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Reflection Questions #152-156

152. Why do you think Elie Wiesel wrote this book?
I believe that Elie Wiesel wrote this book for many reasons. Throughout his story, he mentions people who have had these experiences and when they once tell their story, others wouldn’t believe him. This book is meant to people who would not believe in this terrible episode of their time. I think that another reason why Wiesel might have written this book is to inform, as well as to narrate. He writes about every fact of the life in concentration camps, but with this goes his own words of description that have too been through his eyes. Importantly, it is to give a message to the people, that this is an awful thing to do to the human race.

153. Why do you think he chose Night as its title?
Wiesel chose Night as its title because it is this time, where every scene becomes real to Elie. As he closes his eyes, every moment he has gone through comes to his mind. Moments that he has gone through each day. It is also the point where not even at this time of day, everything still runs. Like the crematories, they run day and night. Wiesel can retell everything in Night.

154. How does Elie change as a result of his experiences in the concentration camps? Elie has deep changes as a result of his experiences in the concentration camps. The first heavy change on him was his belief in God. In every cruel thing that was done to the very good people and children, there was no sign of God’s love. God, who he thought was all powerful, wasn’t there to stop the people from killing the children. Where there was suppose to be His world of peace, there wasn’t. Instead there was one of cruelty and hell. Another change happened within him. He had nothing more to live for. Elie felt very hollow from the inside. A part of him was dead.

155. How does Elie finally come to terms with his ordeal? (What does he finally do?) Elie finally comes to terms with his ordeal. When he is liberated he decides to keep on living like the rest would. He doesn’t think about anything else other than what he has been through. He will keep on living with hollowness in him. This is also done by not feeling any sign of revenge towards the people who tortured his family. Elie thinks only about gaining strength that he had lost during these years.

156. Give examples of issues in Night that still arise today and what do you think should be done about Genocide? Examples of issues in Night that still arise to this day are that of Genocide. One example would be the fact that millions of people were killed depending on their ethnicity. Gypsies, Poles, Jews were among these people. They are placed in camps were there are stages to follow. There are many strategies available to kill these hundreds of people. Today, Genocide is still present in many countries. I think that everyone should start taking action. First of all, I think that countries that are free from Genocide should strongly join together so that we may help these people. Countries can help these victims out secretly. A plan should start to be used. If not, more and millions of people are going to die. It will include men, women, and children at a young age who don’t even deserve this type of maltreatment.

The Diary of Anne Frank

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1) The families must obey strict rules to avoid discovery. Which rules would be the hardest for you to follow? Why? One of the rules is the hardest for me to follow. That rule is to remain without food until about six in the evening, when all the workers are gone. I believe that this is the hardest rule for me to follow because my body is not used to this schedule that I now have to live with. I used to be a normal person and as part of my daily life, I can assume that I eat breakfast in the morning and lunch in the afternoon. Again, it would be the hardest because I would starve for about ten hours each day for two years.

2) (A.) In scene 1, what objects does Mr. Frank find in the secret rooms? In scene 1, Mr. Frank finds two objects in the secret rooms. The first object he finds is a many colored scarf. The second object that he finds is a white woman’s glove.

(B.) How are these objects connected with the rest of the act? These objects are connected with the rest of the act. In Hanukkah, Mr. Frank was given a present, that present was made by Anne, his daughter. The present was exactly, a many-colored scarf that she had sewn for him. The second object is related to the act because it is one garment that Anne wore when she visited Peter. That was one of the white gloves she had left behind.

3. (A.) What special meaning does Hanukkah have for the families?
Hanukkah had special meaning to many families. The meaning of Hanukkah was of giving thanks for every “blessing” they have had. It was a time for giving away presents. It was also a time of having a feast, spending the time together with all the family united, and a time of singing with jubilation.

