"Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies."
~ Elie WieselI think that everyone in the world should read this memoir.
Why? Do you agree? Is there any adult who should not read it?
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Imagine life before the WW1... what did life centre around? After World War One?
Why did the whole world change after World War Two?
What does the holocaust represent?
Why does Elie still assert that indifference is more significant than evil?
Why is evil a problem?
Why should we never forget? Why is "memory where our redemption is?"
Watch: http://www.ushmm.org/remembrance/dor/video/?content=whyweremember
Born September 30, 1928, Eliezer Wiesel led a life representative of many Jewish children. Growing up in a small village in Romania, his world revolved around family, religious study, community and God. Yet his family, community and his innocent faith were destroyed upon the deportation of his village in 1944. Arguably the most powerful and renowned passage in Holocaust literature, his first book, Night, records the horrific experience of the Jews:
Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed.Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky. Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever.Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust.Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never.
How does Night relate to the Character Project?
What traits did/does Elie possess?
Your composition topics. DUE: Monday, the 30th.
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