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Hey, u guys, any of u ever take AP US history?? cuz if u have, please give me some advice as to how NOT to fail

Megha...don't mind at all 😛 well i'm majoring in biology and no i'd rather hve exams in june...b/ i'm taking summer courses at college so that's why i get done at the end of july 😔 ...oh well..my new semester's about to start soon though..i'm kind of excited b/ i get to see my friends n we just hang out b/w classes

it's not double-spaced though right?

Night: After-Reading 2

1.Five to ten main plot points: List the most important plot points of the act. These should be the most important parts of the act, not peripheral. Bullet points would be appropriate.

•All the Jews collaborate to observe Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Elie begins to lose faith in God due to his terrifying encounters.
•The SS holds a selection for the crematories right after the New Year. The prisoners run as fast as possible past Dr. Mengele hoping to not be one of the "selected" few. Elie and his father manage to escape it.
•During winter Elie's foot swells up from the cold. The camp is to be vacated because the Russian army is approaching. Elie and his father decide to be evacuated with the rest of the prisoners.
•The prisoners are forced to run until they reach Gleiwitz, which they are then crowded into barracks where people are piled on top of each other.
•When they arrive at Buchenwald, Eile's father is too weak and is about to die of dysentery. His father tries to tell his son where the gold is buried.
•His father is attacked and an SS guard hits his skull with a truncheon. His father does not die, but his body is taken out.
•Elie remains at Buchenwald till he is transferred to the children's block.
•The Jews are evacuated from the camp in thousands each day. There is a battle between the camp resistance organization and the SS. That evening an American tank arrives at the camp.
•Elie becomes hospitalized for two weeks of food poisoning. When he recovers, he looks at himself, where the eyes of a corpse look back at him.

2.Dialectical Journals: One processing dialectical journals with the dialectical journal(s) to which it refers. Use a t-chart for your dialectical journal.

Quote Interpretation
"A terrible thought loomed up in my mind: [Rabbi Eliahou's son] had wanted to get rid of his father. He had felt that his father was growing weak, he had believed that the end was near and had sought this separation in order to get rid of the burden, to free himself from an encumbrance which could lessen his own chances of survival.
I had done well to forget that…
My God, Lord of the Universe, give me strength never to do what Rabbi Eliahou's son has done" (91). This quote highlights the delicacy of the father-son relationship in Eliezer's life just before they head to Gleiwitz. Every victim of the Holocaust needed a motive to struggle, a motive to want to survive. For many, that reason was faith in God and the goodness of mankind. Elie had lost that faith, and his relationship with his father is what keeps him striving on further. His incident has taught him that the Nazis' cruelty interferes with one's perspective and engenders provokes cruelty among the prisoners. Self-preservation becomes the most valuable virtue in the world of the Holocaust and leads prisoners to commit crimes against one another. Elie fears that he will lose control over himself and turn against his father. In the concentration camps, Elie has learned that any human being, even himself, is capable of unthinkable cruelty. His prayer to God reflects the deficiency in his nature of the loss of faith. He senses his capability for weakness and appeals to a greater power for help. He says he does not relate himself to God, but he turns to God when he doubts his ability to control himself. Elie no longer judges himself "master of nature, master of the world," but he needs help regulating his base impulses and ways of thinking.

Processing dialectical journal [(5: Thematic Analysis)]:

Eliezer is dismayed with the horrific egocentricity he sees around him, especially when it involves the break of familial bonds. In different occasions, he mentions sons horribly mistreating fathers: his horrific conclusion about the intentions of Rabbi Eliahou's son; and his commentary of the fight for food, in which a son beats his father to death. All of these moments of brutality are motivated by the conditions the prisoners are forced to undergo. In order to save themselves, these sons sacrifice their fathers. As Elie states Akiba Drumer's despair, all the memoirs run through, particularly in the guilt and sadness that Elie feels after his father's death. Despite the love and care he has shown his father, he feels that he has somehow sacrificed his father for his own safety. Night's setback of this example implies the way the Holocaust has turned Eliezer's entire world upside down. His descriptions of his behavior toward his father seem to nullify his guilty feelings. He depends on his father for support, and his love for his father allows him to endure. During the long run to Gleiwitz, he says, "My father's presence was the only thing that stopped me [from allowing myself to die]. . . . I had no right to let myself die. What would he do without me? I was his only support." Their relationship demonstrates that Elie's love, and harmony are stronger forces of survival than his intuition for self-protection.


