The Night Thesis Statements

Theme:

In the story Night it shows that the theme of the story is that humans may be able to do great deeds can do inhumane acts.  The Night shows the Nazis acts through the holocaust and how it affected a 15-year-old Jewish boy and his people mentally and physically.

Characteristics:

In the story Night it shows that there are people that are capable of doing terrible acts but there are people that will always appose them. But it does affect a lot of people.

Group Reader Response #2

1) Critical Stance:

            a) Dehumanization means to deprive human qualities, personality, or spirit.

b) In the beginning of the book they were normal human beings but going through the concentration camps they slowly changed. They changed from seeing the concentration camps being treated so harshly and almost facing death so many times that they start to become former shells of themselves and become dehumanized.

c) When Elizer goes to the first concentration camp he still has hope but when they start to see that there is no escape he loses hope and also stops believing in god

2) Dialectical Journal Entries:

a) You can tell that in both of the questions I answered in number one it is all about the Jewish people loosing hope and starting to give up.  One quote is “I started to not believe in god” this is an important quote because it shows they are losing hope and also the are no longer human because they don’t try to be hopeful.

The Night Reading Questions

1. Critical Stance:

Wiesel sets up the contrast between the panic of the Jews with each new decree or action of the government and their attempts to reassure themselves and to adjust to each new infringement on their freedom. The contrast is that they are losing hope from what might happen to them and in the attempts to reassure them selves they look at the bright side to give them hope in the dark hours.

2.Dialectical Journal Entries

The “race towards death” is a very important quote in this story because it talks about how Jews started to go into Auschwitz. Another major quote is how everyone was saying the prayer to the dead for themselves when they though they were going to the crematories this shows how they were so scared going into it. Third there’s the quote about their conditions mud for a floor, having to stand up to sleep, and their treatment shows how poorly they are treated.  Fourth there is a quote about how the Germans first came very nice then they changed and put them in ghettos and deported them.  Lastly there’s the nightmares how the madam said flames going there where it came to be true because of the crematories.

Allusion Poem and Graphic

I am known as the funny and loud.

Which I love to be because I enjoy making people laugh

But deep inside me I am misunderstood

I am a person that is worried I can’t do it

I can’t defeat a person that is better than me

Because I am not motivated

Until my master discovers I can be motivated by food

That’s when we get to hardcore training

But since I am not motivated I am bribed with food

So I work really hard for along time training in hopes of getting food

When I am able to eat I think it is fishy because it is to easy

And in the middle of it I do what I do best make my master smile

Because of how I improved and my personality

But when I arrive home I see the damage of the cold-blooded killer

I have that moment of doubt because 5 masters couldn’t take him

But I want to prove everyone wrong

I want to prove to everyone that it is my destiny to save china

I want to gain respect

I want people to see that I can be serious and be the greatest warrior

I will prove them wrong but inside I know I need help

Because I am also scared that I cant do it

But I learn that theres one secret

There is no secret its only you

With that knowledge I go to fight the cold-blooded killer

Right when I arrive up millions of stairs

The deadly order hits me with insults

Like your to fat, you cant defeat me, what are you going to do big guy sit on me

I brush it off but it makes me mad and I want to take him down

Then in the blink of an eye the battle starts

Going back and forth both having the drive to take the other out

I have the drive to prove people wrong

He has the drive to prove he can’t be beaten by the chosen one

But I see an opening and I take it

Exposed and with no chance of beating me in his last breath

He says in all you cant defeat me

Your just a big fat warrior but I say no

I’m the big fat warrior

Skadoosh!

I defeat him and I get what I crave

Respect and to be taken Seriously

Auschwitz

Auschwitz is the largest concentration camp ever made by the Nazis. Auschwitz eventually evolved to have three main camps. The first main camp used many of it’s prisoners to expand the facilities through physical labor. They even cleared fourty kilometers just for developing areas for the camp. One of the camps even functioned as a killing center. Enemies of the Nazis were exterminated in gas chambers, used as slaves, or experimented on for medical experiments. More than one million people lost their lives in Auschwitz. Auschwitz may have started as something small but along the way grew up to one of the largest concentration camp built by the Nazis , to end many lives, and be a lasting memory.

Many of the people contained in Auschwitz were Jews, Enemies of the Nazis, and other people Hitler hated. Trains arrived at Auschwitz many times with Jews coming in from Europe or parts of Germany. With the transportation system the Jewish genocide had its highest effectiveness. There were about 1.1 million Jews derported to Auschwitz.  In the Auschwitz internment camps there were 39 subcamps where people were also sent to. Many of them were employed at huge farms like experimental agricultural stations.  They also worked in coal mines, stone quarries, fisheries, and armament industries.  In conclusion Auschwitz was a massive concentration camps that had many physical activities for the prisoners to do.

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005189

http://www.history.com/topics/auschwitz