https://padlet.com/rosemaryquintero/u181qq40jlcz1qsc Post current articles, videos, images, poetry, podcast, music, that you connect to the themes and essential questions we are covering in this unit. You can add direct links and images onto your post. Add a brief explanation of what resonated with you and what connection to the text you observe. Don't forget to add your name. Comment on at least one peer. DUE FRIDAY 10/16 en-us 2020-10-05 17:53:39 UTC 2026-01-02 17:06:41 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f30c.png claudiaegan https://padlet.com/rosemaryquintero/u181qq40jlcz1qsc/wish/822074278 The Pianist by Roman Polanski. It's a movie following the holocaust from the point of view of a polish musician and how he survived. It's a true story just like Night and gives another perspective to the tragic events. Towards the end of the movie, a turning point happens when the opposite side helps out the main character, and connects to essential question how is empathy a seed of social action. 

]]> 2020-10-12 16:04:35 UTC https://padlet.com/rosemaryquintero/u181qq40jlcz1qsc/wish/822074278 scarletthesse https://padlet.com/rosemaryquintero/u181qq40jlcz1qsc/wish/822460490 Apathy: Song by Subhumans. The song describes how an apathetic public turns a blind eyes to bombs, war, famine, and death. "An apathetic public couldn't care less." This relates to the text heavily because apathy is a catalyst for human destruction, as well as indifference to pressing issues. ]]> 2020-10-12 17:59:33 UTC https://padlet.com/rosemaryquintero/u181qq40jlcz1qsc/wish/822460490 https://padlet.com/rosemaryquintero/u181qq40jlcz1qsc/wish/822518076 https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm
For me, the "I Have A Dream" speech immediately came to mind when thinking of themes in Night, due to the fight for freedom and hope Martin Luther King Jr had for his people facing oppression and injustice, and how he had the dream for a better future.  This connects to the essential question of "How does one choose hope and perseverance over despair in the face of dehumanization and
oppression?" where people in Night held onto those close to them, and kept hope through the dark times through each other, allowing them to dream of a better future

]]> 2020-10-12 18:18:04 UTC https://padlet.com/rosemaryquintero/u181qq40jlcz1qsc/wish/822518076 https://padlet.com/rosemaryquintero/u181qq40jlcz1qsc/wish/822591898 Martin Luther king Jr speech I have Dream relates to Night because they both explain the oppression that their people had to face. Both of the authors were oppressed by the majority who worked them to exhaustion, over worked them and killed them.]]> 2020-10-12 18:43:28 UTC https://padlet.com/rosemaryquintero/u181qq40jlcz1qsc/wish/822591898 faithakutagawa https://padlet.com/rosemaryquintero/u181qq40jlcz1qsc/wish/822600435 I think there are a lot of similarities between Night by Elie Wiesel and The Boy in The Stripped Pajamas by John Boyne. They both involve young children being exposed to the horrors of concentration camps. When they're first exposed to it, they have no clue what's going on. But their view widens as the story goes on.]]> 2020-10-12 18:46:30 UTC https://padlet.com/rosemaryquintero/u181qq40jlcz1qsc/wish/822600435 janinereyes https://padlet.com/rosemaryquintero/u181qq40jlcz1qsc/wish/822604198 This image reminds me of the theme that relates to cruel power or the abuse of power that they face at the concentration camps. In this instance it is the Uighur's in China facing the same as the Jews did. The government is abusing their power in order to "cleanse" these people.

]]> 2020-10-12 18:47:53 UTC https://padlet.com/rosemaryquintero/u181qq40jlcz1qsc/wish/822604198 https://padlet.com/rosemaryquintero/u181qq40jlcz1qsc/wish/822617912 It may be obvious but The Boy with the Striped Pajamas reminds me of Night just because they're both about the Holocaust but they both show different perspectives of the same experience and time which is interesting.]]> 2020-10-12 18:52:54 UTC https://padlet.com/rosemaryquintero/u181qq40jlcz1qsc/wish/822617912 https://padlet.com/rosemaryquintero/u181qq40jlcz1qsc/wish/822631241 there is this song called the wall that i danced to for a performance. The song has a great significant meaning of the harsh conditions one is put through during dehumanization and revealed the importance of needing courage and support from one another when attempting to push through all of the sorrow and cruel actions of the world. I learned a lot about how tough it was for people to continue in positive ways when injustice was forced onto them based on the rules of society strictly among people of color and how chaotic is was for people to seek freedom from that song.]]> 2020-10-12 18:57:50 UTC https://padlet.com/rosemaryquintero/u181qq40jlcz1qsc/wish/822631241 https://padlet.com/rosemaryquintero/u181qq40jlcz1qsc/wish/822636815 An article by Cambridge University Press suggests some ideas about the origins of racial prejudice using the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The article concludes off of several surveys that, "results indicate that racial apathy, indifference towards racial and ethnic inequality, is a relatively new but expanding form of racial prejudice". The article brings up the word of "White ignorance" where white people do not know or realize the racial injustice and not caring about it. This conclusion is very similar to the prejudice among the Jews and the prejudice from the Nazi soldiers to the Jews. They stop or never decide to look at the racial injustice, consequently becoming the origin of it and not being able to fix it.


