Illustrator Ch.2

This illustration was about p. 25, when many of them were crammed into the train and as they rode on, one of the women began screaming out, "Fire! I see a fire! ... Jews, listen to me...I see a fire! I see flames, huge flames!" When they looked outside, they saw nothing but the dark outside. However, the train eventually lead them to the huge bonfire, where Jews were being sifted through and burned. This seemed like a very dramatic passage to read, so it interested me enough that I thought to draw it.

Illustrator Ch.3

This illustration was about the passage on page 42, when Elie got his tattoo. I thought this passage was important because it was as if the Jews lost their identity. They were no longer a name, merely a statistic, an number.

Kaddish.

In the story [I lost the page number] they mention a Kaddish prayer.

Kaddish is mostly known as the mourner's prayer. It's said daily during the first 11 months of one's passing, 3 times a day during daily services.

I know this isn't my job but..

Don't you think it's crazy how they keep moving from camp to camp? Why is that?

Summarizer Last Chapter

LAST CHAPTER T___T

Elie is now sent to the hospital, in the mirror he sees someone that is looking like he's dead. He notices it's him...

-Precious Opal

Passage #8: Memory

Page 106, 112

WHEN I WOKE UP, it was daylight. That is when I remembered that I had a father.
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I remained more than an hour leaning over him, looking at him, etching his bloody, broken face into my mind...I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep. But I was out of tears. And deep inside me, if I could have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like: Free at last!

Elie is suffering from exhaustion and as a result, he forgets about his father, until he wakes up in the morning. Elie's father dies and Elie feels relief that he finally doesn't have to look after anybody, but himself. But Elie will always have a memory of his father with him- "...etching his bloody, broken face into my mind..."

--Janet :]

Word Watcher Chapter 9

1. unprecedented (page 113): adjective. without previous instance; never before known or experienced; unexampled or unparalleled.

Such lateness was unprecedented in the history of Buchenwald.

2. liquidation (page 114): noun. the process of realizing upon assets and of discharging liabilities in concluding the affairs of a business, estate, etc.

The Lagerkommandant announced that the Buchenwald camp would be liquidated.

3. liberation (page 115): noun. the act of liberating or the state of being liberated.

This chapter, there weren't many vocabulary words at all! Sorry! If there is any other words that I didn't cover, feel free to comment my post.
-Michelle Xia!

Three days after the liberation of Buchenwald, I became very ill: some form of poisoning.

Word Watcher Chapter 8

1. protruded (page 105): verb. to project.

He dragged me toward a pile of snow from which protruded human shapes, torn blankets.

2. wail (page 106): verb. to utter a prolonged, inarticulate, mournful cry, usually high-pitched or clear-sounding, as in grief or suffering.

The sirens began to wail.

3. Cauldrons (page 106): noun. a large kettle or boiler.

The cauldrons at the entrance found no takes.

4. tiers (page 106): noun. one of a series of rows or ranks rising one behind or above another, as of seats in an amphitheater, boxes in a theater, guns in a man-of-war, or oars in an ancient galley.

There were several tiers  of bunks.

5. shone (page 106): verb. to give forth or glow with light; shed or cast light.

I shall never forget the gratitude that shone in his eyes which he swallowed this beverage.

6. dysentery (page 108): noun. Pathology. an infectious disease marked by inflammation and ulceration of the lower part of the bowels, with diarrhea that becomes mucous and hemorrhagic.

7. prostrate (page 108): verb. to cast (oneself) face down on the ground in humility, submission, or adoration.

Suffering from dysentery, myfather was uprostrateu on his cot, with another five sick inmates nearby.

8. riveted (page 109): noun. a metal pin for passing through holes in two or more plates or pieces to hold them together, usually made with a head at one end, the other end being hammered into a head after insertion.

I was riveted to my father's agony.

9. jostle (page 105): verb. to bump, push, shove, brush against, or elbow roughly or rudely.

Some prisoners who didn't have the strength to jostle, or even stand, sat down in the snow.

10.feedle (page 112): ?

And deep inside me, if I could have searched the recesses of my feedle conscience, I might have found something like: Free at last!

-MICHELLEE! :D

Summarizer Chapter 8

few left D:

When they get settled in, Elie's father tells him that he might not make it. When he is turning really sick, he takes him to the doctor. His doctor tells him that his father cannot be saved. January 28, 1945 was the last day he cared and saw his father.

-Precious Opal

Passage #7: Inhumanity of Humans

Page 100, 101-102

One day when we had come to a stop, a worker took a piece of bread out of his bag and threw it into a wagon. There was a stampede. Dozens of starving men fought desperately over a few crumbs. The worker watched the spectacle with great interest.
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IN THE WAGON where the bread had landed, a battle had ensued. Men were hurdling themselves against each other, trampling, tearing at and mauling each other. Beasts of prey unleashed, animal hate in their eyes. An extraordinary vitality possessed them, sharpening their teeth and nails.
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"Meir, my little Meir! Don't you recognize me...You're killing your father...I have bread...for you too...for you too..."
He collapsed. But his fist was still clutching a small crust. He wanted to raise it to his mouth. but the other threw himself on him. The old man mumbled something, groaned and died. Nobody cared. His son searched him, took the crust of bread, and began to devour it. He didn't get far. Two men had been watching him. They jumped him. Others joined in. When they withdrew, there were two dead bodies next to me, the father and the son.

This passage shows the inhumanity of humans toward other humans. They fight with each other for a piece of bread since they are very hungry. When it describes how the men are trampling and tearing at each other, it shows how they are acting like animals-sharpening their teeth and nails, ready for battle. They only care about themselves in order for their own survival and would even kill each other. For example, this boy, Meir, started beating up his own father for the bread, but only ends up being killed himself by other men. I think that the people's experience in the camps are changing them to become cruel with each other because Elie starts to feel that his father is a burden.

--Janet :]