My Items

My Items

My T-Money card shows that i like to hang out with my friends a lot. I need it to get around Seoul.

My school ID from my old school in America shows that i still keep my "old life" close to my heart and i have not forgotten it.

I carry earphones around all the time because whenever i get the chance, i like to listen to music.

I always try to use pencils rather than pens because i tend to make many mistakes. I also like the feeling of pencil lead on paper.

I have many coins because i never throw away change. I like to save up all the change i get and keep whatever money i can get.

I have eye drops because i sleep very late every night so my eyes tend to be red and dry all the time. It shows that i am an expert and procrastination.

I have tylenol's in my bag because i always try to exercise and stay in shape, and this causes me to be sore a lot of the time.

IRB 1

Excerpts/Quotes:

Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky. Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever. Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never.

One day I was able to get up, after gathering all my strength. I wanted to see myself in the mirror hanging on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto. From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me.

The camp looked as though it had suffered an epidemic: empty and dead.

The night was gone. The morning star was shining in the sky. I too had become a completely different person. The student of the Talmud, the child that I was, had been consumed in the flames. There remained only a shape that looked like me. A dark flame had entered into my soul and devoured it

We were masters of nature, masters of the world. We had forgotten everything-death, fatigue, our natural needs. Stronger than cold or hunger, stronger than the shots and the desire to die, condemned and wandering, mere numbers, we were the only men on earth

Topic:

In my opinion, I think that Elie Wiesel is trying to get the point of hope, and faith across in his memoir, "Night". Throughout the memoir he explains times of hardship and horror, and focus's on the issue of faith. I think that the main topic is whether or not one can keep his or her faith during times of extreme hardship. "Do you see that chimney over there? See it? Do you see those flames? (Yes, we did see the flames.) Over there-that's where you're going to be taken. That's your grave, over there." Living in constant fear and knowing that someday that you will die would make you feel hopeless and lose faith. He talks about his body is lifeless and he is just an empty shell. Wiesel vividly depicts the horrors of his experience in the Holocaust and has no filter when he says it. This makes the reader feel a type of empathy for Wiesel. I think that "Night" is really a good depiction of what horror and suffering can do to one's faith and hope. Unlike "The Diary of a Young Girl", this memoir takes place INSIDE the concentration camps. After reading "Night", one can really understand the horrors of what it was like to be inside one of these camps.

Santha Statement

"But I put it all happily away because it happened to a girl named Cynthia and I was never really particularly interested in her." Are you convinced of this statement.

This statement occurs after Santha hears her mother and sister talking about whether or not Santha understood what was wrong. Her mother and sister agree that Santha is a child, and that she doesn't know anything about racism. This statement is basically Santha asserting that she does not care about what happened to her during school, which goes along with the discussion her mother and sister were having. In school she was called by the name Cynthia and, Santha is saying that Cynthia was never a real person, and she paid no attention to how Cynthia acted. This showed her mature side, and her ability to push aside hard times and focus on the more positive side of life. 

I think that this statement is true because Santha writes about how she never had any interest in school. The only reason she attends school is because she is forced to. She does not want to attend school, and at that young age, when a child doesn't have any intention on doing anything, he or she usually does not pay much attention to it. The fact that she accepted the name Cynthia also shows that she did not care much about her school life. If she was very adamant about what they called her at school, she would not have submitted so easily. 

This statement brings up the issue of whether or not Santha really cared or even understood what racism was. I think that it shows her naive nature of how she did not really care about what happened at school. Even though she was being discriminated, she did not notice, and she paid no attention to it.