Friday, August 14, 2009

sbta night chapter 9

The Jews probably were feeling any anger at the Germans or didn’t have any feelings of revenge at he meaning of that time period, they probably did but couldn’t do anything about it.
Is symbolizes that there basically is living threw darkness and they never see anything that shines while they are living.
Because he describes what he goes threw and it is the darkness of a Childs life where he didn’t have no child hood.
They feel guilty because they feel like they should have died there to instead of surviving.
That no matter how bad the situation is there is always going to be a golden side in the situation and the bad doesn’t last forever.
Because it happen In the past and everyone needs to know no matter what your situation is there's no worst situation than what those people have suffered from.
The things he have went threw when he was younger have made him grow up hard time after seeing the way his father tried to protect him, once his father got week he took responsibility and tried his hardest for his father to stay alive. He seen so many bad things and he went threw it and now that he is 15 he understands what his father was trying to do for him and the situation he in he understands it now so he wont sit there and be confuse.
One person that has strengthen me was my grand father after seeing how hard it was being a men he still showed how to become one now say I am one and now I am all big in sports and do good were ever I go and my head is never down anymore its always up.

Night Chapter 8 Vocabulary.

Emerged- to come forth into view or notice, as from concealment or obscurity
hillock -A small hill.
timid -lacking in self-assurance, courage, or bravery; easily alarmed; timorous; shy.
tiers -one of a series of rows or ranks rising one behind or above another, as of seats in an amphitheater, boxes in a theater, guns in a man-of-war, or oars in an ancient galley
Beseeching- to implore urgently
livid -having a discolored, bluish appearance caused by a bruise, congestion of blood vessels, strangulation
Dysentery- an infectious disease marked by inflammation and ulceration of the lower part of the bowels, with diarrhea that becomes mucous and hemorrhagic
invalids -an infirm or sickly person
feverish -having fever
Spasmodically- pertaining to or of the nature of a spasm; characterized by spasms.
summons -an authoritative command, message, or signal by which one is summoned.
Conscience- the inner sense of what is right or wrong in one's conduct or motives, impelling one toward right action:
delirious -affected with or characteristic of delirium
pleaded -to appeal or entreat earnestly
Cauldrons- a large kettle or boiler.

Friday, July 31, 2009

chapter 6 vocab pt 2

Withered- to shrivel; fade; decay: The grapes had withered on the vine.
Petrified- to convert into stone or a stony substance.
Distress- great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
Privation- lack of the usual comforts or necessaries of life
Staggering- to walk, move, or stand unsteadily.
Encumbrance- something that encumbers; something burdensome, useless, or superfluous; burden; hindrance:
Semblance- outward aspect or appearance.
Jostled-to bump, push, shove, brush against, or elbow roughly or rudely
bereaved -to deprive and make desolate, esp. by death
Rabbi-the chief religious official of a synagogue, trained usually in a theological seminary and duly ordained, who delivers the sermon at a religious service and performs ritualistic, pastoral, educational, and other functions in and related to his or her capacity as a spiritual leader of Judaism and the Jewish community.

chapter 6 vocab pt 1

Faltering- to hesitate or waver in action, purpose, intent, etc.; give way.
Automatons- a mechanical figure or contrivance constructed to act as if by its own motive power; robot.
Midst-the position of anything surrounded by other things or parts, or occurring in the middle of a period of time, course of action
Famished- to suffer or cause to suffer extreme hunger; starve.
Parched- to make extremely, excessively, or completely dry, as heat, sun, and wind do.
Indeterminate-not determinate; not precisely fixed in extent; indefinite; uncertain.
Illusion- something that deceives by producing a false or misleading impression of reality.
Condemned- to express an unfavorable or adverse judgment on; indicate strong disapproval of; censure.

night chapter 6 pt 2

Who ever stopped running will be shot and killed.
He was a kid that have got lost.
His father keeps him running and motivated because he doesn’t want them both to die or get separated.
Misty cold night running threw places in the snow and very cold.
He feels that faith is dead and there is not any faith left.
About 200 or more miles they have marched.
When they took a brake is was amazing because there feet was all blister full and hurting and none of them could breathe and they was really weak.
They kept each other warm and kept moving around.
When they was running he told elie to keep running or when he gave elie the peace of bread.
He was a strong man in the group and he was looking for his son.
He continued to run because he had no choice.
He was crushing some kid he was ok because they all was crunched.
They stayed in the snow it wasn’t easy because they have to do a lot of things that they didn’t want to do at all.
Elie was worried and running around looking for his father he was getting depressed he found his father way in the back tired.

night chapter 6 pt 1

I think looking for your son is very hard specially at a time where its just you and him alone and you guys is all you guys have. Trying to be a father at that time is difficult you want to live but your child has to get his nutrition more than you do and you have to look after him because you are his father.
I think it means that god is in charge of everything that happens if something bad happens he must be angry at you or frustrated. Because everything happens for a reason and they think that he is just mad at the Jews at the moment and that he will make it better someday but the disasters that happens and the good that happens he is all In charge of it.
I think I like elie because he is going threw a tough time and he is very young and to be young at the time he can go threw all the pain and the pressure its amazing and how he is trying to take care of his father at the time and his self by becoming the man that his father was or even better. And to take care of your father and yourself as a youngling is a pretty amazing thing.

chapter 7 pt 2

The setting is a dark and scary environment smelly and it just smell like death.
He meant that either way that they are going to die in this camp regardless.
I think he would have the motivation to live because his father fought for him to live so he will fight just for his father.
They just tossed them out the train and left them there.
Life was getting worse they was fighting to live and fighting over bread crumbs.
When a piece of bread was thrown in the wagon everyone fought to death for that peace.
When there is a stampede for the food the Germans laugh about it.
He was acting like a starving animal, because they had nothing to eat at all and they were all starving.
Elie is 15 in this chapter.
I cant really relate to it I don’t think anyone can because that is beyond tragedy.
He was one of the leaders on the wagon he basically ran things he was the top person there he did everything for everyone a very kind and generous man.
Some random dude, he doesn’t know why I guess because he went crazy and he was very hungry.
It horrible it’s a tragedy, they think no one should ever go threw this.
Buchenwald
I think that the father is going to get killed or he is going to die, because him and Elie is going to get separated.