(B.) What do Anne’s presents show about her?
Presents made and given by Anne show much about her. One thing that it shows is how much motivation or spirit she has. Even though her presents were mostly already used, she wouldn’t mind, and would mostly care to recreate what was left. In other words, she cared for how much this was worth, then how much it wasn’t. She just wanted for everyone to become glad or hopeful like her.

(C.) Why do the others react with enthusiasm to their presents?
The others react with enthusiasm to their presents. They react this way because what they all mostly get is something already used, but created in a new different way by Anne. I think that another reason why they reacted like this because they weren’t expecting such thing from her in those times.

(A.) With a partner discuss Mr. Frank’s statement, “There are …no locks that anyone can put on your mind.” I think that his statement of how there are no lock that anyone can put on your mind is being referred to his daughter Anne. It exactly describes her. Throughout the time that they were in there, Anne was always opened minded. She created ideas of her own, and acted freely upon the situation that they were in.
(A.) What is the historical cause that forces the Franks to go into hiding? The historical cause that forces the Franks to go into hiding was the Holocaust. It was about a six year period in which Jews were exterminated.

(B.) What effects does this situation have on their daily lives? This situation has many effects in their daily lives. For one, it intervenes with their communication with others. When they go in hiding, they must not be seen or heard, or else someone can tell on them and be persecuted. A second effect is the fact that it changed the way they were being supported. They lived in a small place with two floors, and shared many things. Another effect that it had on their daily lives applies to their own personal needs. For example, they no longer counted on much food. They were to share, and eat equally. Also, they did not have privacy, nor they could use the washrooms until they were told to.

In scene 2, Anne and Peter discuss the Stars of David on their clothes.
(A.) What effects do the Nazis intend the wearing of the stars to have on the Jews? There are effects that the Nazis intend the wearing of the stars to have on Jews. The effect was to make them feel inhuman. They wanted to terrorize them, make them prisoners of their own.

(B.) What background information about the war and the Nazi’s treatment of the Jews helps you to link this cause with the intended effects? The background information that helps me link this cause with the intended effects was that they would take them to reservation camps, Food wasn’t given to the hungry, and they starved. As for others, they made their way through working. Sometimes they would clean streets and perform other kinds of labor.

Complete an organizer like the one shown with examples of dialogue that achieve each purpose.
Reveals character and relationships
While sleeping, Anne is having a terrible dream. She only wants to speak to her father. Her dream was about the police taking her.
Mrs. Frank would you like some water? Was it a very bad dream? Perhaps if you told me…?
Anne- I’d rather not talk about it.
Anne- Will you please ask father to come.

Advances the action of the plot (Mrs. Frank- You are safe you see? Nothing has happened. Please Mr. Dussel, go back to bed. She’ll be herself in a minute or two. Won’t you Anne?
Mr. Dussel- Thank you but I’m going to the w.c. The one place where there is peace!
Here the conversation rises in between the Franks and Dussel.

Develops the conflict: Anne’s nightmare became true





8. After Mr. Kraler asks if Jan Dussel can join the Franks and the Van Daans in hiding, what does the dialogue among the characters reveal about their personalities? The Franks in their dialogue show a little more caring and importance than what Mr. Van Daan shows. In their dialogue, the Franks welcome Jan Dussel and greet him very nicely, but they care because they talk about how dangerous it would be for him to stay out and be caught. On the other hand, Mr. Van Daan shows more of a rejection. He does not want to take him in. The first reason was because there was already enough people in the place. Second, that meant less food for them each. They now had to share equally.


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What do you like best about Anne Frank? How would you like having her as a friend? The thing that I like about Anne Frank is her open mind and positive thinking. She does not let anything bring her or other down. She deeply cares, and through rough times she hopes for the best for her and anyone else too. I think that I would like having her as a friend. The reason why is because I believe that she is friendly, and would hear you when you need it.

