Fire/Flames

The role of Mrs. Schachter is to foreshadow. Seeing fire and flames symbolizes the way they are going to die, and it also symbolizes that the world is going to go up in flames.

Class Significance

• Mrs. Schachter reveals madness of the incident.
• Mrs. Schachter foreshadows the future.
• Hate breeds more hate.
• The fire symbolizes the ovens and cremation of Jews.
• The fire symbolizes death.
• The fire symbolizes burning of religion, culture, memories, etc.
• The fire symbolizes hate.
• The fire symbolizes hell.
• The fire symbolizes chaos, friction, conflicts, etc.

Foreshadowing in "Night"

1. All foreign Jews were expelled from Sighet.
2. Moishe tried to warn people of what's to come, but no one listened.
3. Elie's father was called to a meeting. They were all being moved to ghetto's.
4. They were moved to a smaller ghetto.
5. They were expelled and had to spend 24 hours in a destroyed synagogue until they were sent away.

Class Foreshadowing List

1. The foreign Jews were removed from Sighet.
2. Dirty smoke when leaving the train station.
3. Wearing the star of David.
4. Moishe the Beatle--->Tells us Jews were being slaughtered, Jews were digging their own
5. "What do you expect? That's war"
6. Ghetto--->Jews were held captive and kept in specific living spots.
7. Transporting in the cattle cars.

Night Scavenger Hunt

1. The Holocaust is the mass slaughter of 6 million Jews, and 5 millions others by the Nazi's and Hitler. It happened because the Nazi's had different religious/political views, and because these people failed to be of the Aryan race, which is blonde hair and blue eyes. It occurred in Europe, mainly in Germany, Poland and Austria.


2. The "final solution" plan was a code name for the Nazi's total extermination of the Jews, gypsies, and other's they were persecuting.


3. A "ghetto" was a city district in which the Germans concentrated the Jewish population and forced them to live under horrible conditions.


4. The living conditions in the ghettos were crowded. Jews had to wear the yellow star of David on their clothes to show they were Jewish.


5. Concentration Camps were where Jews were taken to live, and essentially be killed.


6. 1) To incarcerate real and perceived enemies of the Nazi regime and the German occupation authorities in Poland for an indefinite period of time.
    2) To have available a supply of forced laborers for deployment in SS-owned, construction-related enterprises (and, later, armaments and other war-related production)
    3) To serve as a site to physically eliminate small, targeted groups of the population whose death was determined by the SS and police authorities to be essential to the security of Nazi Germany. 


7. Approximately 1.1 million Jews were deported to Auschwitz. Approximately 200,000 other victims were deported. At least 960,000 Jews were killed. Other victims included approximately 74,000 Poles, 21,000 Gypsies, 15,000 Soviet prisoners of war, and 10,000-15,000 members of other nationalities (Soviet civilians, Czechs, Yugoslavs, French, Germans, and Austrians.


8. The Jews who were assigned to work in the factories had a much greater survival chance because factory workers were considered too valuable to kill, at least while they were still able to work.
Elie Wiesel worked at Monowitz.

What do I know about the Holocaust?

What do I know about the Holocaust?

• Hitler conducted it.
• Hitler wanted to kill all the Jews, homosexuals, and gypsies.
• The people were all put into concentration camps where they were treated horribly.
• Millions of people died and were killed.
• Hitler's perfect vision of a person had blonde hair and blue eyes.
• It happened during WWII.
• Anne Frank's diary was found and it told about what she went through to try and stay alive and hide from the Nazi's.
• Nazi's were the followers of Hitler who were also trying to kill the Jews.
• One of the main forms of execution was putting the prisoners into gas chambers.
• Hitler had a plan of "total extermination" of the Jews.
• Hitler's dad was abusive as a child and Hitler loved his mother very much. His mother came down with cancer and died and it is believed that her doctor was a Jew, and Hitler blamed the doctor for his mother's death. It is believed that that's why Hitler hated Jews so much.

What do we know about the Holocaust?

• U.S. troops found the first concentration camps in 1944.
• Hitler hated the Jews.
• Hitler wanted the Aryan race- blonde hair, blue eyes.
• Hitler was also prejudice to the gypsies, gays, and the mentally challenged.
• Anne Frank wrote a diary about it.
• Scientific experiments were performed on the Jews.
• Dr. Mengele performed the experiments.
• Experiments included splitting twins, cutting out people's eyes, face transplanting, etc.
• In the concentration camps, crying meant you were mentally unstable and you were kill.
• There were both death camps and work camps.
• There were mass killings and gas chambers.
• The Holocaust took place in Europe, mainly Germany, Poland, and Austria.
• 6 million Jews were said to have been killed, and 11 million people total were exterminated during the Holocaust.

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The Lottery: 9 Sentence Paragraph

In Shirley Jackson's short story, "The Lottery", irony is portrayed through the community event of the lottery. As the reader begins to read the story, they assume the lottery is something that is celebrated, but as the story progresses, the reader realizes that the lottery is nothing but a death sentence. In the beginning of the story, the setting sets the mood of a perfect summer's day. The first sentence states, " The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full summer day, the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green" (1) When people think of summer, they think of happy, joyful, good times. This makes the reader think that there will be no harm done and the results of the lottery will be something positive and good. As the reader gets more in depth into the story, he or she will realize that the lottery is really negative and bad: a death sentence. After everyone had picked a piece of paper out of the black box, they began to look around the crowd to see who had "won" the lottery. Bill Hutchinson was standing back quietly, staring down at the death sentence in his hand. Tessie Hutchinson started yelling at Mr. Summer's, saying "You didn't give him enough time to take the paper he wanted. I saw you. It wasn't fair!" (6) Since Tessie had "won", she finally came to the realization that the lottery wasn't fair and that it wasn't a good thing only because it was happening to her. That shows that winning the lottery isn't a good thing at all.