night – elie wiesel

By: Zack Saneto, Thu Phan, Carina Shan, Jessica Bressler, Nima Naimi

Night – Elie Wiesel

Background: Religious, Elie was very into religion before he got sent to the concentration camp.

Quote #1 From Chapter 1

“ I continued to devote myself to my studies, by day, the Talmud, at night, the Cabbala.”

“ Why did I pray? Why did I live? Why did I breathe?”

Quote #1 from Chapter 1

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• Looking to God to show him the way of life.

• Quizzical

• Hopes to God to find answers.

Thematic Element• Struggle to maintain faith

Analysis: Quote #1 from Chapter 1

BackgroundThe Germans came into Elie’s village. People are unaware of problems they cause.


“ Our first impressions of the Germans were reassuring.”


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• Cluelessness

• Unawareness

Thematic Element• Man’s Inhumanity to Man


Background The Nazis had started to ship off Jews.


“ The race toward death had begun.” Quote #3 from Chapter 1

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• Loss of faith

• Aware of death’s presence

Thematic Element• Struggle to maintain faith


Background Elie and his family are getting sent off.


“Naturally, we refused to be separated.”


• Child-like

• Not ready to be left

Thematic Element• Father-son bond


BackgroundAll the Jews in cattle cars being moved.


“No one prayed, so that the night would pass quickly.”


• Sad feeling

• Loss of faith

• Afraid

Thematic Element• Struggle with faith


BackgroundAll the Jews had arrived at the concentration camp.


“We were on our own.”Quote #3 from Chapter 2

• Loss of faith in man’s humanity to man

• Anger

• Despair



Quote #1 from Chapter 3 Background

• Didn’t believe Moshe the Beadle

Quote #1 from Chapter 3Background

• Beating up Madame Schachter

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“ I pinched my face. Was I still alive? Was I awake? I could not believe it. How could it be possible for them to burn people, children, and for the world to keep silent?” (pg. 30)


• Realization• Disbelief

Thematic Element•Man’s Inhumanity to Man


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Background• Study Talmud• Religious• Studies of the

Cabbala


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“I too had become a completely different person. The student of the Talmud, the child that I was, had been consumed in the flames. There remained only a shape that looked like me. A dark flame entered into my soul and devoured it.” (pg. 34)


• Changed• Darkness• Sins• Dark Flame = “Loss of Faith”

Thematic Element• Struggle to Maintain Faith


Background•Father: beaten •Cared/love for his father


“What had happened to me? My father had just been struck, before my eyes, and I had not flickered an eyelid…Yesterday, I should have sank my nails into the criminal’s flesh.” (pg.37)


• Bystander• Defenseless• Selfish

Thematic Element• Father-Son Bond


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Background• Religious

Quote #1 From Chapter 4

“ I now took little interest in anything except my daily plate of soup and my crust…I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach.” (pg. )


• Hungry• Soulless• No longer pray

Thematic Element• Struggle to

Maintain Faith• Man’s Inhumanity

to Man


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Background• Franek wanted Eliezer’s gold tooth• Didn’t care about his father


“But alas, Franek knew where to touch me; he knew my weak point. My father…We had to give in.” (pg. 53)


• Love for his father• Caring son



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Background• Religious• “Why do I pray? Why do I breath”• Questioned God• Young pipel was hanged


“Where is He? Here He is - He is hanging here on this gallows…”- (pg. 62)


• Loss of Faith• Hopelessness• “God is Dead”

Thematic Element• Man’s Inhumanity

Against Man• Struggle to

Maintain Faith


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“’Don’t talk like that, Father.’ (I felt like I would break into sobs.) ‘I don’t want you to say that.’”(pg. 71)


• Fear• Worried• Hopeless



“I ran off to look for my father. And at the same time I was afraid of having to wish him a Happy New Year when I no longer believed in it.”(pg. 65)


• Loss of belief – “Happy New Year”• No longer believed that the new year would

be “happy” or something to look forward to.• Care for father• Hopeless

Thematic Elements• Father-Son Bond and Struggle to

Maintain Faith


UNHappy New Year!

Background• Belief that God will be there for him• Studied Talmud• Religious


“Where is God? How can I believe, how could anyone believe, in this merciful God?”(pg. 73)


• Fear• Confused• Lost• Loss of faith

Thematic Element• Struggle to Maintain

Faith


“My God, Lord of the Universe, give me the strength never to do what Rabbi Eliahou’s son has done.”(pg. 87)


• Love• Care for his father• Doesn’t want to ever lose his father



“The idea of dying, of no longer being, began to fascinate me.”(pg. 82)


• Depressed• Suffering



“God knows what I would not have given for a few moments of sleep. But, deep down, I felt that to sleep would mean to die.” (pg. 85)


• Exhausted / Tired of working• Doesn’t have any time alone • Desperate to be distant from the

situation



Background• Concentration camp experience


• “Here or elsewhere – what difference did it make? I die today or tomorrow, or later?” (pg. 93)


• Hopelessness• Depression


Against Man


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Background• He’d been with his father during

their Holocaust experience• Concentration camp experience


“Father! Father! Wake up. They’re trying to throw you out of the carriage.”(pg. 94)


• Loyalty• Caring Son

Thematic Element• Father–Son Bond


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Background• Concentration camps made people

crazy


“On the Third Night of our Journey I woke up suddenly and felt tow hands on my throat, trying to strangle me.”(pg. 96)


• Treated like piece of trash


to Man


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Background• Rabbi Eliahou’s son abandons him• Every man for himself in a

concentration camp


• “Don’t let me find him! If only I could get rid of this dead weight, so that I could use all my strength to struggle for my own survival, and only worry about myself” (pg. 101)


• Disloyalty• Deception

Thematic Element• Man’s

Inhumanity against Man


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Background• Elie forgot about his dad for several

hours• Elie’s mind in battle between

abandoning his dad and not abandoning his dad


“Father! I’ve been looking for you for you for so long…Where were you? Did you sleep? How are you feeling?” (pg. 101)


• Being concerned• Loyalty

Thematic Element• Father–Son Bond


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Background• His father is very weak• German cruelty


“The officer dealt him a violent blow on the head with his truncheon. I did not move. I was afraid. My body was afraid of also receiving a blow.” (pg. 106)


• Treated like animals• Fear• Terror


to Man


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Background• Elie’s dad died• Concentration camp’s psychological

effects


“And, in the depths of my being, the recesses of my weakened conscience, could I have search it, I might perhaps have found something – free at last.” (pg. 106)


• Guilt• Sadness

Thematic Elements• Man’s

Inhumanity to Man


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“I spent my days in a state of total idleness. And I had but one desire- to eat. I no longer thought of my father or of my mother.” (pg. 107)


• Hunger• Desperation• Loss



“From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me.” (pg. 109)


• Despair• Depression• Loss of faith



“And I had but one desire - to eat. I no longer thought of my father or mother.” (pg. 107)


• Hopelessness• Despair



• Remind audience of the Holocaust

• Never let history repeat

• Better future

Purpose

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• Silent Death• Suffering/Torture• Inhumanity of

Man

Purpose: Evidence

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“It remains today a book we must read and reread if we are to accept responsibility for our past and to learn from that past for the sake of our future.” -Preface

Purpose

“Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the little faces of the children whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky.” (pg. 32)

Purpose

night – elie wiesel

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