Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Significance of Mrs. Schacter class list

  • Reveals madness of the incident.
  • Foreshadows the future.
  • Hate breeds more hate.
  • Fire symbolizing the cremation of Jews.
  • Burning of religion, culture, and memories.
  • Symbolizes hate.
  • Symbolizing Hell.
  • Chaos
  • Friction
  • Conflicts

Significance of woman who sees flames

The significance of the woman who saw the flames, Mrs. Schacter, was that it shows how the conditions drove people mad and how bad things were, and the flames foreshadow what's going to happen to them.

Monday, November 29, 2010

Class List of Foreshadowing

  • Foreign Jews were removed from Sighet.
  • Dirty smoke when leaving the train station on the cattle car.
  • Wearing the Star of David.
  • Moishe tells his story and no one believes him; Jews were being slaughtered, were taken out to forests, forced to dig holes where they were shot and burried. 
  • "What do you expect? That's war."
  • Ghetto-Jews were enclosed.
  • Transported into cattle cars.

Foreshadowing in "Night"

  • 1:All foreign Jews were expelled from Sighet.
  • 2:Moishe the beatle was taken away by the Gestapo.
  • 3: Facist party had seized power.

Friday, November 19, 2010

Holocaust

  1. The holocaust was the killing of 6 million jews, 5 million others, and 11 million individuals.
  2. The 'final solution' plan was to exterminate all jewish people.
  3. jewish ghettos were city like places where the germans forced jewish people to live in terrible conditions.
  4. the ghettos were over populated all jews had to wear badges had to perform forced labor and lived under the rules of the nazis.
  5. there were death camps and work camps all were told to be resettling when taken to the camps. in reality, theyd just be killed.
  6. it was created to incinerate enemies of the german and nazis, to have a supply of forced laborers, and to eliminate groups of the populations whos death was determined by nazis.
  7. 440,000 jews from hungary were deported 426,000 of them to auschwitz, 320,000 were sent straight to the gas chambers. 1.1 million jews were deported to auschwitz, and 200,000 others were sent to auschwitz.
  8. jewa who were sent to monowitz were more likely to survive because they were considered too valuable to be sent to gas chambers because they were needed to work. The factory produced synthetic rubber called buna.
  9. The holocaust was the extermintation of a large group of the included jews, gypsies, homosexuals, and the mentally disabled. The ghettos were very cramped and gross, all jews who lived there were controlled by the nazi officer and were restricted from doing alot of things. Concentration camps were rat infested, uncleanly, even more cramped, and scary. You never knew when you'd be killed or how long you'd live. You werent allowed much food either. 

Thursday, November 18, 2010

What do I know about the Holocaust?

I know:
  • It was the genocide of many jews, gypsies, and homosexuals.
  • All were sent to concentrations camps where they would be put to work till they couldnt work anymore, then theyd be killed.
  • The living conditions in the concentration camps were terrible; very small, crammed with 100s of people, dirty, rat infested, and disease prone.
  • Adolf Hitler lead the holocaust.
  • Joseph Mengele was a doctor who conducted cruel experiments on Jews, trying to make them blonde haired and blue eyed.
We know:
  • US troops found the 1st concentration camps in 1944
  • Hitler hated the Jews.
  • Hitler wanted an Aryan race (blonde hair blue eyes)
  • Scientific exeriments were performed.
  • crying meant you were mentally unstable and would be killed
  • there were death camps and death camps.
  • mass killings in gas chambers.
  • holocaust mainly took place in germany poland and austria.
  • 6million jews died, 11 million people in total.

Monday, November 1, 2010

9 sentence paragraph

In Shirley Jackson's short story, "The Lottery", irony is illustrated through the community event of the lottery. Initially, the reader begins to assume the lottery is an event where somrthing is won, but as the story progresses, one realizes that the lottery is a death sentence. The "happy" setting Shirley writes of makes the reader believe the story is happy. "The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green." Summer is usually a symbol of life, freedom and happiness, which we're tricked to believe will be shown in this story. When we read on, we see that something bad will come out of the lottery. We find out at the end that the lottery being won means being stoned to death and ones family turns on them. "The children had stones already. And someone gave little Davy Hutchinson a few pebbles." Davy, being her own flesh and blood shouldn't be throwing stones. Nor should the rest of her family.