(A.) What disturbing news does Mr. Kraler bring on New Year’s Day? On New Year’s Day Mr. Kraler brought bad news. The bad news was that a man from Utrecht had made some suspicious remarks over to where Mr. Frank was. He had asked Mr. Kraler where Mr. Frank was, but Kraler did not tell him anything else. The man had seen his books case, and a missing door in the room. These were clues that revealed more facts and raised his suspicion. He had now asked for more money, and Kraler wasn’t sure if he could do that fearing that he might say something to others.
(B.)What hint does this give about the ending of the play? This might point out to how and why the men came to take them away in the ending. It hints out that there might be another conflict coming up in the story just like it did in the end.

(A.) What is the time span of Act II?
The time span of Act II is about nine months.
(B.)How have the characters changed since the end of Act I?
Since the end of Act I the characters have changed much. Ever since living together, frustration has grown in them. For example, the Van Daans were more violent as well as their arguments. Even Anne felt a change in herself. Her mother did too, and for now they do not comprehend each other.
(C.)How do you know that Anne changed?
I know that Anne changed because states that she has something changing inside of her, like as of feeling. I believe that what she feeling is because throughout the act, she’s been visiting Peter.

(A.) How can Anne believe that “…in spite of everything…people are really good at heart?” I think that Anne can believe that in spite of everything people are really good at heart because it is how they chose their ways of living not of which they really are. Maybe she may believe that once there was a point in their lives that they decided to become another person for various reasons.
(B.)What does Mr. Frank mean when he says: “She puts me to shame”? Mr. Frank means that he is shamed of himself. Even a younger person like Anne was more hopeful than him. She took things more calmly, but with certain hope. She appeared sometimes not scared of what would happen, and Mr. Frank did.
(A.)Mr. Van Daan’s decision to steal food
Cause: there was a shortage of food, and there were eight people of whom very little of food was given to; he did not want to share.
Effect: other members of the place got very angry; he was being forced to leave along with his family
(B.)Mrs. Frank’s change of heart about wanting the Van Daans to leave
Cause: Mr. Van Daan seem to appear that he did not care for the others or his own son who really had grown smaller because of the lack of food, but she changed her mind because they had gotten news that stated that they were going to be soon liberated. It made her so happy it overpowered the feeling of being furious
Effect: Both families were reunited again

What are some possible causes of Mrs. Van Daan’s attitude toward Anne and Peter’s relationship? Mrs. Van Daan’s attitude toward Anne and Peter’s relationship was a little protective. I think that some of the possible causes for her attitude being like this is because Anne would go to Peter’s room. She disagreed, she believed it was the boy who had to go and call the girl, not a girl on a boy. She was also concerned of Peter and his growth, when Anne visited she did not want her to stay late. This was because Peter was to rest. Also, another possible cause for this was that Mrs. Van Daan thought that they were doing something else besides talking, because in her days that wasn’t what they named “talking.”

Living in close quarters has multiple effects on the residents of the “Secret Annex.” List three effects that result from this single cause
One effect in the residents from living in the close quarters was that they could not get their own food; one of them who were hiding them had to provide them with it, and each time their bodies would come along and change too. A second effect was how some members changed their ways of being. For example, Anne changed by the way how she felt towards Peter. The third effect was problems among two people. One example would refer to Mr. Van Daan and Mrs. Frank, or Mrs. Frank and her daughter Anne.

Miep- Action: Brings flowers and cake to the attic room Motivation: it was a time of celebration and she at least wanted to make the families happy in those hard times
Mr. Van Daan- Action: Steals food Motivation: There is a shortage of food, and he does not want to share, he wants to take more before he starves
Peter Van Daan- Becomes friends with Anne Motivation: He no longer has his cat, and he needs to talk to someone, Anne convinces him by sharing some of her own experience

Some possible motivations that an informer would have for telling the authorities about the families hiding are because:
· He might have thought that turning them in was being able to make money
· Have future problems
· Have someone else tell them, and the accusation might involve the informer

Fifty Things I know about The Holocaust

1. One thing that I know about the holocaust was were its name came from and its meaning.


2. A little before jews were taken, people would hide their jewelry in a pice of bread and then it. They did not want anyone else of their possesion.


