Homework: Parents/guardian, please assist your child with the homework.
*On everyone's back, there was a sack. In everyone's eyes, tears
and distress. …
And there I was, on the sidewalk, watching them … unable to move.
Here came the Chief Rabbi, hunched over, his face strange looking without a
beard, a bundle on his back. His very presence in the procession was enough to
make the scene seem surreal. It was like a page torn from a book, a
historical novel, perhaps, dealing with the captivity in Babylon …
They passed me by, one after the
other,
my teachers, my
friends, the others, some of whom I had once feared, some of whom I had found
ridiculous, all those whose lives I had shared for years. There they went,
defeated, their bundles, their lives in tow, having left behind their homes,
their childhood.
They passed me by, like beaten dogs, with never a glance in my
direction. They must have envied me.
The procession disappeared around the corner. A few steps more and
they were beyond the ghetto walls.
The street resembled
fairgrounds deserted in haste. There was a little of everything: suitcases,
briefcases, bags, knives, dishes, banknotes, papers, faded portraits. All the
things one planned to take along and finally left behind. They had ceased to matter.
Task: “There was a little of everything: suitcases,
briefcases, bags, knives, dishes, banknotes, papers, faded portraits. All the
things one planned to take along and finally left behind. They had ceased to matter.”
Based on what we learned and
discussed in class, what do you think the quote above means?
1st Step: Paraphrase
(summarize in your own words)
2nd step: Explain
the meaning of what you summarized.
Why do you think all the things
people valued suddenly ceased to matter?
**On everyone's back, there was a sack. In everyone's eyes, tears
and distress. …
And there I was, on the sidewalk, watching them … unable to move.
Here came the Chief Rabbi… his face strange looking without a beard, a bundle
on his back. His …presence … was enough to make the scene seem surreal.
It was like a page torn from a book, a historical novel, perhaps, dealing with
the captivity in Babylon …
They passed me by, one after the
other,
my teachers, my
friends, the others, some of whom I had once feared, some of whom I had found
ridiculous, all those whose lives I had shared for years. There they went,
defeated, their bundles, their lives in tow, having left behind their homes,
their childhood.
They passed me by, like beaten dogs, with never a glance in my
direction. ..The procession disappeared around the corner. A few steps
more and they were beyond the ghetto walls.
… There was a little of
everything: suitcases, briefcases, bags, knives, dishes, banknotes, papers,
faded portraits. All the things one planned to take along and finally left
behind. They had ceased to matter.
Task:
1.Pretend you were in a situation in which you have to pack your
most valuable possessions in one suitcase. What valuables would you bring and
why?
2. Now pretend that your life were at risk, would you hold on
to your valuables then? Why or why not?
3. Why do you think that the people of Sighet left their things
behind?
***On everyone's back, there was a sack. In everyone's eyes, tears
and distress. …
And there I was, on the sidewalk, watching them … unable to move.
Here came the Chief Rabbi… his face strange looking without a beard, a bundle
on his back. His …presence … was enough to make the scene seem surreal.
It was like a page torn from a book…perhaps, dealing with the captivity
in Babylon …
They passed me by, one after the
other,
my teachers…
they went, defeated… having left behind their homes, their childhood.
They passed me by, like beaten dogs…The procession disappeared
around the corner. A few steps more and they were beyond the ghetto walls.
… There was a little of
everything: suitcases, briefcases, bags, knives, dishes, banknotes, papers,
faded portraits. All the things one planned to take along and finally left
behind. …
Task:
1.
In this paragraph, Eliezer describes the people
of Sighet. Make a list of words or
phrases he uses to describe them.
2.
How does Eliezer describe the Chief Rabbi?
3.
What things did the people leave behind? Why do you
think they had to leave these things behind?
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