MRS. CONTRERAS Language Arts 9 th Grade – Eng I Gifted/Honors Room C209

1. Welcome Braddock Bulldogs!!! MRS. CONTRERASLanguage Arts9th Grade – Eng I Gifted/Honors Room C209 2006-2007

2. Weekly Forecast4/30/07 – 5/4/07 • Monday – "The Sea-Wolf" Ch 25-32. "The Sea-Wolf" Ch 33-end • Tuesday – Introduction to Elie Wiesel, holocaust patches/creating mural & "Night”. Class Filing/return essays. • Wednesday – Night" pg 1 - pg 20. Study & take quiz on grammar rules (hdts 245-260). • Thursday – "Night" pg 21 - pg 40 & "Night" pg 41 - pg 60. • Friday – Work on Holocaust project. Independent study for final.

3. Home Learning By Monday, 5/7: • Read Night pg 61 - End. • Study grammar rules (hdts 245-260) for quiz this Wednesday. • Work on Holocaust project. • Bring grammar hdts 267-284 next week to class for Finals Review! • Revised essays due. • Bring Movie letters signed by 5/11 Have a great week!

4. Extended Home LearningAssignment (Due 5/7/07). • In an effort to enhance student writing skills and performance, all students are to rewrite (retype) all essay writing samples editing flaws and incorporating feedback provided. This assignment includes all hand-written essays in class as well as both research paper(s). Staple updated final draft on top of previous drafts. • Recap Sheets must be updated and placed on top of all drafts which must be compiled in date order. • A student reflection must be attached to the top evaluating your written work this year. Obviously this should take into consideration the feedback that has been provided throughout the course of the year.

5. The Sea Wolf Chapter 33 - End Shaun Rodriguez Per.3 English Courtesy Google Images

6. Plot Outline Chapter 33 • Maud and Humphrey are waiting for Wolf Larsen to come ashore. At the end of the day they realized he was not going to come and Humphrey decides to go aboard the Ghost and see what is wrong with him. However, Maud stops him from going that day saying it was too dangerous. (London 212) • After two days Maud and Humphrey begin to wonder why Larsen has not come ashore. Maud then tells Humphrey he should go and check up on Larsen. (213) • When Humphrey goes to check on Larsen he meets him in the cabin where he talks to him but as he says “…the few words we spoke could hardly be called a conversation.” So Humphrey goes back and tells Maud what happened and she is relieved. (213) • Afterwards Wolf stopped showing up on the deck and smoke stopped coming from the galley. Once again Maud starts to worry about Larsen and Humphrey goes onboard to check on him again but also to get condensed milk and marmalade. (214)

7. Plot Outline Chapter 33 • When Humphrey gets to the cabin he finds it empty. Wolf is in the state room groaning about his headache so Humphrey takes the opportunity to get the milk and marmalade. But as Humphrey was getting the things Wolf came out of his state room. (214) • When Larsen came out of the room Humphrey hid in the darkness. Larsen just paced around the room until as, Humphrey says, “The open trap lay directly in his path, and his discovery of it would lead instantly to his discovery of me.” (215) • But Larsen doesn’t see the trap door and almost falls in but his agility saves him from falling in. then Larsen closes the door thinking he has just trapped Humphrey inside. At this point Humphrey realizes that Larsen is now blind. Humphrey waits for a while and then finally gets the marmalade and milk and goes back to the shore. (215-217)

8. Plot Outline Chapter 34 • When Humphrey gets back Maud gives him the idea of repairing the Ghost and fixing its masts back into place. With Humphrey’s knowledge they created a plan to get the masts back on to the ship and in the right position. (217-218) • So they began to prepare everything for the fixing of the masts into place. In doing so they go down into the hold of the ship where Larsen confronts them. He asks Hump what he’s doing and Hump tells him that they are preparing to restep the masts. Larsen replies “It seems as though you’re standing on your own legs at last, Hump,” (220) • That refers back to the beginning of the book when Larsen tells Hump that he is living off of his fathers legs and that maybe time working on the Ghost would help him find his own.

