Monday, February 28, 2011
Response to Oprah episode with Elie Wiesel
Now that we have read some background information about WWII and viewed Elie Wiesel on Oprah, I'd like you to post a response. What are some thoughts regarding the episode? What is something you found surprising or shocking? Is there anything Elie said that sticks out in your mind? Were there any images or photos that you found particularly powerful or moving? Lastly, what questions do you have about Elie, his story, the war, or the Holocaust before we start reading the novel, Night?
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ReplyDeleteThe whole movie I thought how can a person think this is a good idea? How can these people allow themselves to do this to another person. Ellie is a very great speaker and had the right things to say. The whole part about these kids could be the next nobel prize winners but they died at the age of 1 or 2. They never got a chance. They coulda been a poet, dancer, inventer, or a dreamer. Its just crazy how this coulda happened.
ReplyDeleteI liked the video because it showed us some things we probably never knew. It showed how horrible it was from a real perspective. I found the scene where all the hair was in that case powerful, because i was just thinking "wow that is gross and weird why would they do that"?
ReplyDeleteThen there were the pictures of how the women and children and elderly got stripped down to nothing before going in the gas chamber i thought that was just wrong.
I would like too know what all the books Elie has written are about and why he calls this book "Night".
I really liked the video, But it was kinda hard to watch. I can't imagine what it would feel like being Elie Wiesel and going back. I don't think I would be able to go. The thing that shocked me was probably the room with the personal belongings, clothes, shoes, and the hair. I can't believe they took their shoes and hair. It's weird to think there was that much hair, and to think that 7 tons was not all of the hair they had probably collected. A lot of the things Elie said stuck out to me, probably in the end when him and Opera were standing in front of the case of children's shoes and said, "How many Nobel Peace Prize winners, died at the age of one or two." I don't think I've ever really sat and thought about that. How many of these kids could have been teachers, scientist, doctors, so many things. And it's sad because they never got the chance..
ReplyDeleteThe whole show was really depressing and its really hard to image people being so cruel as to killing children and taking everything a family held dear to their hearts. Shaving peoples heads? thats absolutely ridiculous, first of all who would want to wear something made out of human hair? Its just really hard for me to wrap my head around the fact that they treated actual humans like this... I mean I don't like a lot of people but never in a million years would I think to try and wipe out an entire race of people.. It just makes me sad thinking about all the children who never got to have their first love or ride their first bike or even be able to tell their mother they loved her.. that did't even see it coming...
ReplyDeleteI thought this was kind of cool to see what the camps were like. I liked how you could see how big the bunks were. The museum was very interesting, I was just suprised how they kept all that things like suitcases, hair, shoes, and clothes. I think it would be extremely hard to go back and look at what you were involved in, especially since this was a very historical event. At the end I liked his quotes about the living and the dead from the Holocaust. I just want to know more about his experience of the Holocaust and what they did for work as slaves.
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