Provisions: a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
Bitterness: having a harsh, disagreeably acrid taste, like that of aspirin, quinine, wormwood, or aloes
Hysterical: of, pertaining to, or characterized by hysteria
Pious : having or showing a dutiful spirit of reverence for God or an earnest wish to fulfill religious obligations
Anguish: excruciating or acute distress, suffering, or pain: the anguish of grief.
Console : to alleviate or lessen the grief, sorrow, or disappointment of; give solace or comfort: Only his children could console him when his wife died.
Monotonous : lacking in variety; tediously unvarying: the monotonous flat scenery.
Scouring :to remove dirt, grease, etc., from or to cleanse or polish by hard rubbing, as with a rough or abrasive material: to scour pots and pans.
Truncheons: the club carried by a police officer; billy
Auschwitz : a town in SW Poland: site of Nazi concentration camp during World War II. 39,600.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
chapter 7 vocabulary
indifference: lack of interest or concern: We were shocked by their indifference toward poverty.
Distinguish: to mark off as different (often fol. by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height
Halt: to stop; cease moving, operating, etc., either permanently or temporarily: They halted for lunch and strolled about.
Inert: having no inherent power of action, motion, or resistance (opposed to active ): inert matter
Spectacle: anything presented to the sight or view, esp. something of a striking or impressive kind: The stars make a fine spectacle tonight.
Vitality: exuberant physical strength or mental vigor: a person of great vitality.
Spectators: a person who looks on or watches; onlooker; observer.
Disengage: to release from attachment or connection; loosen; unfasten: to disengage a clutch.
Grimace: a facial expression, often ugly or contorted, that indicates disapproval, pain, etc.
Loomed: a hand-operated or power-driven apparatus for weaving fabrics, containing harnesses, lay, reed, shuttles, treadles, etc.
Convoy: to accompany or escort, usually for protection: A destroyer convoyed the merchant ship.
Cargo: the lading or freight of a ship, airplane, etc.
Livid: having a discolored, bluish appearance caused by a bruise, congestion of blood vessels, strangulation, etc., as the face, flesh, hands, or nails.
Wailing: to utter a prolonged, inarticulate, mournful cry, usually high-pitched or clear-sounding, as in grief or suffering: to wail with pain.
Buchenwald :site of a former Nazi concentration camp in central Germany, near Weimar.
Distinguish: to mark off as different (often fol. by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height
Halt: to stop; cease moving, operating, etc., either permanently or temporarily: They halted for lunch and strolled about.
Inert: having no inherent power of action, motion, or resistance (opposed to active ): inert matter
Spectacle: anything presented to the sight or view, esp. something of a striking or impressive kind: The stars make a fine spectacle tonight.
Vitality: exuberant physical strength or mental vigor: a person of great vitality.
Spectators: a person who looks on or watches; onlooker; observer.
Disengage: to release from attachment or connection; loosen; unfasten: to disengage a clutch.
Grimace: a facial expression, often ugly or contorted, that indicates disapproval, pain, etc.
Loomed: a hand-operated or power-driven apparatus for weaving fabrics, containing harnesses, lay, reed, shuttles, treadles, etc.
Convoy: to accompany or escort, usually for protection: A destroyer convoyed the merchant ship.
Cargo: the lading or freight of a ship, airplane, etc.
Livid: having a discolored, bluish appearance caused by a bruise, congestion of blood vessels, strangulation, etc., as the face, flesh, hands, or nails.
Wailing: to utter a prolonged, inarticulate, mournful cry, usually high-pitched or clear-sounding, as in grief or suffering: to wail with pain.
Buchenwald :site of a former Nazi concentration camp in central Germany, near Weimar.
chapter 8 vocabulary
Emerged: to come forth into view or notice, as from concealment or obscurity: a ghost emerging from the grave; a ship emerging from the fog.
Hillock: a small hill
Timid: characterized by or indicating fear: a timid approach to a problem. Origin:
tiers : a layer; level; stratum: The wedding cake had six tiers. All three tiers of the firm's management now report to one director.
Beseeching: to implore urgently: They besought him to go at once
Livid: enraged; furiously angry: Willful stupidity makes me absolutely livid.
Dysentery: Pathology. an infectious disease marked by inflammation and ulceration of the lower part of the bowels, with diarrhea that becomes mucous and hemorrhagic
Invalids: a person who is too sick or weak to care for himself or herself: My father was an invalid the last ten years of his life.
Feverish: pertaining to, of the nature of, or resembling fever: a feverish excitement.
Spasmodically: resembling a spasm or spasms; sudden but brief; sporadic: spasmodic efforts at reform.
Summons: a request, demand, or call to do something: a summons to surrender.
Conscience: the inner sense of what is right or wrong in one's conduct or motives, impelling one toward right action: to follow the dictates of conscience.
Delirious: wild with excitement, enthusiasm, etc.: She was delirious with joy at the news.
Pleaded: to use arguments or persuasions, as with a person, for or against something: She pleaded with him not to take the job.
Cauldrons: A state or situation of great distress or unrest felt to resemble a boiling kettle or vat: a cauldron of conflicting corporate politics.
Hillock: a small hill
Timid: characterized by or indicating fear: a timid approach to a problem. Origin:
tiers : a layer; level; stratum: The wedding cake had six tiers. All three tiers of the firm's management now report to one director.
Beseeching: to implore urgently: They besought him to go at once
Livid: enraged; furiously angry: Willful stupidity makes me absolutely livid.
Dysentery: Pathology. an infectious disease marked by inflammation and ulceration of the lower part of the bowels, with diarrhea that becomes mucous and hemorrhagic
Invalids: a person who is too sick or weak to care for himself or herself: My father was an invalid the last ten years of his life.
Feverish: pertaining to, of the nature of, or resembling fever: a feverish excitement.
Spasmodically: resembling a spasm or spasms; sudden but brief; sporadic: spasmodic efforts at reform.
Summons: a request, demand, or call to do something: a summons to surrender.
Conscience: the inner sense of what is right or wrong in one's conduct or motives, impelling one toward right action: to follow the dictates of conscience.
Delirious: wild with excitement, enthusiasm, etc.: She was delirious with joy at the news.
Pleaded: to use arguments or persuasions, as with a person, for or against something: She pleaded with him not to take the job.
Cauldrons: A state or situation of great distress or unrest felt to resemble a boiling kettle or vat: a cauldron of conflicting corporate politics.
chapter 8 questions
Part One:
Wiesel treats his father with support and hope. He tells his father not to give up and that they will make it. Elie gave his father the rest of his soup when they didn’t feed his father. He has to look after his father and make sure he is fine.
I think that his attitude was understandable because its torture and they would want to survive and fight for themselves. Its harder when you have to look after someone else. Its good that even though they barely got any food, Elie sometimes would sacrifice some and give it to his father. I concur with the way that Elie was thinking and his attitude.
Elie cries when he gets whooped. When his father dies, he does not cry even though it hurts him that his dead and it also hurts him that he cant cry.
I just felt that he was a strong person. All the pain and the killing is something most people cant survive. At a young age, he was encountered with pain and torture and I just think what would it be if that was me or my sisters or my family. I felt so sad, so bad, and at the same time hurt because what happened to him was a horrible experience, beyond what words can explain. I don’t even know what to say to him, maybe sorry for all the pain. I just want to know how he felt as soon as he was freed and what happened after that.
Part two:
When an inmate told him that they were going to take showers he was fascinated. They had a long journey that’s why he was fascinated.
It was not easy because hundreds of prisoners were crowding there. The guards were unable to keep order.
His father changed because he longer care about surviving and making it through the Holocaust.
He meant that when he was arguing with his father he felt that he was fighting more with dead than his father because he was giving up on life.
He was ashamed of thinking that it be better if his dad was dead or gone. He was thinking that it be better if his dad was no there and he could probably have more chances of surviving.
He didn’t eat anything because he was thirsty and since he was ill, they didn’t want to feed him because they thought it would be a waste of food.
Elie’s father is getting ill and is losing hope. He seems to not care no more if he lives or not.
You live only fighting for yourself and not think of no one else. There are no fathers, no brothers, no friends. Everyone lives and dies for himself alone.
His last memory was his blood-stained face, his shattered skull.
His father died because the officer dealt him with a violent blow on the head with his truncheon.
Elie did no t cry because he had no more tears. It hurt him because he couldn’t cry.
I think he means that his father is free at last and at a better place.
Wiesel treats his father with support and hope. He tells his father not to give up and that they will make it. Elie gave his father the rest of his soup when they didn’t feed his father. He has to look after his father and make sure he is fine.
I think that his attitude was understandable because its torture and they would want to survive and fight for themselves. Its harder when you have to look after someone else. Its good that even though they barely got any food, Elie sometimes would sacrifice some and give it to his father. I concur with the way that Elie was thinking and his attitude.
Elie cries when he gets whooped. When his father dies, he does not cry even though it hurts him that his dead and it also hurts him that he cant cry.
I just felt that he was a strong person. All the pain and the killing is something most people cant survive. At a young age, he was encountered with pain and torture and I just think what would it be if that was me or my sisters or my family. I felt so sad, so bad, and at the same time hurt because what happened to him was a horrible experience, beyond what words can explain. I don’t even know what to say to him, maybe sorry for all the pain. I just want to know how he felt as soon as he was freed and what happened after that.
