https://padlet.com/mfairbairn/bqp8nacr8qs8rehy Go back through the passages you had noted over break. Choose 1-3 sentences from one passage that particularly moved you based on the power of the language. What did the sentence(s) make you feel/ contemplate/ visualize? Practice quote integration by weaving any portion of Wiesel's language into your own discussion of why those words moved you. Be sure to cite page number in parenthesis. Write your comment as either a new post with the pink plus button (you should leave title blank) OR as an added comment below someone else's post. Make sure that you are signed in with your school address, so your name automatically appears. en-us 2021-04-06 15:20:05 UTC 2021-04-07 18:41:10 UTC hello@padlet.com mfairbairn https://padlet.com/mfairbairn/bqp8nacr8qs8rehy/wish/1387654379 Wiesel's use of language pertaining to fire when speaking of Juliek's "charred past, his extinguished future" (95), is hard to process. Juliek is still alive in this moment and yet so much of his soul is dead. Juliek did not die in a crematorium like millions of other Jewish people, and yet he was metaphorically burned alive. It makes me think more about how flames and smoke were everywhere all the time, and could not be unseen or forgotten, even when the crematoriums were not physically in front of the people. ]]> 2021-04-06 15:20:05 UTC https://padlet.com/mfairbairn/bqp8nacr8qs8rehy/wish/1387654379 bsteinberg4 https://padlet.com/mfairbairn/bqp8nacr8qs8rehy/wish/1391110790 Wiesel's use of language pertaining to death when speaking of seeing himself, "a corpse... contemplating me (him)" (115),  after seeing himself for the first time since the ghetto is chilling. It really made it clear how much of an impact the Holocaust had on Wiesel and the other Jewish people who had to go through this terrible experience. They were hurt physically be being beaten, tortured, starved, and even killed. However, I think that the way that Wiesel was hurt the most was mentally. This line makes me realize that Wiesel's "childhood" (pre-Holocaust) soul has died, meaning that Wiesel is permanently changed and damages since the Holocaust. This makes me think about how horrible the Germans were in the Holocaust, and it makes me angry at the people who changed Wiesel and the other Jewish people forever who did not feel bad in the slightest doing so. ]]> 2021-04-07 12:32:34 UTC https://padlet.com/mfairbairn/bqp8nacr8qs8rehy/wish/1391110790 lbates9 https://padlet.com/mfairbairn/bqp8nacr8qs8rehy/wish/1391395375 Wiesel's use of language towards the end of the book have stuck with me. When he was in Gleiwitz, he and others were weak and hungry. "We were given bread, the usual ration. We threw ourselves on it... The SS men who were watching were greatly amused by the spectacle" (96). This quote in particular stuck with me because he shows how desperate they were for food. It also shows how poorly they were treated during their time in the concentration camps. ]]> 2021-04-07 13:35:50 UTC https://padlet.com/mfairbairn/bqp8nacr8qs8rehy/wish/1391395375 abard1 https://padlet.com/mfairbairn/bqp8nacr8qs8rehy/wish/1391409500 Wiesel's use of language when it came to death was something that really moved me. In this case, Ellie was in the infirmary and was being treated for his foot. He laid next to a Hungarian prisoner who was at his end. He wrote, " He was skin and bones and his eyes were dead. I could just hear his voice, the only indication that he was alive. Where did he get the strength to speak?(78)" This really moved me because I thought that it was kind of a story of resilience and of strength. This weak man was dying and he was using the last of his strength to talk. I just though that it was very interesting and a very powerful moment.]]> 2021-04-07 13:38:21 UTC https://padlet.com/mfairbairn/bqp8nacr8qs8rehy/wish/1391409500 rjimenez20 https://padlet.com/mfairbairn/bqp8nacr8qs8rehy/wish/1391445407 Weisel does a great job of blanketing his tale with a deep sense of dread and hopelessness, and appropriate tone. Because while there were many people who clung onto hope and thought that God would inevitably save them, some, including Ellie, were beginning to give up hope. By this time, all Ellie had was his father, and yet when he is on the edge of death and the Blockälteste tells him, "In this place, there is no such thing as father, brother, friend. Each of us lives and dies alone. Let me give you good advice: stop giving your ration of bread and soup to your old father. You cannot help him anymore" (110), it just breaks Ellie and the reader even more. These lines are mostly effective given the time that they are said, after the grueling journey, the reader would want to be optimistic and think he would make it, yet he shows up there just to die. And that makes the bluntness of this quote even more effective because it was something we really did not want to hear.]]