The Journey Has Began - Ashly Dominguez, Kimberly Canizalez period. 2/3

  The opening of this book "Night" by Elie Wiesel begins with a poor man named Moishe the Beadle who is a foreigner Jew. Moishe was a well liked guy who minded his own business and stood out of everyones way. He worked in the synagogue and taught the Kabbala to Elie Wiesel. He would teach Wiesel religious spiritual views of the mysteries of God, which his father was highly against because his father thought he was too young to learn. Wiesel was a young boy who was very religious. His father was highly regarded in the Jewish community and he was a shop keeper in Sighet.

   The Germans had a sneaky way of exterminating the Jews. Everything had happened so quick. Moishe tried warning the town Jews what was coming their way, but instead people only felt pity for him and changed their entire perspective of him. When Moishe came back, he told Elie what had happened to him and the rest of the Jews that were taken with him. He told him how the Germans mistreated and tortured them, but Elie was curious and questioned Moishe why he desperately wanted people to believe him. Moishe responded ,"'I wanted to come back to Sighet to tell you the story of my death. So that you could prepare yourselves while there was still time. To live? I don't attach any importance to my life any more. I'm alone. No, I wanted to come back, and to warn you. And see how it is, no one will listen to me...'"(7). Moishe tried warning Elies father for the last time, but his father refused to listen and after Moishe disappeared because no one would listen to him.

   Suddenly, the Germans began dehumanizing the Jews little by little. Soon after two ghettos were made in Sighet, the large ghetto was were Elies family lived in at first. The smaller ghetto was where Elie and his family were to wait to be transported. Throughtout this experience Elie began to grow hatered torwards the Hungarian police because they were the first oppressors. It was a Sunday when the cattle cars were waiting for them. In each cattle car, eighty people were to be fitted,if any tried to escape they would be shot. Finally, Elie and his family were on their way to a journey they would never forget.