Themes

Sometimes, we don't realize what evil things the human race is capable of.

-burning people alive in the crematoriums
-throwing babies in the air and shooting them
-trying to anhilate a whole race
-starving people to death and forcing them to live in unhealthy living conditions
-hanging the young pipel and the other people in front of anyone
-cramming many people into a cattle car

Chapter 6

The Jews ran 20 kilometers to their next location. Elie got separted from his father when they finally got there because he wanted to rest and take a shower. Juliek dies

Chapter 5

It was Rosh Hashanah. Elie got transferred to a new camp away from his father. There was a selection for the unhealthy and Elie passes but his father didn't. His father passed the next selection. Elie needed surgery on his foot because he couldn't move it. The Russians were coming so they decided to evacauate.

Chapter 4

Elie and his father are taken to an electrical factory. Akiba Drumer says that they will be saved, and God is teaching them a lesson. Elie has to give his gold teeth the to Idek. He spies on Idek with a womand, and then gets beat for it. Then he meets a a French woman and sees her later in his life. Elie's father is beaten by Idek because he got in Idek's way. Three men are hung for trying to steal soup. Also, a young Pipel was hung. His soup tasted like a dead corpse.

Chapter 3

The Jews objects were taken away from them. They went through a selection and both Elie and his father lied about their ages so they were sent to the work lines instead of the death lines. They were allowed to take a shower, then right away were sent to the next camp. Elie saw his father getting beaten but he did not stand up for him. Stein Antwerp (their relative) sees them and asks about his family. Elie lies about his family and says they are ok. Eventually he finds out about them, and Elie never sees him again.

Chapter 2

The Jews were cramed into cattle cars. Mrs. Shacter would not stop yelling about the fire that she supposedly sees. The men beat her so that she will shut up. Th train stopped again in Auschwit. They then arrived in Birkenau. They can see the smoke from the crematorium.

Chapter 1

Moishe the Beadel was taken by the Germans in Sighet. He escaped and came back to warn the Jews about what was happening. Nobody believed him. Expensive valuables were taken away from them, and they had to wear the star of David. They were put into a ghetto and transeferred to another one. Then they were put into the cattle cars to be deported. This was the start of the injustices against Elie and his family.

Father/Son Relationship

-Pg. 58 I looked at him...I was thinking of my father. He would be suffereing more than I.
-Pg. 30 My hand tightened its grip on my fahter. All i could think of was not to lose him.
-Pg. 44 We mustn't eat all at once; tomorrow is another day. (Father saves ration for him)
-Pg. 37 I glanced over at my Father, his eyes were veiled...
-Pg. 106 Father, I have been looking for you for so long...
-Pg. 105 Father I said, you cannot stay here.........
-Pg. 104 Just another moment. Soon you will be able to lie down. You will be able to rest
-Pg. 75 I felt sick at heart...even now my father was helping me
-Pg. 86 & 87 My father's presence was the only thing that stopped me...sole support( keeps going )
-Pg. 96 The SS officers were doing a selection, my father was sent to the left, and I ran after him
-Pg. 104 I tightened my grip on my father's hand...
-Pg. 112 Deep inside me...free at last.
-Pg. 70 My father, I first thought of him now
-Pg. 107 I gave him what was left of my soup, but my heart was heavy
-Pg. 112 His last words had been my name
-Pg. 91 Rabbi Eliahu and son
-Pg. 89 Don't worry son, go to sleep I will watch over you
-Pg. 82 As for me, I was thinking not about death, but not to be separated from my father.

Inhumanityf

-Pg. 6 Infants were tossed in the air and used as targets for machine guns
-Pg. 33 The world is not interested in us, anything is possible, even the crematoria
-Pg. 26 She receive several blows to the head, blows that could have been lethal.
-Pg. 37 In a few seconds we had ceased to be men
-Pg. 39 He slapped my father with such force that he fell down then crawled back to his place on all fours
-Pg. 24 There were 80 of you in the car. If any of you go missing you will be shot like dogs
-Pg. 36 The Kapos were beating us again, but I no longer felt the pain
-Pg. 35 The clippers tore out our hair.
-Pg. 11 A new decree: every Jew had to wear a yellow star to identify himself
-Pg. 89 Beneath our feet lay men, crushed, trampled, lying underfoot and dying.
-Pg. 70 It was more hour then we would know the verdict, death or reprive.
-Pg. 93 There crushing me, have mercy
-Pg. 95 Days without food or water; they were forbidden to leave the barrack
-Pg. 97 The SS shoved us inside, 100 per car. We were so skinny.
-Pg. 85 If one of us stopped for a second, a quick shot eliminated the filfthy dog.
-Pg. 65 And so he remained for more than half an hour, lingering between life and death.
-Pg. 96 A thick layer of snow was accumulating on our blankets... (keeps going)

