Night - Stream of Consciousness
Why didn't anyone believe Moishe? Why would they think that he made up that horrific story? Perhaps they did believe it and just could not admit it. Maybe if they didn't admit that it was true, then it wouldn't be true. Was this false hope or just being resistant. If they had believed Moishe, then they could of escaped before the Gestapo arrived.
Why did they stay in the Ghettos? Did they really believe that they would be okay or were they afraid to admit what was really happening? Did they act helpless because they were helpless?
I wonder what would of happened if they had gotten the window open in time to get the warning from their friend. Would they have tried to escape or did fear have too hard a grip on them?
Marching past all of their belongings, their homes, their past. Everything that had been so important to them, lying in the street. How quickly priorities can change. Nothing matters when lives hang in the balance. I can't imagine what was going through their minds.
I wish that they had gone with their maid. I don't really understand why they didn't go with her.
Walking straight towards the fire pits! How did they find the strength to walk to their deaths? I was so sure that Elie and his father were going to die, until I realized that at least Elie had to survive to tell his story.
More than the smoke stacks and the crematorium, the fire pits are what really scared me in this book because of the graphic images that they imprinted in my mind.
The thing that I wonder the most about is what happened to his mother and his little sister.
Did they become numb because they were treated like animals or to protect themselves from the horror that they were living through?
False hope. The Germans liked to plant false hope into the hearts and heads of the Jewish prisoners to make them easier to control.
From time to time, I went numb while reading this book. Not just because of what happened to these people but because it seemed that the rest of the world ignored what was happening.
This book has a strange effect on me. I want to find out happens to Elie's family and I really don't want to find out what happens.
I was actually a bit angry with how ignorant some of the Jews were Ignorant at the start of the story. Sometimes you just have to accept your fate, whats so hard to believe. However, I began to understand that all they had left was hope.
ReplyDeleteI felt angry also, but it feels so strange to be angry at people who were facing such horrible fates.
DeleteThis is a very powerful post. It's true: things would have been very different if the jews had listened to the warnings, or if Elie's father had agreed to move. I think you did a very good job of showing just how frustrating those facts are.
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