Night Journal

“How is it possible that men, women, and children were being burned and that the world is kept silent, a nightmare perhaps? “

Elie and his father had just been separated into lines not knowing what their fate would be. For the first time, Elie and the others realize what is going on and that in some crazy way the lady screaming on the train was right about the fires. Elie see’s babies and children being tossed and the roasted in the fire. This creates a very graphic image in my head not to mention the smell it creates when someone says that the air “smells of burnt human flesh”. Elie was fifteen years old at the time and to have seen this was probably the most horrific experience of his life. But this just goes to show how bad things were back during WW2. In connection to modern day the quote from the book made me think about how the genocide in Darfur is going and still no is doing anything about it.