> 2021-04-07 13:45:41 UTC https://padlet.com/mfairbairn/bqp8nacr8qs8rehy/wish/1391445407 srosenblatt https://padlet.com/mfairbairn/bqp8nacr8qs8rehy/wish/1391618866 Throughout all of Night, Elie Wiesel's word choice really stood out to me. She is writing a book on a variety of different sensitive and gruesome topics where word choice can determine how the point gets across to the readers. Towards the end of the book Wiesel was very focused on her father as he was all she had left and was slowly starting to give up the hope. On the morning of January 29th, Elie wakes at dawn to see no presence of her father. She is confused and pained, but she was not sad. She went on to say " I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep. But I was out of tears. And deep inside me, if I could have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like... Free at last!..." (112). To see that her father almost felt like a burden and was dragging her down from fighting for her own freedom and keeping hope is upsetting but this line is very powerful to getting to ideas across. ]]> 2021-04-07 14:19:38 UTC https://padlet.com/mfairbairn/bqp8nacr8qs8rehy/wish/1391618866 antan https://padlet.com/mfairbairn/bqp8nacr8qs8rehy/wish/1391638269 Wiesel's description of the bread scene on page 101 stood out to me. His comparison of "men" to "beasts of prey" was extremely powerful (pg. 101). Through this comparison I was able to better understand the magnitude of this situation, and the devastating effects that the inhumane conditions had on the mental health of the people surrounding Wiesel. The language on this page describes desperation and the will to live. Wiesel is only 16 when he sees the men around him “trampling, tearing at and mauling each other.” (pg. 101) Learning more about the cruelty that Wiesel had to face makes me think more about the importance of this book and the importance of these stories. ]]> 2021-04-07 14:23:19 UTC https://padlet.com/mfairbairn/bqp8nacr8qs8rehy/wish/1391638269 sirwin1 https://padlet.com/mfairbairn/bqp8nacr8qs8rehy/wish/1391708843 While reading over the break, I noticed that Wiesel continually personified death to magnify its strength and activeness. Death was not something that just happened to Wiesel and the others with him; death took action, death attacked. On page 92, Wiesel writes: "Our guards surely were tired. But death hardly needed their help." (92). Death became a personality, and a vicious one too. No one did its work for it Death had many to choose from, yet, as they continue running, many actually turned towards death and surrendered themselves. Initially, death is portrayed as wanting to "seize upon a sleeping person" (89). Yet this malice later becomes a comforting embrace to many rather than continuing their journey]]> 2021-04-07 14:37:07 UTC https://padlet.com/mfairbairn/bqp8nacr8qs8rehy/wish/1391708843 aglinski https://padlet.com/mfairbairn/bqp8nacr8qs8rehy/wish/1391710400 Elie Wiesel's use of language on page 86 particularly moved me. When he says, "To no longer exist. To no longer feel the excruciating pain of my foot. To no longer feel anything, neither fatigue nor cold, nothing (86), " it shows how Weisel is becoming numb of everything that is happening around him. This numbness and lack of feeling is a result of all of the trauma that he went through. These lines also help me to further understand the pain and suffering he went through as a kid. ]]> 2021-04-07 14:37:25 UTC https://padlet.com/mfairbairn/bqp8nacr8qs8rehy/wish/1391710400 cspano https://padlet.com/mfairbairn/bqp8nacr8qs8rehy/wish/1391923657 While finishing this book over break, I realized how many different types of language and words stood out to me. I was very impacted by one of the pages specifically, which was page 86, "To no longer exist. To no longer feel the excruciating pain of my foot. To no longer feel anything, neither fatigue nor cold, nothing (86), " The use of detail and so many different words here made me feel what he was trying to say and show. I felt the things he went through while reading this quote, I felt the numbness. Through these lines I felt the real hardships he went through and it made me look deeper into the book.]]> 2021-04-07 15:18:17 UTC https://padlet.com/mfairbairn/bqp8nacr8qs8rehy/wish/1391923657 tohara1 https://padlet.com/mfairbairn/bqp8nacr8qs8rehy/wish/1391925778 While reading this book, a passage on page 74 stood out to me. " "Save us! You promised... We want to go to the depot, we are strong enough to work. We are good workers. We can... we want..." "(Page 74). This quote stuck out to me because it captures the emotion and vulnerability that these people were enduring.]]> 2021-04-07 15:18:41 UTC https://padlet.com/mfairbairn/bqp8nacr8qs8rehy/wish/1391925778 kbutler45 https://padlet.com/mfairbairn/bqp8nacr8qs8rehy/wish/1392137646 Towards the end of this book, the language Wiesel used to reflect how the hardships endured throughout the book thoroughly change a person, such as in a passage on page 115. "From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me." (p.115). Elie doesn't view the person in his own reflection as himself, but as a corpse, really emphasizing the trauma he was put through.]]