Part two:
When an inmate told him that they were going to take showers he was fascinated. They had a long journey that’s why he was fascinated.
It was not easy because hundreds of prisoners were crowding there. The guards were unable to keep order.
His father changed because he longer care about surviving and making it through the Holocaust.
He meant that when he was arguing with his father he felt that he was fighting more with dead than his father because he was giving up on life.
He was ashamed of thinking that it be better if his dad was dead or gone. He was thinking that it be better if his dad was no there and he could probably have more chances of surviving.
He didn’t eat anything because he was thirsty and since he was ill, they didn’t want to feed him because they thought it would be a waste of food.
Elie’s father is getting ill and is losing hope. He seems to not care no more if he lives or not.
You live only fighting for yourself and not think of no one else. There are no fathers, no brothers, no friends. Everyone lives and dies for himself alone.
His last memory was his blood-stained face, his shattered skull.
His father died because the officer dealt him with a violent blow on the head with his truncheon.
Elie did no t cry because he had no more tears. It hurt him because he couldn’t cry.
I think he means that his father is free at last and at a better place.
Friday, August 14, 2009
chapter 5 questions p.t 1
part 1
1. He was doubting god because he saw a little kid and the rest of his family get hanged he also stopped asked praying because he said that there was no point.
2. The relationship with hi his dad was ok they would talk and Elie had a lot of questions for his dad about god and he would keep asking that if there was a god why was all this happening.
3. he was told to work while the guy that was supervising him and this girl told them that he had to do something but really he was doing this girl and Elie got caught and they lined everybody up and they showed everybody that this is what would happen if anyone was to disobey them and he got wiped to the point that he fainted
1. He was doubting god because he saw a little kid and the rest of his family get hanged he also stopped asked praying because he said that there was no point.
2. The relationship with hi his dad was ok they would talk and Elie had a lot of questions for his dad about god and he would keep asking that if there was a god why was all this happening.
3. he was told to work while the guy that was supervising him and this girl told them that he had to do something but really he was doing this girl and Elie got caught and they lined everybody up and they showed everybody that this is what would happen if anyone was to disobey them and he got wiped to the point that he fainted
chapter 5 questions p.t 2
1. It was different because it was the last day of that accursed ear where the whole camp was electric with the tension.
2. 1.) “What does your greatness mean, Lord of the Universe, in the face of all this weakness, this decomposition, and this decay?” 2.) “What are you my God” 3.) “Why, but why should I bless him?”
3. The solemn service was sad. Eliezer didn’t believe none of that because he was questioning about how can God let such thing happen to them.
4. Yom Kippur was the Day of Atonement.
5. Elie did not fast mainly to please his father that had forbidden him to do so.
6. He felt there was no reason for him to fast and he longer accepted God’s silence.
7. He been transferred to another unit, a building one, he had to drag blocks of stone for like 12 hours.
8. They would write down his number and say it was good for the crematory.
9. They must get undressed then one by one go before the SS doctors. They can’t walk slowly they must run.
10. Dr. Mengele was the doctor that did weird experiments with the prisoners.
11. His dad was in panic because they wrote down his number.
12. The inheritance was a knife and a spoon that his dad gave him because he though he was going to die. They were important because they used those things to eat.
13. Yes, his dad live and Akiba Drumer was not so lucky.
14. He couldn’t feel his foot.
15. The journey was that they were marching to another camp.
16. So that they’ll realize there were men living there and not pigs.
17. I can say that his dad and son still have a strong relationship and they are thinking of each other and not been selfish. For example, when the father gives him a knife, spoon and also extra ratio of bread.
18. his neighbor met his at the hospital and told him that Hitler plan to kill all the Jews before the clock strikes 12.
2. 1.) “What does your greatness mean, Lord of the Universe, in the face of all this weakness, this decomposition, and this decay?” 2.) “What are you my God” 3.) “Why, but why should I bless him?”
3. The solemn service was sad. Eliezer didn’t believe none of that because he was questioning about how can God let such thing happen to them.
4. Yom Kippur was the Day of Atonement.
5. Elie did not fast mainly to please his father that had forbidden him to do so.
6. He felt there was no reason for him to fast and he longer accepted God’s silence.
7. He been transferred to another unit, a building one, he had to drag blocks of stone for like 12 hours.
8. They would write down his number and say it was good for the crematory.
9. They must get undressed then one by one go before the SS doctors. They can’t walk slowly they must run.
10. Dr. Mengele was the doctor that did weird experiments with the prisoners.
11. His dad was in panic because they wrote down his number.
12. The inheritance was a knife and a spoon that his dad gave him because he though he was going to die. They were important because they used those things to eat.
