letting us read about all of your thoughts! I agree that reading about an event or events in history is much more meaningful when it's through the perspective of a person who lived through it. Keep reading historical fiction-type stories and you'll be amazed at all the understandings you'll gain.

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