Night
Here are your Content Questions for the Week
How did camp life change the prisoners as a person? A family? And relationships with other human beings?
- The camps took away their dignity.
- Families were split up and most were never together again.
- People who were in the camps couldn't worry about anyone else but themselves.
Theme: Sacrifice
In the novel Night, sacrifice is extremely important. You can see sacrifice happening when Elie's father is dying. Elie gives up many of the minimal things they have in order to try and save him.
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http://nonprofitpeople.monster.com/benefits/articles/36-nonprofit-careers-may-be-worth-the-sacrifice
Image from:
http://nonprofitpeople.monster.com/benefits/articles/36-nonprofit-careers-may-be-worth-the-sacrifice
Theme: Survival
The concentration camp has changed the instincts of the all the Jews. They did whatever it took to live. A good example of that would be when the son killed his own father in order to get a piece of bread.
Image from:
http://www.survivalinternational.org/articles/3289-brutal-savages
Image from:
http://www.survivalinternational.org/articles/3289-brutal-savages
Theme: Religion
It is obvious that religion is a huge component of the story. If you took religion out of the picture, the entire story would be nonexistent. All of the people in the camps were there because they were Jews.
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http://www.worldofjudaica.com/judaism/torah
Image from:
http://www.worldofjudaica.com/judaism/torah
What does this novel reveal about you as a human being?
This novel made me really think. I was horrified in the majority of the story and greatly disturbed when the SS officer killed the baby. In my life, I am grateful for everyone and everything that there is but this book made me feel even more grateful. Thinking about this novel, most of the things that happened in it were unimaginable to me. I live in a safe place and the conditions that these people had to endure were flabbergasting.