https://padlet.com/2504915/nightproject en-us 2023-02-15 20:58:33 UTC 2023-03-01 03:43:36 UTC hello@padlet.com 2504915 https://padlet.com/2504915/nightproject/wish/2484114015 Holding onto any scraps of hope you have could be the difference between life and death.]]> 2023-02-15 21:02:48 UTC https://padlet.com/2504915/nightproject/wish/2484114015 2504915 https://padlet.com/2504915/nightproject/wish/2493144279 "From the depths of the mirror, a corpse stared back at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me."

Response:
After Elie had been liberated from the concentration camp, he stayed in a hospital for multiple days. During that stay, he decided to look in a mirror, as he hasn't seen what he looked like since when he was first deported to Auschwitz. He described what he saw in the mirror as a "corpse staring back at him", he probably described himself as that because of how malnourished and different he was compared to himself before being sent to the camps. After the death of his father, Elie started losing the little hope that he had left. This loss of hope started reducing his physical health, and by the time he was finally liberated, he had almost no hope left. This lack of hope also contributed to him being extremely close to death, which is why he spent a long time in the hospital.]]> 2023-02-23 21:11:11 UTC https://padlet.com/2504915/nightproject/wish/2493144279 2504915 https://padlet.com/2504915/nightproject/wish/2493144810 Elie's transformation from the end of the book until now gives a good example of the theme. At the end of the book, Elie barely had any help left, and was extremely close to death. He had very little hope left at that point, but there was still a sliver of hope that he would be liberated. That small ounce of hope might've been the reason that he was able to survive that long. After recovering from the events he went through, he went on to write over 50 books. In his "Perils of Indifference" speech, he says that he is going into the new millennium with "profound fear and extraordinary hope". This shows that despite all the horrible things he had to go through, he still has hope for the future, and that hope is what helped him move forward.]]> 2023-02-23 21:11:55 UTC https://padlet.com/2504915/nightproject/wish/2493144810 2504915 https://padlet.com/2504915/nightproject/wish/2497011538 Even though Night is about events that happened over 7 decades ago, there are many things we can take from the texts to apply to the modern world. One thing we can take from the book is that we should never give up, even when it seems impossible to continue. Elie lost his entire immediate family, was in Buna for multiple years, had to go through multiple selections, ran 42 miles with barely any time to rest, made it days without food or water, and saw countless amounts of deaths, but he never gave up through all of it. Everything was against him, but he stayed strong and ended up being liberated. This can show us that it is possible to keep going, even if it seems impossible at the time. If we can make it through, then many better opportunities are on the other side.]]> 2023-02-27 20:40:40 UTC https://padlet.com/2504915/nightproject/wish/2497011538 2504915 https://padlet.com/2504915/nightproject/wish/2497017632 a.) Our stories and identities relate fairly closely to one another. What we make our identity will end up shaping our story, and that story shows what our identity was. We are all witnesses to history and messengers to humanity because we learn about the events of the past, and we must inform those in the future about these events to prevent them from repeating.

b.) One person can make a difference in their society by being hopeful and not being a bystander. If you are hopeful, and you spread that hope to your community, then you alone can make a difference in society. By not being a bystander, you are standing up to help others in times when they are being attacked. That help can be a massive difference in society.

c.) Our responsibility to act against injustice is to bring hope to those that need it and to not be a bystander when others need help. Bringing hope to people in a time of need could be just what they need to help them keep moving forward, and standing up for others when they need it will prevent things like the holocaust from ever happening again.]]> 2023-02-27 20:46:08 UTC https://padlet.com/2504915/nightproject/wish/2497017632 2504915 https://padlet.com/2504915/nightproject/wish/2497018230 "The news spread like wildfire through Sighet. Soon it was on everyone's lips. But not for long. Optimism soon revived.

'The Germans won't get as far as this. They'll stay in Budapest. There are strategic and political reasons...'"

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Although it seemed that there wasn't much time until harsher restrictions would be put on the Jews of Sighet, they still retained hope that the Germans wouldn't go after them. That hope of the chance that their community wouldn't be targeted by the Nazis kept all of them happy.]]> 2023-02-27 20:46:42 UTC https://padlet.com/2504915/nightproject/wish/2497018230 2504915 https://padlet.com/2504915/nightproject/wish/2497018341 "'I thought perhaps you might have news of Reizel and my little boys. They stayed behind in Antwerp....'

I knew nothing about them. Since 1940, my mother had not had a single letter from them. But I lied. 

'Yes, my mother's had news from your family. Reizel is very well. The children too...'

He wept with joy."

Response:
When Stein confronted Elie to try to gain some news about his family, Elie lied to him. Stein's family was actually dead, but Elie wanted Stein to remain hopeful, so he lied. If Stein lost that hope that his family might still be alive and well, he would probably just give up and accept death. This proved to be true later when Stein went to see the new arrivals from Antwerp, which was where he and his family were from. After going there, he learned the real news about his family, and Elie never saw him again, so we can assume that his sudden loss of hope caused him to completely give up. In the case of Stein, that hope for his family was the only thing he had left, and when he lost that there was no longer any purpose left in life for him.]]> 2023-02-27 20:46:50 UTC https://padlet.com/2504915/nightproject/wish/2497018341 2504915 https://padlet.com/2504915/nightproject/wish/2497018453 "I have nothing to say of my life during this period. It no longer mattered. After my father's death, nothing could touch me any more".

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Following the death of his father, Elie began to lose all hope he had left. This led to him having nothing in life that he wanted, and nothing mattered to him anymore. The only reason he survived his father's death until the day he was liberated might've been that small sliver of hope left in his mind that he may be set free. One of the only reasons he managed to last as long as he did was his father's presence. That presence gave him a large boost of hope, which allowed him to stay quite healthy.]]> 2023-02-27 20:46:57 UTC https://padlet.com/2504915/nightproject/wish/2497018453 2504915 https://padlet.com/2504915/nightproject/wish/2497018561 "Behind me, I heard the same man asking:

'Where is God now?'

And I heard a voice within me answer him:

'Where is he? Here he is--He is hanging here on this gallows...'"

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When the Gestapo found out that the Oberkapo and the Pipel had a stash of arms, they tortured and killed both of them. The Oberkapo was sent to Auschwitz to die, while the Pipel was executed in Buna. All of the prisoners watched the execution of the Pipel, and after it many of the prisoners were asking where God was at this time. A voice in Elie's head responded by saying that he was hanging on the gallows. This shows that the Pipel was a source of hope to many in the camp, and his death caused many to lose that hope. The Pipel was loved by all of the prisoners at the camp, so seeing his execution was painful for all of them.]]> 2023-02-27 20:47:03 UTC https://padlet.com/2504915/nightproject/wish/2497018561 2504915 https://padlet.com/2504915/nightproject/wish/2498638361 2023-02-28 21:29:55 UTC https://padlet.com/2504915/nightproject/wish/2498638361 2504915 https://padlet.com/2504915/nightproject/wish/2498641150 2023-02-28 21:33:27 UTC https://padlet.com/2504915/nightproject/wish/2498641150