Holocaust book club reflections

     In my book Night the main character Elie Wiesel repeatedly showed he loved his father. When they first got to the concentration camp he did not want to get separated from his father. Through out the book they gave many examples of Elie not wanting to leave his fathers side. Like when they were in the concentration camp he always wanted to be with his father. When they got out of the cattle car Elie’s father was sent to a line were people that could not walk well were sent and Elie saved him from being killed, the reason why he went back for him was because they had gotten separated. Another time when Elie kept his farther alive was when they were in the death marches and Elie’s father wanted to take a nap but Elie did not allow him because he said his father was the reason for him living. This shows that he did not want to be left alone. These examples also show how Elie always had his fathers back and he would care for him. This teaches me to care and have my families back no matter what happens. This is something I want to do in my own life because Your family is like the people that support you the most, and it is important to always have them by your side.

     The impact we have on decisions made is huge nowadays. Even back in the holocaust, the Nazis became a big political group because people supported them. Now it is still the same thing, you vote for people that you think will do a good job running in office. So obviously your say can have a big impact, because you can be the one vote that changes everything. Back in the Holocaust the Nazis and Hitler rose to power because they used propaganda to influence to people to support them even if it wasn’t the best thing to support them. The way the Nazis rose to power teaches us that our votes matter because back in the Holocaust if people never started to support the Nazis maybe the Holocaust would have never happened because the Nazis would not have become popular and nobody would have ever supported them.