Night Blog out Week 1 (chapters 1 and 2)

On your blog, write and publish a post responding to what we have read in Night this week. 

The post can:

• Expand on an idea from your freewriting (or a new idea you have been thinking about)
• or respond to one of the following questions:

-Time and again, the people of Sighet doubt the advance of the German army.  Why? When the Germans do arrive, and even once they have moved all the Jews into ghettos, the Jewish townspeople still seem to ignore or suppress their own fear… “Most people thought…” (page 21)  What might be the reasons for the townspeople’s widespread denial of the evidence in front of them?

-There are a few instances where we learn of Eliezer and his family missing out on opportunities to escape from the Germans (pg. 14, 20).  How do these missed chances influence your reading of this memoir?  How do these unfortunate events fit into your understanding of the Jewish experience of the Holocaust as a whole?

Your post should be thoughtful, text based, proofread carefully, 1/2 to 1 pg.  It needs to be published before Monday.