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Post by cara24 on Oct 11, 2007 13:36:58 GMT -5
Amazon.com:In Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel's memoir Night, a scholarly, pious teenager is wracked with guilt at having survived the horror of the Holocaust and the genocidal campaign that consumed his family. His memories of the nightmare world of the death camps present him with an intolerable question: how can the God he once so fervently believed in have allowed these monstrous events to occur? There are no easy answers in this harrowing book, which probes life's essential riddles with the lucid anguish only great literature achieves. It marks the crucial first step in Wiesel's lifelong project to bear witness for those who died. This book was really sad, and terribly powerful. It really made me think about how horrific the events of the Holocaust really were in reality. Before, when studying it in history I thought of it only as an event in the past, but this book made me realize how real it was, and how awful and horrible, and how we need make sure that never happens again. In history books they don't show you the true horror that these people went through, reading this book you do. You see the core of what was happening. This book is as the New York Times put it,"A slim volume of terrifying power." I think that put it best.
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Post by spiritmage234 on Oct 11, 2007 13:47:14 GMT -5
They made us read that.
During the holidays.
And I didn't like how my un-sympathetic and ignorant classmates where acting when we were learning about some back history of the Holocaust. They laughed when my teacher said how Nazi would rip a baby from it's mother, throw it into the air, and-
I think you all know what horrid things Nazis were capable of so I won't finish that sentence.
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Post by cara24 on Oct 11, 2007 13:54:04 GMT -5
Wow. They laughed?
My class is the advanced one, and they all acted very maturely. Even the boys told the class how sad, and awful they thought it was that the Jews were treated that way.
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Post by Karatelover on Oct 11, 2007 17:01:56 GMT -5
Well it is pretty horrible what happen to his family, but when that fortune teller predicted that they were about to be exstermiated it freaked the crap out of me! And I like the part where he cought that Polish girl doing something that I can't mention with a German solder. And he started laughing about it, but it wasn't funny when he was caught and whipped afterwards. I feel badly for his family, really I do.
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Post by Consonant*** on Oct 11, 2007 17:04:29 GMT -5
YOU MEAN BURNING BABIES ISN'T FUNNY???
This book is great. Definitely knocks some sense into you.
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Post by Karatelover on Oct 11, 2007 17:05:39 GMT -5
YOU MEAN BURNING BABIES ISN'T FUNNY??? This book is great. Definitely knocks some sense into you. I personally don't think that burning anyone is funny. Those were human beings that died in those camps.
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Post by Lt. Dan on Oct 11, 2007 20:28:45 GMT -5
I personally don't think that burning anyone is funny. Those were human beings that died in those camps. He was being (extremely) sarcastic. Don't think twice about his motives for saying that. CK is not that type of person.
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Post by Karatelover on Oct 12, 2007 11:45:32 GMT -5
I personally don't think that burning anyone is funny. Those were human beings that died in those camps. He was being (extremely) sarcastic. Don't think twice about his motives for saying that. CK is not that type of person. I know, but it sounds a little bit oh never mind. There's no point in getting all worked up about CK's sarcasim.
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Post by cara24 on Oct 12, 2007 13:30:21 GMT -5
We were discussing the book today and class and my teacher asked us why we thought the Jews didn't come together and try to take down their guards. In the part were they were running, right before the last camp they were in was liberated. Because. someone in my class mentioned that there was more of them than the guards, why didn't they try to revolt?
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Post by Empy on Oct 12, 2007 17:08:12 GMT -5
I read this in 6th grade and I loved it. It's one of my favorite books and made me cry. Anne Frank's Diary was good but this book had a much more powerful impact on me.
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Post by spiritmage234 on Oct 12, 2007 17:47:34 GMT -5
We were discussing the book today and class and my teacher asked us why we thought the Jews didn't come together and try to take down their guards. In the part were they were running, right before the last camp they were in was liberated. Because. someone in my class mentioned that there was more of them than the guards, why didn't they try to revolt? Well, i heard that some ghettos tried to fight back. It didn't end good though...
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Post by Karatelover on Oct 14, 2007 16:34:52 GMT -5
I read this in 6th grade and I loved it. It's one of my favorite books and made me cry. Anne Frank's Diary was good but this book had a much more powerful impact on me. Heck I saw the TV movie of Anne Frank with Ben Kennsly as her dad, I think it was him. But I almost cried when they had to leave behind their cat! But at least I'm glad Elie got out alive! Now he's married and he's old! I don't know where he currently lives! But at the tender age of fifteen he lost his family. Heck if I lost my family when I was that young, I wouldn't know how to move on.
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Post by falthor on Oct 26, 2007 23:33:18 GMT -5
I had to read this for English class two years ago. It was one of the best books I've ever read. Oh, did I forget to mention that I met him in person? At least, I think I did....*tries to remember*
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Post by Reikeiki on Nov 1, 2007 17:18:04 GMT -5
I just finished reading that for english class! It WAS powerful, and I have an essay due next Tuesday on it . . . but I keep rereading it, so I don't have anything done yet . . . >.<
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Post by MasterEcabob on Nov 4, 2007 17:29:36 GMT -5
I had to read this for World History last year, and it sure is powerful.
I felt really bad when they decided to evacuate the camp and he then told us that it was liberated days later.
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