9. Plot Outline Chapter 34 • But then Larsen tell Hump that he can’t fix the boat because it is not his. They both threaten each other in the argument. However Larsen says “Nevertheless, I forbid you, I distinctly forbid your tampering with my ship.” (221) • At the end of the chapter Larsen still forbids Hump to fix his ship but Hump openly disobeys him.

10. Plot Outline Chapter 35 • Humphrey and Maud begin the process of getting the masts on deck. The first couple of times Humphrey messes up with his calculations and has to retie the tackles on the mast but eventually is able to get the masts on board.(222-223) • After securing the masts to the deck Humphrey and Maud go back to shore calling it a day. That night they talk about how they do not trust Larsen and how they must do something so that hey can feel safe at night and have “…an uninterrupted night’s sleep” (225) • The next day they wake up to see that the shears holding the masts have been cut, the windlass used to pull the masts out of the water was broken, and the masts had drifted away in the water nowhere in sight.(226) • They were both very upset and depressed about it but when Larsen came on to the deck they completely ignored him and avoided him so that he wouldn’t get satisfaction from the things he had done to their masts. (227)

11. Plot Outline Chapter 36 • Then Humphrey and Maud went around the island on their boat in search of the masts. After three days they found them and attached them to the boat to tow them back to the Ghost. But on the way back a wind came about that was pushing them away from land. (228) • After a while Humphrey decided to cut off the masts and continue back to the island but Maud stopped him knowing that if they did let go of the masts they could be stuck on the island forever. In convincing Hump not to do it she says “Oh, please, please, Humphrey don’t!” (228-229) • She purposely used the words “please, please” because of how earlier in the book Hump had told her how those words from her could make him do anything. • The next day they were able to make it back to their cove, tired and exhausted but alive and with the masts. (230)

12. Plot Outline Chapter 36 • After a day of rest Humphrey got to work on rebuilding the windlass. It took him three days but he got it done. Then he got the masts on board again. That night Humphrey and Maud went to sleep on the ship just in case Larsen tried to cut the shears again. As they expected Larsen was about to cut them when Hump threatened and stopped him making Larsen back down. (231-232) • The next day Larsen came out on to the deck looking weak wand weary. He began to struggle with his headaches and collapsed on the deck. As Maud and Humphrey helped him Hump became suspicious of Larsen after noticing his perfectly normal heartbeat. At that moment Larsen grabbed hold of Humphrey so that he couldn’t move and then began to choke him. Eventually Maud comes and clubs Larsen over the head, knocking him out and saving Humphrey. (233-234)

13. Plot Outline Chapter 36 • Maud and Humphrey now wondered what to do with Larsen but Humphrey said “…Now that I have him helpless, helpless he shall remain. From this day we live in the cabin. Wolf Larsen shall live in the steerage.” (235) • With that they handcuffed Larsen’s hands and feet and put him into a bunk at the steerage. They were now safe from Wolf Larsen. (235)

14. Plot Outline Chapter 37 • With Larsen imprisoned in the steerage Maud and Humphrey were able to move on board the Ghost. Now that they cared for Larsen they noticed that he could only hear through his left ear. Larsen then told them that the right side of his body was totally paralyzed. (236) • Humphrey fixed all the problems with shears and masts on board. But then Larsen had another stroke in which he lost his voice and had to speak by writing or hand movements. (238-240) • One Friday morning Humphrey says, “That mast goes in to-day.” So Maud and Humphrey hoist the mast up and drop it into the square mast hole. (240-241) • While in the hold looking at their success Maud smells something burning. They go up to see the smoke coming from the steerage where Larsen is.(241)

15. Plot Outline Chapter 37 • Humphrey went in their and was suffocating from all the smoke. He noticed that it had to be Larsen that started the fire. So after getting Maud out of all the smoke, Humphrey went back in and pulled out the mattress that Larsen had lit on fire and put it out with several buckets of water. (242) • Afterwards Larsen wrote that he was happy about what he had done and said “I am still a bit of the ferment, you see”. He also wrote how that inside his body he has perfect concentration and can think clearly. (243)