3.Rhetorical/Literary Devices: Identify at least five devices in your Genocide Biography. Use specific quotes to demonstrate each device.

Device Examples
Simile/Imagery "Then, two 'gravediggers' grabbed him be the head and feet and threw him from the wagon, like a sack of flour" (98).
Repetition "It was cold. We got into our bunks. The last night in Buna. Once more, the last night. The last night at home, the last night in the ghetto, the last night in the cattle car, and, now, the last night in Buna. How much longer would out lives be from one 'last night' to the next" (83)?
Parallelism "You have betrayed, allowing them to be tortured, slaughtered, gassed, and burned, what do they do" (68)?
Rhetorical Question "'Are you scared?' We too were scared" (70).
Hyperbole "I felt as though I had been running for years…" (72).
Irony "Let's hope that we shan't regret it, Eliezer."
"I learned after the war the fate of those who had stayed behind in the hospital. They were quite simply liberated by the Russians two days after the evacuation" (82).
Foreshadowing "My God, Lord of the Universe, give me strength never to do what Rabbi Eliahou's son has done" (91).


4.Elaborate on one or two literary/rhetorical devices from above devices. Interpret the significance of the device to the text as a whole or the world as a whole. Write 8-10 sentences.

One literary device Elie Wiesel focuses on is situational irony, an outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected, and the difference between what is expected to happen and what actually does. Elie's foot begins to swell because of the cold and Elie and his father have to decide if they wanted to stay at the hospital or be evacuated from Buna with the rest of the prisoners. His tone in illustrating this intentional mistake is understated and somewhat ironic. After Elie suggests to his father that they leave with the other prisoners, his father replies, "Let's hope that we shan't regret it, Eliezer" (82). Right after they leave the camp they regret their decisions: "I learned after the war the fate of those who had stayed behind in the hospital. They were quite simply liberated by the Russians two days after the evacuation" (82). This laid-back, nearly isolated paragraph clearly conveys the bitter remorse that Wiesel feels for having made the wrong decision, and like the speaker, the audience is troubled by how things could have turned out differently had they choose to stay. This brings pity to the readers and catharsis follows due to their strong fate decided upon by the God.
5.Describe and discuss the diction or syntax in the biography. Interpret its significance to the text as a whole or the world as a whole. Write 8-10 sentences.

The biography deals with the actions of the Nazis and how they alter the lives of the Jews through their very surroundings. When the prisoners arrive at Gleiwitz, Elie finds himself lying on top of Juliek, a boy who played the violin in the band at Buna. Through Juliek's image, Eliezer observes on how silent the barracks usually are at night, but this silence is one of horror, nightmares, and distressed exhaustion. Silence is one of the key themes of the novel, and sounds that disrupt the silence, such as Madame Schaechter's hysterical screaming, prove very evident. In the same manner, Juliek's violin-playing breaks the silence, this time filling the night with rare beauty and poignancy: "He played a fragment from Beethoven's concerto. I had never heard sounds so pure. In such a silence" (95). The music is so pure among the silence of the night, and Juliek indulges his whole self and being into his music, which is only heard by an audience of dead and dying men. After being deprived his life, morality, and future by the Nazis and after having becoming a person with no sensations, he takes everything that has been denied him and infuses it into his music: "He was playing his life. The whole of his life was gliding on the strings his lost hopes, his charred past, his extinguished future. He played as he would never play again" (95). The words "charred" and "extinguished" suggest the image of the scorching crematory and point out how crudely and viciously the Nazis ruined the essence of human life in the concentration camps.

Originally posted by: .:Megha:.

it's not double-spaced though right?

yeah 😆 it's actually max 4 pages double spaced 😆 😆 so, same diff

Originally posted by: .:Megha:.

