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LadyMaravilla
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Night
Who has it now & how far you have you read? I read the preface & the introduction.
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Posted 2/2/06 1:42 PM |
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Elbee
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Re: Night
I'm about 1/2-3/4 through it.
The introduction and the preface alone was a lot to take in in one sitting. It's a very moving book.
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Posted 2/2/06 1:52 PM |
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LadyMaravilla
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Name: Sonia
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Re: Night
Posted by Elbee
I'm about 1/2-3/4 through it.
The introduction and the preface alone was a lot to take in in one sitting. It's a very moving book.
I know, I'm taking my time w/ it.
Did you ever read Viktor Frankel(sp)? That was so heart breaking!!
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Posted 2/2/06 1:57 PM |
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Shanti
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Re: Night
Posted by LadyLainez
Posted by Elbee
I'm about 1/2-3/4 through it.
The introduction and the preface alone was a lot to take in in one sitting. It's a very moving book.
I know, I'm taking my time w/ it.
Did you ever read Viktor Frankel(sp)? That was so heart breaking!!
Frankel made me cry.... and so did Night!
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Posted 2/2/06 2:14 PM |
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LadyMaravilla
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Re: Night
Posted by DMcK
Posted by LadyLainez
Posted by Elbee
I'm about 1/2-3/4 through it.
The introduction and the preface alone was a lot to take in in one sitting. It's a very moving book.
I know, I'm taking my time w/ it.
Did you ever read Viktor Frankel(sp)? That was so heart breaking!!
Frankel made me cry.... and so did Night!
I know me too!!!!!! It was bad...and I'm taking Night one step at a time.
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Posted 2/2/06 2:17 PM |
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dandj
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Re: Night
I'm intrigued... what is Night about?
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Posted 2/2/06 4:00 PM |
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sasha96
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Re: Night
I read it years ago and it is an amazing novel!
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Posted 2/3/06 7:42 AM |
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Elbee
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Re: Night
Posted by dandj
I'm intrigued... what is Night about?
In it's simpliest form, the author's experience of the Holocust and being in concentration camps.
The book is so profoundly written.
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Posted 2/3/06 9:54 AM |
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Elbee
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Re: Night
I finished it. I cannot get it out of my head.
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Posted 2/3/06 9:54 AM |
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LadyMaravilla
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Re: Night
Posted by Elbee
I finished it. I cannot get it out of my head.
Dh asked why I chose to read this books, and the only thing I can say is that so I don't forget that this happened. To appreciate my daily routine, the liberties that I am given every single day.
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Posted 2/3/06 10:00 AM |
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Elbee
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Re: Night
Slave laborers in Buchenwald are liberated by the American Army in April, 1945. They survived in spite of miserable conditions: overcrowding, lack of food, hard labor, and psychological torture.
Eli Weisel appears as the last full face on the second bunk from the bottom.
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Posted 2/3/06 10:01 AM |
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LadyMaravilla
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Re: Night
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Posted 2/3/06 1:48 PM |
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Redhead
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Re: Night
I bought it today...can't wait to start reading!
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Posted 2/4/06 3:55 PM |
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Palebride
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Re: Night
According to Weisel, the book was originally somewhere around 700 pages, but he cut it down to about 100 pages to make the experience of the book more striking. He wanted to create a book that someone could read in one sitting to get the full effect of the book.
He created a very powerful novel by doing that.
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Posted 2/4/06 4:06 PM |
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Redhead
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Re: Night
Actually i think it was his wife who did the new translation... As well as correcting and revising a few details
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Posted 2/4/06 6:55 PM |
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Redhead
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Re: Night
Posted by Elbee
Slave laborers in Buchenwald are liberated by the American Army in April, 1945. They survived in spite of miserable conditions: overcrowding, lack of food, hard labor, and psychological torture.
Eli Weisel appears as the last full face on the second bunk from the bottom. IMAGE
WOW, just finished the book this morning............seeing that is just sooo sureal. As much as i picture what it must of looked like, been like. That pic is just sooo different...
And in Buchenwald he was with the CHILDREN... Those people sooo like they are in their 50's....it is sooo sad what torture they went through
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Posted 2/5/06 3:25 PM |
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Bri
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Re: Night
I love this book- I read it when I took a Holocaust class during my second year of college- one of my favorite books ever.
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Posted 2/5/06 8:51 PM |
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Re: Night
Posted by Palebride
According to Weisel, the book was originally somewhere around 700 pages, but he cut it down to about 100 pages to make the experience of the book more striking. He wanted to create a book that someone could read in one sitting to get the full effect of the book.
He created a very powerful novel by doing that.
Yes, it was a very powerful novel. I read it ages ago & I still remember it so well. As distrubing as it was, I couldn't put it down.
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Posted 2/5/06 10:47 PM |
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Palebride
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Re: Night
Posted by tourist
Posted by Palebride
According to Weisel, the book was originally somewhere around 700 pages, but he cut it down to about 100 pages to make the experience of the book more striking. He wanted to create a book that someone could read in one sitting to get the full effect of the book.
He created a very powerful novel by doing that.
Yes, it was a very powerful novel. I read it ages ago & I still remember it so well. As distrubing as it was, I couldn't put it down.
I love teaching it in school, because there are some things that ALL students take seriously and are impacted by - and this book is one of them.
I just looked it up, and apparently, the book was originally 900 pages in French, in it's original state. He then cut it down to about 127 pages to make it more powerful. I believe the version Oprah has on her list was the lastest version - translated by his wife.
