Name ______
Night Notes - English 10
1. Genre: ______
2. Point of View: ______; Autobiographical;
______is ______
on his horrifying experiences during the Holocaust.
3. Setting: The horrific ______“work” camps in Europe during World War ______. It starts in 1941 in ______(Romania), Elie’s home town. Various camps such as______, Buna, Birkenau, Buchenwald, ______…
4. Characterization of Eliezer Wiesel: First person narrator giving an
autobiographical account about a horrible experience in his life that will haunt
him forever.
______/ Main Character
______: He starts as a very devout Jewish boy
who eagerly learns as much as he can about God and his faith, he turns into a man
who ______ due to the way the Jewish people are tortured
and persecuted.
5. Characterization of Chlomo Wiesel: Elie’s ______who is respected by the entire Jewish community in Sighet and by his son as well.
However, Chlomo is beaten in the camps and ultimately becomes one of the ______who does not make the selection.
He is a source of ______for Elie. They cling to one another to survive.
6. Characterization of Moshe the Beadle: Elie’s teacher of the cabala: Jewish
______(the Cabala). He comes to warn the Jews of Sighet after
he saw what the Nazis did to the ______Jews. ______
and unfortunately, no one believed him.
7. Characterization of Akiba Drumer: a Jewish Holocaust victim who gradually
______as a result of his experiences in the concentration camp. He is significant because…so does ______.
8. Characterization of Madame Schacter: a Jewish woman we only see once…on
the ______to Auschwitz. She is seen as a “mad woman” who screams about ______. She is not believed and is ______by the other
______. When they get to Auschwitz, ironically they realize
______.
9. Characterization of Juliek: a young ______whom Eliezer
meets in Auschwitz. When in the cattle car near the end of the war, he plays his
______underneath many other prisoners and dies.
After the Holocaust, whenever Eliezer heard ______being played, he would think of Juliek.
10. Characterization of Tibi and Yosi: two ______with whom Elie becomes friendly with in Buna.
11. Characterization of Eliezer’s mother and sisters: Hilda, Bea, and Tzipora were ______from Elie and his father in Auschwitz. He learned they were burned in the ______.
12. Characterization of Rabbi Eliahou: a devout and highly respected Rabbi / Jewish prisoner whose ______. Elie prays that he will never behave as the Rabbi’s son behaves.
13. Characterization of Zalman: One of Elie’s fellow prisoners who is ______to death during the run to Gleiwitz. Elie was next to him as he fell, but he has to keep going.
14. Characterization of Meir Katz: Chlomo’s friend from Buna. In the cattle car to Buchenwald, Katz ______from being strangled to death. He is a ______man who breaks down in tears in the open train to Buchenwald and later dies.
15. Characterization of Stein: Elie’s relative from Antwerp, Belgium whom he and his father encounter in Auschwitz. He asks about his wife and sons. Elie ______in order to keep the man’s hope and faith alive. However, when he encounters the truth from other prisoners from Antwerp, it is implied that he ______.
16. Characterization of Dr. Josef Mengele: Antagonist: A ______
who presides over the ______of arrivals at Auschwitz and
Birkenau. He is known as the “angel of death”. He sentences countless prisoners
to death and directs horrific “______” on human subjects at the camp.
17. Characterization of Idek: Antagonist: Elie’s ______at the electrical
equipment warehouse in Buna. During moments of ______
______, he beats Elie and his father.
18. Characterization of Franek: Antagonist: Elie’s foreman at Buna. He notices
Elie’s gold crown and gets a dentist in the camp to pry it out
with ______. He ______Chlomo and
Elie until Elie gives it to him.
19. Themes:
*Loss:
*Apathy:
*Survival:
*The Destructive Power of Hatred / Prejudice / Discrimination:
20. Foreshadowing:
______: His warnings to the Wiesel family as well as to the other Jewish families of Sighet after he returned from (or escaped from) deportment. He told them to leave Sighet and Europe while they still had a chance. No one listened to him.
______ of a furnace and flames while on the cattle car to Auschwitz. The other prisoners beat her into silence because they did not want to listen to her. They thought she was crazy. When they got to Auschwitz, they saw the crematoriums and lost family members to it.
21. External Conflicts:
The prisoners vs. the Nazi’s (Man vs. Man)
Elie vs. Franek, Idek, and Dr. Mengele (Man vs. Man)
The Jewish Population vs. Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany (Man vs. Society)
Good vs. Evil (Man vs. Nature; Society)
22. Internal Conflicts:
Eliezer’s conflict with God
Eliezer’s conflict over thinking his father was holding him back
Holding on to the will to live
23. Verbal Irony:
Elie “______” thanks God for choosing the Jews to be
tortured, butchered, and cremated at a religious service in Buna.
“The SS gave us a fine New Year’s gift.” Eliezer and his father were
separated into different bunks for the first time. There was to be
______.
“There was ______—yes, joy. Perhaps they thought that God
could’ve devised no torment in hell worse than that of sitting there
among the ______, in the middle of the road,
beneath a blazing sun; that anything would be preferable to that.”
24. Situational Irony:
The prisoners were elated when they heard the air raids. Generally this
type of sound signals a bombing and almost inevitable death.
______.
Eliezer chose to leave the hospital after the operation on his foot. This is
ironic because all who stayed in the hospital were
______.
Moshe the Beadle warned the Wiesel family and others of the impending
doom to come. They could’ve fled to ______while they had the chance, but they did not take him seriously.
The Wiesel’s former servant who was not Jewish invited them to live with
them and would’ve hidden them. They would’ve been ______
and at least all together.
The prisoners wished each other a Happy New Year, but there was
______to be happy about.
The soup that kept them alive tasted like ______
“The train stopped at Kaschau, a little town on the Czechloslovak frontier.
We realized then that we were not going to stay in Hungary. Our
yes were opened, but ______
25. Dramatic Irony:
While still in their home, and even while in the ghetto, the Wiesels held on
to hope that everything would be fine. But we the audience know
that they will be placed in concentration camps and their lives
would ______be the same.
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SYMBOLISM:
· NIGHT =
· THE SOUP =
IMAGERY:
· QUESTION: WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE TITLE NIGHT AND HOW DOES IT SERVE AS IMAGERY?
· ANSWER: