The one thing that I found different about "Night" and "Ghosts of War" was their reactions and feelings towards the bombings. In "Ghosts of War", the bombings made them afraid and they ran from the bombs. In "Night" they prisoners welcomed the bombings because it would mean seeing one of the places that they hated the most in the world, getting destroyed. I guess it shows how a different context can change your perspective on the craziest things. Who would have ever guessed that they would be reading about somebody being happy that the bombings were getting closer to them...?
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Rosemarie - Connector
I am not a big fan of reading about war, but I have recently read a book called "Ghosts of War". It was a very good book and it was about a GI serving in the war in Iraq. When the camp was going to get bombed, on pages 58-61, it reminded me of "Ghosts of War". There were several bombings in that book, and this made me think of that. This book also uses some of the same terminology that Elie Wiesel uses. For example, I found the words "convoy" and the abbreviation "SS" in both books. I thought it was interesting because I have never really heard of those things before, and I have now seen it twice in two books.
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I can understand why the prisoners would be happy about the bombings. Because of the harsh conditions and treatment that they had to put up with by the Germans in the camp, they were happy to see that horrid place become destroyed. It is strange that they were also happy with the fact that even though their camp was being destroyed, the bombings were so close to them and they didn't even worry about getting bombed. I think this is because they lost their reason to live after experiencing so much in the concentration camps that they stopped caring about life altogether.
ReplyDeleteYeah, that is a good point. I remember at one point, Eliezer just wanted to give up and he actually thought about how amazing it would be to just not exist anymore, and not feel pain.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you and Monica because they did feel happy about the bombings that were coming towards the concentration camps and they no longer cared because they didn't care about life anymore. And Eliezer did feel like not existing at point, but he realized that he was going to leave his father which he didn't want to do.
ReplyDeletethis was very sad, how they felt happy about the up coming bombings that were going to take place in the camps. they were so happy because they thought that they would just die quickly and easily and will not have to suffer through the camps. Just like rosemarie said, Eliezer was happy so he would not feel the pain. That is a very sad thing for a young mturing boy to think about..
ReplyDeleteI think Monica made a good point when she brought up how the prisoners didn't really care about their fate and how they could have possibyl died from the bombs. It's just like Elie lost the will to live after being in the camp. :(
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