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By Elie Wiesel Night
A vividly haunting 1960 memoir reminds us that there was a precedent for the deranged mindset that justifies acts of terrorism. In a concise, unadorned manner, the spiraling insanity that surrounded the Jewish population of Sighet, Transylvania, insulated a world as one could imagine and certainly a community who understandably could not embrace the insanity of the extermination occurring around them. Inevitably, they are taken to Auschwitz and Buchenwald, two of the most infamous concentration camps, where painfully palpable detail of the day-to-day living conditions are described. The brutality and inhumanity of the Nazi guards toward the Jews is described as well as the inhumanity of the camp inmates toward each other for the sake of survival.
Night Requirements:All work must pass with a 75% or better. • Each chapter requires a set of answers to the given questions. • The answers need to be written in complete sentences (this means including the questions with in the answers). • Each chapter has vocabulary words that have three requirements. • Please read the directions on the vocabulary page. • There is a required activity to be done once the book is completed. • A Final is required to complete the book requirements. • Please note; all written materials must be done in Word, spell and grammar checked , written in complete sentences (including spelling definitions) and sent in electronically to your teacher. Please save your work frequently and save a copy for yourself.
Pages 1-32 In the preface, how many Jews were estimated to be killed? What concentration camp did this story take place? In the forward of the book, what surprised the author the most about the young journalist who had come to interview him? Why didn’t anyone believe the stories of the old man, Moshe the Beadle? What were the first impressions of the Germans by the Jews? What were the “ghetto’s”? Where were the Jews told they were being deported to and why? When did the Jews find out where their true destination was? Where was that? Why did the Jews turn on the woman in the train? What was the dark smoke from?
Pages 33-62 What was the choice at Auschwitz? What was engraved on the Jews arms and what was it used for? What was the new camps name? Why was the dentist interested in checking everyone’s teeth? Why did the boy get mad at his father when he was getting beaten by the Kapo? Why did the boy get whipped so bad? Why did the young Jew get hung? What was so bad about the hanging of the child? What was a “pipel”? Why did the soup taste so good after the first hanging and so bad after the last?
Pages 63-109 What was selection? Who was the Doctor who examined the prisoners? Why did the boy’s father give him the knife and spoon? What did the boy find out when he returned for work that day? What did the prisoners promise to do three days after AkibaDrumer was gassed? Did they? Why or why not? As the Russians grew near, where did they move the Jews ? What happened to the Jews who stayed in the hospital? How many miles were traveled when the Jews were forced to evacuate because of the Russians? What did Juliek do as he was crying in the cramped shed of dying or dead men? Why? How did the remaining Jews begin to feel towards death? What about to the dead? Discuss the ending of the book and your feeling about it?
Choose a project from the Project Table and turn in into your teacher. Please remember that you cannot do a project that you have previously done for another book.
