Night Analysis for section 5-6

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                      "This day I ceased to plead. I was no longer capable of lamentation.... I felt very strong. I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes were open and I was alone- terribly alone in the world without God and without man" (Wiesel 75).

Analysis

The Nazis succeed in their plan, as shown in this excerpt. Elie lost all faith and believes he is lost and alone. He feels angry towards God for causing the Jews to have to go threw this evil, horrific time. He stopped mourning and stopped caring about everything. In saying his "eyes were open", he is saying that he had realized the fact that God wasn't going to help them and that the Jews were on their own.

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                    "A hundred of us had got into the wagon. A dozen of us got out" (Wiesel 108).

Analysis

I am reminded of two things when i hear anything like this. One is a quote something like, that night 12 sea monkeys fell into the sea, none came out alive. What is means is the challenge was so great the monkeys or Jews were not able to survive it. The fact that a dozen Jews survived is astonishing, that they had the willpower and the motivation to fight through that is out-standing. The other thing it reminds me of is a story that members of my church have been taught since they were children, Heavenly Father needed someone to go down to earth and be the savior. He asked out of every soul in heaven, who shall be this savior? Two personages spoke up. Jehovah (Jesus) and Lucifer (Satin) and then Lucifer said, I will bring everyone back, they wont have agency, and all the glory shall be mine. Then Jehovah spoke and said I will insure agency, the glory shall be yours; however, not everyone will come back. Then Heavenly Father decided Jehovah would be the Messiah. Then a 2/3 part of the heavens chose Lucifer's plan and they were not allowed to come to earth with a flesh body and were sent to outer darkness. The rest of the heavens chose Jehovah as their Messiah and we are here today trying to get back home to Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. The quote reminds me of this because, the Jews had some idea, even if it was suppressed, that they wouldn't be returning back home and living normal lives. The dozen Jews that got of the train had the faith to keep fighting and not give up. This shows that even with their wills broken and having no reason to keep fighting forward and no sign of escape or relief, they kept fighting for their lives.

Night Analysis For Section 3

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"Through the blue-tinged skylights I could see darkness gradually fading. I had ceased to feel fear. And then I was overcome by an inhuman weariness" Elie ( Wiesel 45).

Analysis

I think the Nazis were cold hearted, just as the dark night sky descripted, which is symbolism. The sentence "I ceased to feel fear," shows that the Nazis had perfected the ability to break the hope of the Jews and all that opposed. The next sentence shows that the Nazis worked them so hard that they felt unrelenting weakness and tiredness. And in doing this the Jews had already been defeated and were only robots or "tools" for the Nazis.

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"So much had happened within such a few hours that I had lost all sense time. When had we left our houses? And the Ghetto? And the train? Was it only a week? One night- one single night?

Analysis

The Nazis wasted no time, as shown in this passage. They used their time so efficiently that the Jews had no clue if it had been Monday or Tuesday and even if the earth was flat or round! They had no time to react to any of the tactics used or the tortures induced. The Nazis had perfected the act of killing, and it all has to start somewhere.

Quote Analysis of night sections 1&2

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"A little Jewish republic.... We appointed a Jewish council, a Jewish police, an office for social assistance, a labor committee, a hygiene department - --a whole government machinery" -Elie (Wiesel 21 m).

In saying this, I believe Elie is saying it wasn't to bad living in the ghetto. He's saying that even though they were being forced around and corralled that the life wasn't that bad for the kids and not much changed. He's also saying that there were many people in the ghetto, considering that there was a Council, police force, etc... This also shows that in the worst of times people can still work through.

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"A piercing cry split the silence: 'Fire! I can see a fire! I can see a fire!'...She pointed her arm at the window, screaming: ' Look! Look at it! Fire! A terrible fire! Mercy! Oh, that fire! '" -Elie (Wiesel 33-34)

Elie explains the terror in everyone's heart. This also foreshadows the burning the Nazis did to the Jews, the mass burnings and the insinerations in the cremetorium. It is also hyperbole, she doesn't really see fire but she knows that the trip isn't going to end well.