Silence

-Pg. 26 Silence fell again (Mrs. Shacter)
-Pg. 39 I watched and kept silence (father being beaten
-Pg. 34 Never shall i forget the nocturnal silence...
-Pg. 34 NEver shall i forget the children...under the silent sky
-Pg. 7 He no longer mentioned God or Kaballah
-Pg. 94 A silent death, suffocation (heap of bodies)
-Pg. 69 I no longer accpeted God's silence
-Pg. 53 He must have mistaken my silence for defiance.
-Pg. 64 Total silence in the camp (pipel being hung)
-Pg. 111 Silence over there (SS officer is beating his father) (father cannot remain silent)
-Pg. 104 I myself was so weary that is silence left me indifferent

Religion Quotes

-Pg. 3 The few snatches I caught here and there spoke divine suffering, of the Shekinah the Exile......(Moishe the Beadle)
-Pg. 20 O God Master of the Universe, Have MErcy on us... (liquidated from the ghetto)
-Pg. 7 He (Moishe the Beadle) no longer mentioned either God or Kabbalah
-Pg. xx (God is dead)
-Pg. 64 Where is He? This is where hanging from the gallows. (shows that God is dead)
-Pg. 5 I pray to the God within ime to ask the real questions (Moishe the Beadle)
-Pg. 34 Never shall I forget these things even if I was condemned to live as God himself
-Pg. 34 Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith...
-Pg. 37 The student I was of Talmud, the child I was, had been consumed by the flames
-Pg. 69 I did not fast. (Rosh Hashannah)
-Pg. 76 It's over. God is no longer with us. (Akiba Drumer)
-Pg. 77 If only he could have kept his faith in God, if only he could have consideredthis suffering a divine test.
-Pg. 77 Three days after he left, we forgot to say Kaddish
-Pg. 77 Where is God's mercy? Where is God...
-Pg. 81 I have more faith in Hitler than anyone else, he alone has kept his promise, all his promises, to the Jewish people
-Pg. 91 A prayer formed inside me; a prayer to this God I no longer believed
-Pg. 112 No prayers were said over his tomb (father's death)
-Pg. 67 Blessed be God's name, but why would I bless him? Every fiber in me rebelled
pages 65-70
-Pg. 65 For God's sake, where is God? (start of doubt in God)
...This is where, hanging here.

Stein of Antwerp

-Family member of Elie
-Wanted to know what happened to his family
-Elie lies saying his family is ok and happy
-Stein eventually dies because of known truth

Dehumanization

-Shaved their heads
-All expected to wear prison garb
-Made to stand in mud
-Tattooed numbers- lost identity, name
-Removed objects
-People were treated as objects- only of use for work
-Detached from family
-Make prisoners run- fear tactic, break spirits, overcome by fatigue, lose logical train of thought
-Had to deal with death themselves

Concentration Camps

-Dr. Mengele- in charge of selection process, baton, monacle
-Sky hazy with smoke
-Flames in the crematorium
-Transformation in the prison garb
-Gray and dark
-People's faces turning into ash
-Babies thrown into the flames.

Picture

1. the crematorium
-fire, smoke, and flames coming out of it
-babies being thrown into the flames
-the smoke

Class List of Fire

*Upcoming danger
*Burning of loss of faith
*Unpredicatble/Fear of Unknown
*Crematoriums/Death
*Destruction
*Chaos
*Conflicts

Chapter 2 Fire/Flames

I believe that Mrs. Shaucter was emphasized in this story because she is foreshadowing what will happen to the Jews in the future. She is split up from her family which is what will happen to many Jews in the near future of this book, and she is envisioning fire. The fire can represent two different things. First, it refers to the fire and the flames that burn up the dead bodies in the crematorium. Second, it refers to all the horrendous things that will be happening to the Jews. Nobody believes her about the fire because they can't physically see it which can relate to the Jews not being able to believe what the Nazi's will do to them. They have no idea what torture they are going to face once they are in Auschwitz.

