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Joseph Lewis

Period 14-15

Author:Brent Runyon

Rate:(1-10)6

Describe one major external conflict and one major internal conflict found in this book.

A major external conflict is that the narrator is moving from a home that he loves very much and he is having promblem with getting use to moving to a new high school and neighborhood. An internal conflict is that he is in love with a girl but then when they started going out he start to get annoyed because she didn’t want to have sex because she isn’t ready and he doesn’t know if it’s true love or just a moment of lust.

1)    Why do you think the Germans chose to hang a few prisoners in public at time when they are murdering thousands each day in the crematoriums? I think the Germans did it to show the other Jewish people what is going to happen to them and to show the Jews that they are merciless also to show the true hate they have for them.

2)    Give examples of the ways Elie’s relationship with his father changes throughout the book. What causes those changes? A way that Elie’s relationship father changes was that they are more commutative and his father starts to show his emotion for his son and i think that the knowledge of knowing you could lose your son at any time really pushed Elie’s father toward changing.

3)    After Elie’s father was chosen for selection, he gives his son a knife and a spoon. Why is this significant act? What does Elie mean when he says “the inheritance”? I believe that was a way of him telling Elie that he has to protect himself and try to escape at the same time and maybe his father started trying to escape because he knew there was a dark faith that lies at the end of the path he is leaving in the camp. I don’t fully understand what Elie meant by saying “the inheritance” but if I was to guess I would say I think it was a way of saying that he will finish what his father tried to do.

4)    At the beginning of the book, Elie describes himself as someone who believed “profoundly.” How have his experiences at Auschwitz affected his faith? In my honest opinion I think all the death, sorrow, depression and abuse he had seen and felt with nothing being done about it his faith slowly vanished day by day.

5)    At one point on the cattle train trip to Buchenwald, a German workman causes a “stampede” in the wagon. How does he do this? What does this action suggest about him? H causes a stampeded by throwing pieces of bread in the group of starved bodies and people began to fight for the pieces of bread and by him enjoying watching starved bodies fight over bread shows that the German workman like to have power he likes to seem as if he if powerful than other.

6)    What conflict arises in Elie regarding his father? When the German started throwing the dead bodies of the train Elie father was sleep the German thought he was dead so Elie had to try and wake his father up showing the German that he was alive and that he was just sleeping.

7)    What happens on January 28, 1945? What was Elie emotional state at this point? January 28, 1945 was the liberation of the Auschwitz and Elie was in the state of losing faith and this day his faith started again.

8)    In the next last sentence in the book, Elie’s say when he look in a mirror after liberation, he sees a corpse gazing back at him. He ends the book by stating, “The look in his eyes, as they stared, into mine, has never left me.” What does that sentence mean? I think it meant after he was free he was himself again and everything he had lost had returned to his body as if they had never left.

9)    How was Elie tried to keep from responding to his story the way he and his father once responded to the told by Moshe the Beadle? How successful has he been? He wanted people to know what happen but not to get pity or to scare people but to inform people about history and they have been quite successful.

10)  What is the mean of the title, Night? If you were to give another title of this book, what would it be and why? The title mean the darkness he had endured but then and if I was to change the title of the book I would change it to ‘The Liberty Within’ I said that because to get through what happen in the camps and not lose your sanity you have to be free in your mind.

The cold chill of death crawls through the bones of those who are alive.

Sorrow and depression consumes the soul of the people the ride in the wagons.

Frost nipping at the bodies of that march through the cold weather.

Bullets streaming out of the gun of merciless Nazi’s into the brain of the people who fail to keep up.

Tear role down the lifeless face of the beaten bodies bones pressed against the skin of the starved bodies.

Pieces of bread being throw in the wagon filled with hunger men fighting women and children trying to get what may be there last meal.

Nazis laugh in humor laugh at the starved bodies fight over what would be consider scraps to the Germans.

Night

• “He took his time between each stroke. Only the first ones really hurt me.” Page 55

 Reaction: My reaction is that it’s hard to believe such cruel actions weren’t just on adults but children too. Also I can see how strong everybody had to be to take abuse like never before. If I was there I know I wouldn’t be able to take the pain and suffering they had to take.

• “Don’t let yourself be overcome by sleep, Eliezer. It’s dangerous to fall asleep in snow you might sleep for good.” Page 84

 Reaction: This shows that even when they had a chance to rest they couldn’t. Walking for miles then not able to sleep because if you did you would die. This also show how strong you have to be so you had to be, to not fall asleep after walking miles.

•  “So that they’ll realize not there were men living here and not pigs.” Page 80

Reaction: This quote is example of how the Jewish people weren’t going to except the physical and mental abuse. They knew what was going to happen to them but were not going take so much abuse along the road to their dark faith. But then again not everybody as willing to stand up for themselves but so were and the ones that were willing this quote from the passage is for them.

• “Soon, nearly everywhere pieces of bread were being dropped into the wagons. The audience stared at these skeletons of men fight one another to death for mouth full.”

 Reaction: I can’t believe people are so hungry they are willing to kill others for pieces of bread. But I understand why, not being fed for months and to see food in front of your face. I would fight for it to. But this doesn’t make the actions of grown mean fighting brittle women and children for food.

• “The contagion spread to the other carriages. Hundred of cries rose up simultaneously. Not knowing against whom we cried. Not knowing why.”

Reaction: It’s amazing and sad how depression and sorrow spread too many in the convoy. Not a word just tars of sorrow falling of their cold facing being they are surround by death. Death of family friends and even strangers but it doesn’t matter because all they see is death.

