This week, we had to read pages 1-27 in Elie Wiesel's Night. We had to make a reading log, but this reading log isn't yur average reading log that all you have to do is write down your page number and how much you read. We have to write down how many pages we read (supposed to be 27 pages) and write down something that struck us, whether it is patterns about characters, setting, plot that emerge; a particular incident that impacted you in some way; several similar incidents that impacted you in some way; how a character is changing/developing, etc. I am going to be writing about a particular incident that impacted me. It basically just struck me so much, I almost got teary eyed!
We all know that The Holocaust is a very emotional subject to touch. It makes me so sad when reading this book. On page nineteen, Wiesel says that the Gestapos, German police under Nazi rule, took some of the Jews and they loaded them onto trucks, where they took them into forests. “They were forced to dig huge trenches.” (pg. 19) What these big trenches were, it was that when they shot the "slaves" basically, they didn't have to dig a hole for their body. So basically, they were just digging their own graves. How sad is that! They just dig a huge hole and then the Gestapos just shoot them and they fall right into their grave.
This affects me in so many ways, you won't even know! I mean, put yourselves in their shoes. You are a confused Jew, that they just take in a truck to a forest. You don't know where you are going, and you hope for the best. You end up in the forest, and they tell you to dig, dig, and to keep on digging. Before you know it, you have a huge hole. But what is it for? You ask yourself. Then, they start shooting, you see down the line one by one just falling into the pit you just dug for the last couple hours. Now, this thought really makes me emotional because it makes you really appreciate life and what you have now. You think about what lies ahead, and when you want to complain about soomething, think twice about how bad it really is. Because truth is, I bet you it isn't even close to the pain the Jews went through.
We all know that The Holocaust is a very emotional subject to touch. It makes me so sad when reading this book. On page nineteen, Wiesel says that the Gestapos, German police under Nazi rule, took some of the Jews and they loaded them onto trucks, where they took them into forests. “They were forced to dig huge trenches.” (pg. 19) What these big trenches were, it was that when they shot the "slaves" basically, they didn't have to dig a hole for their body. So basically, they were just digging their own graves. How sad is that! They just dig a huge hole and then the Gestapos just shoot them and they fall right into their grave.
This affects me in so many ways, you won't even know! I mean, put yourselves in their shoes. You are a confused Jew, that they just take in a truck to a forest. You don't know where you are going, and you hope for the best. You end up in the forest, and they tell you to dig, dig, and to keep on digging. Before you know it, you have a huge hole. But what is it for? You ask yourself. Then, they start shooting, you see down the line one by one just falling into the pit you just dug for the last couple hours. Now, this thought really makes me emotional because it makes you really appreciate life and what you have now. You think about what lies ahead, and when you want to complain about soomething, think twice about how bad it really is. Because truth is, I bet you it isn't even close to the pain the Jews went through.