it is a book called night by elie wiesel
2006-09-19 15:44:27 · 5 answers · asked by manifantastic 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Sorry, but if I was you I would tell your teacher that it is impossible for me to immerse myself in Elie Wiesel's life in a concentration camp!
This is an experience noone will ever be able to comprehend - all authors like the great Elie Wiesel, Primo Levi, etc. can do is give an idea of what it was like. An idea - not more! Auschwitz was like exceeding the Schwarzschildt-radius into a supermassive black hole - principles no longer exist. I guess you have no experience with being tortured, being told that you're not a human being, experiencing that you're not considered to be a human being, watching everyone die, seeing the black smoke rising from the crematories' chimneys, knowing it might be your relatives, your girlfriend, your wife, your children. You don't smell the rotting bodies - dead or alive. You probably never had to fear to be submitted to some absurd experiments, being shot wherever you are. For no reason, with no purpose but destroy you. You were already dead when you arrived there, they took everything: your home, your identity.... And then at the ramp, they say left or right and you didn't know what it meant but you'll soon learn... Simply, we have the power to let you live for a while but you'll die anyway .... you'll die here!
How could you possibly IMAGINE scenes with inmates or guards? There, of course, were conversations/scenes in Auschwitz... but how should you be able to INVENT them? It was hard enough for those who experienced it all to remember them! Many weren't even able to speak about it afterwards. There is an Israeli organisation for people who survived the Holocaust called AMCHA: http://www.amcha.org/indexEn.htm
People are still suffering and so are their children. Your teacher should invite Holocaust survivors, make you read more books about the Shoa, read Celan's Death Fugue, find an approach to the incomprehensible but not invent stories you will never have the ability to 'relive'. This is like giving the task to tell the teachings we can learn from the Holocaust! There are none. Auschwitz was for NO reason but humiliating and killing, every reason would give it a meaning... There was no meaning. None at all, except for those who established it - the Nazis that only wanted to humiliate and kill.
2006-09-20 10:50:31 · answer #1 · answered by msmiligan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are so lucky to get this assignment rather than an assignment to analyse Night and Wiesel's writing style and things of that nature. You just get to read the book and then delve into your imagination.
If you haven't read Night, you should. It is appalling and beautiful.
2006-09-19 23:57:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I am not really interested to do your work and besides I was not impressed with the book, nor am I interested what happened 65 years ago.We have more pressing things to think about. we're losing too many young people in the war against another so-called Hitler who slaughtered hundreds of thousand of people.
2006-09-19 23:36:10 · answer #3 · answered by Mightymo 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
im not going to help you because i dont want to do your homework for you, BUT that is a really good book, i hated it at first but when i finished i wanted more, very inspirational, theres alot of detail in it, i am interested by world wars, mainly world war II
2006-09-19 22:47:36 · answer #4 · answered by Michelangelo 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
do ur own homework... and read night... its a good book
2006-09-19 23:40:13 · answer #5 · answered by Dont get Infected 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