 The dentist is hanged, and Elie’s response is to be pleased, because it means his gold crown is saved.  Elie’s father is beaten by Idek with an iron bar, and Elie only thinks of how to get farther away from him, and is angry with his father for not knowing how to avoid Idek’s outbreak.  A dying man dragged himself on his stomach to reach an unguarded cauldron of soup, and was shot just as he reached it.  The prisoners were forced to watch a hanging, and Juliek’s response was to wonder if it would take long, because he was hungry.  The prisoners were forced to watch the hanging of a little boy who took half an hour to die. When a man next to Elie asked, “Where is God now?” Elie thought “He is hanging here on this gallows.”

Choose one of those events, and write a one paragraph response. There is no right or wrong answer to this—simply write a personal response to what you read. What does it make you think? What questions do you have? How do you feel about this event?

Found poetry is created by taking words, phrases, and sometimes whole passages from other sources and reframing them as poetry by making changes in spacing and/or lines.

 Rough draft of your Found Poem!  Minimum 20 lines!