What is a response journal? Response journals require students to write about what they felt while reading a book, short story, or poem. The purpose of the response journal is to encourage students to think deeply about the texts that they read and to relate the information to their prior knowledge and experience. This interaction between reader and text extends the reading experience into "real life" application of information.
What do I do? Each entry that you will make will begin with a prompt. You must respond substantially to the prompt. This means that your response should be AT LEAST a lengthy paragraph, perhaps more than one paragraph. THINK before you write. Don't worry too much about format - no thesis statement required!
19 comments:
Radwa Mokhtar
My life is similar to Elie Wiesel because he has 3 siblings and I also have 3 siblings. However, he has 3 sisters and I have 2 sisters and 1 brother. He also has to help out his parents while in the shop, and I sometimes have to help out my mom around the house. My life is also different to Elie Wiesel because his parents run a shop, but my dad is a doctor and my mom is a "stay at home" mother.
Jasmine Duraku
My life is similar to Elie Wiesel because he is very helpful when his family needs him, and I also help my family when they need me. My life is different from his because he is very religous and studies the Kabbala, and I am not as religious as he is, but I still pray and believe in God.
Siobhan Pfaff
1. Page # 85 Elie and the rest of the Jews are called dogs and he doesn’t care.
2. Page # 85 Elie has to run and if you don’t keep pace then the guards will shoot you. Elie knows this and doesn’t care he just keeps running.
3. Page # 86 Someone collapses and is shot to death and Elie has absolutely no reaction.
4. Page # 86 Elie’s friend is next to him has a stomach cramp and falls to the ground and he does not even stop to give him a hand.
5. Page # 87 Elie is tried and hungry but some how he keeps going and stops noticing everything around.
6. Page # 89 Elie and his father stepped on dead or dying bobies and they paid no attention to them.
7. Page # 89 Elie watched someone try to wake his dead friend and he did not even care.
Taylor Varvara
Ways that show how Elie Wiesel is getting used to the camp:
1) When Elie goes to work and has to do hard labor.
(Page 78)
2) Elie was in the hospital and he met his neighbor in the hospital room.
(Page 80)
3) Elie had to leave his camp and go to Gleiwitz.
(Page 95)
4) When Elie and his father were on the train and they didn’t receive food and had to sleep on the floor.
(Page 100)
5 The man that was beating Elie’s father told him that you can’t take care of anybody else but yourself in this war.
(Page 110)
In the book, "Night" Elie Weisel had to suffer through the terrors of the concentration camps during the Holocaust. Everyday he expirienced immense pain and had to watch people around him suffer and die. At such a young age Elie has be scarred with painful images of all the horrors he saw in the camps. At first he couldn't stand the sight of all the deaths, sickness, and torture then as he started to reside there longer he got used to the way life was.
1) He said that as he worked in the winter all his body parts froze but he got used to the winter bite on himself and the labor.
2) After the operation on his foot he was ordered to not use his leg at all for two weeks. Since there was an evacuation he endured the pain of a newly operated leg walking with no shoe on in the cold. While Elie and his father were evacuating they felt so much pain that when they were ordered to run it felt automatic. As they were running a friend of Elie's died and for moment he saw an image of the dead body but soon forgot about it.
got used to the pain.
3) When a Jewish person dies another Jewish person recites a Kaddish for the fallen person. When Jewish people first started to die they would all say a Kaddish for him but then when everyone just stopped saying it. They didn't see the point anymore. Elie watched people die everyday.
4) In Gleiwitz he went 3 days without food or water but he got used to it.
5) When all men were fighting for bread and life Elie was only sixteen but knew that everyone wanted to survive and that meant to do anything.
Meaghan McDevitt
P81
The rapid killings happening all around him had no impact on Elie.
P82
When running to Gleiwitz, Zalman fell to the ground because of a sharp pain and his future was lost. Elie was talking to him before he fell, but quickly forgot about him.
P90
Crawling through dieing bodies did not upset Elie, he was just happy to have won.
P96
Elie showed neither emotion nor disturbance when a boy killed his father for a ration of bread.
P99
When Elie came into contact with a crematory he said that it no longer had an affect on him.
P107
When Elie was freed from the concentration camp, he states that his life no longer mattered and that nothing could make an impression on him anymore.
In the book, "Night" Elie Weisel had to suffer through the terrors of the concentration camps during the Holocaust. Everyday he expirienced immense pain and had to watch people around him suffer and die. At such a young age Elie had been scarred with painful images of all the horrors he saw in the camps. At first he couldn't stand the sight of all the deaths, sickness, and torture then as he started to reside there and he got used to that way of life.
1) He said that as he worked in the winter all his body parts froze but eventually he was numb to even realize his pain.
