Since the family had such a good thing going in Battle Moutain I thought this would be their last move. Sadly, I was mistaken and now they are off to Phoenix. In Phoenix, they have it good a big house, money, and everyone is happy. Is there anyway they can keep it this way for long?
The main character Jeanette finds out there is a boy who has a crush on her. From the beginning I did not like him because he is just straight creepy. He just rubs everyone the wrong way. What are his true intentions..?
In Glass Castle the family is on the move again. This time they are in Battle Moutain on yet another search for gold. This time though they have a house and their life starts to come together. So, what could go wrong?
In section three, the author describes how all the Jews had to abandon everything they had. Men and woman were separated and they had labor jobs. They had to be 18 or older to work in labor otherwise they would be burned. Eliezer was with his father, but he did not realize that he would never see his mother and sister again. He started to lose faith in god day after day because it seemed like there was no hope left for him and his family to survive. Other prisoners told him that when they come to labor force they would be well treated and fed. But that was all lies, they had no idea what awaits in front of them.
On section two, it shows how horribly Jews were treated. They were beaten and treated inhumanely day after day. The army told them they were being relocated to somewhere safe, but they were transferred to an extermination camp. A German officer took control of the train, telling the prisoners that if anyone escapes, they will be terminated. They nailed all the doors shut, further preventing the escape. Soon after being relocated, the prisoners found out that a very dangerous future awaits. I am looking forward to reading further into the book.
The Night opens with the story of Moshe the Beadle. It is probably one of the most painful story of the Jews refusal to believe the Nazi evil. It’s also a cautionary story about Weisel’s own account. Moshe was treated as a lunatic for warning his village about Nazi Massacre. What’s critical for Weisel is that his own evidence for surviving the holocaust not be ignored. Moshe’s example shows that the cost of ignoring the witness of evil is the recurrence of that evil.
The prisoners are loading into the train cars and they’re crammed in there. The trainer stops ever so often to throw dead bodies to provide more space in the train cars. One guard throws bread down and the prisoners fight to the death for bread. Then they finally get to camp Buchenuald, and there prisoners get to hot shower, however the showers are packed and Elizer dad lays in the snow to catch some shut eye. He tells Elizer to wake him up when it’s their turn. Then they get both into barracks that day, but later that night Elizer’s father gets really sick. The next couple days Elizer struggle to keep him alive and all the other prisoners are telling Elizer to be every man for himself, but Elizer can’t leave his dad to die like that. A couple days after Elizer’s dad gets sick he starts to say he’s about to die to Elizer and holds him tight through the night and in the morning he is dead. Elizer says that morning that he’s free at last. The next couple months were meaning less to Elizer till Aplill 11 at six o’clock at night American tanks and soldiers raid the camp. And this is where Elizer realizes he’s free at last. They give all the prisoners food to eat, but Elizer gets food poisoning and gets sent to the hospital where he battled death for a couple weeks, but conquers his sickness. Where he leaving the hospital he catches a glimpse of himself and he saw a corpse. And ever since that day that image will never leave his mind.
Elizer and his father are in the camp and talking to the people and asking what job should they stay away from and they all say construction. The next day the doctor and dentist come into to the camp and everyone was thrilled to get the medical records up to date; Elizer and all the prisoners were just asked if they were okay and checked if they had gold crowns on their teeth. They stay at the camp for weeks and Elizer is in his cell mad at god and refusing to bless his name. The next day comes the prisoners are ordered to run to the next camp which was a couple of miles away. Elizer and his cell mate Zalaman were running next to each other, till he caught a stomach and fell down and when to fell down he was trampled to death. They finally get to the new camp “Gleiwitz” where they’re two lines; the left is the death line and the right line goes into the camp. But Elizer father is in the left line! So Elizer sneaks over to the left line and brings his dad to safety. Then the wait at the train station in Gleiwitz to go to the next concentration camp.
Religion plays a very big role in Night, because it seems like every Jewish person of this Jewish town is religious. They all believe in God, but after they are taken to the concentration camp, many of them start to question their religion, including Eliezer. When a young man is hanged on the gallows, one man asks “Where is your God now?” and Eliezer responds, “Where is He? Here He is-He is hanging here on this gallow.” you can clearly see how they slowly stop believing in God, because of what is happenning to them.
It’s crazy to read how many jewish people who were crammed into those cattle cars. They were practically treated like animals. Along with the fact that if they tried to run away they would get shot and killed. It makes me grateful to live in the country we do, where most people aren’t judge for their beliefs. Everyone who were put into those cattle cars were dehumanized and stripped everything they believed in.