Emil And Karl Beginning

The book "Emil and Karl" by Yankev Glatshteyn starts right with action. It begins with men infiltrating Karl's home, taking his mother, and beating him up. He has no idea why these men came seeing as he and his mother weren't Jewish and it was Nazi soldiers who took his mother away. His first action is to go to his best friend's house. Emil and his family are Jewish and the same thing happened to him recently, but the men took away his father. Normally, Emil's mother would tell Karl to go home because she didn't trust him, but this time she let him in without even caring. The reason she was so careless was she was shocked by the unexpected kidnapping of her husband. Karl explained what happened to Emil and his mother, but only Emil reacted. Karl spent the night at Emil's house and when they woke up, Emil's mother was in the same spot as before, occasionally sobbing. After trying to get her attention for a few hours and failing, the rabbi came to their house to check on them. After seeing the state Emil's mother was in, he had some people take her to the doctor. Emil and Karl then went and slept in the basement of Karl's apartment building because they had nowhere else to go. The next day the janitor found the boys and took them in. Both Emil and Karl were now without parents, and had to find some way to get back the family members the Nazis took away from them.

Inferences on Night

Today we read a small passage from the book "Night". In the passage, it describes the ordeal of a group of Jews, traveling to what I think is a work camp. I'm not entirely sure where this passage is in the book but it seem's as if the characters have already been introduced so they don't actually show many names in this passage. Throughout the passage, it shows the problems the group of Jews are facing such as small, uncomfortable spaces on a train, rude German soldiers yelling and making fun of them, and having to endure hours upon hours of being near a madwoman who is constantly screaming "Fire! Fire!". It's difficult to imagine how terrible this situation would be, since the characters have obviously been taken away from their families and are heading into enemy territory.