In the book Night by Eliezer Wiesel, is about how he and his family was before and after they were placed in a concentration camp. Eliezer talks about how the concentration camps and the conditions they were facing had affected him and the other jews, gypsies, etc,. Eliezer knew what was going to happen, if he and the other refugees give up hope of survival during the years or months they have been in a concentration camp.…
This book was so captivating that I found it difficult to put the book down. More often than not I would choose reading over sleep. It was so beautifully written that as a…
“I became A-7713. After that I had no other name” (Wiesel). Imagine living in a place where you were called a number instead of your name. In Night, by Elie Wiesel, he writes that this is an everyday occurrence in his memoir about living in concentration camps. This novel tells readers exactly how it was living in a concentration camp at every hour of the day. Wiesel explains his journey from days before he was taken, all the way to the day the war ended and he was able to get out of the concentration camp. Originally, Elie wrote an 800 page story in Yiddish, but one of his kin edited it making it into the story it is today. Overall, I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who is interested in the Holocaust or curious about what it was like.…
When I was in elementary school they made us read. My mom told me that when she used to try and read to me at night I was always busy trying to read another book. I was a person who loved to read.…
When I was a preteen, my parents thought that reading as a good habit needed to be fostered from my childhood. Therefore, I had bedtime stories since I was three years old. My parents would prepare different stories and read for me everyday. The books at that time always had more cartoons than characters, and my parents would teach me to recognize characters in the books.…
The book Night helps us remember and honor the victims of night by showing us what it was like back then. The book night showed us not only Elie’s life but all the people who was in the camps. They showed us what they would do on a daily basis. In the book it talks about what he did to survive and that's why we honor, because he survived along with all the other survivors that came from camps. In his book he talks about his faith,his bond with his father, and they aren't being treated like humans.…
When you have to fight everyone to survive, would you fight? Would you still fight if it meant fighting against your loved ones? Eliezer, a Jewish teen, had to experience the gruesome moments when son’s killed their fathers for food and families turned on each other just to survive. He experienced how people were dying and would beg for food and all they would receive was silence or an insult. You had to learn how to survive in a concentration camp and surviving meant only caring for yourself.…
I have to agree with you! I always knew the importance of reading aloud, but I didn’t know that reading to babies was also important as well, as Mem Fox discussed. I truly didn’t think that babies would be able to understand what was being read and I didn’t realize the benefits of reading to them at such a young age. I also agree that reading three books each night is a goal that should be accomplished because it is a “do-able” amount. I think the Mem Fox reading really opened my eyes even more about the benefits of reading out loud to children.…
Can you imagine that the world’s youngest billionaires and the best known co-founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, quit his occupation just to have stress free environment in order to curl up with a good book? Well, Carol Shields would do anything to curl up with a good book as she explained in her essay of “The Case for Curling Up with a Book”. Shields published this essay in 1997 to persuade people to read without any interruptions. She encouraged us to use our brain to the fullest since reading requires a lot of concentration. Besides, she was reminding us the reasons and the passion to read. Curling up with a book requests time and solitude, demands our full attention and requires us to get into the reading.…
In “What No Bedtime Story Means: Narrative Skills at Home and Schools,” Shirley Brice Heath explains the advantages and affects of reading bedtime stories to children. Heath exemplifies the affects of reading bedtime stories to children, by comparing and contrasting kids from different families and communities. For the first child, the family viewed bedtime stories as a necessity. Through the readings, they believed that the child would grow up having an advanced vocabulary and would learn how to speak quicker than other children. From such an early age, these children were trained to listen to the storyteller, and to only speak when the teller required it out of them.…
“‘Men to the left! Women to the right!’ Eight words spoken quietly, indifferently, without emotion. Eight simple short words. Yet that was the moment when I left me mother. There was no time to think, and I already felt my father’s hand press against mine: we were alone. In a fraction of a second I could see my mother, my sisters moving to the right (29).”…
n part II, chapter eight of Bernhard Schlink's The Reader, the first-person narrator Michael describes reading the account written by a concentration camp who had survived along with her mother, the soul survivors in a large group of women who were being marched away from the camp. He says, "the book...creates distance. It does not invite one to identify with it and makes no one sympathetic..." The same could be said of The Reader. The book is written in such a way as to distance one from the characters. It prevents people from sympathizing with Hanna or Michael or anyone else, taking a sort of detached viewpoint from their problems. This can be paralleled to the efforts of the German people towards Vergangenheitsbewältigung, or "coping with the past." In coping with Germany's Nazi history, the Germans attempted to distance themselves from it and the moral implications it presented. They tried to understand it without involving themselves in it, since involving themselves could implicate them. The one person in the book who cannot distance herself, Hanna, is still unsympathetic because everyone else distances themselves from her, making it impossible to sympathize with any aspect of her plight. Hanna is symbolic of German history in this respect.…
When I was a young girl my mother would read to me every night before I went to sleep. She would read all types of books from fairy tales to nursery rhymes, fiction and non-fiction, I loved them all. I wouldn't fall asleep until she would read the entire book, or at least I would try, but her voice was so soothing that I couldn't help it but to close my eyes and fall into a deep sleep. I would sometimes fine myself trying to read along with her but at that time I was only three and hadn't started school yet so I didn't know how to read. All I could dream of was going to school and learning how to read and write. It all started when I was a little girl at the age of five I had just started kindergarten at Walker Elementary School. When I first walked into the school I could smell the crayons and paint coming from each room leaking into the hall ways. My first day of school was very exciting I was the shortest girl in the class but I got along with everyone. My teachers name was Miss, Brown she was a tall dark skin lady with long black hair and an accent that I could barely understand but that never stopped me from listening to every word she said. I enjoyed school so much especially the reading time. Miss Brown would ring her golden bell which signaled that it was reading and comprehension time. Everyone would sit in a circle while Miss, Brown sat right in the middle she would grab a book from the many book selves that was stored in the back of the class. As Miss, Brown sat in the middle of the floor I could see she had one of my favorite book Green Eggs and Ham. Every week Miss, Brown would pick a student to help her read aloud to the class and this week it was my turn. Green Eggs and Ham was the first book my mother every read to me. I knew that book like the back of my hand I was so ready to take charge and read that book like a pro. As I sat in the circle with Miss, Brown and listen to her read the first few…
At an older age now, I read more challenging books and have more time to read. I enjoy reading when I am stressed out because it calms down my brain. I also enjoy reading before I go to bed because it helps me fall asleep faster. There are different types of genres in the reading world and my favorites are action, sci-fi, and comedy. I have many places in which I enjoy reading, but the most comfortable place to read would be in my bed. I read whenever I have absolutely nothing to do; for example after my homework or while I am waiting for someone or something.…
I like to read books before sleeping. I think it is very good when you have a settled timetable. You feel more organized.…