16. Plot Outline Chapter 38 • The next day Larsen’s left side starts to go numb. He says thought that he is still all there and when Maud asked him about immortality he wrote “bosh”. Those were his last words because after that his left side went numb completely. Now Larsen could only communicate by slight movements of his lips. (243-244) • Humphrey began the final fixings of the ship. He put in the other mast and fixed all the sails with Maud’s help. But when they finished all the work Larsen finally lost all movement of his body and all his senses. He wasn’t dead but just trapped in his own body. (245-246)

17. Plot Outline Chapter 39 • Now it was time that they set sail on the Ghost with everything fixed. (246) • After a a difficult way of getting the ship started they were on the sea again. As they were sailing the sun came out bright and Humphrey says it was a good omen. (248) • Humphrey had to sail constantly. Maud would bring him hot breakfast and coffee just to revive him. Then when the storm started to come Humphrey had to reef the sails but couldn’t do it the normal way and had to try a new way instead that took many hours. (249-250) • Then after reefing the sails Humphrey fell asleep for 21 hours. When he woke up he went to look for Maud. He found her in the steerage over Larsen. Larsen had died during the time he slept. (250-251)

18. Plot Outline Chapter 39 • They got Larsen’s body on deck and before they threw him over the side Humphrey said the same thing Larsen had said at the beginning of the book, “I remember only one part of the service, and that is, ‘And the body shall be cast into the sea.’” (251) • Then they saw a steamship coming towards them and it was a United States ship. They knew now that they were going to be saved. (252) • Maud and Humphrey looked at each other and they kissed and held each other until the boat came to them. (252)

19. Author’s Influences • Jack London wrote The Sea wolf in 1904. • Jack London was part of the socialist party so that would explain some of the socialist views in the book. • For a time he sailed on a ship called the Sophia Sutherland. Some of Hump’s experiences could have come from Jack’s experiences on the ship or from stories he heard. Also the character of Wolf Larsen was from a real sailor he knew that they called Wolf. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sea_Wolf) Courtesy Google Images

20. Author’s Influences • Jack London's intention in writing the The Sea-Wolf was "an attack on Nietzsche's super-man philosophy." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sea_Wolf) Courtesy Google Images

21. Literary Criticism • Couldn’t find any, seriously looked in all of those databases. It’s probably because that book is over 100 years old.

22. Research Paper Outline Thesis Statement: Throughout the novel The Sea Wolf you see how the way a person acts is greatly affected by what environment they live in. I. They are affected by their environment they live in by the amount of knowledge they have. A. In the story you see how Humphrey a man who grew up in a peaceful life in a rich family in San Francisco is very educated and intelligent. Where as the sailors on the boat have very little knowledge on anything other than sailing because that’s what they have grown up to know. 1. Humphrey is very smart and is always describing himself as a “book worm”. This is because he grew up in the life of a gentleman. 2. All the sailors are uneducated and only know of sailing and can never have any educated talks with Wolf Larsen. 3. While Wolf Larsen is also a sailor and grew up in that work from the day your born lifestyle, he is also intelligent like Humphrey because somewhere in his life he found books and read them and taught himself, where as his brother Death Larsen who grew up in the same lifestyle is not smart because he did not have books in his environment.

23. Research Paper Outline II. The people in the novel are affected by the environment they live in by how much brutality they show. A. Wolf Larsen is a very brutal man in contrast to someone like Humphrey or Maud that cringe at the sight of any brutality on the ship. The sailors are all use to the same brutality as Larsen. 1. Wolf Larsen who has grown up in a survival of the fittest environment uses his force to command control over his ship and is not afraid to use any brutality he can. 2. The sailors who grew up in the same environment as Larsen also use as much brutality as they can to gain power and command but because this is survival of the fittest Larsen commands them all as he is the “fittest”. 3. Humphrey, who grew up in San Francisco in a peaceful environment, is not used to all the brutality on the ship and is very scared the first time, when he sees Larsen punch the cabin boy. Even so as he gets used to living on the ship you see how that environment affects him as he becomes somewhat more violent even prepared to fight back to Cooky at one point.

