Summary: A Night Divided

The Nazis also hoped to gain money from the thousands of tourists who could and most likely would bring needed foreign currency into the country. Another reason why the USA shouldn’t have boycotted the 1936 Berlin Olympics was because of the participation rules Germany had set up. Germany originally had banned athletes of the non-Aryan race to attend and participate in the Games. After being condemned internationally by other nations of their actions, Germany allowed all athletes of races and religions to participate in the Olympics. Even after allowing athletes of all races and religions to participate in the Olympics, many Nazis were still against promoting racial equality during the Games.

When the Berlin Wall went up, Gerta, her mother, and her brother Fritz are trapped. They realize that her and her family get divided overnight. They are trapped on the eastern side where they were living. While her father, and her other brother Dominic are in the West. Four years later, now twelve, Gerta sees her father on a viewing platform on the western side.

“A traumatic experience robs you of your identity” (Dr.Bill). Concentration camps during the agonizing Holocaust disallowed their prisoners to obtain a personal identity. The renowned memoir, Night, written by Holocaust survivor, Eliezer Wiesel, published in 1954 expands the apprehension of the life altering challenges and torment the Jewish society encountered from 1933 to 1945. Identity consists of an individual's distinctive characteristics, beliefs and mannerisms which was forbidden for the Jewish hostages of the Holocaust to attain. Elie’s identity was shaped and reshaped by the traumatic experiences the Jewish community persevered through.

Vladek explains to Art about having to survive during WW2 as a Polish Jew undercover, having to pretend to be German in order to pass by. In the novel, Vladek tells Art about the tough living conditions before being transported to a concentration camp. He had to buy from the black market in order to get enough food for himself, his wife, and his child. “ ‘Cohn had a dry goods store. He was known over all Sosnowiec… I traded also with Pfefer, a fine young man -- a Zionist…

For Desdemona, I chose “Palette” because it’s a very soft song and the perfect type for

oodbye Lenin! , set in East Berlin during the crash of the Berlin Wall opens up the eyes of viewers to the harships endured in the Deutsche Demokratische Republik, which was governed by communist rule. It focuses on the life of Alexander Beyer, a young man from East Berlin. This essay will address the images of Germany, the Germans and the “Germanness” the film presents and the relevance of these images to the present day viewer. The historical context of Goodbye Lenin is the prevailing factor of the plot and gives the viewer little awareness of the political age.

In the story there are a lot of conflicts where the character has to face. The first major conflict that Daniel has to face is when him and his family are forced to leave Germany due to the Nazis not wanting Jews there. In page 3 paragraph 2 Daniel says “ We do not have any idea where we are going only that Germans no longer want the Jews in Germany.” Another conflict he has is when Daniel is in Lodz ghetto.

The definition of Gothic literature is: the use of desolate or remote settings and macabre, mysterious, or violent incidents. Edgar Allan Poe 's literature has the tendency to come off as violent, cruel, supernatural type of background with the setting in a gloomy and isolated place which tends to catch the audience 's attention and ends up doing the job of entertaining the reader. Anton Chekhov an author of Russian Literature, portrays more of a calm and serene vibe. In Russian literature, it usually displays a variety of life lessons and human experiences that the common reader might be able to relate to.

This book is historically accurate because it talks about a person whose name is Daniel and how his life changed when the Nazi party came under control in 1933. This book says that they didn 't even know why they were being sent out of the country they lived in which was Germany because all they were told is that germany no longer wanted Jews in there so they all had to pack up and get on a train and leave the country they once lived in all their life, and they probably didn 't know why because they didn 't have any news tv shows back then and only relied on word of mouth or in the newspaper which is why the only thing they knew is that they had to leave the country. They also talked about boycotting stores because they were jewish and back then they had separated people in Germany because they were jewish but many people didn 't care and kept going to the jewish stores to get help and get supplies. They also talked about how they blamed everything on the Jews back then like if someone got into a fight they would always blame the jews and many kids couldn 't be friends with the jews so they ended up all fighting and stop hanging out like they used too before Hitler took over. They also fired

Berlin Airlift: Before WWII,the Soviet Union blocked the roads into Berlin, (not allowing goods or people to enter and leave) while the Western Allies were staying in Berlin, which caused the Berlin Airlift. The Berlin Airlift took place from 1948-1949, the end of WWII. U.S, Britain, and Soviet Union military forces occupied Germany. A direct result of the blockade was that, the people of West Berlin were left without vital supplies(clothing, food, etc.) A few U.S. officials wanted a bellicose retort to the Soviet’s actions but a different plan was made.

This Wall separated East and West Berlin and the Communists did not let anyone from the East leave the country or they would be killed. When the Wall was taken down it gave the people of East Berlin a sense of freedom they have not had in 20 years of being ruled by Communism. This event is also what lead to the reuniting of Germany, which is something the US wanted to do since the end of World War II. The fall of the Wall is what ended the battle of Communism in Eastern Europe and the US remained the world’s

The main cause of this gruesome war was when Hitler ( Germany 's power hungry leader) began to invade countries near Europe. Fearing another war europe did nothing until they heard news that Hitler suddenly attacking poland, one of their allies. Even tho hitler claimed it was merely an act of defense europe did not believe it and and declared war. (“Germans invade Poland”)

In the novel, Night, by Elie Wiesel, there are many parallels to other parts of the novel. In two passages provided, both of the situations involve terrible conditions and the detachment of the characters former lives. In the first excerpt provided, the people were so close together that they couldn't “...all sit down” (Wiesel). This is also true in the second excerpt, where the passengers on the train were excited to throughout the corpses because “they would have more room” (Wiesel). These two passages show how the people had such cramped living conditions on the train and they had to live with it, as well as a lack of food and proper nourishment.

The entire world was so ignorant to such a massacre of horrific events that were right under their noses, so Elie Wiesel persuades and expresses his viewpoint of neutrality to an audience. Wiesel uses the ignorance of the countries during World War II to express the effects of their involvement on the civilians, “And then I explain to him how naive we were, that the world did know and remained silent. And that is why I swore never to be silent when and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation” (Weisel). To persuade the audience, Elie uses facts to make the people become sentimental toward the victims of the Holocaust. Also, when Weisel shares his opinion with the audience, he gains people onto his side because of his authority and good reputation.

It is a human instinct to prioritize one's well-being before others. We are constantly confronted with situations where we as humans have to take action for our own contentment. In the book, Night by Elie Wiesel, he shares his own traumatic experience of the Holocaust, which was a mass murder of 12 million Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, basically anyone who is different and wouldn’t fit into Adolf Hitler’s image of a perfect society. Despite how ruthless the Holocaust was, the Elie and his fellow prisoners fought and fought for their freedom, displaying how much humanity will fight for survival. By looking at the following examples: A child kills his own father for a loaf of bread, a son leaving his father behind during one of the march so he would not die, and Elie debating if he should let his father die so he could have a higher chance of surviving.