Night Reading Assignment

Quiz:
1.  As the prisoners enter the camp, the first thing that happens is all of their belongings and personal items are taken from them.  Then, each prisoner is given their own number to which they are recognized by.  By those numbers, German soldiers are able to spot out the weak links and write them down.  Next, the prisoners either work or are sent to Dr. Mengele to be experimented on.  From then they work and try to not become weak or they would be killed.  
2. Though the treatment harshens at Birkenau, one thing remains the same.  The Jews continue to believe in their religion.  Although at one point in the story it was questioned when the child was hung, it was clear that the Jews were really counting on god to get them out of this situation.
3.  One uncertainty the Prisoners face at the camp is what their fate is to be.  Many of the Prisoners did not know whether or not they were going to be chosen for Mengeles selection.  They became very uncertain when the checkup came and many were not sure if they were healthy and strong enough to last the selection.  Another uncertainty the prisoners have at the camp is how to act around the guards and soldiers.  The slightest move could set the guards off which would result in violent beatings.
4.  When Eliezer and his father first arrive in the camp, they meet this young Polish guard who treats them with some kindness.  Eliezer even says that its the first human words he heard since he got to the camp.  Throughout their time at the camp, it seems as if the guards get more and more violent.  For example, one of the most violent guards they encountered was Idek.  He beat Eliezer and his father for sometimes no reason and the beatings would not stop.

Before the law assignment

Theme:  Men crave the need for success that they set their goals on something and won't stop no matter how much obstacles stand in the way.  

"If you are so strongly tempted, try to get in without my permission. But note that I am powerful. And I am only the lowest doorkeeper. From hall to hall keepers stand at every door, one more powerful than the other"

"These are difficulties which the man from the country has not expected to meet"

"There he sits waiting for days and years. He makes many attempts to be allowed in and wearies the doorkeeper with his importunity." 

"parts with all he has, however valuable, in the hope of bribing the doorkeeper"

"'I take this only to keep you from feeling that you have left something undone.'"

"'No one but you could gain admittance through this door, since this door was intended only for you. I am now going to shut it."

Journal Practice

1. Critical Stance:  Discuss the contrast between the panic of the Jews with EACH NEW degree or action of the government and their attempts to reassure themselves and to adjust to each new infringement on their freedom.

When Moshe the Beadle came back from deportation, he told the Jews stories of what had happened. He told them of how babies were thrown in the air and used as targets for machine gunners while other small children were burned.  However, nobody believed anything he said and everyone figured he had just gone mad.  About a year later, when German officers came to their town saying that the Jews were going to be relocated, everyone thought they were just being sent somewhere to work in factories.  Jews were placed on a train and relocated.  On that train ride, many believed that they were going to some place better and only young men had to work in the factories.  They thought that their families would not be seperated and 

1. Dialectical Journal Entries

1. Find five direct quotations from the book that you feel is important to the story and provide each with your own commentary.

"Babies were thrown into the air and machine gunners used them as target"
This quote shows how brutal the Germans treated the foreign Jews.  This proves how inhumane German soldiers were and that they would stop at nothing to get rid of all the Jews.

"The Germans were already in town, the Fascists were already in power, the verdict had already been pronounced, yet the Jews of Sighet continued to smile." 
Although the Germans were deporting Jews, they still managed to be optimistic about the situation.  

"But people not only refused to believe his tales, they refused to listen.  Some even insinuated that he only wanted their pity, that he was imagining things.  Others flatly said that he had gone mad."
When Moshe the Beadle was trying to warn the Jews, nobody believed him.  The tales he was telling was too horrific that nobody would dare to believe him.


“Jews, listen to me! I can see a fire! There are huge flames! It is a furnace!‘ It was as though she were possessed by an evil spirit which spoke from the depths of her being.”
This is an important quote to the story because the madame was seeing all these images, but no one believed her.  Then, as they arrived on the camp site, her dreams became their nightmare.  

"From that moment on, everything happened quickly. The race towards death had begun."
The Jews knew that as they were being deported, they were sure to be killed soon.  Of all the horrific tales they heard, no one believed it until the Jews saw it for themselves.  The Germans forced the Jews to run and do all kinds of things and that the believed was the race towards death.  

1. You may use the same quotes as your group members but not all can be the same, and your comments must be different that other group members' comments

Allusion graphic

Inhumanity

Kaylee Sumida and Lina Vu


Kim Jong Un, North Korea's ruler, performed an inhumane act on his own uncle by feeding him naked to 120 hungry hounds.  In a newspaper report, it is believed that Kim Jong Un demanded his uncle to be stripped of his clothes, thrown into a cage to be eaten alive. Kim Jong Uns uncle performed an act that supposedly made kim jong un think that his uncle went against him. When he found out he ordered his people to punish him. Jang Sung Taekis his uncles name.He believed that the dogs will give him a slow and painful death. His unvcle defied the government by trying to iverthrow his ruking family. He believed that there laws were unjust. And Kim Jong Un saw that as a threat.

https://www.google.com/amp/amp.usatoday.com/story/4303319/?client=safari

Police brutality has become a big issue in the United States within the last year.  In 2016, Florida police shot an unarmed man while he was trying to assist his autistic patient.  The patient looked as if he may be in possession of a weapon, but in reality it was just a toy truck.  The unarmed man was laying on the ground with his hands in the air explaining to the officers that it was not a weapon.  However, Florida police still shot the man and even put him in handcuffs when he was lying bleeding on the ground.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YowHd4tMzo

Allusion final draft

Adventure is all he craves
Running, jumping, flying
Just trying to be brave.
He goes to his escape
and from the night to the day
He rides his dragon far away
Far off to another land
To gather his thoughts and
Become a better man

Trying to accomplish his parents dreams
Its what he wants, and what he needs.
Just wanting to make them proud
He soared high above the clouds
Unhappy and conflicted
Trying to make a decision
He came to decide
That it was their dream not mine
Parents began to comprehend
And their broken bond was then mend

Small and underestimated,
taken light,
Sometimes getting nervous
but putting up a fight.
Opponents are bigger,
And always stronger.
Battles often last longer.
The one with the grit,
The one with the drive
Will most likely be the one to thrive

He put his mind to what he believed
and in the end
he did succeed
All relationships were finally aligned
He discovered himself
which was the greatest find
Fought for his family,
Fought for his friends
It was all worth it
In the very end.