1. Discuss how Wiesel sets up the contrast between the panic of the Jews with each new decree or action of the government and their attempts to reassure themselves and to adjust to each new infringement on their freedom.
Wiesel set up the contrast of panic with the Jews differently from one another. He made some of them panic and so of them calm. He made one women in the bus that was taking them to the camp panic seeing fire. The rest of the people on the bus would beat her to make her stop, but what she saw was correct, she saw people getting burned at the camp they were going to. Others stayed calm and believed that god was testing their strengths seeing how far they could make it. There were many different reactions when the Jewish people were getting taken away from their families.
2. Dialectical Journal Entries. Find five direct quotations from the book that you feel is important to the story and provide each with your own commentary.
Page 4 Paragraph 4: ”Without passion without haste they slaughtered their prisoners. Each one had to go up to the hole and present their neck. Babies were thrown up in the air and the machine gunners used them as targets."
Comment: This is important because its Moshe the Beadle telling the story of what happened to his people but no one believed him.
Page 8 middle of page: The race towards death had begun. The first step: Jews would not be allowed to leave their house for three days-on pain of death.
Comment: I used this quote because we need to know the steps of how the Germans started to change how Jewish people lived, and how they are taking control over their neighbor hoods
Page 21 paragraph 1: Lying down was out of the question, and we were only able to sit by deciding to take turns. There was very little air. The lucky ones who happened to be near a window could see the blossoming countryside roll by.
Comment: This quote is important because it showed how the Jewish people were treated with very harsh living conditions.
Page 22 Paragraph 2: "There are 80 of you on this wagon," added the German officer. "If anyone is missing, you'll all be shot, like dogs..."
Comment: The Germans had no mercy for the Jewish people. They didn’t care who they killed, they wanted the whole population of Jewish people to die.
Page 23-24 Paragraph 13: "Look at the fire! Flames flames everywhere".... Once more the young men tied her up and gagged her. They even struck her. People encouraged them: "Make her be quiet! She's mad! She's not the only one. She can keep her mouth shut....."
Comment: This quote showed how the people on the van ride to the camp acted when the women was panicking when she say fire. They didn’t believe her so they beat her because they were afraid themselves and she was making it worse for them to stay calm.
Page 36 paragraph 3: "Remember this," he went on. "Remember it forever. Engrave it into your minds. You are at Auschwitz. And Auschwitz is not a convalescent home. It's a concentration camp. Here, you have got to work. If not, you will go straight to the furnace. To the crematory. Work or the crematory- the choice is in your hands."
Comment: This quote shows how the Jewish people had no freedom, the Germans didn’t care who you were, if you didn’t work you would be burned alive. The people at the camp were treated like prisoners of was when they did nothing wring but be Jewish.
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