Battle Mountain seems to be the stationary home at this part in the story. As the father loses his job and food becomes very scarce, Jeannette’s mother got a teaching job and this introduced a conflict of who controls the money now between the parents. Jeanettes friendship with Billy which turned out to be the friend you don’t want had cost them another home. I think the gun should have been more carefully explained to the kids so they would not have shot at Billy. There stay at Battle mountain is coming to an end and Phoniex is next.

Night is a really good book i really like the way this book starts. i have heard a lot about the holocaust and watch movies about it, but this book really takes us to what really happen in the holocaust. Unlike most Holocaust book it is not a very emotional book in the tense that it makes you sad, but it does fill you with anger at the way people acts towards each other.

So far the story goes along revealing big important things about this family little by little. Jeannette shows me how her father is still the greatest to her even without the means to get her a proper birthday present. They way the children are all raised seems very improper and unsafe to our normal lives. Their lives are lived according to a plan of finding gold but the gold rush days are over and time is this families enemy as they continuously get chased from their place of rest. This book also shares a connection of a family restaurant you usually visit like the Owl Club.

i find it interesting how this book really captures the whole point of people being degumanized by the degrading texhniques of the germans. it really gives you perspective on what these people went through.

Jeannette and her family moved across the Undited States from Phoniex to Welch. In Welch, Jeannette’s life got more difficult than her previous life back in the west coasts. She temporarily lived with her grandma who was abused her and her siblings. Jeannette is constantly being bullied or assault by other peers in her school. They rented a house in the woods with the house not having any electricity, running water, and a sewer system for the bathroom. She wanted to get back to Phoenix where she enjoyed and happy there, but Welch is not her new homes I think that Welch is gonna make her realize that she needs to leave her family and countine to purist her own life.

The start of chapter 2 all the prisoners are crammed into cattle cars as they get on their way to go to Birkenau. And if the prisoners tried to escape they would be shot down like dogs. After their long ride to Birkenau they finally arrive. Elizer and his father get split up from his mother and sister. They are standing in the  interrogation line, and they’re seeing people getting put to death right in front of them. Some man if front of them said they would have to change their identity and age or they possibly could be the next people to be killed. So they both change their identity and they make it past through the interrogation line. That night is when Elizer lost his faith in god. They stayed in Birkenau for a few weeks and then got move to Ausehwitz. And there they were given new names Elizer was A-7713 and it wasn’t as bad as the other camp, because they had a new polish officer who cared about there well being. But then he was removed as their officer, because they authority said he was being to nice. And there new officer is a vicious man with no attention to the prisoners well being.

It seems like the kids are gradually realizing that their parents are flawed. Jeannette wishes for her father to stop drinking, and although he tries he still goes back to his alcohol. This hurts her, and makes her lose a little hope in her father. I feel like the kids are going to become more, and more aware of their parent’s wrong doing and retaliate.

As the plot continues, things seem to get worse. From this point you can tell that the father is to blame for their situation. He seems to have a drinking problem, and is incredibly impulsive. Neither of the parents can keep a job, and the mother seems to not be able to stand up for herself. Jeanette at this point is still a young child, and i pity her in the way she tries to find good in her father, yet is constantly let down by him.

From the first page I could tell that this book would be a wild ride of crazy stories. In the beginning Jeannette sees her mother rummaging through garbage, and is embarrassed of her. Out of pity she takes her mother out to eat. After their meeting, she begins to delve into the stories of her past. I’m interested in seeing how she went from being poor and constantly on the run to living a stable life.

Jeanette tellls that her dad often does “the skedaddle” because he keeps thinking that the FBI is after the family. Mom keeps saying it’s actually the bill collectors that are after the family. Some of the times, the family rather stay with their mother’s mom. Whenever mom gets into a fight with dad, they leave.