Colin's Night blog #2

In this short chapter of the novel the jews are loaded onto the trains and moved to the concentration camps. On this voyage the Jews seem to lose all sense of self-pride as they are trapped in a hot box with many people and little air.
During the voyage a woman who has been seperated from her husband and child begins to crack. She constantly scream FIRE, LOOK AT THE FIRE, when there is no fire to be seen. She constantly wakes everyone up with her screaming and has to be restrained several times. However at the end of the chapter she screams FIRE and she is pointing at the crematorium.
This chapter was very short, but it gave good insight to how the voyage was starting to affect the prisoner's mental states. It also did the job of explaining the hope they had for the concentration camps, which was sadly mistaken.

Night blog Chapter 1

So far in the book "Night" we have followed a young Jewish boy whose family is being affected by the Haulocost. Him, his father, mother, and three sisters live in a small Russian village that has a relatively large Jewish population.
They are warned by a man named Moishe the Beadle that the germans are cruely slaughtering the Jewish people, however his predictions are thrown aside due to the towns idealistic view that the Germans will never reach them. However they are quickly proven wrong when they forcibly enclosed into an all jewish section of the city, then moved from their section to an unknown location. As the chapter ends they are preparing to begin their journey into the unknown.
This book had a slow start that originally had me lost and i had no clue what was happening, but over the course of the first ten pages the setup was explained. The book is not particularlay interesting, but it looks at this point that it is building up deep characters and is building suspense that i believe will eventually lead to a great climax.