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         The story Night was deffinetly worth reading. I would have to say that this is the most touching story I have ever read. This book has really made me realize how much you might love someone and have to leave them behind. For example, when Elizer’s father did not have the energy to continue on, so Elizer left him behind and looked out for himself. This story has showed me to be careful about leaving loved ones behind because, you never know if that is the last time you will ever see, speak, or laugh with them. I would love to find more about what happened to Elizer after the whole nightmare was over such as, if he grew up and began a family of his own, continued his life without his family, or if he was reunited with his sister and mother!!

            At the concentration camps the Jews were separated by gender and ages. Elizer lied about his age so he could stay with his father since, he was already separated from his mother and sister. Elizer and his father were grouped together and put to work. Elizer and his father stayed together whenever it was possible and kept each other company. However, when the Nazi’s started to punish and whip his father for not doing something right, Elizer grew to get angry at his father for doing it wrong. This horrible change in Elizer’s attitude saddens me because, you should not get mad at your father for doing something wrong and you should feel some kind of sympathy if you are watching him get beaten. Later on in the story Elizer does eventually get separated from his father because his father is not eligible enough to continue working with Elizer. Elizer’s father is put into the group of weak workers that get executed because, they are not needed anymore. Elizer only thirteen years old has to keep his head up and pray that his father survives. Fortunately, his father does survive and they reunite once again at the concentration camp.

           Elizer gets intro some trouble himself which also results to getting beaten. Elizer said that Franek was having sex with someone instead of doing his job. This was not a smart choice for Elizer to make because, Franek was in control of him as well as the other jews and getting him into trouble is just digging a deeper hole for himself. In other words, “you do not mess with the hand that feeds you.” Elizer should have never tried to get the person who controls his area of Jews in trouble because he is going to recieve a worse punishment because he is inferior. Furthermore, Franek had more of a power to defend himself and accuse Elizer for lying. Therefore, Elizer should have never said anything because he lives under someone else’s rule who does not tolerate that.

          Through out the rest of the story Elizer continues to strive for his own survival. He soon begins to be self centered and concentrate on his own survival instead of his father’s. Elizer’s father dies because he could not keep going an y longer. It surprised me that Elizer once again did not feel any sympathy or loss when he heard his father died. Instead, he continued to look out for himself and try to get out of the nightmare as soon as possible. Elizer is the strongest thirteen year old boy I know. He has done through so much throughout his experience during the Holocuast that I can not believe he acted the way he did. I would expect a thirteen year old to break down and cry from the news of their father dying . I find it amazing how this character held his emotions in and used it to make him stronger. I love Elizer’s attitude! Because it is good for someone to be able to be a strong person and not be put down even at times such as the one written about in the story Night.

        I have been reading Night by Elie Wiesel. This book is about his life as a child and victim of the holocaust. The story begins back when he was a young child. As a young child he went against his father’s will by reading and studing the Kabbalah. Eliezer was big into his faith when he was young. He pracited, studied, believed, and lived by his jewish faith. However, when the Hungarians and the Gestapo demanded to evacuate all jews from the area, he began to lose faith. He began to loose faith because, he did not think that his god would allow such evil to occur. The whole scene of jews being imported in trains to concentration camps, to live as slave animals scared him. He did not believe in god or his faith as much as he did before the jews started being taken away. No one believed that such a thing was occuring in front of them to their members of their religion. However, later on the people who did not believe.

         The one character that amazed me in the begining of the story is Madame Schachter because, of her predictions of the conditions of the concentration camps. In the story it is told that she screamed at the imaginary image of fire and the evil being practice at the concentration camps. Unfortunately, she was beaten till she stopped screaming because her screams intimidated all the other jews being deported to the Concentration camps. I think it Madame Scachter’s ability to see into the future is amazing because, all the other jews seemed to be blinded of the truth. In other words, Made Schacter was not blinded by reality. She predicted what the future held for the jews, where as the other jews sat in suspense on the train hoping that everything would soon turn out okay. The conditions of the concentration camps were horrible! People had to dig holes for themselves to be burried in! I am looking foward to continue reading about what happened to the jews at the concentration camps and how the story ends.

         The assignment for performing the Scottish Play is going very well. My group has managed to distribute parts to each individual according to what they think they can handle. The people in my group worked very well and volunteered for different things, which has made decision making for jobs very easy. However, we are having some trouble with the way we want the scenes to be directed and the coustme designs. We have already began momorizing lines and getting familar with the script. Our way of organizing our group with work seems like it will go very well because, we assigned the most organized person to revise and put together the prompt book. The only thing I would ask people in my group to continue is working on what they are responsible for and not coming up with excuses at the end because, there is deffinetly other members of the group to ask who are willing to help.

         I have chose to read Night by Elie Wiesel. I am looking foward to learn more about the perspectives of people on the holocaust. I heard about this book back in eighth grade from my english teacher and i remember her explaining how the story might be short but it’s meaning is extrodinary and touching. Another book on the same topic Night covers is The Diary of Anne Frank. This book is a diary of a little girl who escaped from the Nazi’s with her family and hid out for a few years. This story taught me alot about how the jewish perspective and their fear toward what was going on in their country.