Snapshot of Bern, Switzerland.

Upon an icy ridge, overlooking Bern, Switzerland, the sun sets. Snow is covering the roof-tops of all the houses. The rustic city's snow is glinting, as the last glimpse of sun leaves 'til the morrow. The horse-drawn carriages are diligently trudging through the nine inches of snow that Bern just received. Fires are blazing in the publics' fireplaces.

Smoke is melting the snow near the chimneys, and ice crystals are starting to form on the windows of those who are left without power, with only the fire giving them light.  Merry carrollers are singing; giving joy to all those who can hear them. Worried people hurry to the local market, trying to stock up on the necessities, and even a Christmas present or two for their little ones at home. The children are having fun and enjoying the snow, while if not at the store or attending to the fire, the adults work on clearing the drive-way in preparation for work the following week. With night falling, the children hurry to bed hopeful for a present or two from the jolly-old St. Nicholas. After putting out the cookies and milk, the children fall alseep, allowing the parents to sneak into the living-room and carefully make a couple of powdered sugar foot-prints, eating some, but not all the cookies, and wrapping the presents oh so carefully so that there is no distinction between the presents from mom and dad and the presents from the childrens' beloved Santa Claus. Upon awaking early in the morning, the children run down the long flight of stairs, to see the amazing sight of the floor under the Christmas tree covered in numerous presents, all in different colors and shades of bright wrapping paper. The children, so elated, soon run back up the long flight of stairs to wake their parents. The family soon gathered all around the tree, start one by one tearing apart the carefully wrapped paper to reveal the suprises inside. Countless presents lay unwrapped, the parents with the glad "we did good" look on their faces, as they watch their bright balls of joy have fun with their newly acquired toys and trinkets. The father then decides that he will cook a nice treat, so that the mom can have a break and have fun on the joyful Chistmas Day.

Merry Christmas -- Spencer W. Tindall

The Outside View from a Texan.

Crooks was treated like trash or gum on the bottom of someones shoe, unwanted and mistreated. He was black so he "smelled" different so he was force to sleep outside in the horse barn. He was treated so bad he felt like he had to keep a shotgun on his floor for protection. He was so racisized against that he was forced to turn the racisism around and cause others to dislike him even more. Therefore the rasisism caused crook to be rasisized more harshly and be treated like dirt even more than before. I remember when I was a part of a 4-H group in Texas and I didn't go to school at the same school as everyone else did and it was hard to make friends and have a good time. I understand how crooks feels totally. I also have been left out of things because I was to slow or the fat or to tall or not tall enough. It is not fun to have your friends run off without you and be all alone so I understand how hurt crooks feels, and people treated me completely different and they knew I couldn't do thing so try just left me out. This experience really made me a stronger person and a better friend cause I know now how to treat my friends.

A Perfect World from the Eyes of a Texan

           A perfect world, in the eyes of a Texan, is a world of moral agency, being able to choose what you want to do but having to deal with the consequences. With ;however, a government in power to create laws and rules to comply with those rules. If a person is doing something illegal then someone reports it.... its not telling on someone or snitching, its just keeping the laws intact. A perfect world would have disease but also cures for disease. It would have complete peace, no waring no need for murder but just for law and order. It would also be rid of poverty.

A perfect world would also have balance. It would be a perfect world of peace and global understanding. If one nation attacked another the rest of the world would help the attacked nation. It would put the attackers at bay and then leave the two nations to make peace. Everyone would have the choice to choose what religion they were and how they traveled. They could choose where they lived and where they went. Who they worked for what they did as a profession and how they worked.

A world with no conflict. A world
without havoc. A world without pollution. A world with Peace and happiness. A world with green grass from sea to shining sea and fresh water everywhere. Thats a perfect world in the eyes of a Texan.