Quotes

Religion
pg 76 its over. God is no longer with us.
pg 77 in 3 days, I will be gone. Say Kaddish for me.
pg 112 No prayers were said over his tomb.
Pg 91 A prayer formed inside to a God in whom I no longer believed.
pg 77 He opened the door to death. Akiba Drumer.

Silence
pg 89 Death which was settling in all around us, silently.
pg 95 Never had I heard such a beautiful sound in silence.
pg 104 I myself was so weary hat his silence left him indifferent.
pg 111 All around me, there was silence now, broken only by moaning.

Inhumanity
pg 70 All night we slept almost naked and the temp was almost -30
pg 99 Outside ss walked around shouting, to throw out all the dead, outside all the corpses.
pg 77 We received more blows than food.
pg 89 I was walking through the cemetery among stiffen corpses.
pg 85 Faster you filthy dogs.

Father Son Relationship
pg 86 My father's presence was the only thing that stopped me... what would he do without me?
pg 113 Since my father's death nothing mattered to me anymore.
pg 70 My father, I just thought of him now. How would he pass the selection.
pg 111 My father groaned once more. I heard Eliezer.
pg 106 Father, I have been looking for you for so long. How are you feeling?
pg 112...Searching my feeble conscious, I might have found something like free at last.
pg 82 I made up my mind. I would accompany my father wherever we went.
pg 104 Father, Father...get up right now.
pg 89 Don't worry son go to sleep I'll watch over you.

Class List of Themes

• No matter how hard life gets, just get going.
• The human race is capable of horrors beyond belief.
• Live your to the fullest, because you never know what might happen next.
• Humans are capable of inhuman acts.
• Many possessions can be removed from us but relationships are lasting.
• Don't judge people on their religion or where they come from, because it only leads to bad things.
• Even if you don't like someone still respect them.
• We can learn from historical events such as the Holocaust.
• Value the simple things in life.
• You never know how strong we are, until we are put into a situation where we have to be strong.
• The human body can only take so much stress.
• Never complain about your life someone else has it worse than you.  
• Through rough times you rely on relationships to get you through.
• Life is short cherish it.
• Anything is possible.
• Keep your faith and hold strong even when it seems impossible.
• Those that only to the past and present are certain to miss the future.
• Never give up on life.

Themes

#1  What is one things you have learned after reading this novel? What messages has Elie communicated to you?

One thing that I learned reading this book is how the Holocaust removed the will to live of so many people. As well as their souls. 

" from the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me."
"The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me."

#2  If Elie were to give advice to the St. Thomas More community on how to live your life today, what do you think he would say? 

I believe that Elie would tell us that we should never forget this. We must never forget what the Germans did and what the Jews had to go through. He would tell us not to hate, it is alright to dislike but never alright to hate. Hate leads to aweful things, things that we all regret. 

WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

1. The man should be killed because if he wants to die anyways. Why kill the 400 people that could be saved and maybe even liberated one day. The man will die no matter what, just save some people.

2.  No, because the mother will not wish to live anymore because of the death of her baby. The deaths will happen anyways at least let the mother die with her son or daughter.

3. Yes, the father should escape as quickly as possible and then return with help and then liberate the camp saving his son.

Chapter 3

The Nazi dehumanized the Jews by making them stand naked, shaving all of their hair, the put them in cattle cars to transport them. There were no bathroom. They were branded as if the were cattle. They were jammed into small living conditions, like chickens in a coop. They were forced to do tough manual labor, and were killed if they refused.

CLASS CONCENTRATION CAMP:

• Smelled like death
• Crossroads in the center of the camp-selection process
• Dr. Mengele
• SS officers every few yards
• Babies were being burned in a ditch
• Second barracks were 2 stories of cement 
• Sign "Work Makes You Free"
• Smoke coming from the crematoriums

NIGHT = DARKNESS BLANKETED HIS LIFE 

CLASS LIST OF DEHUMANIZATION

• Forced to remove clothing
• Beaten
• Brand the number on their arms
• Transfered in cattle cars 
• Stuffed in barracks
• Shaving heads 
• Taking valuables 
• Unfitting clothing
• Little to no food

STEIN OF ANTWERP

• Elie lies to Stein to give him the will to live because his family knows he is alive.
• Stein disappeared after he was given the real news.