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Nick Edwards 10/2/08 Father So in the book Night the Father wants to spend time woth Elie because he isnt sure what is goimg to happen. He also seems like he really scared. The father wants Elie to spend time so they can get a stronget bond between them two.

Delaney Petrick 10-2-08 Elie I'm scared for father. Also for Moishi. I'm just plain scared. No one will listen or accept the truth. Our country is being invaded by people who don't like us. They're making a subtle impact on our lives. They're sneaking in so no one will notice. I feel as if I'm the only one who notices this, Moishi noticed, but he won't speak to anyone anymore. He's gone. First they come into our homes, and pretend as if they like us. Next they give us a curfew, then they take away our privileges. We can't even go to the synagogue anymore. Yet everyone is still smiling and going on with their happy little lives. They don't realize what is happening here. Father won't even listen. I went so far as to even beg him to sell all of our possessions just so we can leave and be safe. Yet he ignored and gave me the excuse of being old. I love my father, but sometimes I wish he would let me be a man. He doesn't realize how much I can be of help to him. We even have to wear the yellow star of David to show that we're Jewish so that people know to hate us. I just hope people soon come to their right mionds before things really get out of hand. The Nazi's are untrustworthy and I believe they will end our lives........

Tanner Herberger 10-2-08 Nazi Guard Every jew out here thinks that we are here to help and care for them. Nobody relizes what is yet to come. We weasel our ways into there lives and appear to them as honest trustworthy gentlemen. When they think the stories theve herd are not true then we will strike. All jews sent to consintration camps men and women to work, the elder and children to gas chambers. This will lead to the success of the nazi's, this will help win the war. Entering the houses of the jews sends chills up my spine for i know what is to come and they are to find out. media type="youtube" key="bHAF0sgzKOs&hl=en&fs=1" height="344" width="425"

Delaney Petrick 10-6-08 Elie This can't be right. They can't just come into our homes and take us away like this. They barely gave us any warning. It was supposed to be a happy time the night we found out. We were listening to Father's stories and laughing and going on like none of this was happening. But the minute the leader of our Jewish society came through that gate, our lives had changed and we left behind all we knew of, yet we didn't even know it. My friends, my relatives, are gone. All gone. Sent to places only the Nazi's knew of. Why must they hate us so much. We never did anything to anyone. All we do is follow our beliefs and go on with our happy lives. We try not to brother them, yet they hate us and they single us out. I prey night and day hoping God will give me the answer and wisdom and safety I've been asking for. We never believed they could do this. That they would think they can wipe out an entire population of Jews. Yet it's starting. They're taking us away from our family, our friends, all we've known of. I doubt anyone is able to get out of the country anymore. The thing that I fear the most is what Moishi said. About when he was taken away for a while. The story about people giving their necks away, and the infants being used for target practice, the ditches. The more time that passes, it becomes less of a story and I'm beginning to fear that that is what will become of us all. We have yet to leave our home, yet I'm already imagining the worst. Our house doesn't even feel like home anymore, it's a strange dark shadow that contains things I scarcely remember. Full of shadows and voices I've never seen nor heard of.I'm scared of what tomorrow brings. I'm terrified..........

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Tanner Herberger g2-10/6/08

I wake up and all outside people are lining up to get on the trains. For what? I do not know. Children cry out for one drop of water but no one is permitted to move except for the one getting on the later trains. Thats where we come in. Running all over, we get as much water as possible for the kids. After 6 hours of standin still, people start to move. Everyone is joyfull that they are to move as the gaurds watch with an evil glare as though somethin horrible is to come.

Tanner Herberger g2-10/14/08

Nazi gaurd As more jews arrive on trains i look around and see what is goin on. Jews everywhere being sorted into lines. In each line they stand and wonder to themselves where they will be going, to the cremetoria or to work. I think, this is horrible and then i think again, haha this is what i live for, to serve and please my master. As i relize this i hastely move jews and yell to them to get off the trains clubing anyone near me. This is what needs to happen for us to please Hitler.

Delaney Petrick 10-24-08 Elie It seems as if being here at these camps is like a roller coaster. We go to a camp where they show their hatred for us so easily, but then we're transported and everything changes. Here we're treated quite fairly, but there are times when I feel as if I'm lying in the pits of hell screaming in agony(like the day I was beaten to the point where I could barely breath or when I received 25 lashes for accidentally seeing our leader slack off in his job). I just do not understand why we could be hated so much with such a burning passion. The guards and leaders here have such mood changes that it's become frightening to even wake up wondering what mood they happen to be in that day. One day they might give you an extra ration of bread or even another bowl of soup or maybe catch them smiling, and the next day they could hold a gun to your head for no reason or beat you until your eyes bleed. Being here has changed me so much that I barely even know who I used to be before I came to this ungodly place. Before I was here seeing that boy being hung in front of my eyes I would have screamed in hatred until I cried. Yet I only wept among my inmates. I will always remember his eyes. Ones that I imagine had such a light to them in past times, that would light up a room in times of sorrow, now they were filled with such fear and sadness yet they had an idea of relaxation and peacefulness to them. His beautiful eyes staring at me and pleading for God's mercy to just let him die, but his prayers were only answered slowly as he endured the pain that broke my heart...........

Tanner Herberger w2-10/26/08

Father as we all sit in the room where ourcommander has put us we wonder what we are doing. we sit for 45 minutes and in he comes and orders us to get back to work. what we were in there for, we will never know. later. the execution of two men and one chile took place. we were all forced to watch.As i stand there and watch the chairs tip over and watch the men die i see the boy fighting for his life for he is not heavy enough to die as quickly as the men. It is a painful sight to see. As i see the boy strugling for his life, just reaching for that one thing to keep him alive, i cant help but to imagine my own son hanging up there and i begin to cry. Soon i notice i am not the only one weeping for the young boy. How could someone be so cruel as to hang a young boy and watch him die very slowly.