3. The people were killed in ways such as breathing in poison gas.


4. Adolf Hitler was the commander of every force in charge of killing. He was the cause of many destroyed lives.


5. I know that Death marches were named when the camp prisoners were moved by the S S to another pleace.


6. The word Ghetto was derived from this horrifying event.



7. Bodies were sometimes piled in various streets.



8. Childern of any age were given the job of cleaning the streets, to sweep them, and hand clean them with a rag while everyone was watching.



9. More than twenty thousand camps were put up to pile the people inside.



10. The kind of people killed were not only jews, among them were communists, Jehova's Witnesses, homosexuals, and gyptians.

11. Many prisoners died of maltreatment, starvation, and disease.

12. Twins would be used in mediacal examintations, sometimes leaving them with wounds, or killing them. Other kinds of children were used too not only for this reason.

13. Children were used with other labor jobs.

14. Extermination camps were given names. One of these were Chelmno, which opened in the year of 1941 not long ago in the month of December.

15. About six thousand would be killed in gas chambers each day.

16. The jewish star stands for the star of David, it was sewn into a prisoner's uniform.

17. A prisoner was indetentified with a marking on them. A political criminal would have a red marked traingle. A criminal would have a green marked triangle.

18. The word POW stands for Soviet prisoners of War.

19. Ghettos were areas that sorrounded and separated the prisoners.

20. Holocaust lasted six years.

21. Germany invaded both Poland and the Soviet Union.

22. Operations were like plans of how to kill the Jews. For example, there was an operation called Operation Reinhard , and it consisted of three places in it to kill them.
24. Auschwitz was the largest concentration camp compared to any other kind.
25. Women imprisoned who were pregnant were forced to abort thier child.
26. Sometimes, the prisoners would help and hide a child and help it to survive.
27. The Nazis did not want to get caught, and in order to hide all evidence they would tear the camps apart and burn other such things. For example, they did this whhen the Soviets arrived at one of the established camps.
28. It wasn't until they, the Soviets, came and released prisoners.
29. One famous known prisoner was Anne Frank, who as days passed wrote in her diary about what happened throughout.
30. What the Soviet found as evidence that something had happened was 800,000 women's outfits, wide quantities of men suits, and to about 14,000 pounds of human hair!
31. Concentration camps were places were the people were in forced labor, or any other way of torture, extermination camps were the places were these millions of people were finally killed.
32. Only one third out of the whole Jew population survived.
33. The word Progrom comes from the Russian meaning to demolish violenty.

34. Both women and girls were raped in the camps, sometimes, in return for food and other materials.

35. Besides twins, women were also used in medical experiment. The difference was though that this experimentwas for sterilization.

36. In January 1933, Germany was taken over by Germany.

37. In 1945, Jews migrated from Germany to Austria.

38. Children who were disabled were about 5,000.

39. The Jews and Romani were taken to extermination camps by riding in a freight train.

40. The word Holocaust has now become a translation of "Shoah".

41. It did not matter if you were not a Jew, if any had Jew past ancestry they would be considered to extermination.

42. Germany pharmaceuticals also made experiments with the prisoners by using their drugs, not just operations.

43. Experiments consisted of the most notorious things, such as amputation, freezing bodies, and putting chemicals in a child's eye to change the color would be conducted by Dr.Josef Mengele.

44. Adolf Hitler gave a warning by writing a book, but he never mentioned of any killing awaiting for them.

45. Jews in particular were barred from everything, boh school and jobs.

46. In 1935, German Jews were no longer citizens from the fact that Adolf Hitler passed the Nuremberg Laws.

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Hansel and Gretel

I have spent the most horrible days of my life not long ago. It has only been one year now, when the worst has happened to my family. Today, like my brother Hansel says, we give well thanks to God for having this food.

