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To the Jews night and darkness symbolizes a world without God. Many of the awful things that happened to Jews happened at night. This makes them believe they are in a world without God.

Night is very scary to me. If I was the Jews this would be the worst time for me. They had no idea what was going to happen to them throughout the night and the fact that night already represents a world without God would have only made it worse. To me this also makes me think of how mean the people are here and how dark they were to murder so many innocent people.

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Fire represents the cruelty during the Holocaust. Madame Schacter has a vision of fire as a warning to them and it also represents the burning babies and most importantly the crematoria. The Jewish tradition is that the wicked get punished by fire but, this is the wicked punishing with fire.

My first thought when I think of fire is the crematoria. I cant imagine seeing my friends and family being thrown into a fire and then having to smell their burning flesh. It also makes me think of Madame Schacter and how her vision of fire was such an important warning to them but, no one would believe it.

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This represents how the sons had treated their fathers and sacrificed them for their own survival. It also explains how Ellie had sacrificed his own father for his survival.

This to me shows how if someones life is on the line they are willing to do anything to save themselves. I think most of the father and sons relationships become so different by the end of the story. they are mistreating their fathers and willing to let them die just to save themselves which to me is something I dont think I could do.

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This represents the Jews seeing how mean people can really treat one another. It also shows that instead of being there for each other in these times they all turn against each other.

In the story this theme stands out a lot. Everyone sees how mean people can treat each other and how cruel people are. Ellie sees people being cruel but, he also sees in himself how he has become cruel. Its also not only the Germans being cruel but also the prisoners being cruel to eachother. This makes me mad because I dont understand how people could murder so many other people and not even feel guilty about it. I think this theme gets to a lot of the Jews and troubles them very much.

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Silence represents two different things in this story. It stands for the people and how they are devastated by Gods silence. It also represents the silence of all the victims in the camps.

Silence is one of the worst things to me in this story. I feel so bad for these people and how they lose their faith in God because throughout everything they went through he was silent. He did not help them. This also bothers me because when people are getting beaten and mistreated the people had no option but to be silent and watch as their friends and loved one either got mistreated or killed right in front of their own eyes. If they were to speak up they would be tortured or even killed.

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In the beginning Ellie strongly believes in God and cant imagine life without God. Throughout his experience his faith is shaken by how all the prisoners are being treated in the camps.

To me this represents how strongly Ellie believes in God at the beginning of his story but, by the end he has no faith left in God. This also shows how awful these people were treated during the Holocaust. These people believed so strongly in God and for people to come in their lives and make them question their faith is devastating. This is very important to the story and helps people to understand what the Jews went through.