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Night Characters #2. NIGHT Characters 2. Idek. A symbol of chaos and violence Has “bouts of madness” Beat Eliezer’s dad with an iron bar “ Idek , the Kapo , has bouts of madness now and then, when it’s best to keep out of his way”
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NightCharacters #2 NIGHT Characters 2
Idek • A symbol of chaos and violence • Has “bouts of madness” • Beat Eliezer’s dad with an iron bar • “Idek, the Kapo, has bouts of madness now and then, when it’s best to keep out of his way” • “His blows growing more and more violent, until I was covered in blood”
Idek • Kapo • Extreme situations create extreme people • “It was as though we had been taking part together in some game where each had our role to play.” • “…Like a wild animal, hitting me…pulling me up, his blows growing more and more violent until I was covered in blood.” • “I went up and saw Idek with a young polish girl, half naked sitting on a mattress…moving a hundred prisoners so that he could lie with a girl!!!!”
The Pipel • Symbolized God • He was hanged • “the face of a sad angel” • “Where is God? Where is He?” • “Where is He? Here He is―He is hanging here on this gallows…” • This means that there is no God because such a horrible thing could happen
Madame Shächter • She started to change after she was split with her husband and two eldest sons. (pg 22) • “On the first day of the journey she had already began to moan and to keep asking why she had been separated from her family. Her cries grew hysterical.” (pg 22) • “ Jews, listen to me! I can see a fire! There are huge flames! It is a furnace!” (pg 23) • “Some of the young men forced her to sit down, tired her up, and put a gag in her mouth.”(pg 23)
Juliek • “Julike a bespectacled pole with a cynical smile on his pale face” • “I’m afraid…I’m afraid…that they’ll break my violin” • “Out of the dark rises the sad, pale face of my Polish friend, as he said farewell on his violin to an audience of dying men”