Night: After-Reading 2

1.Five to ten main plot points: List the most important plot points of the act. These should be the most important parts of the act, not peripheral. Bullet points would be appropriate.

•All the Jews collaborate to observe Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Elie begins to lose faith in God due to his terrifying encounters.
•The SS holds a selection for the crematories right after the New Year. The prisoners run as fast as possible past Dr. Mengele hoping to not be one of the "selected" few. Elie and his father manage to escape it.
•During winter Elie's foot swells up from the cold. The camp is to be vacated because the Russian army is approaching. Elie and his father decide to be evacuated with the rest of the prisoners.
•The prisoners are forced to run until they reach Gleiwitz, which they are then crowded into barracks where people are piled on top of each other.
•When they arrive at Buchenwald, Eile's father is too weak and is about to die of dysentery. His father tries to tell his son where the gold is buried.
•His father is attacked and an SS guard hits his skull with a truncheon. His father does not die, but his body is taken out.
•Elie remains at Buchenwald till he is transferred to the children's block.
•The Jews are evacuated from the camp in thousands each day. There is a battle between the camp resistance organization and the SS. That evening an American tank arrives at the camp.
•Elie becomes hospitalized for two weeks of food poisoning. When he recovers, he looks at himself, where the eyes of a corpse look back at him.

2.Dialectical Journals: One processing dialectical journals with the dialectical journal(s) to which it refers. Use a t-chart for your dialectical journal.

Quote Interpretation
"A terrible thought loomed up in my mind: [Rabbi Eliahou's son] had wanted to get rid of his father. He had felt that his father was growing weak, he had believed that the end was near and had sought this separation in order to get rid of the burden, to free himself from an encumbrance which could lessen his own chances of survival.
I had done well to forget that…
My God, Lord of the Universe, give me strength never to do what Rabbi Eliahou's son has done" (91). This quote highlights the delicacy of the father-son relationship in Eliezer's life just before they head to Gleiwitz. Every victim of the Holocaust needed a motive to struggle, a motive to want to survive. For many, that reason was faith in God and the goodness of mankind. Elie had lost that faith, and his relationship with his father is what keeps him striving on further. His incident has taught him that the Nazis' cruelty interferes with one's perspective and engenders provokes cruelty among the prisoners. Self-preservation becomes the most valuable virtue in the world of the Holocaust and leads prisoners to commit crimes against one another. Elie fears that he will lose control over himself and turn against his father. In the concentration camps, Elie has learned that any human being, even himself, is capable of unthinkable cruelty. His prayer to God reflects the deficiency in his nature of the loss of faith. He senses his capability for weakness and appeals to a greater power for help. He says he does not relate himself to God, but he turns to God when he doubts his ability to control himself. Elie no longer judges himself "master of nature, master of the world," but he needs help regulating his base impulses and ways of thinking.

Processing dialectical journal [(5: Thematic Analysis)]:

Eliezer is dismayed with the horrific egocentricity he sees around him, especially when it involves the break of familial bonds. In different occasions, he mentions sons horribly mistreating fathers: his horrific conclusion about the intentions of Rabbi Eliahou's son; and his commentary of the fight for food, in which a son beats his father to death. All of these moments of brutality are motivated by the conditions the prisoners are forced to undergo. In order to save themselves, these sons sacrifice their fathers. As Elie states Akiba Drumer's despair, all the memoirs run through, particularly in the guilt and sadness that Elie feels after his father's death. Despite the love and care he has shown his father, he feels that he has somehow sacrificed his father for his own safety. Night's setback of this example implies the way the Holocaust has turned Eliezer's entire world upside down. His descriptions of his behavior toward his father seem to nullify his guilty feelings. He depends on his father for support, and his love for his father allows him to endure. During the long run to Gleiwitz, he says, "My father's presence was the only thing that stopped me [from allowing myself to die]. . . . I had no right to let myself die. What would he do without me? I was his only support." Their relationship demonstrates that Elie's love, and harmony are stronger forces of survival than his intuition for self-protection.


3.Rhetorical/Literary Devices: Identify at least five devices in your Genocide Biography. Use specific quotes to demonstrate each device.

