The story Excerpt from Night was a shocking story to me. It really gave me a picture in my mind of the things that went on in World War 2 and how glad I am not to live in that kind of circumstance. I have heard story like this about World War 2 but this just puts these story in to picture and the things that went on. I wonder how I would have acted in that situation what I would have done. Would I pray or what would I do. This story was for interesting to me, because you see what the Jews were doing in this situation and how they were praying and shaking. I have not had an experience in my life where I was this close to death and I was shaking so I don’t know how I would act. This just shows the wrong that was going on in the world with Hitler and how bad the life of Jews were. It definitely made me appreciate my family and my life more, and this story makes me very grateful of the things I have and the place I live. I also I’m glad I haven’t seen the things the author has seen in the story. That they burned people and he had to see that, it made me very angry though and I just wish I could have done something for those people in that time. It is very neat to hear this story of Jews from World War 2 and how fortunate those people are to survive this tragic and terrible thing so we can here there stories.
I also liked reading that story. It was one of my favorites. I find it so hard to imagine going through what those people had to. One think that I think would have been especially hard to do is to experience such persecution because of their religion. For me if I was ever in that kind of situation the only thing that would be able to get me through tough times is my faith. I cant imagine what people did or used to rely on if they, like the author, lost faith in their god. I think it easy for people to lose faith in that kind of situation, but that's the one time they need their faith more then anything.
ReplyDeleteThis story was crazy. How the author described there was being absolutely no hope. Even his father saying that humanity didn’t even care about them any more. The part you talked about how the Jews began to say the prayer of the dead for them selves when they were still alive, imagine what it must have been like. To be that scared that you would be driven to do something like that. But it does really speak to how evil Hitler and the Nazi’s were. I concur with the appreciating my family after reading something like that. Our lives are good.
ReplyDeleteIt's a crazy thought huh all those people dying and no one trying to stop it?? I mean later on of course, but there were already so many people that had been killed. I can't imagine being a part of all that. I wonder if I would have been like the boy and almost given up on God, it would seem like he didn't care if he let all of that happen and to be in the shoes of that boy, I can imagine how hard it would be to stay strong and have faith. Pretty sad, but I also thought it was cool how the boy and his father were together until the end...as far as we know anyways. That would be the most important part for me, just trying to stick with my family. This story definitely makes me more grateful for all I have and makes me look at life through a different perspective.
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