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 Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 11:00 am
I really enjoyed this book. It's about Elie's experiences as a jew in a concentration camp durin the Holocaust
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Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 12:55 pm
I found that book very interesting. The Death March part always upsets Ms. Coles. I just took it as a part of the experience, but that part really did stick out to me.
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Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 3:33 pm
I think I was looking at Anne Frank pictures while mrs. johnson was reading the death march, and I kinda tone out her rambling. The Death March stuck out to me too... expecially how they took out their spoons to eat the snow off of each other's backs. It's pretty well written.
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Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 6:36 pm
Yes. And it's amazing that Elie took a ten year vow of silence after he was liberated.
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Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 5:10 am
Did he really? I just thought he didn't talk about the camps... until he published the book. Shows how much I know. It's kindof ironic, don't you think, that three days after the camp was liberated, after he escaped death, that he almost died of food poisoning.
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Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 1:41 pm
Yep. I'm not sure if the silence thing was total silence or just about the camps...
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Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 8:11 pm
Hmmm. This is a very powerful book. I read it a few years ago...but the part I remember most was with the little babies...I felt sad. People nowadays don't really understand what those people went through. It's not a laughing matter. A few days ago, one of the idiots in my history class said, "Is it hot in here? Or am I just Jewish?" How terrible.
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Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 1:37 pm
That is bad. We're doing a hate-group/genocide speech in History/English and I'm doing mine about the Roma (gypsies) in the holocaust. did you know that Dr. Mengele favored Roma kids for his experiments? He expecially liked to experiment with their eyes. How horrible...
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Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 2:15 pm
Yep...I have East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) for that project...The West Pakistan army would shoot Hindus on sight...
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Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 3:01 pm
Gah! The world we live in. It's sad how people would or even could do that to others. Where is the LOVE?!
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Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 3:39 pm
Well, the cynical side of me would like to point out that the universe is going to collapse in a few hundred billion years anyway and all of the horrendus atrocities we commit will be erased from time anyway.
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Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 6:40 pm
That's true. My topic took place in 1971. When was yours again, Bob?
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Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 1:41 pm
During the holocaust. I've got the Romami
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Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 1:49 pm
Oh. I remember that, now....^_^
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 12:05 pm
I believe the sadest point during the novel was towards the end where Eli begins to feel as of his father was becoming a burden for him, and even was aticipating his death.
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