Fourth Post- Night by Elie Wiesel
This book was definetly worth reading. I couldn’t have picked a better one on the list. One of the lasting understandings I took from this book was the importance of life. These people did absolutely nothing wrong and were taken to camps to die in horrible deaths away from their family and in horrible physical condition. Everyone has seen the pictures and the movies but many people haven’t read or seen the Holocaust through the perspectvie of someone who lived through it. When Elie first arrived to the camp he said he had seen young children, babies, being burned in the furnaces. That is the true definition of Evil. I have never heard of anything that could compare to that level of evil. I would like to find out more about what the Nazis could possibly have been thinking as they did these deeds. I wonder if they truely believed what Hitler was telling them and they really did want to kill the Jewish population because they hated them or if they just felt that they had to if they wanted to survive in Germant and escpae the wrath of Hitler. If it was more of a follow the leader mentality compared to a individual thought process.
November 1st, 2006 at 10:58 pm
“One of the lasting understandings I took from this book was the importance of life.”
When reading what Brayden said about the importance of life I could not have agreed more. This is exactly what I took from reading Night because the book reflects not just Elie’s struggle to survive, but a whole generation of different religions banned together under the same horrible circumstances.
November 2nd, 2006 at 3:09 pm
There’s some new book out now about life in Germany during the Holocaust–maybe it’s a memoir about being one of the Hitler Youth. If I can figure out what it’s called, I’d like to read it and pass it along.