TASK:
You are to choose one of the following prompts and complete a typed response of not less than two-and-a-half typed pages in length. Your assignment will be worth a maximum of 50 points, with points assigned based on three categories: Organization, Creativity, and Mechanics and Usage.
PROMPTS:
- Write an excerpt from Eliezer's diary after one of the key events in the story (i.e. When Moeshe the Beadle returns from the camp).
- Write a research paper on a specific concentration camp.
- Write a book review of the novel Night.
Please post these to Musketeer English no later than 3.30 p.m. on Monday, January 5. Late assignments will not be accepted.
Thanks,
Mr. Parsons
English II
4 comments:
-Book review.
The night is a story about Elie Wiesel that was only fifteen year's old and he was just learning about his Jewish culture
and he had a teacher called Moshe the Beadle and he returns in a month or so to warn his neighbors
about horrors of the Gestapo and Hitler.But no one believes him and they all think he's crazy and out of his mind not long after Moshe the beadle warnings the gestapo force Elie and his neighbors into a tiny ghetto.Day by day the people are packed onto cattle cars are shipped to Birkenau concentration camp.When they arrival to the camp Elie and his father are immediately separated from Elie's mother and sisters.This is the last time the two sides of the family will ever see each other .While waiting in line someone tells Elie to say he is 18 years old while they tell his fifty year old father to say he's 40.The two do as they are told and they pass the first selection.The prisoners that will stay in the camp are worked harder than they have ever worked before.dealing with both mental and physical abuse daily and go without food the one's who survive long enough are then mached to Extermination camp.At first the Jewish slave s look out for each other and help to calm the fears of others.After beatings,hard work,giving up gold teeth they have to strip all the way down and they shave there head's and put old clothes on them from what looks like nothing and sometimes it may be way to small or way to big but they have to make due with what they have.they are told to run 50 miles to the nearest concentration camp.Elie deals with the loss of his father by dieing of starvation and abuse during the holocaust and relives the horrors of the Concentration camp.He shows how much a life affected the people in the camps and how it changed them in the real world i guess you could say never take things for granted
and you never really know what you got till it's gone.
Night extra credit
book review
The book Night by Elie Wiesel is one of the greatest books ever written. It talks about all the hardships that he and his family have to go through. When all of the trouble starts Elie is only 15 years old and is taken away to a concentration camp. The book takes off to a very dramatic start and talks about all the trouble that they go through; being separated from one another. Elie and his father get to stay together while his mother and sisters stay together but the boys are separated from the girls. Which means the last time that they see each other is at the unloading station and they are sent their separate ways.
Once in line a stranger comes up and tells Elie to lie and stay that he is older than what he is so that he and his father can stay together. The SS officer believed his lie so Elie and his father are allowed to stay together. But it only gets worse from here. The camp makes them strip and run and all kind of awful things. They are given thin garments and only one sliver of bread and soup that shouldn’t even be considered soup.
They go on living like this for many years. They are beat and forced work on simple jobs that they are at all day. There is roll call taken every morning and evening. They are feed and then sent to sleep on a simple bunk. The only break that you get is if you are sick and put into the infirmary. Even when you are here you get the same things without work. Only here you are not fed because they say you are going to die anyway. Once you are out you are then taken to the crematorium to be finished off.
They spend around a year or so in the concentration camps and then the news came that they were to be free. The first thing that they thought about was food and people ate and ate till they were no longer hungry. They went places to get food, they also found women.
Once they are free Elie becomes deadly ill and is in between life and death for several months. Once he is finally able to get up he looks at himself in the mirror for the first time since they were taken to the concentration camp. All he sees is a lifeless figure staring back at him.
I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in what happened and World War II. This is very in detail and interesting. The best part is that it is a true story and not just something that they made up about what they think happened. This is what I think about the book Night by Elie Wiesel.
Night Reviews
Night is the story of young Elie Wiesel, the author, and his coming of age in the midst of the Holocaust. Fifteen-year-old Elie is just learning about his Jewish culture when the book begins. His teacher, Moshe the Beadle, is deported but returns in a few months to warn his neighbors about the horrors of the Gestapo, and Hitler. No one believes him and they all think he has simply gone mad.
Not long after Moshe’s warnings, the Gestapo force Elie and his neighbors into a tiny ghetto. Day by day, the people are packed onto cattle cars and shipped to Birkenau concentration camp. Upon arrival to the camp, Elie and his father are immediately separated from Elie’s mother and sisters. This is the last time the two sides of the family will ever see each other. While waiting in line someone tells Elie’s to say he is 18 while they tell his fifty-year-old father to say he is 40. The two do as they are told and they pass the first “selection.” The prisoners that will stay in the camp are worked harder than they have ever worked before, running on about a 500-calorie diet at most. Dealing with both mental and physical abuse daily, the ones who survive long enough are then marched to Auschwitz, the main extermination camp.
