Wednesday, December 1, 2010
When you have been eating alot for long time and your stomache is so full and your stomache is filled to it's maximum capacity is your stomach still the same size? If the jews in the holocaust had been tortured and starved and parched from lack of water for so long are they still alive are they still the same people that they were before? Do they still have the same values o have they just learned to fend for themselves if they were rich with money and bursting at the seams with friends and family and then suddenly every thing and every one is gone nothing is left and they are forced to work for their lives, are they still the same people? In the end of The book night Eli Weisel looks at himsef in the mirror and doesnt see a boy who is alive and well, he sees a boy who's soul is dieing.
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Very profound thoughts, Noa. I'm glad you got so much out of the book--even if it did ruin your life for a couple of days (like a good book is apt to do sometimes!). I especially noticed your comments about having to reform your identity after it's all over. There's no way you can hope for the same things out of life--or even hold the same values. You have to recreate yourself because the old things that were once important just seem stupid and foolish now. It's one of the reasons I have so much respect for people like my grandparents, who survived the camps and then rebuilt life here in America. Much harder than anything I've ever done--or, hopefully, will ever have to do...
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