Journal Entry (Night)

In this book I believe that there has been more grief than any other book I’ve read. I enjoyed reading this book it has me think more and more about the holocaust and quote on quote war.

(Page 109 last paragraph)
One day I was able to get up, after gathering all my strength. I wanted to see myself in the mirror hanging on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto. From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me.

In this reading this quote it went back into my mind everything he had been through the image in which happened to him and in many details that explains his own image as being a corpse. Losing his father mother and two sisters was more than enough, but yet he still has the strength to get up is enlightening.

Journal Entry (Night)

They had orders to fire on any who could not keep up. Their fingers on the triggers, they did not deprive themselves of this pleasure. If one of us stopped for a second, a sharp shot finished off another filthy son of a bitch.
(Page 81)
-Elie Wiesel

This quote in the book pointed me off in a different direction, the main focus in my mind was the words, their fingers on the triggers, they did not deprive themselves of this pleasure. At this point I was just thinking about the people being scared out of their minds whether or not it was going to be them next and just for any reason one of the SS could shoot them right then and there, and a question I had was, why weren’t they going to fight back if they were going to be shot just because the could not keep up with the other people? You were going to die anyways right? One thing I do understand that they have been through so much and the though of just like that letting them kill you for something that ignorant then why bother right? This is not out of any disrespect for them but maybe there is someone who could answer this for me.

"The Perils of Indifference"

"What is indifference?
the word means "no difference."

I think in this case Elie Wiesel is talking indifference between races of people I think it has a lot do with what happened in the holocaust and mostly reflects on his book Night. I think it has to do with moral philosophy. I think there can be a philosophy of indifference I’m most certain about it. I think what Elie did in his speech made a really good point. I think his point of view stuck in my head more than any other speech I’ve herd.

NIGHT: Dialectic Journal Entries

Not far from us, flames were leaping up from a ditch, gigantic flames. They were burning something. A lorry drew up at the pit and delivered its load-little children. Babies! Yes I saw it. (Page 30)

-Elie Wiesel

While reading this book I was thinking about all the stories I’ve herd about the holocaust, but right then when I read this part in the book all the stories became oblivious in my mind…and knowing that Elie as 14 year old kid was already familiar with death and more, seeing the bodies being burned and throne into a pit. This part that I read is going to stay in mind, but one question I have is, how does he survive?

AQOTWF

2. What images of the novel are lingering in your mind? Explain why these images made a lasting impression on you.

When we were talking about the book in our groups, one of the things that left a clear image in my mind was how Paul was in the front line and there was an injured soldier (Kat) Paul picks him up to try and save if life but in the mix of it all Paul gets to the hospital and never noticed that Kat got killed while he was trying to save his life. I think thats one thing that I will remember the most becasue Paul tryed too help him but nothing came out of it, nad he just let himself go.

Respondong to Nelson`s blog

"Today, during class we had a class discussion about All Quiet on the Western Front and war in general. We talked about different aspects of war, we talked about WWI, WWII, Desert Storm, and wars in general. After the discussion I came to the computer to write my reflection (about a subject that I already forgot) and Lucien told me that he was pretty annoyed about the fact that everytime we talk about war it goes back to past crimes and leaders. He told me that he was pretty annoyed about us not talking about wars NOW; it always goes back to Alexander, it always goes back to Hitler; WWI. Me, I believe he is right in the sense that war is NOT a thing of the past. War is currently waged in the Middle East, and in Africa, but for some reason we talk about Hitler and not Bush (or the US senate for that matter). We talk about the Holocaust and not Darfur, and even though the Holocaust was bigger, Darfur is present. And even though history is important; I believe that the present is more so.

"Do you agree or disagree???

I understand what your saying about how we need to take into initiative to think about whats happening around the world, but I also think if we don't look to what had happened the past then we wont understand how to change major things such as now... since war is mostly about the past, and personally I think its good to bring up the subject of the war in my mind,and i think if we could,we should have a discussion on different things around the world before we start class. Just to see what everyone else thinks about the war happening today.

do you think we should do it??