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Night by Elie Wiesel

Night by Elie Wiesel. Journal topics & such. Character List.

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Night by Elie Wiesel

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  1. Nightby Elie Wiesel Journal topics & such

  2. Character List • In your journal, label a blank piece of notebook paper as “CHARACTER LIST.” Keep a list of all characters in the novel. Add to this list at the end of each section. Include brief descriptions and any quotations that help describe him/her.

  3. Setting Wiesel uses imagery and word choice to describe the setting throughout his memoir. In your journal label a page “SETTING” and as you read, find and write quotations that describe the locale, scenery, and his surroundings. You should find at least one per section.

  4. Literary Devices • Wiesel uses a number of literary terms to describe the terrorism of the Jews by the Nazis as well as to show how the Jews were stripped of their humanity and identity. • Label a page “LITERARY DEVICES.” Find and write at LEAST five examples of each of the following figures of speech: metaphor, simile, irony, anaphora, allusion, and foreshadowing. Write the quotations correctly, including citations. You should also include the figure of speech and a brief explanation. • (You might want to save a few pages for this.)

  5. QUOTATIONS • In your journal, label a new page “QUOTATIONS.” As you read, first highlight and then write the quotations correctly, including citations. You should also include a brief explanation as to why you chose that quotation. • Include AT LEAST one per section.

  6. Significance of the Title Before we even open a book, our minds begin to engage and to make assumptions. As you look at Night, think about and make journal entries on the following: What images and emotions does the title evoke? Does the picture on the book make an impression on you; how so? Have you heard anything about Night, or its author Elie Wiesel? How does the fact that this book has been given to you as an assignment affect you before you begin reading?

  7. Madame Schächter Discuss your feelings about the treatment of Mrs. Schächter on the train. Do you agree with the people did? Why or why not?

  8. Elie’s Faith Elie Wiesel hears someone ask “Where is God?” as he witnesses another hanging. Why is that spoken? What happened? What are your feelings on this scene? Do you think Elie's feelings about God are changing? Would yours?

  9. Decisions Elie finds that if he and his father had stayed in the camp, they would have been liberated. Discuss how you might have felt if you were him upon hearing this knowledge.

  10. Pigs On page 84, one of the Blockalteste told the prisoners to clean the barracks “For the liberating army. Let them know that here lived men and not pigs.” Discuss the irony of this quotation.

  11. Guilt Throughout the last few days of his father's life, Wiesel is tormented by the guilt he feels over his inability to help his father more than he does, and for secretly wanting to feed himself before feeding his father. During this time, Wiesel is told: "Every man has to fight for himself and not think of anyone else… Everyone lives and dies for himself alone” (110). Do you agree with this statement? Why or why not?

  12. Theme Label a new page in your journal as “THEME.” Now that you have finished reading, go back through the memoir and choose ONE sentence that you think best represents the theme that Wiesel was trying to get across.

  13. Poetry First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a communist;Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist;Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew;Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak out.

  14. Poetry An Author’s Images… Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky. Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever. Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence that deprived me for all eternity of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes. Never shall I forget those things, even were I condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never.

  15. Today Why is Elie Wiesel’s memoirNightstill relevant today?

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