Summary Of ' The Night Of The Curtain '

In the memoir, Night by Elie Wiesel begins in his hometown, Transylvania. He was living life as a normal boy. Slowly everything began to change when his teacher, Moshe the Beadle was deported. Moshe returns and tells the towns people what had happened to him, the German police had took over the train they were in and lead them into the woods to murder them, but no one believed him. Soon after the Jews from Elie’s town were forced to move out of their homes and into ghettos. They were then forced onto cattle cars and shipped to concentration camps.

“Of course they’re not alright you dolt. Why do you think they’re crying? They probably don’t want some nosy neighbor butting in on their buisness” He hears the crying stop. “Umm I mean. Sorry, I shouldn’t have said anything.” He shoves his face into his pillow. He hears a shaky voice from the other side of the wall. “Who are you?” says a voice Charlie would guess is male. He lifts his head up. “I’m your new neighbor the names Charlie, but I usuallyy go by Char.” The voice from the other side of the wall seemed to brighten. “Like from the book Ella Enchanted?” Char smiled. “Yeah. Hey, you know your the first one to get that?” There were a few moments of silence. “Really? Thats my favorite book. My mom always made fun of me because i was constantly rereading it. It just gave me hope that someday I could find a prince like that.” His voice cracked and I could hear him start to cry again. “Please don’t cry. Just tell me whats wrong and i’ll try to

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.

Even being surrounded by unfamiliarly, the ladies felt at home in this quaint but spacious hut. The old crone like voice spoke again, asking the girls to stay for tea. The girls entertained the idea and sat at the small table where the tea was already placed, even though they could have sworn it wasn't that way a few seconds ago. A few moments later a cat with indigo eyes jumped on Ygritte's lap, nudging its head against her. The cat then jumped on the table and moves over to Beckah, giving her the same treatment as Ygritte. The girls notice a young woman descending through a hatch from the upper portion of the hut. The youthful women inquired why the girls were visiting her

Of all the events that happened during World War 2, the Holocaust is arguably one of the most horrific and disgusting events. The Holocaust is a policy created by Adolf Hitler to extinguish the Jewish race by putting them though concentration camps and extermination camps. Overall, it killed 11 million people including 1.1 million children. Those who survived were lucky, and Elie Wiesel was one of them. His story “Night” is successful in capturing the events that happened in the author’s life and translating them into text for the reader to see.

The first book that I chose to read this summer was Night by Elie Wiesel. This self-biography is about Wiesel’s devastating experiences and memories of the Holocaust. Originally from Sighet, a little town in Transylvania, Wiesel was thirteen when the events caused by the nazis began to reach his town: destructions of synagogues, being forced to wear the Star of David on all of his clothing, being shunned by the non- Jews in his town, etc. By the time he was fifteen, Wiesel and his family were forced on to trains leading them to their lethal fates, the concentration camps. He was separated from his mother and sister, leaving him with only his father; soon they were sent to Auschwitz. The nazis continuously deprived Wiesel and the rest of the

Night, first of all, was a very tear-jerking story. From beginning to end Eliezer never really caught a break. Before being herded like sheep, Eliezer had a very strong bond with his father and humanity. However, during his time spent in the concentration camps, Eliezer witnessed countless acts of selfishness, such as the other prisoners stealing the food of his dying father. Sons even beat their fathers for food; for example, on the train to Buchenwald, a son beats his father to death so he can have bread crust. In addition, Eliezer himself even has occasional second thoughts about giving his father food, thinking about his own survival over his father. Moreover, the Jews, treated like animals, begin to act like animals; they silence a woman by beating in her. Even though this woman foreshadows what is to come: pain, suffering, and death, the Jews dismiss what she says, call her crazy, and beat her. It was in this scene where I

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

It was just a late night for Catherine, also known as Kitty, returning home from work around 3am. She parked her car and proceeded to walk to her apartment, about 100 feet away, in a quiet upper middle-class neighborhood. Less than a block away she was then grabbed by a strange man, "Oh, my God, he stabbed me! Please help me! Please help me!” She screamed. A light turned on in a nearby apartment and a voiced replied, "Let that girl alone!” Then the lights went out, the attacker walked away, Kitty was

What’s wrong? A bark of laughter echoed in the quiet, slightly pathetic in the way that it had hiccuped out of her. The smile on her face somewhat rueful despite how weighted it was with sadness. Before she could answer him, she needed to make sure that she couldn’t see his eyes -- couldn’t be able to see their slow drift from tenderness into something much more damning. So she gently released his hand and settled her arms on his lap, creating a self-made pillow to rest her

Yesterday, while in her care the beloved cat, Doodle Dee, had escaped. Consequently, 14 years old Olivia is terrified to tell her grandma about this absolute tragedy. She hates confrontations of any kind and the loss of the cat was bound to bring a serious one with her hot-tempered Grandma. Olivia is an extremely shy teenager. Her trademark clothing says a lot about her: long black skirt, sneakers, and a leather jacket as to not to be noticed and, most of the time wears sunglasses. In addtion, she spends most of her time in her room alone on her iPad.

“Rose, come up for dinner!” I heard my mom shout from upstairs in the dining hall. I headed up stairs, but I thought that I saw my kitten on the

In “Stain”, Naomi Shihab Nye uses simple and straightforward symbolism and a paradox to help the reader comprehend her home and the Middle East as a whole is not as bad as people think, in the wake of September 11, 2001. Naomi Shihab Nye enforces the use of symbolism in simple, everyday objects to assist the reader comprehend the difference in time before and after the events on september 11, 2001. She writes about a memory of her grandmother and how peaceful the time was,and then compares it to the effects 9/11 had on her home. “She stood outside by the lemon tree.

In 1987 President Ronald Reagan gave an introspective speech in front of the Brandenburg gate in Berlin. That said speech is known to us as “Remarks at the Brandenburg Gate”. When Reagan gave this speech he was toward the end of his political career, he had served two terms as president of the United States, and was well-known for his role as a gifted mediator and peacemaker. It was also during the Cold war between the United States and the Soviet Union. To the west of Berlin was the free democratic countries of Western Europe. To the east was what was known as the iron curtain an area controlled by the soviet union and its allies. Inside the iron curtain freedoms were restricted and liberty denied.

Not far from the Plaid Curtain, at around three or four in the morning, on the 9th of July, Chandler the Fair and his section were approaching the last known coordinates of the Jericho Series plane that disappeared five months ago. Although it was almost a full moon at the time, some of them wielded flashlights, hoping that they could be able to see in those low light situations.