The Bees Knees

Have you ever seen that something is going on sale at store, and you really want it, but then you lose the only chance you had at getting that one thing stupid thing you wanted? If you have, then listen to this: Oscar is only in middle school, but he often must act like an adult for his mother, who works at a nursing home. If his mother falls, the whole nursing home falls with her, but she handles herself and the building in a way no one else could. So, when Oscar’s mother calls his school during his last period, he knows it’s something serious she can’t handle on her own.               Turns out, it was one of the oldest residents of the nursing home, Mr. D. Mr. D was having another episode saying the cat who’s been in his room for over ten years was trying to steal his soul. But the catch is there are only two people who can calm Mr. D down when he’s having an episode. Want to try and guess who the only available per...

KEYWORDS: Memoir, WWII, Concentration Camps The book Night is a memoir based on the author's, Elie Wiesel's, Holocaust experiences with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps for the Jewish people during the end of WWII.  The story opens with the Nazis occupying Eliezer’s (Elie Wiesel's) hometown, Sighet, in Transylvania, Hungary. Under Hitler’s prophecy of "annihilating the Jewish race from all Europe", all Jews in Eliezer’s town were soon ordered out to the ghettos and later deported to Auschwitz, a Nazi concentration camp. Life in Auschwitz was onerous and excruciating. Prisoners were required to work every day tirelessly and laboriously only for the tiniest bits of bread rations. Selections were also made regularly. Only the "healthy", and "effective" prisoners deserve to keep working in the camp; the "useless" and ill ones will immediately be thrown into crematoria and annihilated. Numerous of Elizer’s inmates passed ...