Night

Night by Elie Weisel is truly an inspirational and motivating story. This is a autobiography on how he survived the Holocaust. The novel was depressing with all that he went through to survive to tell his tale. His plot, characters, and theme are some that are unique.
The plot was interesting. Elie and his family were warned by a begger that the Holocaust would happen, but nobody believed him and thought he was crazy. Then it all happened when the German soldiers went to their town and captured them. Forcing them all into trucks to get to work camps. Everybody kept believing they would survive, but some knew better. Elie and his father were seperated from his mother and sister. They would never see each other again. They were moved from camp to camp beating selection each time so they wouldn't get thrown into the crematorium. When they were forced to run for miles on end, many people had died and his father had caught a sickness. Elie had to take care of his father, but he knew it was too late for his dad. His dad died and he had to live on by himself.
The characters of the novel were inspirational. Elie is the author of the book writing about his life during the Holocaust. He went through so much and lived to tell his story of how he survived the Holocaust. Elie's dad is a great fellow too. He had almost survived until the end when they had to run through snow for hours and miles. He caught a sickness and was going crazy.
The theme of this story is one that is like many others. Never give up. Even when things get tough like Elie's story of his survival; just keep trying. Even after his dad had died he tried to do his best to live on and he did. He lived to tell his story to everybody about the horrors of the Holocaust/
To sum it up, Elie Wiesel's Night was a great novel to read. Real life retelling of his life during the Holocaust. Even if you dont like autobiographies, I'd give this book a chance and read it just once to know of the horrors of Hitler and the Holocaust.

Semester Test

Have you ever been a new student at school? It's very nerve-wrecking to say the least because you don't know anybody most of the time and it's hard making friends being the new student. In High School Musical, Gabriella Montez was the new girl at East High after she had to transfer.
Troy Bolten and Gabriella Montez meet at the beginning at a party and have to sing in front of a crowd and realize they are attracted to each other, so they exchange numbers after Gabriella had to leave. Later, she transfers schools and it happens to be East High; home of the Wildcats. Troy Bolten is the captain of the basketball team there and he sees her at school and tries to get into contact with her right away and show her around. They get interested in the school's musical and both audition for it. The people that Gabriella hang out with don't like the basketball team and likewise for Troy's group. So they try to stop Gabriella and Troy from performing in the musical. They succeeded for a bit, but realize it was wrong of them to do that to Gabriella and Troy so they go and fix the problem by telling them what really happened. Knowing what really happen, Troy and Gabriella get back with each other and both perform in the musical.
High School Musical and West Side Story are very similar to an extent. Both showing how it could be like being from different groups of people who don't like each other. In High School Musical Gabriella was the shy genius girl who excelled in Math and Science while Troy was the captain of the basketball team. Their cliques they hung out with did not like each other and tried to stop them from performing together in the musical and just stick to what they know. While in West Side Story the Puertoricans and Americans did not like each other and started fights with each other to solve their problems. When things got really serious, leaders of both the gangs died and the rest of the gang tried to finish off the situation, but when someone gets shot the gangs stop their rivalry and know its not worth it to die for.
I enjoyed High School Musical more than the other plays we have watched. Reason being it was from our time period and it shows how life really can be sometimes being the new student at a school and how schools can be divided up into cliques. The musical was well thought out with great actors and characters and the singing was pretty good.
To sum it up, High School Musical was a great musical. Showing life as it can be sometimes with two cliques who oppose each other and being new to a school.