24. Research Paper Outline III. In the novel a person’s environment also affects their philosophies on life. A. Humphrey believes in morals and people’s natural born rights. Maud, being from the same type of life shares the same views as Humphrey. Wolf Larsen with his lifestyle believes in very materialistic and Social Darwinist views. 1. Humphrey grew up where people all had rights and life was something very precious. He shows that in how he converse with Larsen about life and the way he reacts to things happening on the ship. 2. Larsen on the other hand holds no value to life and says it is worthless. This is because in the environment he lives in people only live if they are strong and the weak are eliminated by the strong. To him, and he being the strongest on the ship, all others weaker then him are worthless and only his own life holds any meaning to him. Concluding Statement: In conclusion, this novel shows how people can be affected by the environment they live in. It shows how different people from different environments have different views on life, how they differ in the amount of knowledge they have, and how much brutality they show towards others.

25. Blooms Taxonomy Questions • What side did Wolf Larsen lose all feeling in first? • Contrast the Wolf Larsen from these chapters with the Wolf Larsen from the rest of the book. • Show how Humphrey restepped the masts on the Ghost. • Interpret what you think Larsen meant by saying “I’m all here”. • What do you think would happen if Larsen had not been dying, what would he have done to Maud and Humphrey? • Explain how Larsen shows Social Darwinism.

26. Works Cited • London, Jack. The Sea Wolf. New York: Bantam, 1991. • Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. 23 Oct. 2005. Wikimedia Foundation. 23 Oct. 2005 <http://en.wikipedia.org>.

27. Class Response…Wednesday Recall the events in chapter 1 of Night. • Explain the “process of reduction” that Wiesel depicts in this first chapter.

28. Night Chapter 1: 1-20 Carlos Rodriguez P.5 05/01/2007

29. Author • Elie Wiesel was a Holocaust survivor born in the small town of Sighet in Transylvania on September, 30, 1928. • His father, Chlomo, was a shopkeeper who was very involved with the Jewish community. • He was still a teenager during World War II that his family, and other Jews from the area were sent to German concentration and extermination camps. • His world revolved around politics, family, and religious studies. His family and everything he had were destroyed with the invasion of his village. • In 1933, Adolf Hitler came to power. • In 1944 he was deported to Auschwitz. • In 1945, his parents were executed and liberated from the concentration camp. • By the end of the Holocaust, six million Jews were killed. • After keeping ten years of silence he published Night, he married Marion Rose in 1969. and had his first child in 1972. • In 1986, he was awarded the Nobel Prize. • He is now a professor in the Humanities at Boston University and founding chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. • Without Eliezer surviving in the Holocaust he probably would of not written this book.

30. Plot Sequence • The story starts by talking about Moshe the Beadle, he was a man who was sent to a concentration camp and was luckily enough to escape (Wiesel 1). • The Jews of the town where very fond of him and he always made people smile (1). • Eliezer wanted his father to look for a man to help him further in his studies of the cabbala (1). • His father thought he was too young to enter the world of mysticism , thought he didn’t know that he had already found a master (2). • His father owned a shop and he had four children, Hilda was the eldest, then Bea, then Eliezer, and the baby of the family was Tzipora (2). • His father would ask him questions about why he prayed. He would turn to Moshe the Beadle and ask him (3). • One day the Hungarian police took the foreign Jews from Sighet, days later they were soon forgotten (4). • Moshe the Beadle decided to tell Eliezer and other companions about his story. He was taken passed the Hungarian frontier where the Polish territory took charge near Gestapo. They were made to jump into lorries and were dropped in a forest .They had to dig huge graves and were slaughtered and thrown into the graves. The babies were thrown in the air and used as target practice. Moshe the Beadle had a wounded leg and was taken for dead, he waited till they left and he escaped (4)..

