Night Essay Reflection

 Reflection on the Night Unit

A.  Look back over all the work in the Night workspace and answer the following questions:

1. What did you learn about Judaism?

Its the worlds oldest religion and is very strict

2. What did you learn about the Holocaust?

The Jewish were not the only victims of the Nazi, lots of the polish and also Germans who didn't follow the Nazi ideology and many more

3. Do you think you increased your own empathy, integrity and compassion, and how?

Made me think of what really happened and how it affects people even now

4. Which activities did you enjoy the most?

Finding quotes in the book

5. What recommendations do you have for Mrs Torley to change anything if she is teaching this again next year?

None

Elie Wiesel book "Night" essay by Cliff

 

The Holocaust was a terrible event in history, it caused the death of millions of innocent people. It changed the course of history and the world. Night by Elie Wiesel is a memoir of his experiences in the Nazi concentration camps during the holocaust. I will discuss how the following techniques, First person narration and Hyperboles are used to evoke an emotional response in the reader.These techniques made me feel emotional by putting me in his shoes and having me think about how i would feel. It just shows you how much these events affected him. You can also feel anger towards the Nazis for taking their lives away, with writing emphasising how terrible all these things are. 

Shortly before he witnessed these things, he was told that he would be put into the fire, he didn't believe it. It was too horrible to be true. "Babies! yes, I did see this, with my own eyes... children thrown into the flames." This quote uses First person narration to emphasise to the reader that he really saw it himself, he wasn't told what happened, he was there. The exclamation mark represents the surprise he felt that not even the youngest were safe.This made you feel emotional by putting you in his position seeing innocent children thrown into the flames. I feel terrible that he had to witness these things at such a young age, then going on for years with the fear thinking that could be him.

His father had been very ill for a while nearing death. They marched for a long time in freezing temperatures. "The officer came closer and shouted to him to be silent. But my father did not hear. He continued to call me. the officer wielded his club and dealt him a violent blow to the head. I didn't move. I was afraid, my body was afraid of another blow, this time to my head." The way first person narration is used in this section to show how scared he was of being hit is he refers to his body being scared. his body remembers the last time he was beaten not wanting it to happen again.I feel stricken with sorrow that in his fathers moment of need he couldn't be there for him. All he could do was listen as his father was pummeled by the Nazis fearing the same would happen to himself.

He had heard his father being beaten to death in his sleep shortly before. He was now alone. "I did not weep, and it pained me that i could not weep. But I was out of tears. And deep inside me, if I could have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, i might have found something like: Free at last!..." Here his use of a hyperbole saying he couldn't weep was showing how empty and exhausted he felt. He was so tired of it all he couldn't even cry for his father. Using first person narration he states that even if he could find something in his mind it would be not a thought of his father, but the thought of finally being free at last.This causes an emotional response when he explains that if he had the energy to think he would only think of being free. This dispirits me to see how towards the end he might of thought of his father as a burden or something weighing him down and not as his father.

In conclusion the techniques used in this book make you emotional by putting you in his place describing in detail what happened, using first person narrative and hyperboles to express his thoughts and feelings. My final thoughts after reading Elie Wiesel's memoir. it shines a light on how terrible the situation truly was. writing it in a way only a person who had experienced it first hand could, giving me a better understanding of what really went down. It makes me feel crushed when he describes how he didn't even feel anything at the end, how his father died without his son by his side. but also thankful that he survived and that he could show the world what really happened spreading awareness.

Elie Wiesel's Life After the War

 Slide show

Studying 'Night' by Elie Wiesel

 Empathy Map 2 - Elie aged 16, at the end of the war

We completed a second Empathy Map looking at what Elie was like at the end of the war. Elie was hollow and just done with everything. When he got out he only wanted food and with his father dead he didn't really have anything else. It was pretty sad reading what happened to him but even sadder knowing it happened to millions of others too.

It makes me see that if people are fed enough propaganda and told enough that something is true the majority will believe it. I didn't really feel hope at any point in the story. The most important message of Night is that you should never trust too much in anything. Always do your research and critically think before coming to a decision so you aren't misinformed.

Elie Wiesel

Our English class is studying the memoir Night, by Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel.

I worked in a group with Orlando, Kobain, Keita and Cliff to create an Empathy Map for Elie at this age.

 At the start of the book (night), Elie is 12 and the third youngest and living in Transylvania with his family. He was stable and relatively happy although he wished his father was more involved with the family. He had lots of faith in god crying when he prayed.

