Quote from Night

"Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky.
Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever. Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live. 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."

Night SPOILER

So I'm just going to go ahead and spoil the whole book for you. I finished the book in about 45 minutes and really short, but very densely packed with hopelessness. It starts off with the story of this guy who he used to learn with when he was a little boy. That man comes back to town one day with a horrible story that the Nazis shot people into a mass grave. From the first page onward the book details the brutal life during the Holocaust. On his first night in camp, they are told to follow a guard the guard leads them straight to the ovens, they all begin to think their lives have come to an end, when right before the door into the ovens, the guard turns and they are spared for another day. The rest of the book talks about more deaths and murders, his father becomes very weak and dies. His mother and other siblings are killed in the very beginning of the book in the very first selection. At the very end of the book, the Red Army is closing in on the camp so they are taken on a death march through the snow. Few survive, however he makes it out alive and is eventually liberated. It's a very hard book and every page if full of sadness and death. It's not a light read, it's very intense and there is no happiness at all.

Night

When I initially looked at the book list Night by Elie Wiesel caught my eye. It was one of the few I'd heard of and I'd also heard about it from a friend. My friend told me that Night is what caused her to lose her faith, because if there was a God he wouldn't have let something like that happen. So with that ever so inspiring and highly uplifting recommendation I went and got the book. Right now I'm about 40 pages in and it's already very horrible, to think that this isn't just a book, not just a story written to have a deep moral. It's something that happened to real people, it's crazy, very hard to think about that happening.

Happy Birthday!

Happy birthday to one of my most favorite people ever, Noah Smith! Yay! he turned 14 today so Mazel Tov!! And may his castle walls and salmon sheets keep him lucky (which he'll need for football) and also a shout of to Devyn :)

Public School :)

I'd like to wish Elly luck on her first day at real people school!! Don't get shanked, because you have to come visit Akiba!

Elly Kushner

This post is for Elly the most awkwardly returtled child, who wants to kill herself when she sees my blog because it's so awkward.

My first post! A cause for some serious celebration

I don't really have anything to say, but my blog was very sad and lonely all by it's self, so I'm posting this so it will feel better. I don't have to book I want to read yet, and the one I'm reading isn't on the list so I have nothing book related to say. And y'all don't want to hear about my super interesting life, so farewell!