This week for my blog I am going to talk about a book we are reading. The book is called Night. The book is about a young jewish boy named Eliezer Wiesel that was captured with his whole family by the Germans. They were shipped of in hermetically sealed cattle cars. They were driving for many days. Once they arrived they were told to leave all of their belongings inside the cattle car. They were asked their ages and the soldiers moved them to different lines. Some people were moved to the creamitoria or they moved to a line to work. The entire time Eliezer wanted to stay with his father. A random inmate said to Elie that he is eighteen and that his father is 40. What the inmate was doing is telling them what they should say their ages are so they can be together and not die. They told the guard and got in the same line. Elie thought they were in the crematory line and began to prepare himself for his death but they actually went to work. Later on in the book Elie ends up ignoring his father when his father is crying out for help because a soldier is beating him to death. Elie ignores him because he does not want to get beaten. At Aushwitz they stayed and worked for three weeks. Then they were sent to Buna another concentration camp for Jewish people. This book is really interesting and tells us all lot about what people went through in the concentration camps. This was a truly dark and sad time for society. This is an amazing book and taught our class a lot about history and what people went through in those horrible times of the world. This is a great book. http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/night/
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May 2017
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