Ismael+and+Kobe

1."What do you expect? That's war..." (Wiesel 6) 2. "Jews, listen to me! That's all I ask of you. No money. No pity. Just listen to me me!" (Wiesel 7) 3. “But people not only refused to believe his tales, they refused to listen. Some even insinuated that he only wanted their pity, that he was imagining things.” My thoughts on this sad irony is the fact that he tried to help and warn his own people, but they wouldn't listen to him. Moishe use to be a well respected man, but after his time away, it's as if no one even remembered him. I could only imagine what he must have been going through when he was completely tossed aside. Even by the person that looked up to him the most.
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1. An important quote that really captured my eye from the choices was the first one, "What do you expect? That's war..." (Wiesel 6). What is interesting about the quote is that war is the same and that you are not going to gain more than intended. And living during that time there was not much hope for their own lives and instead of believing good things will come and they will have hope, people lost it and lost faith. 2. Another quote that I chose was "But people not only refused to believe his tales, they refused to listen. Some even insinuated that he only wanted their pity, that he was imagining things." This can connect with the first quote because people in the Great Depression did not have much hope for anything good to happen at the time and when some one starts spreading stories of good things others will believe they are insane. It was a very sad time and Wiesel learned what it was like and what people had to go through. Now, he spreads his visions through his books.

B. part 2 1. "Do you see that chimney over there? See it? Do you see those flames? (Yes, we did see the flames.) Over there thats where you're going to be taken. Thats your grave, over there." (chapter 3) 2. "I did not deny God's existence, but I doubted His absolute justice" (chapter 3) 6 & 7 A. 1. "No!" I yelled. "He's not dead! Not yet!" 2. "Meir, my little Meir! Don't you recognize me...You're killing your father..I have bread...for you too...for you too..."

B. Chapter 6 and 7 Father and son in this book is about them staying together and keeping each other mentally alive. Sometimes they the father or son are not strong enough and go crazy and die inside.

8&9 A: Crammed into cattle cars by the Hungarian police, they cried silently. Standing on the station platform, we too were crying. The train disappeared over the horizon; all that was left was thick, dirty smoke. Behind me, someone said, sighing, "What do you expect? That's war..." -This may be the biggest thing to me in this story because it is true. Going through this situation you have to be able to understand that you cant get everything that you want. War is an event that if you want something, you have to take it by force.

B: "Meir, my little Meir! Don't you recognize me... You're killing your father... I have bread... for you too... for you too..." - For me, this was the most important part in the story because it shows that at that time people had to do anything to survive, even if it meant killing family members. It is very sad that you may try to keep each other alive and together but it is also very tough to do so.

Moishe the Beatle has gone through these horrible things that he says he has been through and he is trying to warn all but they do not care to listen. The people think he is crazy.

1. Reactions to Madam Schachter? Was it a logical reaction? Their reaction to Madame Schachter was to bound and gag her, and even to beat her to keep them all from going crazy after trying to comfort her. It was logical because if we put ourselves in their shoes, what they are going through, they didn't want anything else to stress them out.