When I finished the book I was mad because it ended so abruptly. I don't like how it ended by him looking in the mirror and then that face never leaving his mind because it was just too weird of a place for the book to stop. Getting past the fact of what the book said to end, I think that it was inspirational because even though he lost his faith in god and physically lost his father, he had the motivation to keep going and make it to the end. I liked it how Elie’s Nobel Peace Prize speech was included after the book ended because it gave me more of the “closure feeling” that I needed. The whole book showed me man’s inhumanity to man. This was shown in the beginning of the book when everyone had started listening to Hitler and him saying that Jewish people had to leave and move into a tiny put-off place in the country. Man’s inhumanity to man showed up in the middle of the book when Elie and everybody had to get undressed for the selections. They had to get dehumanized for one person to pick based on natural things. In the end of the book there was the part when bread was getting tossed into the trains so that people could fight over it, while the person that tossed it in was the person that was higher ranking than the Jewish people getting transported watched as they became less and less like humans.
This project made me realize that nobody has ever had the easiest life. I learned that Jewish people were treated worse than I thought they were treated, before I had read my novel. I now know that there are many things that were done that made the Jews purposely feel way worse than they had to feel about being Jewish. I think that this project can help many teenagers realize that it isn't right for a person to make people feel bad about themselves for no reason. The lessons that were taught here can be applied to our everyday life, don't hurt someone for no reason, whether it is physically or with words, it stills hurts the victim. The Teaching Tolerance Project can be a big help to people and I thank all of you guys for contributing your thoughts about all that we have wrote about. I hope that some of this taught you new things, like it did for my classmates and myself. Thanks again!
Thanks for sharing all of your thoughts and ideas! I enjoyed reading about your perspectives and what you learned from reading about this terrible time in history. I'm so glad you are able to apply what you've learned to your own life - great job!
ReplyDeleteI think that Night was the type of book to clearly paint what the author saw and made you feel as though you were there next to Elie. I also did see the different examples of inhumanity throughout the story. When they tossed the bread inside the train it was like the Jews were animals. There were many instances in the story where they were referred to as animals rather than actual people. When the guards yelled at them they called them dogs and once in the story a guard told them they would be shot like dogs if they stepped out of line. I also think the things that the Nazi's did to the Jewish got more inhumane as the years went by. They started to not show remorse or regret to what they were doing and let things get worse. Besides being dehumanized during the selections, they were embarrassed and judged on something they had no control over. All in all, I think that by reading Night teenagers are able to get a better understanding on an event that changes people and their lives forever. By realizing the seriousness of what happened, people are able to be aware and not let this happen again in the future.
ReplyDeleteI think your post was really good. I can connect to when you say you didn't like the ending because it happens a lot to me when I am watching a movie and the ending is mad. Like in the movie Romeo and Juliet, I didn't like the ending on how they both die, yet it was still a good book. I also like the ending as Ellie gives the speech and it would make me get the same closure feeling. It made me feel sad when the Nazi's threw the bread in the train, it made me feel like they were throwing food at a dog or some kind of animal, that got me mad. The Nazi's started treating them worse and worse as the years past. The treated them like they weren't even humans. I also agree with you when you say that they were treated really bad because they were and people should also treat others with respect and think about what they do unlike the Nazis and Hitler. You have really good ideas. I think I'm going to read this book just to see if I feel the same way about it.
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