13. Yes, his dad live and Akiba Drumer was not so lucky.
14. He couldn’t feel his foot.
15. The journey was that they were marching to another camp.
16. So that they’ll realize there were men living there and not pigs.
17. I can say that his dad and son still have a strong relationship and they are thinking of each other and not been selfish. For example, when the father gives him a knife, spoon and also extra ratio of bread.
18. his neighbor met his at the hospital and told him that Hitler plan to kill all the Jews before the clock strikes 12.
chapter 4 question
Part one
I think that they cry because he was a young, nice, and loveable child that everyone liked. So people cried when they hanged an innocent child. I think they meant to say that God is within the child and that’s where he is at. The child was the only kid that was nice and he meant a lot to the people in their so he had a big meaning. I think this would change his future and the way he thinks and feels right now.
Part Two:
He was a German, an assassin’s face, fleshy lips, and hands like a wolf’s paws. He was so fat that he could barely move. He loved children.
Camp Buna was known to be a good camp.
I think they needed to stay in quarantine because since they were Jews, they thought that they were dirty and with diseases.
He needs to give up his shoes. He doesn’t give up his shoes because that’s the only thing he has from home.
The dentists was looking into their mouths because he was looking for gold.
Juliek was a bespectacled Pole with a cynical smile on his pale face that work in a warehouse for electrical equipment.
Elie’s job was sitting on the ground, count bolts, bulbs, and small electrical fittings.
Yossi and Tibi were brothers whose parents had been exterminated at Birkenau. They lived, body and soul for each other.
Alphonse was a German Jew. He was a young man with an extraordinary aged face, he was entirely devoted to the cause if his block.
Elie was taken to the dentist because he had a gold crown.
No, the dentist did not get what he wanted because Elie said that he wasn’t feeling good and that he had a temperature.
Elie and Idek got into a fight where Idek started hitting him on the chest and throwing him up and down making him bleed. Idek was a bad guy that didn’t like no one getting in his way.
The girl was a French girl, she gave him a mournful smile and slipped bit of bread into his hand. She also gave him like a little advice.
I think Elie had no pity for his dad because he was used to all the pain and misery that he felt no more emotions.
Franek notices that he has a gold crown and asks him to give up. So he tortures his father with marching and the stepping until they give in.
Elie’s consequence was 25 strokes with a whip.
People didn’t escape because they were no longer afraid of death at any rate. The bombs filled them with joy and gave them confidence.
They were not afraid because they enjoy feeling a little taste of revenge.
Elie’s said that he is with the little young boy been hanged.
Yes, I think his religion is dying in a way because of all his pain and misery his going through.
I think that they cry because he was a young, nice, and loveable child that everyone liked. So people cried when they hanged an innocent child. I think they meant to say that God is within the child and that’s where he is at. The child was the only kid that was nice and he meant a lot to the people in their so he had a big meaning. I think this would change his future and the way he thinks and feels right now.
Part Two:
He was a German, an assassin’s face, fleshy lips, and hands like a wolf’s paws. He was so fat that he could barely move. He loved children.
Camp Buna was known to be a good camp.
I think they needed to stay in quarantine because since they were Jews, they thought that they were dirty and with diseases.
He needs to give up his shoes. He doesn’t give up his shoes because that’s the only thing he has from home.
The dentists was looking into their mouths because he was looking for gold.
Juliek was a bespectacled Pole with a cynical smile on his pale face that work in a warehouse for electrical equipment.
Elie’s job was sitting on the ground, count bolts, bulbs, and small electrical fittings.
Yossi and Tibi were brothers whose parents had been exterminated at Birkenau. They lived, body and soul for each other.
Alphonse was a German Jew. He was a young man with an extraordinary aged face, he was entirely devoted to the cause if his block.
Elie was taken to the dentist because he had a gold crown.
No, the dentist did not get what he wanted because Elie said that he wasn’t feeling good and that he had a temperature.
Elie and Idek got into a fight where Idek started hitting him on the chest and throwing him up and down making him bleed. Idek was a bad guy that didn’t like no one getting in his way.
The girl was a French girl, she gave him a mournful smile and slipped bit of bread into his hand. She also gave him like a little advice.
I think Elie had no pity for his dad because he was used to all the pain and misery that he felt no more emotions.
Franek notices that he has a gold crown and asks him to give up. So he tortures his father with marching and the stepping until they give in.
Elie’s consequence was 25 strokes with a whip.
People didn’t escape because they were no longer afraid of death at any rate. The bombs filled them with joy and gave them confidence.
They were not afraid because they enjoy feeling a little taste of revenge.
Elie’s said that he is with the little young boy been hanged.
Yes, I think his religion is dying in a way because of all his pain and misery his going through.
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