2) After the operation on his foot he was ordered to not use his leg at all for two weeks. Since there was an evacuation he endured the pain of a newly operated leg walking with no shoe on in the cold. While Elie and his father were evacuating they felt so much pain that when they were ordered to run it felt automatic. As they were running a friend of Elie's died and for moment he saw an image of the dead body but soon forgot about it.
3) When a Jewish person dies another Jewish person recites a Kaddish for the fallen person. When Jewish men first started to die they would all say a Kaddish for him but then everyone just stopped saying it. They didn't see the point anymore. Elie watched people die everyday.
4) In Gleiwitz he went 3 days without food or water but he got used to it.
5) When all men were fighting for bread and life Elie was only sixteen but knew that everyone wanted to survive and that meant to do anything.
p:76 When Ellie begins to become used to when the guards would stip their clothes.
p:82 Ellie realizes the routine of going to different concentration camps.
p:48 Ellie is used to the small rationed meals that they are fed.
pp:76 When Ellie begins to become used to when the guards would stip their clothes.
p:82 Ellie realizes the routine of going to different concentration camps.
p:48 Ellie is used to the small rationed meals that they are fed.
Some specific moments when it seems Wiesel is becoming immune to the horrific nature of the concentration camps are:
1) p.78 “I had forgotten that people slept in sheets.”
2) p. 86“He [Zalman] must have died, trampled under the feet of the thousands of men who followed us. I soon forgot him. I began to think of myself again.”
3) p. 93 “I dug my nails into the unknown faces. I was biting my way through,searching for air.”
4) p. 94 “I scratched, I fought for a breath of air. I tore at decaying flesh.”
5) p. 96 “We took out our spoons and ate the snow off our neighbors’ backs. A mouthful of bread and a spoonful of snow.”
6) p. 99 “Twenty corpses were thrown from our wagon. Then the train resumed its journey leaving in its wake…hundreds of naked orphans without a tomb.”
7) p. 100 “A worker took a piece of bread …and threw it into the wagon. There was a stampede. Dozens of starving men fought desperately over a few crumbs.”
8) p. 106 “I fought my way to the coffee cauldron like a wild beast.”
9) p. 107 “I gave him [Elie’s father] what was left of my soup. But my heart was heavy. I was aware that I was doing it grudgingly.”
10) p. 111 “‘Eliezer’, continued my father…I didn’t move. I was afraid, my body was afraid of another blow, this time to my head.”
11) p. 112 “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!”
Some specific moments when it seems Wiesel is becoming immune to the horrific nature of the concentration camps are:
1) p.78 “I had forgotten that people slept in sheets”
2) p. 86 “He [Zalman] must have died, trampled under the feet of the thousands of men who followed us. I soon forgot him. I began to think of myself again.”
3) p. 93 “I dug my nails into the unknown faces. I was biting my way through, searching for air.”
4) p. 94 “I scratched, I fought for a breath of air. I tore at decaying flesh.”
5) p. 96 “We took out our spoons and ate the snow off our neighbors’ backs. A mouthful of bread and a spoonful of snow.”
6) p. 99 “Twenty corpses were thrown from our wagon. Then the train resumed its journey leaving in its wake…hundreds of naked orphans without a tomb.”
7) p. 100 “A worker took a piece of bread …and threw it into the wagon. There was a stampede. Dozens of starving men fought desperately over a few crumbs.”
8) p. 106 “I fought my way to the coffee cauldron like a wild beast.”
9) p. 107 “I gave him [Elie’s father] what was left of my soup. But my heart was heavy. I was aware that I was doing it grudgingly.”
10) p. 111 “ ‘Eliezer’, continued my father…I didn’t move. I was afraid, my body was afraid of another blow, this time to my head.”
11) p. 112 “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!”
Entry # 2 Katherine Henri
Some examples where Elie is becoming immune to the horrors of the concentration camp are as follows: 1) p.77 -Elie experiences more grueling days in the concentration camp, Such as more lashings, and crushing work. 2) p.78 -Elie got injured and went to the infirmary and even forgot that people slept in sheets. 3) p. 80 - Elie no longer believes that the Red Army was coming to save them, to him it was just a rumor. 4) p. 82 -Elie ran from the infirmary with his injured foot, although feeling no pain nor cold. 5) p. As Elie ran with thousands of others as ordered by the guards, he felt like a machine feeling no pain, only death. 6) p. 99 -Elie hardly noticed that there were about twenty corpses on the train with him. 7) p. 100 -Elie watches as hundreds of starving men fight over few crumbs.
Alexa Grecco p 77-115.
Elizer became immune to the horrors of the concentration camp on:
On page 77 Elie just seemed to observe the camp and at the end the season changed to winter.
On page 78 Elie started to get use to working in the snow and freezing. On Christmas an New Years they didnt work. Elie didnt seem to care about his foot getting cut off.
On page 83 Elie couldnt sleep because it was his last night in the ghetto and he still had hope that they would get out alive.
