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“I saw myself in every stiffened corpse. Soon I wouldn’t even be seeing them anymore; I would be one of them.” (89 BB)

"And in spite of myself, a prayer formed inside me, a prayer to this God in whom I no longer believed.” (91 BB)

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“God knows what I would have given to be able to sleep a few moments. But deep inside, I knew that to sleep meant to die. And something in me rebelled against that death.” (89

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"We were the masters of nature, the masters of the world. We had transcended everything—death, fatigue, our natural needs. We were stronger than cold and hunger, stronger than the guns and the desire to die, doomed and rootless, nothing but numbers, we were the only men on earth." (Wiesel 87)

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Sadie O'Dowd, Karuna Namala, Axel Martin, Samantha Jacobo, Ashly Ibanez
“Beneath our feet there lay men, crushed, trampled, underfoot, dying. Nobody paid attention to them” (Wiesel, 89).

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sadie o'dowd, ashly ibanez, axel martin, samantha jacobo, karuna namala

"At every step, somebody fell down and ceased to suffer" (Wiesel 92).
Elie related death to relief, he thought that by dying one is being relieved of the burden that is existing in concentration camps. These men were pushed to limits that the majority of people now cannot relate to, their suffering was nearly unmatched.

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"He was playing a fragment of a Beethoven concerto. Never before had I heard such a beautiful sound. In such silence" (Wiesel 95). Blue Book. Throughout the novel, silence was used as a motif for their inability to speak out against their oppressors. They are unable to do anything in their hopeless situation. The music played here can be construed as a small rebellion. It is saying something. A farewell to the earth because it is one of the last things Juliek ever does. He welcomes death through his music.

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sadie o'dowd, ashly ibanez, axel martin, samantha jacobo, karuna namala
"I shall always remember that smile. What world did it come from" ( blue book 90).
This adds on to continuing of their optimism that continues to be inside of them even through all the pain they find some good in it. This time he finds it in his dads smile, also adding to his relationship with his dad and getting closer.

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Sadie O'Dowd, Karuna Namala, Axel Martin, Samantha Jacobo, Ashly Ibanez
“But all I had to do was close my eyes to see a whole world pass before me, to dream of another life” (Wiesel, 87).
Here the motif of dreams is brought up yet again. We see Wiesel using dreams of a better world as an escape from the reality of the situation he is in. In this instance, to dream means to die. This shows the reader that while dreams can be used as an escape, they can also be dangerous.

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Evan fratantuno, Ben Smith, Ivette Enriquez, Alejandro Cordova, Mikey Ramirez

"His eyes were glazed over, his lips parched, decayed. Everything about him expressed total exhaustion"(Wiesel 88). His eyes express his emotions. They show how drained of life and expression he has become overtime.

"I knew that sleep meant to die"(Wiesel 89). Sleep connects to death. Wiesel fears sleep because he believes that he will not wake up

"And in spite of myself, a prayer formed inside me, a prayer to this god in whom I no longer believed"(Wiesel 91) God and religion gives them hope. Connecting back to the essential question How does one choose hope and
perseverance over despair in the
face of dehumanization and
oppression? Believing in a higher being created a sense of safety.

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Group 2 Satya Moore, Telula Behrmann, Ryan Weeth, Jordyn Rhone, Yasmin Kabir, Hevin Blankenship

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Group 2 Satya Moore, Telula Behrmann, Ryan Weeth, Jordyn Rhone, Yasmin Kabir, Hevin Blankenship

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“The SS made us increase our pace. “Faster, you tramps, you flea-ridden dogs!” (Wiesel 85).
The SS soldiers calling the Jews 'flea-ridden dogs' is a form of dehumanization, because they don't see them as human, but rather a dirty animal.

“They had orders to shoot anyone who could not sustain the pace… If one of us stopped for a second, a quick shot eliminated the filthy dog” (Wiesel 85).
Again, this quote shows dehumanization by comparing the Jews to animals

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Sammy Beltran
Nikki Terrell
Julia Leong
Philip Niakoulov
Mikayla Goldsmith

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"Death, which was settling in all around me, silently, gently. It would seize upon a sleeping person, steal into him and devour him bit by bit" (Wiesel 89). Death is a motif brought up in chapter 6.  Death represents how the Jews are changing both physically and mentally throughout the torture that is portrayed against them.

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Shaun Masuda, Thomas Peacock, Gael Velasco, Fallon Shamuon, Omar Diego, Bilal Khan

- “I don't believe that he was finished off by an SS, for nobody had noticed. He must have died, trampled under the feet of the thousands of men who followed us.”(Wiesel 86). Blue book
Showing indiferrence of the other Jews, the other Jews did not help or even bother attempt to show signs of sympathy. This is also an example of dehumanization of the Jews. The Jews had to run constantly and if they stopped for second they would be executed.

- “My father was sent to the left. I ran after him. An SS officer shouted at my back” (Wiesel 96) blue book
This is is the progression of the Elies relationship with his father. In the beginning of the novel Elie never really talked with his father and they didn't have muich of a relationship. Now Elie is very close with his father because he is the only falily Elie has left and they have to stick together to survive.