3rd Quarter Reflection

In what areas did I improve the most? I feel like the area I mostly improved on was my blogging. After the butterfly project, I feel like I did an huge improvement. My committing and things like have become better also. I use better vocabulary often.

One thing I did that I'm proud of accomplishing is getting all my vocab right and and getting 2 wrong on the roots and prefixes. I'm getting better and better on my vocab week after week. I hoping that by next quarter, I'll be able to get all correct answers on my test.

I think the most challenging part for me this week quarter is me finding evidence for my counter argument. I can't find it. But I will persevere and continue to look for my counter argument. Once I find that, it will be a breeze for me to finish my argumentative piece.

Life is Beautiful blog.

For starters, the father - son relationship is brought into the movie. Like in the book Night. Another thing that is similar is how the father and son traveled in the indecent conditions you can ever imagine. Some differences are that the book tells they were in the ghetto. While the movie the father and son were caught. By The gestapo invading their house.

Another similarity is the fact that both sons of the movie lost their father to the camp. But the difference is that Elie lost his father because he became tired and to weak to continue to survive. He eventually came to stop and laid on the ground, to rest. While in the movie Life is Beautiful, the father died from protecting his son. Also he died because he try reuniting with his wife. But couldn't do it. He was caught, and shot.


Between the book and the movie, there point of view is completely different. In Night, the point of view is from the child, Elie. It's really bias to his opinions, thoughts, and experience in the holocaust. While in the movie Life is Beautiful, the point of view is a combination of 1st & 2nd point of views. In the first half, it's the father’s point of view. However, towards the middle, the father focuses on the child. In the movie they use humorous effects to interact with the audience. Also to use them as a hook, to get them to focus into the characters more. It’s also serious, but it has some bits of humor in the movie. While in the book Night, it's a very formal and serious tone throughout the book.


In the movie, there are many ways of showing how life is beautiful, one of them is falling in love. The movie really demonstrates that in the beginning, Guido chased after the love of his life constantly and was trying to impress her in many interesting and humorous ways. Another thing that showed how life is beautiful was family. Guido protected his child at any cost. He invented a game to prevent him from finding out the terrible truth. He also thought him to hide and blend in with the others. He also tried to connect with his wife and reunite them together with their child in the end.

"NIght"

How do Elie’s experiences during the Holocaust change him as a person? Elie was a survivor of the Holocaust, so he changed in many ways, from the beginning of his terrible experience till the end.

His transformation affects his faith. Elie was very pious. He seek for further assistance so he can use the best of his abilities to stay pious. He even seek a mentor for help to study the Cabbala. But he would pray often. For example,  according to the book, “ Why do you pray? he asked me, after a moment. Why did I pray? A strange question. Why did I live? Why did I breathe?” (Wiesel 2). This shows he is confused from the question he asked. That's why he seek for further assistance. Which shows that he is very pious. However, since he is being in a concentration camp, his faith in God has faded dramatically. He begins to questions God and his faith. For example, according to the book, “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” (Wiesel 32). This shows how his faith fades, and how he begins to doubt God.

Another conversion is his humanity. After being in the consecration camp, his personality has changed significantly. What do I mean? Well since he was very pious He was always kind and considerate. Even at the beginning of the terrible experience, he shares with his father with the little he has. But then he sometimes turns on him and let's all his anger on him. But sometimes there things that Elie doesn't understand. For example, according to the book, “I had watched the whole scene without moving. I kept quite. In fact I was thinking of how to get farther away so that I would not be hit myself. What is more, any anger I felt at that moment wa directed, not against the Kapo, but against my father. I was angry with him, for not knowing how to avoid Idek’s outbreak” (Wiesel 52). This shows how his relationship with his father change. Although it’s not his relationship with others, it's his patience also.

These are just a few ways his experience of the Holocaust change him as a person, like his faith and his humanity.

 

Wiesel, Elie . Night . N.p.: n.p., 1956. Print