> 2021-04-07 15:59:57 UTC https://padlet.com/mfairbairn/bqp8nacr8qs8rehy/wish/1392137646 tchi https://padlet.com/mfairbairn/bqp8nacr8qs8rehy/wish/1392181624 On page 105, “the discussion continued for some time. I knew that I was no longer arguing with him but with death itself, with death that he had already chosen.” (pg.105) this quote moved me because it showed how desperate the author is trying to save his father even though he knows that his father is helpless and that they’re in a difficult situation, but he still tries to save his father who is just waiting for his death. ]]> 2021-04-07 16:08:43 UTC https://padlet.com/mfairbairn/bqp8nacr8qs8rehy/wish/1392181624 achukwu https://padlet.com/mfairbairn/bqp8nacr8qs8rehy/wish/1392349056 It's the "bell" for me. The way he spoke of the bell, like it was worse than the hunger, the cold, and the pain." Whenever I happened to dream of a better world, I imagined a universe without a bell." (pg.73) It makes me think of how they have been striped of any "normal" feeling, that a bell is more annoying than constant starvation.]]> 2021-04-07 16:42:25 UTC https://padlet.com/mfairbairn/bqp8nacr8qs8rehy/wish/1392349056 jarnold34 https://padlet.com/mfairbairn/bqp8nacr8qs8rehy/wish/1392586823 On page 86, when Elie Wiesel wrote "To no longer exist. To no longer feel the excruciating pain of my foot. To no longer feel anything, neither fatigue nor cold, nothing” (86), it especially moved me because I felt the sheer hopelessness and pain that the main character was experiencing through the short phrases, and although they were short, I got more out of them than I think I would’ve any other way. The ‘nothing’ at the end in particular really shocked me and portrayed to me exactly how hopeless all seemed in that moment.]]> 2021-04-07 17:31:23 UTC https://padlet.com/mfairbairn/bqp8nacr8qs8rehy/wish/1392586823 lpeters7 https://padlet.com/mfairbairn/bqp8nacr8qs8rehy/wish/1392687386 One particular thing that struck me is the sad sense of normalcy that started to play out as the chapters progressed. A incident of Ellie almost being choked to death is half a page on (102,) and is almost brushed off. Which shows the amount of suffering they went through- something as massive as being strangled almost seems like a distant memory. This theme progressed throughout the chapter as moments of extreme violence, and pain seemed to be normalized. 

]]> 2021-04-07 17:52:39 UTC https://padlet.com/mfairbairn/bqp8nacr8qs8rehy/wish/1392687386 dmcmullen5 https://padlet.com/mfairbairn/bqp8nacr8qs8rehy/wish/1392786519 The lines in Night that stuck with me the most were those relating to a parent-child relationship because of how upsetting and relatable they can be. For example, on page 99 the author writes, “At last, my father half opened his eyes. They were glassy. He was breathing faintly.” I think a line like the one on page 99 conveys truly how much a parent and child care for each other and how much their well-being can effect one another. As a reader, these lines are very relatable because we too have parent child relationships which is why they stick out to me and make me think the most. ]]> 2021-04-07 18:13:34 UTC https://padlet.com/mfairbairn/bqp8nacr8qs8rehy/wish/1392786519 amcgrath13 https://padlet.com/mfairbairn/bqp8nacr8qs8rehy/wish/1392815614 The lines in Night that had stuck with me were more relating to dehumanization of people. For example, on page 78 it says "They put me in a bed with white sheets. I had forgotten that people slept in sheets." It shows how little people were allowed to have and got the "privilege" to get. Things like slightly thick soup and bread were considered a treat. As a reader it really strikes a lot of emotion within me and that's why I think they stick out to me the most ]]> 2021-04-07 18:19:54 UTC https://padlet.com/mfairbairn/bqp8nacr8qs8rehy/wish/1392815614 tvitale2 https://padlet.com/mfairbairn/bqp8nacr8qs8rehy/wish/1392865975 One of the scenes in Night that really caught my attention is when Rabbi Eliahu is looking for his son, asking Elie if he's seen him. And while Elie said he hadn't, he later remembers that he had, and begins to think that maybe the son left his father on purpose. After this encounter, on page 91, it says "And in spite of myself, a prayer formed inside me, a prayer to this God in whom I no longer believed. / "Oh God, Master of the Universe, give me the strength never to do what Rabbi Eliahu's son has done."" I thought this line was very powerful considering that earlier in the book Elie had rejected his faith, but I think because he valued his own relationship with his father so much he was willing to form a temporary peace with God in order to preserve what little he had left.]]> 2021-04-07 18:31:12 UTC https://padlet.com/mfairbairn/bqp8nacr8qs8rehy/wish/1392865975