https://padlet.com/23ericksona1_1/orlnvjhvtthis7vj By: Ava Erickson en-us 2022-12-06 15:32:11 UTC 2025-09-26 19:05:01 UTC hello@padlet.com 23ericksona1_1 https://padlet.com/23ericksona1_1/orlnvjhvtthis7vj/wish/2410859083 Toward the middle of Night, Eliezer begins to lose all faith in a god that would allow his people to go through such torture. During the Jewish holidays, Eliezer began to not feel the want to celebrate his God, no matter how hard he fought the guilt, he ultimately let go. “What are You, my God?”(66) ”Blessed by God’s Name? Why, but why would I bless him?” (67). Due to all the torture he and his fellow Jews have endured, he begins to not believe that his god would do this to him. Eliezer is just a symbol of all the other Jewish children. In Schindler's List, I believe every kid seen is alike Eliezer.]]> 2022-12-06 15:36:36 UTC https://padlet.com/23ericksona1_1/orlnvjhvtthis7vj/wish/2410859083 23ericksona1_1 https://padlet.com/23ericksona1_1/orlnvjhvtthis7vj/wish/2410868394 In both Night and Schindler's List, inhumanity towards other humans is greatly portrayed.  Eliezer can no longer make sense of his world. His disillusionment results from his painful experience with Nazi persecution, but also from the cruelty he sees fellow prisoners inflict on each other. Eliezer also becomes aware of the cruelty of which he himself is capable. Everything he experiences in the war shows him how horribly people can treat one another—a revelation that troubles him deeply. “But while running he began to undo his buttons and yelled to me: 'I can’t go on. My stomach is bursting… I can’t go on' He lowered his pants and fell to the ground. That is the image I have of him.”(86) Eliezer is running and doing all he can to encourage this poor boy when he feels the same exact way. He just wants to give out but seeing the other boy do so gives Eliezer motivation to keep pushing because he doesn't want to be a victim.]]> 2022-12-06 15:41:33 UTC https://padlet.com/23ericksona1_1/orlnvjhvtthis7vj/wish/2410868394 23ericksona1_1 https://padlet.com/23ericksona1_1/orlnvjhvtthis7vj/wish/2410882604 On three occasions, Eliezer mentions sons horribly mistreating fathers: in his brief discussion of the people who abused his father; his terrible conclusion about the motives of Rabbi Eliahou’s son; and his narration of the fight for food that he witnesses on the train to Buchenwald, in which a son beats his father to death. All of these moments of cruelty are provoked by the conditions the prisoners are forced to endure. In order to save themselves, these sons sacrifice their fathers. Eliezer fights for his father throughout the whole story. His father was all he had. ”I shall never forget the gratitude that shone in his eyes when he swallowed this beverage. The gratitude of a wounded animal.” (106). It was tough on Eliezer to lose his father, but he took it with a grain of salt due to everything else that would happen next.]]> 2022-12-06 15:50:39 UTC https://padlet.com/23ericksona1_1/orlnvjhvtthis7vj/wish/2410882604 23ericksona1_1 https://padlet.com/23ericksona1_1/orlnvjhvtthis7vj/wish/2410900236 Fire appears throughout Night and Schindler's List as a symbol of the Nazis’ cruel power. In Night, an SS officer reminds the Jews, “You are in Auschwitz. And Auschqitz is not a convalescent home. It is a concentration camp. Here. you must work. If you don’t you will go straight to the chimney. To the crematorium. Work or crematorium - the choice is yours” (39). On the way to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Madame Schächter receives a vision of fire that serves as a premonition of the horror to come. Eliezer also sees the Nazis burning babies in a ditch. Most important, fire is the agent of destruction in the crematoria, where many meet their death at the hands of the Nazis. Whenever smoke was seen coming from chimneys - like when the women in Schindler's List could only stare at all the smoke when they arrived at Auschwitz - it meant bodies were being burned. It was a constant reminder of what their future could hold.]]> 2022-12-06 16:02:16 UTC https://padlet.com/23ericksona1_1/orlnvjhvtthis7vj/wish/2410900236 23ericksona1_1 https://padlet.com/23ericksona1_1/orlnvjhvtthis7vj/wish/2414318900 At very few points in time, the Nazis were given a choice. A choice to act out the orders from above or to take a step out. "With choking voice and tears in his eyes, he visibly fought to control himself as he informed his men that they had received orders to perform a very unpleasant task. These orders were not to his liking, but they came from above" (Schindler's List). Why is it that because an order may come from a man with higher authority we have to listen? If it goes against our own human morals, we should always be given a choice. The Nazi's lost their sense of right from wrong. ]]> 2022-12-08 13:35:50 UTC https://padlet.com/23ericksona1_1/orlnvjhvtthis7vj/wish/2414318900 23ericksona1_1 https://padlet.com/23ericksona1_1/orlnvjhvtthis7vj/wish/2414324075 The Jews never lose hope. They never lose the will to live. They always continue to hope that they will make it out soon. Night is such a hopeful story knowing that even though the events are so heartbreaking, Ellie lived to tell her story. Schindler's List, in the end, is also a hopeful story. It is a call for average people like ourselves to speak out and help wherever there is evil in whatever way we can, and as much as we can. ]]> 2022-12-08 13:39:29 UTC https://padlet.com/23ericksona1_1/orlnvjhvtthis7vj/wish/2414324075