Chattahoochee River
Thursday, January 22, 2015
Chap 3
In chapter three at the camps they take the men and strip off there cloths, shave there heads, and give them identical striped clothing all the same. Wiesel pronounced," We ceased to be men," this makes me thing of how the Germans believe they are more human than the Jews. They take away everything that symbolizes individualism and this gives Eliezer second thoughts about God. He beings to question everything, his own identity and being a child even though he's only 15. Eliezer's thoughts to commit suicide seem like a big step for some one so young. Although I feel like it was even a bigger step to stay alive because this way he could stay with his father.
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I agree with your idea, Brendee, that the Germans took away what made the Jews individuals. Do you think this also shows that our indivudualism and ability to express that (through such means as our clothes, but with even more significant things such as our religion/beliefs) is a huge part of our humanity? I mean, we all know animals are individuals with their own "personalities" and things, but for humans, these defining characteristics are much more significant I think.
ReplyDeleteI think the ability to express our individualism is a huge part of being a human being . This is an interesting thing to link to humanity though because humanity generally is more coming together where as our individual beliefs and preferences are what can create divides.
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