Trenches

This book is really good so far. I was beginning to think that it was going to be boring but it has started to get very intense and emotional. The details and anecdotes the author gives about the Holocaust and the death he sees every day is horrible and I’ve begun to really look at what the lives of the people who were stuck in concentration camps were really like. They lived each day in fear of dying and had to do random mandatory things just to demoralize them. “The two adults were no longer alive. Their tongues hung swollen, blue-tinged. But the third rope was still moving; being so light, the child was still alive…” (Wiesel 62). This quote was just after three people had been hung inside of the concentration camp. The mental images and the magnitude of the words that the author uses left me amazed that such horrible things could have ever happened to other humans.

I chose thise book because the Holocaust was such a meaningful event that a memoir that was written as though they were there would be very meaningful and deep. Our discussion of Evil in class is also very relevant to this book because it is one of the main ideas associated with the word Evil. The development of the young man who is featured in this story throughout the terrible things that he has to witness should be very interesting because through such a dramatic time people were forced to do things that they did not thing were morally or socially correct which could make this story very interesting.