31. Plot Sequence • He took long days of going house to house and telling his stories (4). • Moshe had changed, he no longer made people smiled and he would cry in between his prayers (5). • People asked him why he cared if people believed him or not, he responded by saying that he wanted to warn them for what was coming (5). Moshe must have been getting mad because I think he felt as if he was wasting his time if no one was going to believe him. • 1934 passed by, in Spring 1934, everyone was to confident that Hitler couldn’t harm them anymore (6). I think Eliezer thought the people were to confident and he was worried, he even asked his dad to sell the business and move to another country. • There was news that German troops had crossed Hungarian territory (7). • One of their relatives, Berkovitz, told them that they were attacking shops and synagogues. Everyone thought that they would stay in Budapest and that they shouldn’t be worried. The next day, there were German cars in their streets (7). • Their opinions of the Germans where different. They were very polite and never demanded the impossible. The optimists joined together and shouted. “ There are your Germans, now do you believe us?”. The Jews continued to smile (7). • The week of Passover began and they would eat and sing everyday for the past week (8). • In the last day of the Passover, the Germans arrested all of the leading Jews. Eliezer said “ The race toward death had begun” (8). Eliezer must of thought that they were going to die soon.

32. Plot Sequence • The first step was that the Jews couldn’t leave their house for three days, known as “The pain of death”(8). This was as if the Germans already took over the Jews and had right over them. • They could not keep any of their jewels in their house and they had to wear the yellow star, they couldn’t go to restaurants, travel on the railway, attend synagogue, or go outside after 6 p.m., then came the “ghetto” (9). • There were two ghettos set up and the first one was in the center of their street (9). • They weren't bothered by the fence that surrounded them. They felt as if they had their own republic (9). • Their opinion was that they would remain in the ghetto, until the war ends (10). • Germans came and took his father for a meeting. He came back around midnight and told everyone there were going to get deported (11). • He said they were going tomorrow, the president of the council knew but couldn’t say anything because he would of gotten shot, the Jews were only allowed to take their personal belongings (11). • A relative of theirs, a Hungarian policeman, told them that if there was any danger he would go to their house and tell them. In the middle of the night,, someone knocked on their window but they didn’t answer. The next day, they figured it was him (12). • Elizer spent the whole day warning people and telling them to get ready for the journey. It was 4 o’clock in the morning when the Jews were ready. Around 8 o’clock the Hungarian police were shouting, “All Jews outside! Hurry!”(13).

33. Plot Sequence • By 10 o’clock the Jews were outside and ready (14). • By one o’clock everyone was in a line, on their journey, Eliezer describes everyone that he has known for years that they were passing by him as if they didn’t know him. He says the town was abandoned, the shops and houses were abandoned (15). • They were exhausted, they had to move on Tuesday, the day before their mother made them go to sleep early, so they can gain strength. His father came back with good news that they were leaving tomorrow. At nine o’clock, Elizer was the first one to leave (16). • They were already exhausted by the count off. He heared his father weeping, his mother was lost in thought, and his sisters were weeping also because their packs weighed to much. The guards were making them run, when they finally reach their destination, they threw their bags down and thanked god (17). • The other ghetto was even worse than theirs. There was people sleeping on top of ovens, even on the ceiling, and there was books scattered everywhere. Eliezer and his sister went to get some wood to build a fire (17). • Since that ghetto was not guarded, Eliezer and his sister wanted to leave, but Eliezer’s father told him that if he wanted he could leave but he should stay he with his mother and his baby brother. Eliezer stayed (18) . • That night no one prayed and everyone went to bed without saying anything (18).In this part of the story, I would think that now the Jews are feeling the same way as Eliezer. They could have been thinking of the consequences that could happen the next day. • People thought that the deportation was a fake, that they just wanted to steal their jewelry that they had hidden under the ground (19). • Saturday came, the day they finally had to leave, the Friday before they had a dinner with their family but Eliezer couldn’t get his mind off the deportation (19). • Everyone was outside waiting, but the Hungarian police weren’t there, they arrived several minutes later. Everyone got into a huge car that was there, and everything was sealed off, all they had was a piece of bread and a bucket of water, for a couple days, the tires starting moving and they were on their way (20).

34. Literary Criticism • Night is autobiographical; indeed, Wiesel has said that the story should be read in view of this statement: “I swear that every word is true”. But there is a difference between Eliezer of the book and Elie Wiesel the storyteller. The reader's clue to this is the difference in names: the character in the story is Eliezer, while the storyteller uses the name Elie. The difference in names relates to Wiesel's recognition that he cannot adequately convey what happened to him and to millions of others ( Ted L. Estess). • Wiesel must kind of be hiding something. He tells us the story in a different kind of way, this means that he tells us the story of the holocaust but not as horrific as it was. As he also quoted: “The story itself, will never be told…..”.