• “On the third night of our journey I woke up suddenly and felt two hands on my throat trying to strangle me.”

Reaction: This caught my attention because this seems like a random act of violence. I don’t have much to say on this part of the passage but WHY. I know times had been hard but with all the death. But that is more of a reason to stick together not fall apart. This is just one of the many things that made me speechless.

Joseph Lewis

11/17/2010

Period 14-15

LAP 4

                                                Night

1. Elie describe himself as a 14 year old Jewish boy who is very religions and love reading books. 
2. Moshe the Beadle was an old poor Jewish man who Elie look up the like to toward religion because he would ask Moshe the Beadle many questions about religion 
3. They didn’t believe him and they thought he wanted pity because he was poor they also thought that he was ‘mad.’ 
4. Elie began the story with Moshe the Beadle because he looked up to him and Moshe the Beadle was the first person to tell people what the Germans was going to do to the Jewish people soon but nobody had listen to Moshe the Beadle. 
5. They started moving Nazis into Jewish people homes then soon they started moving Jewish people into ghettos surrounded by fences keep the Jewish people of other areas. 
6. Elie family was separated because when they arrived at the concentration camp the women had to go to a different place than the men so the Elie was separated from his mother and was with his father. 
7. I think the German did everything to the Jews so they can make money off the Jew personal belongings, and took their clothes to make sure they would try to smuggle anything out where they were working of hide weapon, and cut off their hair to make them feel like their losing their self and become weaker and stop having faith, and they tattoo number on each person to keep track how many people were alive and house many people were being killed. 
8. I think it mean that someone life that is soon to come to an end the life that was supposed to be long turns into one long last night of your life.   
9. So far the novel show me how hard someone young life was because of other people prejudice also I feel so bad that he had to go through this without all his family his family spread around the camp and knowing that you’re going to die and could die at anytime it really sadden me.      

Describe the character/person who changed the most from beginning of the book to the end of the book. Explain the change and what caused it

Madison Stanton died but she doesn’t rember how she died and now she is connected to her life before she died by different thing like a charm bracalet, a puzzle piece and and sweatshirt etc. And she can connected with the “alive her” and fixed all her mistake and notice thing she didn’t and say the thing she wish she did but then everything she touch start to fade away. Like her charm bracalet and she is trying to go back and find out more about how she died and where she is now. So as the story goes onshe starts to change her emotion of lonely deprssion change because she had gotten a chance to see her old life and all the things had got to fix and see again.

i would rate it 5

Describe the character/person who changed the most from beginning of the book to the end of the book. Explain the change and what caused it.

At first Ash was a girl you was sutck in a world of dreams and fairy tales and wouldn’t face real life but toward the end of the story he meets a boy name Hassai who shows her that life isn’t so and that life is only has hard as she made it and the more she try to aviod real life things will onlt get hard. So Ash starts to come out of her own little word and face all the things that happen like her mother and father death.

i would rate it 5

Describe one major external conflict and one major internal conflict found in this book.

A major internal conflict in the book is that  Amir thinks that his father blames him for the death of this mother because she died giving birth to him and a external conflict is that this teenager who is a neighborhood bully name Assef keeps mocking Amir and his friend Hassan.

i would rate it 4

i would want one of them casue it would be way cool to have a car that is stylish and good for the earth. If the eletric cars do come out i will be the first one at the car dealership to buy one becuase i would want to  be able to say that ‘i’m a owner of a eletric car’. Plus the way gas prices are rising then an eletrical car is like a solution to all people problems about gas prices. I don’t think that anybody wouldn’t want a car like that and if you have a battery charger then you won’t be getting stuck anyway. But the prices seem so high but nothing that greate is gonig to be that cheap i can’t wait for something like that to come out and i’m able for drive it. I don’t think i’m the only person waiting for such a thing to coem out i bet everybody is going to want to see how good it runs and how much it can change the world. Also i have to add who ever came up with that idea is going to be a very rich man if these cars sell.

Where I’m from is very loud. From the sound of barking to the sound of laughter from neighbors. But no sound is greater than the smell and aromas that fill the air. The scent of mouth watering meals flow through the homes of many. Rushing out the open windows. It’s very interesting but not as much as my home.In my living room pictures hangs on the wall. What i call the best room of all is mine. PlayStation 3 with plenty of games. Appearing on the screen of my flat screentelevision. The best thing of all is my laptop. It is my connection to the world so i can know what goes on with school and friends. My mother Rochelle a proud and intelligent women. And the man I’m named after and proud to be  is my father Joseph Lewis Sr. All my relatives of my mother fill my house for Christmas dinner. When November rolls around we’re at my grandmother house for Thanksgiving dinner. When it comes to my father mother birthday it’s the best. Many wise words said all over the years but “hard work is the way to a successful life” is my family favorite of all. I’m proud of who i am and what i do because I’m proud of who i am and what i do because I’m always true to myself. My family we love to eat but when it comes to desert pie is number one on the list. I love my childhood it’s full of excitement and wonderful memories. Like riding my bike and learning how to liberate my thoughts and feelings. There’s no steady weather rain, sleet, snow, and hail all the way to the shinning sun we have it all. I love where i live it has lesson to learn from like the people that sit on the porch. Watching life passed show the thing i don’t want to do. We all have problems  in the world it’s normal it’s life but when i listen to my music it’s my way of escaping the world and all its troubles.