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It was a quiet tuesday morning everyone just having their moring cup of tea or coffee. Sun was rising clouds were drifting away, it was just an overall quiet day when disaster struck.
The president of japan had started a cyberwar with america after his wife was assassinated by former american cia agent john wick. He was later caught by japanese military and interrogated. He framed the american president donald trump saying he was ordered secretly by him to assassinate his wife and steal important intel from the Torii station army base. He was later sentenced to prison for life, all this time the japanese president Shinzo abe was planning a cyber attack on american nukes.


Knock knock knock. Samuel walked towards the door and opened it before he could reach it his robotic companion danny model 3491 opened it for him. “Hello Mr.Samuel!” The fallout tech spokesman said kindly “umm hello?” sam replied in a worried voice “oh yes sorry i must introduce myself I am daniel a spokesman for the fallout tech robotics industry. I am here today to ask if you are interested in a once in a lifetime spectacular deal that could just save your life!” He paused for a moment before continuing “Fallout tech has just installed a new bunker just next to your beautiful neighborhood and you can book it for only 5000 Credits! Just scan your fingerprint right here and the money will be taken from your account and you will have premium access to the fallout bunker. He hesitated and thought may as well take the deal my ebill this week is 10000 credits anyways why not.


Beep zzztzzzt the holo tab scanned his finger and he was done. “Thank you Mr.Samuel you wont regret this” he said as he walked off to knock on the next door. 3 hours later. AHHHHHHHHHH a high pitched shrill scream followed by many more screams and shouts echoed through the neighborhood. Sam took a moment to look out the window and look what was going on , there was a bright shining light is that the sun he thought no what dont be silly he recalled earlier this morning of the spokesman who came by to make a deal with him. Seconds later reality struck him… Nukes?! What the hell without time to think he raced to his coat hanger and rushed out the front door and ran for the shelter.


When he reached the shelter he could see armed mechs standing at the gates with t2700 auto rifles. People were struggling to get past and punching the robots those who fought were shot he saw the fallout spokesman attempt to jump the fence he was quickly shot and his lifeless corpse thudded as it hit the ground. He ran over to the mechs and one of them grabbed his arm and scanned him with a blue light for his one it bleeped green but for another woman it bleeped red. She struggled to get loose and was shot, You May Enter a robotic mechanised voice said he was then pushed through the gate and made a mad run for the vault.


BOOM the loud noise thundered throughout all of america over 326 million dead and only 700,000 remaining as he entered the vault he heard loud shouts and people crying and sparks flying he walked towards a vault tech security guard he was about to ask what was going on when the lights went out...

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It was late in the afternoon and my friends and I had nothing to do. We sat on the porch joking around and teasing each other but mostly we were bored. We started talking a bit and then a lot somehow our conversation drifted towards the hanging bridge, a story our parents would tell us to scare us into not wondering around at night. We new the story was fake even though the bridge was real.


Apparently criminals would be hung down from the rails sticking out and at exactly midnight a foul beast would come to swoop them up. And if a living soul would ever see this creature they would be greeted with the most horrendous of deaths. We started jabbering about how we would get there and what we would do when we got there.


After lots of talking we finally agreed to pretend to go to jeremy's house for a sleepover (His parents were always away) At exactly 11 pm we set foot into the forest there was a trail that people used to get there. It was quite obvious because of all the trampled leaves and the footprints.


We finally reached the bridge nearing midnight. We peered down into the mist nothing well what were we expecting a big monster? Just as we were about to leave a scream echoed behind me. Guys were is Charlie?? Another scream, WERES CHRIS. I looked at david and said to him “Whatever you do don’t look behind you when I say go RUN” “O-O-o-k” he was obviously scared and cold. “GO!” I shouted he took one step and he was gone. Then I was…

The End

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Hi i am Cliff im a year 8 at otaki college 12 years old. I like cars especially super cars hyper cars and my favourite car is the Volkswagen I.D.R pikes peak,I also like the marvel cinematic universe so marvel and in dc i only like the flash because the rest of the characters are trash (tv series flash)
I also like gaming my main at the moment is destiny 2 but im shifting towards apex legends. I play mine craft sometimes and I used to play roblox but not anymore I play on an Xbox 1 S (play stations trash)
i am an only child and live with my mom and my dad. I was born in Seoul 2007 and moved to New Zealand when I was 5 and went to waikanae school I then came to waitohu in year 5 then im here.