He is not only an amazing writer - but a truly powerful speaker as well. He came to speak when I was in college - and the entire audience was spellbound. What an honor to have been able to have met him!
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Posted 2/6/06 9:34 AM |
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Jessica
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Re: Night
I just read the book last night. It was so moving. It made me think how people could have done that to other people less than 100 years ago. The novel made me appreciate my life and freedom a lot more. Terrific writing.
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Posted 2/6/06 3:13 PM |
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Elbee
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Re: Night
Thought maybe some people would want to think about some of the questions the reading guide puts forth.
From http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides3/night1.asp
1. Compare Wiesel's preface to the memoir itself. Has his perspective shifted in any way over the years?
2. In his Nobel lecture, presented in 1986, Wiesel writes of the power of memory, including the notion that the memory of death can serve as a shield against death. He mentions several sources of injustice that reached a boiling point in the 1980s, such as Apartheid and the suppression of Lech Walesa, as well as fears that are still with us, such as terrorism and the threat of nuclear war. Will twenty-first-century society be marked by remembrance, or by forgetting?
3. How does the author characterize himself in Night? What does young Eliezer tell us about the town, community, and home that defined his childhood? How would you describe his storytelling tone?
4. Why doesn't anyone believe Moishe the Beadle? In what way did other citizens around the world share in Sighet's naïveté? Would you have heeded Moishe's warnings, or would his stories have seemed too atrocious to be true? Has modern journalism solved the problem of complacency, or are Cassandras more prevalent than ever?
5. As Eliezer's family and neighbors are confined to a large ghetto and then to a smaller, ghostlier one whose residents have already been deported, what do you learn about the process by which Hitler implemented doom? How are you affected by the uncertainty endured by Sighet's Jews on their prolonged journey to the concentration camps?
6. With the words "Women to the right!" Eliezer has a final glimpse of his mother and of his sister, Tzipora. His father later wonders whether he should have presented his son as a younger boy, so that Eliezer could have joined the women. What turning point is represented by that moment, when their family is split and the gravity of every choice is made clear?
7. At Birkenau, Eliezer considers ending his life by running into the electric fence. His father tells him to remember Mrs. Schächter, who had become delusional on the train. What might account for the fact that Eliezer and his father were able to keep their wits about them while others slipped into madness?
8. Eliezer observes the now-infamous inscription above the entrance to Auschwitz, equating work with liberty. How does that inscription come to embody the deceit and bitter irony of the Nazi camps? What was the "work" of the prisoners? Were any of the Auschwitz survivors ever liberated emotionally?
9. Eliezer's gold crown makes him a target for spurious bargaining, concluding in a lavatory with Franek, the foreman, and a dentist from Warsaw. Discuss the hierarchies in place at Auschwitz. How was a prisoner's value determined? Which prisoners were chosen for supervisory roles? Which ones were more likely to face bullying, or execution?
10. Eliezer expresses sympathy for Job, the biblical figure who experienced horrendous loss and illness as ***** and God engaged in a debate over Job's faithfulness. After watching the lynching and slow death of a young boy, Eliezer tells himself that God is hanging from the gallows as well. In his Nobel lecture, Wiesel describes the Holocaust as "a universe where God, betrayed by His creatures, covered His face in order not to see." How does Wiesel's understanding of God change throughout the book? How did the prisoners in Night, including rabbis, reconcile their agony with their faith?
11. After the surgery on Eliezer's foot, he and his father must face being marched to a more remote camp or staying behind to face possible eleventh-hour execution amid rumors of approaching Red Army troops. Observing that Hitler's deadliness is the only reliable aspect of their lives, Wiesel's father decides that he and his son should leave the camp. The memoir is filled with such crossroads, the painful outcomes of which can be known only in retrospect. How does Wiesel respond to such outcomes? Do you believe these outcomes are driven by destiny, or do they simply reflect the reality of decision-making?
12. In his final scenes with his father, Eliezer must switch roles with him, becoming the provider and comforter, despite advice from others to abandon the dying man. What accounts for the tender, unbreakable bond between Eliezer and his father long after other men in their camp begin fending for themselves? How does their bond compare to those in your family?
13. What is the significance of the book's final image, Wiesel's face, reflected in a mirror? He writes that a corpse gazed back at him, with a look that has never left him. What aspects of him died during his ordeal? What aspects were born in their place? What do you make of his observation that among the men liberated with him, not one sought revenge?
14. Wiesel faced constant rejection when he first tried to publish Night; numerous major publishing houses in France and the United States closed their doors to him. His memoir is now a classic that has inspired many other historians and Holocaust survivors to write important contributions to this genre of remembrance. What is unique about Wiesel's story? How does his approach compare to that of other memoirists whose work you have read?
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Posted 2/6/06 3:25 PM |
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Redhead
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Re: Night
DAMN lisa...those are some questions...
I think the part in the book where they decided to continue on, instead of staying inthe infirmary.... was the most powerful moment in the book for me
Damn those questions
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Posted 2/6/06 9:01 PM |
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LFitzy79
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Re: Night
I read this book for the first time in high school, and it haunts me still.....
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Posted 2/9/06 1:57 PM |
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LadyMaravilla
Fall Is Here
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Re: Night
I finished reading Night and every time I see my daughter I can't stop thinking about al those parents who lost their children.
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Posted 2/10/06 9:32 AM |
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