On page 85&86 Elie got out of the camp and was running and running until it was safe while other men were dropping to the ground his focus was to get somewhere and be safe. After a while he was use to running with no foot but he is also getting weaker and weaker.
On page 87 through 90 they arrive at a vacant village and rest there until they have the strength but Elie is warming up to traveling and is determined to get to his destination.
The next couple of pages still traveling and facing more problems .....
On Page 113 Elie stayed in Buchenwald until april.
On page 115 Elie and the others who made it are free people.
My life is similar to Eli's life in many ways.he has three siblings and I,too have three siblings. When the novel first began he was thirteen years old and I, too am thirteen.Eli family was deeply religious and my family is deeply roooted in the Roman Catholic faith.The only thing that seperates us (besides race,gender,and religion) is that he was a witness to and experience the most terrible genocide in world history
Ashley Rios
Make a list of specific moments where it seems Elie is becoming immune to the horrific nature of the concentration camps.
p. 86- I don’t believe he was finished off by an SS officer, for nobody had noticed. He must have died trampled under the feet of the thousands of men who followed us. I soon forgot him.
p. 88-89- Beneath our feet lay crumpled men, crushed, trampled underfoot, dying. Nobody paid attention.
p.89- Nobody asked anyone for help. One died because one had to. No point in making trouble.
p. 94- All I can say is I prevailed. I succeeded in digging a wall through that hole of dead and dying people, a small hole through which I could drink little air.
p.96- Several SS men rushed to find me, creating such confusion that a number of people were able to switch over to the right- among them my father and I. Still there were gunshots and some dead.
p. 100- We were nothing but frozen bodies. Our eyes closed, we merely waited for the next stop, to unload our dead.
p. 101- But the other threw himself on him. The old man mumbled something and died. Nobody cared.
p. 101-102- Two men had been watching him. They jumped him. Others joined in. When they withdrew, there were two dead bodies next to me, the father and the son.
p.103- Suddenly, a cry arose in the wagon, the cry of a wounded animal. Someone had just died.
p.112- 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!
Ashley Rios
Make a list of specific moments where it seems Elie is becoming immune to the horrific nature of the concentration camps.
p. 86- I don’t believe he was finished off by an SS officer, for nobody had noticed. He must have died trampled under the feet of the thousands of men who followed us. I soon forgot him.
p. 88-89- Beneath our feet lay crumpled men, crushed, trampled underfoot, dying. Nobody paid attention.
p.89- Nobody asked anyone for help. One died because one had to. No point in making trouble.
p. 94- All I can say is I prevailed. I succeeded in digging a wall through that hole of dead and dying people, a small hole through which I could drink little air.
p.96- Several SS men rushed to find me, creating such confusion that a number of people were able to switch over to the right- among them my father and I. Still there were gunshots and some dead.
p. 100- We were nothing but frozen bodies. Our eyes closed, we merely waited for the next stop, to unload our dead.
p. 101- But the other threw himself on him. The old man mumbled something and died. Nobody cared.
p. 101-102- Two men had been watching him. They jumped him. Others joined in. When they withdrew, there were two dead bodies next to me, the father and the son.
p.103- Suddenly, a cry arose in the wagon, the cry of a wounded animal. Someone had just died.
p.112- 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!
Nicole Sammon
1. Elie got used to the ice cold stones touching his hand. pg 78
2. Elie decided to evacuate the camp even with his injured foot. pg 82
3. When the SS made them increase their march pace, Elie was not mad because he knew it would make him warmer. pg 85
4. Elie would not fall asleep in the shed because he knew that death would be a possibilty. pg 89, 90
In the story it seems Elie is becoming immune to the horrors of the concentration camp because of the following:
pg.82 One example is that instead of thinking about dying Elie is worried about being separated from his father. "As for me, I was thinking not about death but about not wanting to be separated from my father."
pg.86 The idea of dying begins to fascinate Elie. He becomes used to people dying around him.
pg.87 Elie said, "we had transended everything-death, fatigue, our natural needs. We are stronger than cold and hunger, stronger than the guns and the desire to die..." This shows that Elie was immune to the horrors because it says how he was not affected by those things, he could survive them all.
pg.87 Elie said, "we exceeded the limitations of fatigue." This statement expressed that he could not get any more tired.
pg.98 Elie began to feel it didn't matter when he died. Elie said
"died today, or tommorrow, or later."
pg.104 When Elie saw the tall crematorium he had no emotions about it. He said,"It no longer impressed us. It barely drew our attention."
My life is similar to Elie Wiesel because I as well as Elie have to help out with chores around the house. What is different is that he helps out in his family's shop. What is also different between our lives is Elie has three siblings and I am an only child. Something that is also similar between Elie and I is that he and his family are very religoius and study Kabbala. My family and I are also religious, but we are Catholic.
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