Theme of Dehumanization

Night Chapter 4 Activities

Part I: Theme of Dehumanization

While you are reading chapter 4 of Night, find examples when the Nazi’s dehumanize the Jews and the Jews animalistic side emerges. Make sure to write quotes and page numbers to support your ideas.

Part 2: Study Questions (Answer the questions in complete sentences)

1. Describe the head of the new camp.

2. What is the important information they find out about Buna?

3. What does the assistant want from Elie if he helps him get in a good unit?

4. When the dentist checks their teeth, what is he really looking for?

5. Why can’t the musicians play Beethoven?

6. What is the work they do in the warehouse?

7. What are the names of the two brothers that become Elie’s friends?

8. Why is Elie called to the dentist?

9. Why does Elie feel anger towards his father when Idek beats him with the iron bar?

10. What is it that Franek does to get to Elie and weaken him into giving up his gold tooth? What emotion causes Franek to become so cruel?

11. How does the dentist from Warsaw remove Elie’s crown?

12. What does Idek do to punish Elie from seeing him with the young Polish girl?

13. What does elie mean when he says, “Terror was stronger than hunger”?

14.What does the man dare to do during the air raid drill?

15. When Elie believes that Buna is being bombed, why does he feel glad?

16. What is a gallows?

17. Why is the first man hanged? What does Elie say he remembers about the evening after the hanging?

18. What is the crime for which the two men and the little servant are hanged?

19. How does Elie describe this little servant?

20. Why do you think that Langerkapo refused to act as the executioner?

21. What does Elie say about the soup on the night of the second hanging?

Part 3: God and Religion

Throughout Night, Elie and other repeatedly talk about their ideas and attitudes toward God and religion. As you are reading, keep track of these ideas, questions, and attitudes about religion. Make sure to write quotes and page numbers to support your ideas.

Part 4: Discussion Board #5: Chapter 4 Journal

This is on turnitin.com. It is due by Friday!