Night Chapter Summaries

In the year 1941, Lithuania was invaded and many Jewish families fled from Lithuania. Margarets family didn't leave because her brother Alik was at a children's holiday camp. Margaret was never sent to a camp, she lived in the ghetto. Margaret's description of the ghetto years as “dreadful”. The people were forced to do hard labour and were deprived of their food.

My book report is for A Night Divided by Jennifer A. Nielsen. I chose this book because it describes the life of a twelve year old girl during the Great Berlin Wall. This book is about a young girl named Greta who is separated from her father and brother because of the Berlin Wall. One day Greta gets a message from her father. She thinks he wants her to start digging a tunnel. Greta finds and old abandoned building where she starts digging. Greta and her brother Fritz work long, tireless, never-ending days digging. One day there was someone of the other side of the tunnel, it was Papa. Once the tunnel was completed they set through it, escaping the treacherous East side, to the colorful bright West.

In the book, A Night Divided, by Jennifer A. Nielsen, the word “freedom” means Gerta’s own life. Gerta was riveted to escape even if it means to take risks and put her life and her family’s life in danger. She wants to escape out of East Berlin and rejoin with the other half of her family(her papa and her brother Dominic). When she was trying to understand why her papa told her to go to the Welcome Building, she had to get close to the Berlin Wall which was more than dangerous. In the book, the author states, “I got as close to the Berlin Wall as I dared, but not because I was challenging the Grenzers, Just the opposite, in fact.

I have read the book called Darkness is my only Companion: A Christian response to Mental Illness by Kathryn Greene-McCreight. This book gave an in depth look into the mind of the someone suffering from a mental disorder and through the eyes of a christian, and not as a new christian but a Minister of the gospel. She takes the reader on a journey as she tries to answer the questions that many are too afraid too ask. Such as Why am I suffering? Did I do something wrong? Is God even there? The purpose of this paper is to examine Kathryn Greene-McCreight’s insight of her struggle with bipolar disorder and find places of improvement.

Only about 3,546,211 people survived the Holocaust. Adolf Hitler was the main leader of the Holocaust, he did this because of his discrimination of Jews. There were more than just Jews killed, there were gay people, priests, gypsies, people with mental or physical disabilities, communists, trade unionists, Jehovah’s Witnesses, anarchists, Poles and other Slavic peoples, and resistance fighters. The Holocaust happened between 1933 through 1945 in Germany and Poland. Night, is an autobiography written by Elie Wisel who was involved in the Holocaust. Auschwitz Death Camp, it is a video documentary of the death camp including Elie Wisel and Oprah Winfrey. The truth about the Holocaust to me is horrendous, all the torturing they had to go through

Ready Player One hits some of the same situations as in the holocaust or for the book that we read “Night” like taking people spread out over a good area and combining them into a small dense area. They both also touch on the topic of how when someone is killed or something is blown up now one raises an eyebrow or if they do no one does anything about it.

In the first few pages of Chapter Three, Kingsolver talks about heirloom vegetables and says “these titles stand for real stories.” What is meant by the title is heirloom plants give off seeds that end up being saved and used for many generations (112). Those seeds have history behind them; family stories that span over several years. For example, on page 144 Kingsolver talked about this heirloom seed exchange in Iowa where one of the founders’ grandfather left a pink tomato plant that his parents brought from Bavaria in the 1870s. The seeds are comparable to a family heirloom. Both get handed down from generation to generation and have a story of what the meaning of the object is and how it all got started.

No one likes being treated poorly. Throughout history, countless wars have been fought, whether they had a reason or not. Many people have suffered due to these wars. People have become POW’s (prisoners of war), have lost their homes because of the conflicts, and have even had to leave their homelands. Take this more relevant example in Syria, for example. Thousands of Syrians are leaving their households to escape the everlasting conflicts of war. Just like in history’s past wars, many civilians have been forced to leave their homes in order to stay safe. Modern and past wars seem to repeat themselves in a way. The theme of Elie Wiesel’s book Night is to show that through dehumanization, there is more silence, less faith, and an eternity of night.

With more people passed than survivors of the Holocaust, we rely on the survivors to give us insight on what the Holocaust was actually like. In the autobiography Night by Elie Wiesel, thousands of people learn true facts about what the torture and the pain was actually like for the ones who were unfortunate to suffer from this event in History. Elie gives specific and horrific examples of what he suffered and saw while he was at camp. Elie’s goal is to teach others the importance of human lives and why no human is replaceable and anyone is capable of doing anything. This book is highly recommended by myself, and many others such as: book reviewers, other authors, teachers, and students.

I went Into Elie Wiesel 's Night having read the book in various stages in my life. It seems to follow me through my schooling years. In junior high I read it in standard English class, just like any other book I would have read that year. In high school I read it for a project I was creating on World War II, looking at it from a more historical approach. Being a firsthand account of concentration camps made it a reliable source of historical information. But during previous times when I was reading, I never thought to take a look at it from a theological point of view. Doing so this time really opened my eyes to things and themes I hadn 't noticed during previous readings.

In Night by Elie Wiesel, he tells a story of him in the concentration camp ,in WW2, called Auschwitz. The story begins with Elie seeing how the Germans were losing the war and he thought he and his fellow jews would be safe. Instead, he notices the Germans start moving them and taking their things. Then they are shipped to the camp. In the end of the story they are liberated and saved from the camp they moved to. Throughout the story Elie’s relationships with his; father, God, and the SS change

“I am going to live. Mama and Papa are going to live. I am going to live to be with them. And if… if it happens to them-I am going to live for revenge,” (96). Gerda’s hope to see her family again was so strong that it was a major factor throughout her life during Hitler’s power. This hope gave Gerda the strength to continue through many hardships. “The first possibility that ran through my mind would be to go home. Perhaps Papa and Mama, perhaps Arthur… but I knew they would not be there,” (222).

Cassie Moses 8A #43 Ms. Coleman Language Arts 10/31/17 A Night Divided My truman book was A Night Divided by Jennifer A. Nielsen. In this story Gerta’s family is separated by the Berlin wall.

At the beginning of the novel there are a couple key of events. One being when “Big Tony” helped Michael Oher leave from the ghetto and move to Memphis, Tennessee to enroll into Briarcrest Christian School. Without “Big Tony” Michael would have never had been able to make it out and would have eventually dropped out of school or worse. That leading to the most important event so far, Sean Tuohy beginning to notice and help Michael. That moment changed everyone's lives as shortly after Michael became a part of the family. For the most part, this story takes place in the early 2000s between various places in Memphis, Tennessee. Honestly, the first two chapters had my attention on and off. Although, by the third chapter my interest spiked when

At this time, the Great War was turning around. Recognizing defeat, the German soldiers and local collaborators became even more vicious, stopping every vehicle, demanding money and food, searching for the partisans, killing any suspect without a reason. Nevertheless, due to the sheer luck or providence, they completed the perilous journey, and the family settled in the rented room on the outskirts of town.