]]> 2020-10-12 19:00:03 UTC https://padlet.com/rosemaryquintero/u181qq40jlcz1qsc/wish/822636815 https://padlet.com/rosemaryquintero/u181qq40jlcz1qsc/wish/822651186 The Night reminds me a lot of The Book Thief (a book I read in 8th grade for English). Both are about the Nazis, except The Book Thief is in the narrative of a young girl instead (different perspective). The Book Thief focuses a bit more on the bombing of the Jews' synagogues. ]]> 2020-10-12 19:05:51 UTC https://padlet.com/rosemaryquintero/u181qq40jlcz1qsc/wish/822651186 summerwake https://padlet.com/rosemaryquintero/u181qq40jlcz1qsc/wish/822660017 I think there are a few connections that can be made. Like Janine said, there is a lot going on in china with the Uighur concentration camps. From what I have heard and read they are being forced to do things like eat pork and some are being forced into marriages. I also think that this can be connected back to a book "All the Light we Cannot See," by Anthony Doerr. The book follows a German boy during WW2 and his experience being forced into the Nazi Party. Where I think there are some more similarities is when the story talks about its other main character. She is a blind French girl who is forced away from her family because of the war. She also has to experience the loss of her mother as well as everything she once knew. Her life is slowly stripped away from her as she is forced to sit there and watch. Furthermore, I think parts of this book can be connected to what is going on at the US/Mexico Border. There are camps where people are kept and dehumanized. Though they are not as bad as what happens in Night, some similarities can be made.]]> 2020-10-12 19:09:10 UTC https://padlet.com/rosemaryquintero/u181qq40jlcz1qsc/wish/822660017 https://padlet.com/rosemaryquintero/u181qq40jlcz1qsc/wish/822660285 Growing up I heard and learned about the stories Anne Frank wrote in her journal. I haven't read many of her entries, or at least not for a while, but I do find it fascinating to think about what Anne is writing compared to what Wiesel is going through. There are so many stories of jews who went through largely traumatic events, and it's very interesting to think about these stories both together and individually. ]]> 2020-10-12 19:09:17 UTC https://padlet.com/rosemaryquintero/u181qq40jlcz1qsc/wish/822660285 https://padlet.com/rosemaryquintero/u181qq40jlcz1qsc/wish/822666073 Reading through the novel I also noticed many similar connections to the film, the boy in the striped pajamas. Im glad to have watched that movie before reading so I can have a visual summary of what occurs in Night. Though, another connection to Night is one of the options for the summer reading. Just mercy tackled the oppression that people of color faced, Night also portrays the oppression and dehumanization of people who are innocent. ]]> 2020-10-12 19:11:38 UTC https://padlet.com/rosemaryquintero/u181qq40jlcz1qsc/wish/822666073 lynnmurakami https://padlet.com/rosemaryquintero/u181qq40jlcz1qsc/wish/822680531 https://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2014/aug/25/elie-wiesel-night-jewish-identity-amnesty-teen-takeover-2014
This site goes in depth about preserving Jewish Identity and talks about the relation with Eliezer Wiesel. ]]> 2020-10-12 19:17:36 UTC https://padlet.com/rosemaryquintero/u181qq40jlcz1qsc/wish/822680531 https://padlet.com/rosemaryquintero/u181qq40jlcz1qsc/wish/822886226 https://poets.org/poem/death-fugue   This poem connects to our unit because it's about the holocaust. It uses a symbol of night, and other times of day, such as "noontime" and "dawn time." The book we are reading, Night, also uses these symbols.                              ]]> 2020-10-12 20:53:16 UTC https://padlet.com/rosemaryquintero/u181qq40jlcz1qsc/wish/822886226 https://padlet.com/rosemaryquintero/u181qq40jlcz1qsc/wish/823050321 I personally think that Night has a connection to The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas. I think it connects to the theme by both of them expressing dehumanization and relationships between friends and family. In both stories they are young kids going through a dramatic experience which causes them to be in so much pain. ]]> 2020-10-12 22:49:39 UTC https://padlet.com/rosemaryquintero/u181qq40jlcz1qsc/wish/823050321 https://padlet.com/rosemaryquintero/u181qq40jlcz1qsc/wish/823240700 I think the movie Hotel Rwanda and Night share similar themes of inequality and mistreatment of people based on prejudice. 

