RJ#22 Night

                                                                                                                                    1/30/12




Dear Mrs. Zrihen,


     I just finished reading the book Night by Elie Wiesel . The setting in the story is Sighet, Transylvania. A passage in the story that I liked is on page 120.'' Our lives no longer belong to us alone; They belong to all those who need us desperately''. I picked that passage because it popped and really shows how our religion as Jews use our attitude.
     I used 6 reading strategies while reading the book which were skimming and scanning for text features, predicting about the book, reading slowly, reading over to understand what's happening, reading the synopsis, and reading the reviews on the back.
     The genre of this book is actually memoir as Mrs. Zrihen told me. This week I found an autobiography. It is about a person and his memory of World War 2. The topic is the Holocaust. The main idea is Elie has a normal life when things slowly turn strange until they are transported out of their home. It is stated. Another title I would give the book is ''Good to Strange to Worse''. I would in order to explain how their lives in their neighborhood in Germany slowly fell apart. Some supporting details in the story are his neighborhood being taken over by Germans and a big fence around his neighborhood. They also have a curfew and can only leave their house a certain number of times a day. They are factual. The essential message in the story is that our world has made a terrible mistake by letting the Holocaust ride on while it could have been stopped. Over 9 million people died and 6 of those million were Jews. If we don't pass that message down from generation to generation, it could happen again. A cause in the story is Elie living in a Jewish community and celebrating a Jewish life and an effect is him being taken control over slowly by the Nazi's. Something similar in the text is everyone in their small neighborhood being Jewish. A difference in the story is that Elie and his family were poor while most of the Germans were rich and in the middle-class. Some text features included are Publication, Synopsis, Dedication, Reviews and a photograph of the author. The P.O.O is chronological order for it shows a description of his whole experience first to last in the Holocaust. The author's purpose is to share an experience in the Holocaust. The author's biased because the author only gives his opinion and perspective. His point of view is 1st person. Some figurative language were simile and metaphor and they help by emphasizing specific points in the story. There is no resources that are found to confirm this information for the information is given by the author himself.
     There were no vocab that would appear to have difficulty in my sense of knowledge. 
     This book relates to me by me being Jewish. This book relates to another book I read called The Wave because they both deal with the Holocaust. This book relates to the world because there are many stupid wars going on today that are caused by religion.
     If I was in Elie's shoes I'd pray all day and night before I was transported to camps. 
     I would rate this book 3.5 out of 5 stars because it could have been more suspenseful but it had great detail.

              Sincerely, Isaac Paley 702