At first, the Jewish slave-laborers look out for each other and help to calm the fears of others. After endless beatings, exhausting labor, giving up gold teeth, and witnessing several hangings of fellow
prisoners, however, the men are stripped of their faith and their pride and are only looking out for themselves. Soon, Elie is no longer praying for his survival, but the strength to not abandon his father. It is at this point, when Elie is losing grip with his faith, that the reader forgets that the narrator is just 15 years old. The pain and frustration in the story is that of a mature adult. The Nazis have not only taken his family and his hope, but also his childhood.
The Russians are now advancing toward the camp and the prisoners, including Elie with a broken foot, are forced to run a murderous 50 miles to the nearest concentration camp, Gleiwitz. Just a few days after leaving Auschwitz, the Russians liberate the camp. The 100 remaining prisoners in Gleiwitz are then loaded on to a cattle car and head for camp Buchenwald. Due to starvation, exposure, and over crowding, only 12 survive to the end of the trip. Of the 12 are Elie and his father. Unfortunately, Elie’s father dies of dysentery and exhaustion just a few days later. Elie is able to keep himself alive until
America liberates Buchenwald. Elie Wiesel deals with his loss of faith during the holocaust, and relives the horrors of the concentration camp. He shows how such a life affected the people in the camps and how it changed many of them into something less than human.
Genocide- the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.
Anti-Semitism- discrimination against or prejudice or hostility toward Jews.
D-Day- June 6, 1944, the day of the invasion of Western Europe by Allied forces in World War II.
Allies- the 26 nations that fought against the Axis in World War II and, with subsequent additions, signed the charter of the United Nations in San Francisco in 1945.
Pious- having or showing a dutiful spirit of reverence for God or an earnest wish to fulfill religious obligations.
Interminable- incapable of being terminated; unending
Wizened- withered; shriveled
Morale- emotional or mental condition with respect to cheerfulness, confidence, zeal, etc., esp. in the face of opposition, hardship, etc
2.Chapter 7
1. Two gravediggers grabbed the bodies by the head and feet and threw them from the wagon. There were twenty people thrown from his train.
2. When a workman threw a piece of bread out of his bag and threw it into the wagon there was a stampede. Dozens of starving men fought desperately over a few crumbs. The worker watched the spectacle with great interest.
3. Meir Katz groaned, "Why don't they shoot us right away?" Why do you think they didn't? I don't think they shot them because they wanted them for something else, or they wanted them to suffer.
4. Elizer thought that this wasn't fair. Although he didn't move when the bread was thrown on the wagon he didn't understand why this was all happing.
Chapter 8
1. He is really sick and is dying
2. He feels really bad about it all. The fact that he left is dad when he went to sleep and left him he looked for him and couldn't find him. When he did he was really happy and got him coffee
3. He runs out of strength and just lies there.
4. He feels like he is loosing his faith
Chapter 9
1. He didn't recognize himself.
2. It show all of the hardship that he’s been through, the lose of him family, the war the thing that no one should ever have to see. It reflected everything that he would never have to go through again.
3. He can’t forget the look because he saw everything that he had been through. Everything that was going on around him, how he was starved, weak, and everything.
4. I think that the book was one of the most influential books that I have ever read. When I read the book I felt like I was there. I have never read a book that has done that to me, and I’ve read some good books. This book showed some really bad times that the author had gone threw. I think that no one should have to go through. No one should have to be in a captive area for so long with over one hundred people in the area.
This book made me really think and be very great fun for what we have in our country. It made me rethink about what we had to do to get it. The book also made me want to go and personally think all of our American soldiers for serving and doing what they do to keep our country free. With out them we would not be able to have the things we do. We wouldn’t have a free country, for all I know we could some way still be under a Kings rules. I don’t know about you, but that is something that I do not want. I want to be able to do free things. When I think about everything that the Jews had to go through it kills me. Not knowing if you step out of your house if you’ll get shoot. Going somewhere and not knowing if you won’t see your family ever again. I wouldn’t be able to do that. I would have killed myself if I knew that I would never see my mom or dad or any of my family for that fact again. I can’t help but wonder how so many people like Elie did that. Not know if the would ever see there loved ones again. And yet he still made it through even though he ha all ready been through so much as it was.
All I know is that this book showed me another side to life. How bad it really could be. Even though I’m not a Jewish person that still could have happened to me. I just wish that those people never had to go through that. That they could have spent there lives with their family, and had a wonderful life like people are supposed to do. I would recommend this book to anyone. This is a book that everyone in the world should read at least one time in their life
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