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]]> 2020-10-13 00:52:40 UTC https://padlet.com/rosemaryquintero/u181qq40jlcz1qsc/wish/823240700 https://padlet.com/rosemaryquintero/u181qq40jlcz1qsc/wish/826844216 In the movie the Imitation Game, a man named Alan Turing shows the roots and ramifications of prejudice, apathy, and violence. He states, “Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction, and the act becomes... hollow.” Turing was different growing up, which created prejudice and apathy from the other students. They were violent towards him, but once he stopped giving a reaction they were concerned. In Night, the Kapos are also violent towards the prisoners, but the lengths of violence that they go to are really deep, and it makes them have the satisfaction of feeling powerful. If one were to remove the feeling of power and satisfaction, the Kapos would not continue the barbaric behavior. ]]> 2020-10-13 22:53:58 UTC https://padlet.com/rosemaryquintero/u181qq40jlcz1qsc/wish/826844216 https://padlet.com/rosemaryquintero/u181qq40jlcz1qsc/wish/832779355 The movie "Unbroken" which is the Louis Zamperini movie, showcases the lifestyle of being in a Japanese POW camp. That is why I feel like there is a relative vibe from it. Louis was badly beaten and almost killed time after time again. He also got even worst treatment since he used to be a track star at USC. He had to be in a concentration camp for a really long time. ]]> 2020-10-15 15:31:38 UTC https://padlet.com/rosemaryquintero/u181qq40jlcz1qsc/wish/832779355 https://padlet.com/rosemaryquintero/u181qq40jlcz1qsc/wish/833606567 The movie "The Platform" contains themes of abuse and oppression similar to the themes found in Night. The Platform is a representation for the selfish nature of people and the extensive measures people will take for self-preservation. In the movie, prisoners are placed in a vertical cell with more than 200 levels. Each day, a platform filled with food is lowered to each cell. However, each time the platform of food descends, there is less and less food. As a result, those near the bottom end up starving while those on the first few levels stuff their faces and take more than what they need. One of the characters who was once near the very bottom understood how difficult it was being on the lower level. So when he reached the top he realized that the only way others could survive was if everyone was less selfish and more considerate. In Night, we see a series of events where the prisoners of the camp are willing to violate their conscience and morals to survive. The theme of self preservation over humanity of others is all too prevalent in the real world as well as the book Night. Wiesel revisits the time two fellow prisoners participated in hanging a fellow prisoner in exchange for bread. He also recalls watching people beat up Madam Schachter because she was telling the Jews there was a fire. ]]> 2020-10-15 18:43:08 UTC https://padlet.com/rosemaryquintero/u181qq40jlcz1qsc/wish/833606567 janinereyes https://padlet.com/rosemaryquintero/u181qq40jlcz1qsc/wish/833638421 The song "Where is the love?" by the black eyed peas connects to this novel by prejudices as well as the beginnings of racism. The song talks about the constant issues we have in this country constantly asking what happened to the country that everyone once felt loved in. It connects to Elie Wiesel's novel because he had wondered somewhat the same things, why hadn't someone been there to help. Where had the love for everyone gone?]]> 2020-10-15 18:51:50 UTC https://padlet.com/rosemaryquintero/u181qq40jlcz1qsc/wish/833638421 https://padlet.com/rosemaryquintero/u181qq40jlcz1qsc/wish/833713895 Inhumanity, is a big part of the Novel. When Mr. Wiesel has been living at the concertation camp, the threats to be shot like dogs are a huge form of inhumanity and the dehumanization.  


https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/slavery ]]> 2020-10-15 19:15:02 UTC https://padlet.com/rosemaryquintero/u181qq40jlcz1qsc/wish/833713895 https://padlet.com/rosemaryquintero/u181qq40jlcz1qsc/wish/833728452 1. Prayers like Shoes
Poem by Ruth Foreman
--The significance of shoes in Prayers like Shoes is somewhat similar to their symbolic meaning in Night. Ruth Foreman discusses in the poem how keeping faith helped her mother remain hopeful and persevere during hard times, similarly to how Wiesel's shoes were a comfort to him while they were in his possession. 
https://asitoughttobe.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/saturday-poetry-series-presents-prayers-like-shoes/ ]]> 2020-10-15 19:19:47 UTC https://padlet.com/rosemaryquintero/u181qq40jlcz1qsc/wish/833728452 https://padlet.com/rosemaryquintero/u181qq40jlcz1qsc/wish/837324541 Night reminds me of what is happening right now in China. They may not be killing as many people, but we will never know because they are not honest with information. They are putting people in these camps to "re-educate" them to think differently. The Chinese government wants them to forget their religion, culture, or any other thought that is not inline with the Chinese government.]]> 2020-10-17 03:19:18 UTC https://padlet.com/rosemaryquintero/u181qq40jlcz1qsc/wish/837324541 https://padlet.com/rosemaryquintero/u181qq40jlcz1qsc/wish/837373020 There are so many examples of events that could be considered as modern day holocausts yet we know barely anything. Right now Muslims are being held in concentrations camp in China, and we are not doing anything. I think this goes into Wiesel's main purpose for writing his memoir. To share his horrible experiences and to spread awareness in hopes that something like that never happens again. He spoke a lot about the effects of indifference yet we continue to show indifference to communities and groups of people who need our help. ]]> 2020-10-17 04:43:32 UTC https://padlet.com/rosemaryquintero/u181qq40jlcz1qsc/wish/837373020 https://padlet.com/rosemaryquintero/u181qq40jlcz1qsc/wish/842465828  This can relate to EQ 2 because in The Boy with the Striped Pajamas because the boy was very optimistic in that he never gave up hope to get out or he saw it like a game, which could be child-like delusion but even still, he chose hope in the face of adversity. ]]> 2020-10-19 18:59:50 UTC https://padlet.com/rosemaryquintero/u181qq40jlcz1qsc/wish/842465828