For the past two weeks I have been reading "Night" by Elie Wiesel, with my class. The book is about Elie, who is Jewish, surviving the Holocaust with his father in Auchwitz. The story starts off with Elie living his normal life as a pre-teen when his poor friend comes back from the woods and tells him his story. He was sent in a cattlecar by Hungarian police and sent in the middle of the forest to dg large holes. The Hungarian police would shoot people in the head and make them fall into the graves that they dug. Elie's friend escaped by faking his death when he was wounded. Ellie and his family were later forced to stay in their houses along with the whole neighborhood. All of the Jews were then taken on cattlecars. They couldn't eat or drink anything for days. One of the ladies in the cattlecar went crazy due to the loss of her family and from all of the starvation. She started seeing fires in the distance. She screamed every time she saw a fire. The Jews in the car were angry and hit her until she was quiet. They later stopped at Auschwitz where they saw large fires from large furnaces where bodies were being burned. Ellie was seperated from his mother and sisters. He was able to stay with his father with the help of another prisoner. Elie and his father were forced to march around the concentration camps to different barracks that kept different types of people that the Nazis despised. One barracks held Gypsies. Ellie's father asked the leader of the barracks who was also a gypsie for the directions to the bathroom. The gypsy slapped him on the face. The conditions of the prisoners was awful. It must have been very brave of Ellie to go through such a horrible event. The book is very thrilling and is very descriptive on the things Ellie describes in the novel.
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This week, a pregnancy counselor named Helen Rossi came to St. John Eudes to teach the eighth grade boys and girls about safe sex and the problems that unsafe sex can cause. She started off by saying the basic facts of sex. Then she showed us videos of embryos and cute pictures of babies in their mother's womb. But then, Mrs. Rossi showed us a depressing video about women talking about their abortion fifteen years after they had it. The women vividly describe the process. It made me feel sad for the women and their unborn children. The video was supposed to make abortion seem bad. And it certainly is bad. Next, she showed us a video about a boy named Jeremy who got his girlfriend pregnant. It completely ruined his life. Jeremy was a Senior in high school, but due to his complete devotion to his son, he never graduated. Jeremy did not want to be like his father, who left him when he was a baby. So he kept the baby and stayed with him. His girlfriend however, did not. She left Jeremy and he was left to care for his child with no money, no time, no education. It was very sad to see a nice man and his dreams get totally ruined because of unsafe sex. We learned that condoms frequently fail, and that birth control is pretty risky. A fun activity that we did was with a couple of plastic fruits. Helen Rossi tossed a couple of the fruits in the audience and we started passing it around. When it all ended, Mrs. Rossi announced that everyone that touched he pear, metaphorically caught aids. Everyone who touched the peach got Gonorrhea. The orange, Herpes. The exercise was supposed to explain how easy it was to spread STDs.
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