35. Literary Criticism • Wiesel's pain lies in the discovery that neither love, filial piety, nor his intense Talmudic training can stand up against extremes of starvation and fear. On the road to survival everything goes, leaving only the most primitive terrors and desires (A. Alvarez). • As I said in my essay, Eliezer starts to lose faith in himself and his studies in God. He realizes throughout the story, that his studies aren't going to help him survive this. He must forget about all the negative feelings and fears he has and survive. He has to move on after the death of his father and escape this.

36. Literary Criticism • Wiesel has been considered the chief novelist of the holocaust. But it was only in Night that he disclosed the horrors of Auschwitz as he had personally experienced them. In other novels, the hero, a former inmate, is mercilessly pursued by past memories. They shape his attitudes toward all later experience. But Wiesel's novels of horror are more searching and penetrating than other writings on the subject. He has approached the holocaust mainly from a moral standpoint, leaving legalistic and political debates to others. He has dealt with Auschwitz, not only on the level of Man, but also that of God (Lothar Kahn). • As discussed in my essay, Wiesel wrote the stories of the Holocaust like no other novelist. Not only did he give us descriptive information but made us see it as if we were there. This affected him deeply. It’s kind of saying how the Holocaust affected his life.

37. Literary Criticism • The stories, essays, and reportage of Elie Wiesel have been dominated to date by a single theme: the Holocaust. His writings are not, however, contributions to the historical and psychological study of the death camps seeking answers to the questions How? and Why? For Wiesel the destruction of six million men, women, and children, methodically and without passion, is a terrifying mystery before which one's reason is silenced. Facts can be discovered and explanations given, but the act of making sense is somehow incommensurable with the catastrophe. The enormity of the evil, suggested in the very word-holocaust-forces Wiesel beyond explanations to judgments that one must call theological (Thomas A. Idinopulos). • As I said before, he not giving us a couple of dates and saying what happened. It is a different story when you are there. He let us be there with him.

38. Literary Criticism • The language of Night is deceptively simple, language that gives the reader the illusion of understanding the unspeakable situation. The familiar linguistic signals, however, reverberate and urge the discovery of a revelation of experience and truth behind the image as sign. It is the language of a religious imagination, demonstrated in the first chapter by the passion with which Eliezer studied not only the law of the Talmud but also the mysticism of the Kabbalah. In the final analysis, Night is not an attempt to realistically detail the experience of Auschwitz but rather to show how that experience transformed the religious personality's relation to God (Hamida Bosmajian). • As if saying that Night isn't just to inform you about what happened during the Holocaust but to show how this experience transformed Wiesle’s life and many other people.

39. Literary Criticism • Wiesel’s relation both to his subject and to his craft required that, before he could invent fiction, he should starkly record fact, and so his first book, Night, is a terse and terrifying account of the concentration-camp experiences that made him an agonized witness to the death of his father innocence, his human self-respect, his father and his God (Robert Alter). • I think this is a lie because he didn’t have to first record fact because he was there while it was happening.

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43. Questions • Who was Moshe the Beadle? • Would you have gone mad if the Jews didn’t believe you that there were Nazi’s coming soon? • Would you have left your family and gone with your sister to a safe place? • Where the Jews correct about the Germans not coming for them and not harming them? • What was it that the Nazi’s made the Jews wear, so they cane be recognized? • How do you think Eliezer felt during this entire journey?

44. Night Pg. 21-40 By: Elie Wiesel Tahimi Neyra May 2, 2007 Period 5

45. Elie Wiesel • Elie Wiesel was born in Sighet, Transylvania on September 30, 1928. • He had two older sisters and a younger sister. • In 1944, Elie and all the other Jews in the town were • deported to concentration camps in Poland. • Elie and his father were taken to Auschwitz, where • they got separated from his mother and younger sister. • Elie, who was fifteen at the time, never saw • them again. • During the following year, Elie was moved to the • concentration camps at Buna, Gleiwitz, and • Buchenwald where he managed to stay with • his father until his father died at Buchenwald • from starvation, exposure, and exhaustion. • Finally, in April 1945, Elie was released from • Buchenwald by the United States Third Army. Elie Wiesel at age 15 (courtesy of google images)

