Elie Wiesel
Thursday, September 29, 2016
Night Post #1
Tell about your experience as a reader of the book: Explain how the book makes you feel. Provide the specific passages that you found most moving/shocking/poignant/ surprising/interesting, and explain how they affected you (quote passages directly and include page number in parentheses after each quotation). Describe what you noticed about how the author wrote. Comment on the author’s diction (language choices), writing style, the cadence or rhythm of the language.
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The book makes me feel sad and it upsets me to think that humans can do this to each other. I don't know how the Nazis lived with themselves after threw babies into a fire. It is a great book in the way that he talks about it because of how descriptive he is in his writing. I think part of what makes you feel so sad after reading it (other than the actual content) is how the writing makes you feel like you are actually experiencing it with them. For instance when they are in the train and the lady is hallucinating and screaming with her little boy trying to calm her down I felt like I could see her and her boy and I could hear her screams and the train moving. I could feel the heat of the fire in Auschwitz. The book is written in the first person which, I think makes it easier to understand. I always catch myself stopping and thinking, "I can't believe this is actually true!". Over all I think it is a really good book so far. Carter
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