It all began last year; my father was a wood-cutter. I lived in a very poor house. In it were my brother and my stepmother too. I always thought she was very helpful and considerate. But it all changed with just simple path down to the deep of the forest. It was one night that Hansel and I were terribly hungry. We could not sleep for all we knew. When I heard my step-mother telling my father something. Hansel was listening real closely.

We were going to be left all alone in the middle of a dark forest. How terrible. How lucky to have my older brother by my side. He went outside and I looked out through the window. Hansel picked up many white pebbles. They seemed to shine in the night. Right away I knew what we had a plan. “Be comforted, dear little sister, and sleep in peace, God will not forsake us” he said. His words did comfort me.

It was our first trip to the forest. Hansel kept on making his path. When we finally stopped, my father and mother went on ahead to “find wood”. But we knew where they were really heading. Hansel and I were tired, and so we went straight to take a nap. Later when we woke up I saw the dark surrounding. I was afraid that something out there would hurt me.

I woke my brother up, and we headed back home. The same thing happened all over again. Soon, our nightmare became true. Hansel’s plan did not work. We were lost. On the third morning we got to a candy house. I starved and grabbed anything I could to eat. I dropped everything when an old lady came out. But she was no threat. At least that’s what I thought. We lived happy, not until she told me she was going to kill my brother and locked him in a cage. I tricked her when she asked me to go in the oven. With all my power I pushed her in, and quickly locked the little door. Then, crying, I went over to my brother and got him out.

One nice duck took me and Hansel back to our home. Unfortunately, my evil stepmother died. My father took us both in. Now he did not have to starve. We had all we ever wanted. To this day I can vividly feel and imagine everything. My brother is the same, but he tells me to forget about it. Its best for me.

"Adam's Diary"

Friday: I wake up, and I found myself surrounded by an amazing place. I do not know what all these things are, what they are called, a color, how to describe them.








Saturday: What a tiring day. I've been walking all day in search for a place to rest. When all of a sudden I see something out of the corner of my eye. It looked at me with this face that resembled curiosity. I didn't know what that was, to stay safe, I went up what I called a tree, and I leaned to the side to see what it was. I did so, it was a woman. A she. I did not know what she wanted, or who she even was. I got surprised to see that she stayed all day to, stare at me.



Sunday: She is still there. Is she looking for me, waiting for me, or does she even know me? I do not know what to do with her. But instead, I try to climb down, and plan something for the day. I will try to see how to gather something to eat. Well, on second thought, there's nothing to do.



Monday-Saturday: She talks too much. Very curios is what I think. She can't avoid any subject. Her name is Eve. But she has helped in many ways. She has taught me color names, and object names, and many more things. i felt that she was superior to me. Soon as I started to learn more, I realized one thing. She was naked. I clearly told her that, that is what she looked like. I thought, that to be respectful, I should just look away and not look at her body.

During the next few days, I did not talk to her. Perhaps, I needed time to think. I tried to avoid her. But one thing I did do was glance at her. I would look at her when she wasn't looking. She went to sit by herself. I thought she was beautiful. I knew that, but questioned myself if what I was feeling, she felt too. later on, i changed my mind, and starting acting normal.

One of the most incredible things has happened today. I saw fire. It was the color yellow, and red, and orange. Eve made it. I wish I can soon learn how to make one. Though, it gives of a feel of heat.

40 Years Later:
Here I am. With tears coming down my cheeks. They are only coming down for Eve. I'm standing at her grave. I knew that she was off, to a better place.

Fable

Once upon a time, in the talls trees of a jungle was a little monkey. The creature was eating real happy. As if he was the king, and everything there was his. He always thought he knew everything. One day, he saw that two men were walking around curiously. His pride took over, and he though he was strong enough to not let anyone help him take these "intruders" out. The rest of the kingdom backed out. In the end, the two men had overpowered him and locked him in a cage. Who knows were they took the little monkey.

It was just not all about him. Pride, is not always a good thing.