Section 5-6

QUOTE: "A silent death,suffocation. No way of crying out, of calling for help," (Wiesel 100).

ANALYSIS: This quote is about the death, the terrible, prolonged death of the Jews. I am fascinated, yet disgusted at the same time. The truth of this is disturbing and wrong, yet in some ways true.

QUOTE: "Dozens of starving men fought each other to the death for a few crumbs...," (Wiesel 105)

ANALYSIS: Dozens... Astonishing, yet repulsive. I hate the feeling of imaging having to kill another being over food, but that was what it had come to.. So terribly astonishing.

Section 1 and 2 Night Quotes

       SECTION 1 QUOTE:  "Humanity? Humanity is not concerned with us. Today anything is allowed. Anything is possible, even these crematories," (Wiesel,42).

       Eliezer's father is angered by the fact that the German's don't consider Jews to be humans. He has trouble believing, let alone understanding their point of view. The idea that Jews are inhuman is completely inconceivable to Eliezer's father.

       SECTION 2 QUOTE:  "Not cry? We're on the threshold of death.... Soon we shall have crossed over.... Don't you understand? How could I not cry?" (Wiesel, 45)

       Yechiel is upset with his situation and with Eliezer. He weeps for himself and all the other's that are dead, or about to die. He is also angry at the Germans for making his situation so difficult.

      
     

An Outsider's View

       Crooks is treated differently because of his race. From his point of view, he thinks that because he is different, that no one will like him. In the 8th grade I was an outsider and was treated differently because no one could understand the way that I ould do things, like in my math class. I would always do problems the long way even if there was a shorter way to do them, because the long way was what I had learned first. I didn't care what people thought I just kept doing what I had always done and my teachers began to accept that what I learn first is what I remember what I would always do. I did not care that I was not popular, nor did I hate the kids that were in that group. I just accepted that I wasn't going to be popular and moved on., And from their perspective, they didn't care that I wasn't with them.