Themes in Night by Ashley London https://padlet.com/ashllond9063/NIght Ashley London, Haleigh Pope, Maddie Joyce, and Kennedy Welch en-us 2017-10-19 15:30:34 UTC 2026-02-22 04:01:13 UTC hello@padlet.com Self Preservation vs. Family Commitment https://padlet.com/ashllond9063/NIght/wish/198726801 "'They struck her several times on the head, blows that might have killed her. Her little boy clung to her; he did not cry out; he did not say a word. He was not even weeping now.'"
Pg.26]]> 2017-10-19 15:33:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ashllond9063/NIght/wish/198726801 Self- Preservation vs. Family Commitment ashllond9063 https://padlet.com/ashllond9063/NIght/wish/198726830 "'What happened to me? My father had just been struck, in front of me, and I had not even blinked. I had watched and kept silent'."  P.39]]> 2017-10-19 15:33:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ashllond9063/NIght/wish/198726830 Emotional Death https://padlet.com/ashllond9063/NIght/wish/198728996 ¨... but I no longer felt the pain.¨ 
p.36 (PDF) 
¨...We had ceased to be men. Had the situation not been so tragic, we might have laughed."
p.37 (PDF)
" I no longer felt anything except the lashes of the whip."
p.57 (PDF)]]> 2017-10-19 15:36:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ashllond9063/NIght/wish/198728996 Struggle to Maintain Faith. ashllond9063 https://padlet.com/ashllond9063/NIght/wish/198729228 "Where's God? How can I believe, how can anyone believe in this God of Mercy?" P.77 (PDF)

"Poor Akiba Drumer, if only he could have kept his faith in God, if only he could have considered this suffering a divine test,
he would not have been swept away by the selection. But as soon
as he felt the first chinks in his faith, he lost all incentive to fight
and opened the door to death." P.77 (PDF)]]> 2017-10-19 15:37:17 UTC https://padlet.com/ashllond9063/NIght/wish/198729228 Dignity in the Face of Inhuman Cruelty https://padlet.com/ashllond9063/NIght/wish/198730597 ¨I dragged myself to the corner. I ached all over.I felt a cool hand wiping my blood-stained forehead. It was the french girl.¨
pg.53]]> 2017-10-19 15:39:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ashllond9063/NIght/wish/198730597 Dignity in the Face of Inhuman Cruelty https://padlet.com/ashllond9063/NIght/wish/198736549 "'Blessed be God's name...' Thousands of lips repeated the benediction, bent over like trees in a storm."
pg.67]]> 2017-10-19 15:49:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ashllond9063/NIght/wish/198736549 Symbol: The Bell https://padlet.com/ashllond9063/NIght/wish/199088599 The bell symbolizes the lack of control the people of Auschwitz, and of other concentration camps,  had over there own lives. It sort of dehumanized them in the sense that when it rang the "prisoners" were forced to do something. It was almost like it trained them.]]> 2017-10-20 14:56:47 UTC https://padlet.com/ashllond9063/NIght/wish/199088599