Device Examples
Simile/Imagery "Then, two 'gravediggers' grabbed him be the head and feet and threw him from the wagon, like a sack of flour" (98).
Repetition "It was cold. We got into our bunks. The last night in Buna. Once more, the last night. The last night at home, the last night in the ghetto, the last night in the cattle car, and, now, the last night in Buna. How much longer would out lives be from one 'last night' to the next" (83)?
Parallelism "You have betrayed, allowing them to be tortured, slaughtered, gassed, and burned, what do they do" (68)?
Rhetorical Question "'Are you scared?' We too were scared" (70).
Hyperbole "I felt as though I had been running for years…" (72).
Irony "Let's hope that we shan't regret it, Eliezer."
"I learned after the war the fate of those who had stayed behind in the hospital. They were quite simply liberated by the Russians two days after the evacuation" (82).
Foreshadowing "My God, Lord of the Universe, give me strength never to do what Rabbi Eliahou's son has done" (91).


4.Elaborate on one or two literary/rhetorical devices from above devices. Interpret the significance of the device to the text as a whole or the world as a whole. Write 8-10 sentences.

One literary device Elie Wiesel focuses on is situational irony, an outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected, and the difference between what is expected to happen and what actually does. Elie's foot begins to swell because of the cold and Elie and his father have to decide if they wanted to stay at the hospital or be evacuated from Buna with the rest of the prisoners. His tone in illustrating this intentional mistake is understated and somewhat ironic. After Elie suggests to his father that they leave with the other prisoners, his father replies, "Let's hope that we shan't regret it, Eliezer" (82). Right after they leave the camp they regret their decisions: "I learned after the war the fate of those who had stayed behind in the hospital. They were quite simply liberated by the Russians two days after the evacuation" (82). This laid-back, nearly isolated paragraph clearly conveys the bitter remorse that Wiesel feels for having made the wrong decision, and like the speaker, the audience is troubled by how things could have turned out differently had they choose to stay. This brings pity to the readers and catharsis follows due to their strong fate decided upon by the God.
5.Describe and discuss the diction or syntax in the biography. Interpret its significance to the text as a whole or the world as a whole. Write 8-10 sentences.

The biography deals with the actions of the Nazis and how they alter the lives of the Jews through their very surroundings. When the prisoners arrive at Gleiwitz, Elie finds himself lying on top of Juliek, a boy who played the violin in the band at Buna. Through Juliek's image, Eliezer observes on how silent the barracks usually are at night, but this silence is one of horror, nightmares, and distressed exhaustion. Silence is one of the key themes of the novel, and sounds that disrupt the silence, such as Madame Schaechter's hysterical screaming, prove very evident. In the same manner, Juliek's violin-playing breaks the silence, this time filling the night with rare beauty and poignancy: "He played a fragment from Beethoven's concerto. I had never heard sounds so pure. In such a silence" (95). The music is so pure among the silence of the night, and Juliek indulges his whole self and being into his music, which is only heard by an audience of dead and dying men. After being deprived his life, morality, and future by the Nazis and after having becoming a person with no sensations, he takes everything that has been denied him and infuses it into his music: "He was playing his life. The whole of his life was gliding on the strings his lost hopes, his charred past, his extinguished future. He played as he would never play again" (95). The words "charred" and "extinguished" suggest the image of the scorching crematory and point out how crudely and viciously the Nazis ruined the essence of human life in the concentration camps.

dude, i JUST read this book in class, like 3 weeks ago 😆 😆

see that^^
the formatting is a bit wierd though
we had to read this book called night bt elie wiesel
it's really good..this was the analyzing and interpreting of the 2nd half of the book

ooo...u both are sophomore's in HS...neat...

Hinna: some tips are to study study and study!!!...hopefully you hve a lot of practice w/ DBQ's b/ those suck 🤢 ....i hate history..so i did horrible on the exam..i'm more science n math type of person...good luck next week!

i know both my sisters are taking AP US History exam next week...their class final's tom...well today 😆

gosh....never read that book

one of my favorite books is The Count of Monte Cristo...its a classic...of course my ultimate favorite is Pride & Prejudice 😳

i'll take AP US History next year
it's world history this year for our school