Sorry guys! The blog was being funny about logging in, so this is the first chance I've had to write! Anyway, the two points...
1. Post your definition of witness/bearing witness from class today.
2. In no more than three sentences define how Night is Wiesel's act of bearing witness.
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alright im being very brave and writing first, im kinda scared im not gonna sit here and lie to you
ReplyDelete1. my definition of bearing witness is being apart of a situation and proving your innocene through existance. Being alive and existant at the time allows a person to share their accounts, hence "bear witness"
2. Using my definition of bearing witness and the dictionary definition, "Night" is Weisel's act of bearing witness because since he experienced the horror and discrace during the Holocust, he is able to give us first hand information and give his account of his story and experience in the concentration camps. His existance at the camps allows Weisel to give his "side" of the story and almost prove his innocence in a way.
1. bearing witness: to have a first-hand experience and to be able to give an account of said experience
ReplyDelete2. Elie Wiesel is bearing witness by giving a first-hand account of his experience of the Holocaust in his point of view. He gives an account of the experience by writing the book, Night, and showing all the obstacles and torture he had went through with his account.
1.) Bearing Witness: telling or recounting your story or point of view of an event to a larger audience in the hopes of making the audience understand who, what, when, where, why and how from your first person perspective
ReplyDelete2.) Night is Wiesel's act of bearing witness as Weisel seeks to have the public understand the holocaust through his eyewitneess account. We see it is an autobiographical account: hence recounting a story, and through his experiences he answers questions about the experience of the holocaust only a survivor would know
Bearing Witness: Proving a certain truth based on your own knowledge, first-hand experience, and existence. Using your personal experiences and loss of innocence as evidence of corruption.
ReplyDelete"Night" is Wiesel's act of bearing witness because he wrote the story about his account during the Holocaust. The story is all about Wiesels journey and struggle to survive through the concentration camps. Just by acknowledging the situation and describing in such detail his account and what he had to go through, he is bearing witness to the event. His experiences in the camp are evidence of the Holocaust taking place.
1. bearing witness: Watching something that happened to other people in the past and later giving the story from your point of view
ReplyDelete2. Night is Wiesel's act of bearing witness because he is giving a first hand account of the horrors he lived through during the Holocaust. Throughout the novel Wiesel witnesses the torturing of several people and has to live life everyday hoping he doesnt have the same fate. The witnessing of people being tortured is something that Wiesel will never forget and is able to account for in his novel Night.
1. Bearing witness: Giving your testimony of a firsthand experience by telling your account of it, which in turn reveals the truth and brings someone or something to justice.
ReplyDelete2. Elie Wiesel bears witness in his book, Night, by surviving the horrors that took place during the Holocaust including but not limited to, being held in concentration/labor camps and experiencing the death of family and friends. He survives this whole ordeal in order to tell his firsthand account of what happened, proving that the Holocaust did in fact happen, and that the lives of millions were ruined. His story tells of the injustices done in the Holocaust and through his account, brings those who performed these injustices to justice through his truthful account.
1. Bearing witness: To have first hand/primary knowledge by taking part in experiencing a certain event. The point of view of the bearing witness is dependent on their interpretation of a specific event.
ReplyDelete2. Night is Wiesel's act of bearing witness because Elie was there to experience all of the horrors throughout the gruesome event of the Holocaust including: being held in the barracks, the concentration camps, being forced through labor and selections. Night acts as Elie's chance to share all of the information that he experienced throughout the concentration camps as a witness; therefore, the Holocaust and those who died in the Holocaust will never be forgotten. Elie Wiesel is able to give his account of the story by sharing his primary knowledge on the event which proves that the Holocaust did indeed occur despite those who try to deny it.
1) My definition of bearing witness is: to tell your story so that people will know that something happened, and won't be left in the darkness, in a state of ignorance, so that it won't happen again.
ReplyDelete2) Night is Wiesel's act of bearing witness because in the course of him being taken from his home, put in a concentration camp, without much food, and in very bad conditions. While he also recounts countless people being murdered everyday, we learn about this monstrosity. He takes us out of our previous state of unknowing and helps us to not make this mistake again by telling us what happened to him (telling us his story).
1) Bearing witness: recalling ones personal events in order to spread awareness, remove any blindness from the audience, and reveal the ultimate truth.
ReplyDelete2) Elie Wiesel uses Night to bear witness to what happened in the Holocaust. He acheives this by testifying his personal experiences, tortures, and horrors and using himself and his specific number as the evidence. Wiesel tells the story through a personal point-of-view in hopes to bring justice to those who died - and survived- by never letting the world forget what happened.
1) To bear witness to something means that it is the responsability of the witness to remember what happened and there responsability to share there experience. In some cases, bearing witness to an event can just be your being or existence.
ReplyDelete2) In Night, Wiesel's act of bearing witness was stated in every word that he recorded, from the beggining of his life in the slums to the death of his father, Wiesel bore witness to the horrific events of events in the Holocaust that he and many others faced. Wiesel's writing helps others to understand the events that took place during the Holocaust and place us in a perspective that we may have not seen before so that we may understand his feelings and that the actions taht led to this event are not repeated.
To Bear Witness: To give your own personal account of a situation and to tell your story in a unique way. No one story will be the same, due to the fact that each person is different. When all else fails, when no one will believe, a witness account is all we have left to tell the story, truthfully, and unique to your own perspective, which is the most important aspect.
ReplyDeleteElie Wiesel beared witness to the terrors of the Holocaust because he poured his heart out onto paper, with his own account of what went on. His own emotions made his story unique from another survivor telling their tale. He did not only say what he saw, but he gave everyone perspective into his life and let the reader feel like we were right there with him, listening blissfully to Beethoven's concerto.