Night

In the book night, there was a boy Elie, and he had a family. He had a mother, a father, and a little sister. In the beginning he was living a normal life. But then later on, police started to tell Jews that they had to get into the "cattle cars. One of Elie's friends Moishe got taken and they brought him to a forest where he had to dig for trenches. Also, little kids were thrown up in the air and were the targets for the guns in the forest they were in. Then Moishe ended up telling everyone he was with but they just thought he was lying, not even Elie, his own friend. A while later, the others started to notice that people were being taken away to ghettos. Elie and his family were unsure of what was happening but then Moishe ended up telling Elie's family and others, "I WARNED YOU!' But then something really bad happened, after Elie and his family was living in the ghetto for a bit, they ended up getting separated into a section of men, and a section of women. This was bad because now they were separated. Elie and his father ended up getting transferred to a concentration camp named Auschwitz. Later on, Elie got an infection on his foot and ended up getting his foot operated. He was relieved when he found out he didn't lose it, all he had to do was rest on it.  But that wasn't until he heard that the people were being evacuated from the camp. Since Elie didn't know where they were going, he decided to keep walking even though his foot was infected because he didn't want to be away from his father. After walking for awhile in the cold snow, they finally got to where they were supposed to go. Elie's father was then sick, and the way Elie knew was because of the way he looked, he changed n the matter of months, and it wasn't the good kind. Unfortunately, his father ended up dying, but the thing is, Elie didn't cry. He wanted to stay strong for the sake of his family because now they were all officially dead. Elie is such a strong, brave, courageous, and powerful boy, and I really like how he was determined to stay strong for his family, even if they all died.

I thought that this book had many conflicts, but one of the main ones would be man vs. society. I would say it's this kind of conflict because Elie, the main character, had to face the Nazis and the people that were running the camps. For example, they would get abused and pushed around to do things. One other main conflict I think was in the book was man vs. man because they would have to fight with other people for what they wanted. Another thing is they were getting hurt, but not just physically, but emotionally as well. The Jews would have to go through so many different things, bad and painful. 

Holocaust Response

In my opinion, I think that the people stood by and watched the Holocaust because they thought it wasn't that big of a deal at the time. But when the Holocaust went further and people knew about how bad it was, they probably just went to the Nazi side because they didn't want to get killed. I honestly don't really know what I would've done. I would've felt guilty if I was one the other side, and if I went to the camps and got killed I would have a horrid feeling in the pit of my stomach because I mean, you know don't know what's going on at first, but then when you arrive at the camps and such, you end up dying. Unless you manage to escape, but that is a hard possibility. I learned this one phrase that my teacher Ms. Belkov told my class and I and personally dig it. It goes, "Ignorance is Bliss", man this phrase can mean many things.  When we read an article about Bystanders, I realized that sometimes being a bystander isn't all that bad. You just stay away from the problem because maybe you don't want to get into it. A Bystander is someone who avoids dealing with injustice. For example, white people during the civil rights movement who did nothing, the non- Jewish Germans during the Holocaust. eAn up-stander is a person who stands up when they see injustice. For example, MLK, Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Nelson Mandela, Gandhi, Cesar Chavez. Another one is the complete and total opposite of the two, and they are called the perpetrator. They someone who is causing the injustice. For example, Hitler/Nazis, KKK (white supremacists). I can't wait for more new things to learn in Lit. since Iv'e already got to learn new things that I didn't know.