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This week, we began reading Elie Wiesel's award winning novel, "Night". This story takes place in Eastern Europe, in a country populated by mostly Jews. The narrator, Eliezer, tells us, quite progressively, about his experience before, and during his time at one of the German Concentration camps. Our assignment this week was to read up to page 27, when Elie arrives at his camp. While reading the story, many of us realized that Elie was narrating very progressively, as if he summarizes three years of his life in just a few sentences. Another job of ours this week was to help our teacher keep track of what we've been reading, and what we've been learning; by creating a "reading log". The point of this is to write down any questions we have about the story so far, and/or anything we are unsure about. We also watched a short video about Germany during the 1930s that taught me a few things that I did not know about this war in Eastern Europe, such as the secret pacts that Germany had with the Soviet Union, aka the Red Army, and Italy. Also, a few of my questions are, if Germany had planned this Holocaust and War systematically, how far ahead of time did they need to plan this? And if Moishe the Beadle was a beloved person in the Jewish community Elie lived in, why did no one believe that his stories of the concentration camps were true? These are the type of questions that motivate me to keep reading, and find answers, however; time will tell...
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