Name: sabrina outhavong

Night: Chapter 5 (Pages 66 – 84)

25 Points

Do Now Directions: Read the poem on the Smart Board and answer the following in a
paragraph → How does this poem link WWII, Nazism, and today’s political climate (divided
nation, Trump, etc.)?
This poem links WWII Nazism, and political climate into todays situation with Donald Trump
because many people sat back and let these things happen. Just like some people did not vote
during the presidential election, the poem admits many did nothing because they believed it was
not effecting them at the time. Because it did not involve them, they did not do anything to stop
what was happening, until they realized it was starting to effect them. This also points into the
fact that some people that voted for Trump regretted it after seeing the things he started to do,
although his campaign pointed towards that action, they still voted. Also seeing how it started to
effect other lives tremendously. To link Nazism with Trumps presidency, both were attempting to
preserve their country by expressing racist thoughts, and they rose to power through it.

Guided Notes – Literary Concepts

1. Define Genre: Personal narrative

2. Define the genre of Night and explain your choice: The reason i say its a personal
narrative is because elie is telling his story in “present” time.

3. Define Point of View: statements and thoughts through a certain person or perspective

a. What are three different points of view?

i. First person (I danced)
ii. Second person (you danced)
iii. Third (they danced)

b. Identify the point of view Night is written in: The point of view night is written in
first person view. The book is in the perspective of Elies, how his life is during the
holocaust

4. Define literary/writing style: how the book is written to show expression

a. List three examples of style from Notes on Style

i. Economy of language
ii. Vivid details
iii. Voice, tone, and point of view
b. Describe the style of Night: straight forward
c. Why do you think Wiesel wrote Night in the style he did? He based the story very
direct and straight forwards. The details are based by memory and horror. I think

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 wiesel wrote the story like this so readers won't be confused and rather get
straight to the point of the “problem”

5. Define theme: underlying message the author seeks (deliver)

a. List three themes explored in Night:

i. Guilt
ii. Mans inhumanity against man
iii. Lost of faith in god

Reading Questions

1. What themes are addressed in reading five?

a. -elie wonder in faiths in god
b. -jews celebrate rosh hashanah
c. -elie is no longer in the same block as his father,they get separated

2. Who is Josef Mengele? Mengele - What Drove the Demon Dr. Mengele - WWII
Encyclopedia Josef mengele is a man who started the “Nazi killing project”. He was
described as a person who had an evil personality and demonic character

3. Why, do you suppose, Wiesel directs more of his anger toward God than the Nazis?
His anger is more directed towards god than the nazis. He was a very religious boy until
he got captured. His faith in got turned when he started to witness death and asked
where god was, but god did not show any signs of help for him. He felt more hate
towards the nazis because he thought god would save him.

4. Traditionally, Rosh Hashanah is a time for celebration, marking the beginning of the
Jewish New Year. Why, then, is Wiesel afraid of having to wish his father a happy new
Year? At this point Wiesel didn't tell his father happy new years because he lost his faith
in god already and don't want his father to know.

5. When the elder Wiesel hastily gives his son a knife and spoon, what two words does Elie
Wiesel use in his narration to describe these items? What is his tone here? Elie was
angry and frustrated because elie knew his father died he will receive his shop but
instead he got back a spoon and knife.

6. How has the relationship between Eliezer and his father changed during their time at
Auschwitz? What has each come to represent to the other? Elie is angry at his father
when he had a chance to leave the camp. Elie was also angry when his father got beat
up and thought he would stand up for himself. Ellis and his father relationship started to
changed because they began to talk less because they were separated from each other.
Elie represented as hatred towards his father not on the other hand his father had hope
in his son
7. What lesson can be drawn from the passage describing Akiba Drumer? The lesson from
Akiba drumer was, just because thing are going bad doesn't mean traditions or hope

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 isn't. Akiba was the only person who made kaddish after his death while the other forgot
he was the only person who prayed, a sign of hope.

8. What unexpected moment from the evacuation shows that the inmates retained their
humanity in spite of being treated no better than animals by their guards? The inmates
thought if they did what the jews wanted and obeyed there rules they will get treated
better. The day after the inmates did what the guards wanted them to do, they tried to
keep the peace around.

Textual Evidence Activity

Just as our hunger is not that feeling of missing a meal, so our way of being cold has need of a
new word. We say “hunger,” we say “tiredness,” “fear,” “pain,” we say “winter” and they are
different things. They are free words, created and used by free men who lived in comfort and
suffering in their homes. If the [camps] had lasted longer, a new, harsh language would have
been born; and only this language could express what it means to toil the whole day in the wind
with the temperature below freezing, and wearing only a shirt, underpants, cloth jacket and
trousers, and in one’s body nothing but weakness, hunger, and knowledge of the end drawing
near. - Primo Levi from Survival in Auschwitz

Directions: work in pairs to find three examples throughout the book of “free words” or phrases
that lost or changed their meaning at Auschwitz.

Example 1 -
Page (66 )
Free Meaning: Rosh Hashanah - news years for Jews a day for shouting/blasting like a
festival
Auschwitz Meaning: Rosh Hashanah was seen as the “cursed day” in the text it said
everyone felt agitated and tension in the entire camp on this day.

Example 2 -
Page (72)
Free Meaning: "It all went well. Don't worry. Nothing will happen to anyone. Not to
anyone …
Auschwitz Meaning: this phrase is not true, everything didn't go well and everyone is in
danger

Example 3 -
Page ( 77)
Free Meaning: winter clothing: striped shirts that were a bit heavier.
Auschwitz Meaning: suffer, pain, torture