46. Elie Wiesel Cont. • After the war, Elie found out that his mother and younger sister had died in the gas chambers, but that his two older sisters had survived. • Elie had vowed never to write about his experiences, • but in 1955, he decided to write “And the World • Remained Silent”, a 900-page book. • The book was originally written in Yiddish and • was published in Buenos Aires, Argentina. • After two years, it appeared again in a smaller, • 127-page French version called “La Nuit” (Night). Elie Wiesel (Courtesy of Google images) • He wrote an additional 35 works in French, most of them dealing with Judaism and the Holocaust. • He got married in 1969 to his wife Marion, who also survived the concentration camps. • In 1986, he received the Nobel Prize for Peace. • Currently, Elie Wiesel lives in New York City with his wife and son Elisha.

47. Plot Sequence • Elie and his family were in the ghetto and they decided that there was nothing left to do but go to bed. (Night 21) • When they got up they all felt a lot better and “the mood was more secure”. (21) This shows that they don’t expect what’s coming and they don't really think they’re in danger. • On Friday night they all sat down to eat their meal and say their blessings. They all sensed that something was wrong and that this could be the last time they gathered at the table as a family. (22) • Saturday came and that was the day chosen for their expulsion. (21) • They were standing in the streets at dawn • and they’re group headed towards the main • synagogue. (22) • They spent a whole day in the synagogue • and it was forbidden to go outside so people • had to “relieve themselves” in a corner. (22) The Ghetto (courtesy of Google images))

48. The next morning everyone had to walk to the station, where there were groups of cattle cars waiting for them. (22) • They packed eighty people in each one and gave them some bread and a couple of pails of water. (22) This shows inhumanity and that the Jews were being treated as if they were animals. • One person was put in charge of each car, if anyone escaped, the person in charge would be shot. (22) • Soon they were on their way.(22) • They couldn’t lie down and they didn’t all fit sitting down so they took turns. (23) • After two days of travel, they finally stopped in Kaschau. This is when they realized that they were not staying in Hungary. (23) • A German officer told them that from that point on they were under the authority of the German Army. (24) • They had to give up their gold, silver, and watches. Anyone that was found with them later on would be shot. (24) • The doors were closed and the German officer left. (24) • Among the people that were with Elie was Mrs. Schachter. (24)

49. She was devastated because her husband and two older sons were deported by mistake with the first transport. (24) • On the third night she started yelling “Fire! I see a fire! I see a fire!”(24) • Soon they all became very irritated with her and a few young men forced her to sit down and tied her. (26) This shows the ignorance of people. They don’t understand why she’s screaming and they don’t even bother to find out. • Everything was quiet for about two hours until she broke out of her bonds and started yelling again. The young men came once again and tied her down and hit her on the head a couple of times. (25) • Towards the evening of the next day she began to yell once more “ The fire, over there” and point to the same place. (25) • Soon they were pulling into a station and someone near a window read “Auschwitz”. (26) • The train stopped and didn’t move again, a while later the doors were opened and two men were allowed to go get water. (27) • When they returned they said that in return for a gold watch they found out that this was their stop. (27) • They were also told that this was a labor camp and the conditions were good, families wouldn’t get separated, only the young would work in the factories, and the old and sick would work in fields. (27)

50. Soon the train began to move again and about an hour later it slowed down and they saw the camp through the window. (28) • At that moment Mrs. Schachter started yelling once again and this time there saw flames coming out from a tall chimney. (28) • The doors opened and men began to yell at them and old everyone to get out and leave everything behind. (28) • They had arrived in Birkenau. (28) • Men and women were ordered to separate. Elie went with his dad and his mother and little sister went the other way. “I didn’t know that this was the moment in time and the place where I was leaving my mother and Tzipora forever”. (30) • The men were ordered to form ranks • of five. (30) • A man came up to Elie and his dad and • told them to lie about their age. Elie, who • was fifteen, had to say he was eighteen. • His dad, who was fifty, had to said that • he was forty. (30) Selection of the Jews ( Courtesy of Google images)