Class List of Foreshadowing

1. Moishe the Beadle- warned the Jews of Sighet, changed character from beginning to end. Shot in the leg and played dead. In the beginning a devout Jew, at the end loses faith.
2. Two Ghettos- progression of the violation of rights
3. Tzipora was given a pack that was too heavy, foreshadows that everyone is going to get a heavier burden
4. Jewish council leader could not speak up about future events or he would be shot-shows brutality
5. refers to ghettos as "on vacation" sarcastically
6. Fathers face becomes pale when he hears about the transports
7. Elie's father's Hungarian police friend knocks on window but no one can open it in time
8. Father eventually dies as stated in Elie's thoughts
9. Cattle cars (80 people to a car)
10. Jews couldn't imagine anything worse than waiting in line for the transport
11. reference to night

Foreshadow Blog

1. When Moishe the Beadle comes back and warns everyone of what happened in the bigger cities
2. When they are put into ghettos
3. When they have to wear the yellow star, Ellie's father says, "The yellow star? So what? It's not lethal..."
then Ellie writes in response (Poor Father! Of what then did you die?)

What do WE know about the Holocaust?

*Started by Adolf Hitler

*Holocaust was considered a genocide

*Happened in Europe during WWII

*1937- the book burning was an initial event that revoked people's rights

*Jews were expected to identify themselves with armbands

*Jews lost personal rights such as curfews, not owning businesses etc.(Nuremberg Race Laws)

*Jews were placed into ghettos (very small confined area where all Jews were placed)

*Jews were then deported to concentration camps via cattle cars filled with hundreds of people.

*Largest concentration camp was Auschwitz

*Jews were placed in gas chambers disguised as showers but then ended up being gassed.

*Prisoners were killed by starvation, disease, scientific experiments, shot, worked to death, and burned in crematoriums.

*Anne Frank was a famous Holocaust victim due to her diary that was found.

*Some people doubt the existence of the Holocaust.

*Polish, homosexuals, political opponents, gypsies, handicaps, Soviet prisoners of war and those who helped Jews.

*11 million total, 6 million Jews and 5 million non-Jews.

*Survivors from the Holocaust still live today.

What do I know about the Holocaust?

*Many Jews and Catholics were killed
*People were gassed and starved
*Nazi's killed Jews
*Sent to concentration camps
*Anne Frank was in a concentration camp
*Very poor food in concentration camps
*All started by Adolf Hitler
*Some survivors still live today to tell the story
*People had to give up all of their things
*Prisoners had to work and do jobs

Thesis

John's changed attitude in Contents of a Dead Man's Pocket is portrayed through the priorities in his life, the symbolic image of the broken window, the priorities in his life, and the reinvention of his former self.

LOTSA SAUCE

Claim: John is curious, and he wants to gain more knowledge.
Quote: John is traveling north and he realizes that he is no longer afraid of anything, that all he wants is more knowledge. "My hunger for knowledge burned in me--there was so much that I could not understand."

DOLLOP

Claim: John is curious, and he wants to gain more knowledge.
Quote: Because John is part of such a primitive civilization, he has not been introduced to all the different ideas and opportunities that are waiting for him in the world, so he states in the following quote how he wants to learn more about the world. "My hunger for knowledge burned in me--there was so much that I could not understand."

DAB

DAB:
Claim: John is curious, and he wants to gain more knowledge.
Quote: As John discusses in the story, "My hunger for knowledge burned in me--there was so much that I could not understand."

Claim: John is curious, and he wants to gain more knowledge.
Quote: "My hunger for knowledge burned in me--there was so much that I could not understand."
Commentary: This quote portrays the passion that John had to learn more about everything around him.

I think that the author is trying to tell us that complete true equality is basically impossible to achieve. The fact that the typical nature of a human being is to be jealous will always make it impossible, and also there had to be a higher authority to control the equality.

C/Q/C Harrison Bergeron

In the first paragraph of the play it states that everybody is equal in every way possible. However, there is a superior authority controlling the equality.

All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General.

The last part of this quote portrays that it is not equal. If it was equal there wouldn't be a Handicap General that controls everyone.

Quotation Sandwich 2

Claim: At the end of the short story, Tom Benecke's attitude changes from a man who only cares about work and money to a man who wants to put his family first.

Quote: "He wished, then, that he had not allowed his wife to go off by herself tonight-- and on similar nights. He thought of all the evenings he had spent away from her, working and he regretted them. He thought wonderingly of his fierce ambition and of the direction his life had taken; he thought of the hours he'd spent by himself, filling the yellow sheet that had brought him out here."

Commentary: Tom's thoughts about his past life and how he had wasted it on something so unimporant shows that he has transformed into a man who puts his family first.

Quote Sandwich

Claim: In the initial pages of this short story, Tom Becnecke's avaricious nautre drives him to follow the yellow sheet of paper on the ledge of his apartment

Quote: "You won't mind though, will you, when the money comes rolling in and I'm known as the Boy Wizard of Wholesale Groceries?"

Commentary: Tom's determination to make money and become successful at his grocery store and his direct use of the word money shows that he has an avaricious nature and makes money his top priority.

Interjections

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