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Risking Safety for Others: Metaphors in Night

Reflect on a time when you jeopardized your safety to help someone and explore the power of metaphors in Elie Wiesel's Night. Discover the significance of passages, discuss themes, and create metaphorical images in your scrapbook.

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Risking Safety for Others: Metaphors in Night

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  1. DO NOW:In your Scrapbook:Describe a time when you risked your own safety to help someone else.Why did you decide to do this?Would you have done this for a complete stranger?

  2. What is a Metaphor?Can you think of an example?

  3. A Metaphor:Establishes a relationship between two things but leaves it up to your imagination to ‘see’ it. Is a direct comparison of two unlike things not using like or as (that is what a simile uses). EXAMPLES:

  4. “My love is like a red, red rose" is a simile. "You are a tulip" is a metaphor.

  5. “Death lies on her, like an untimely frost," is a simile."Death lies on her, an untimely frost," is a metaphor.

  6. “You are my sunshine”IS A ??????

  7. SMALL GROUP ACTIVITY: Searching forMetaphors in Night(20 minutes)

  8. IN YOUR SMALL GROUPS:Select a passage you’ve included in your quote journal (try to find one that has a metaphor in it!).Explain to your group why you selected the particular passage. Pay special attention to the style of the passage, the message, and the importance of the passage to understanding the author’s message.

  9. INDIVIDUALLY:Draw an image in your scrapbook that is a metaphor for your passage.

  10. HOMEWORK DUE NEXT CLASS:1. Read pages 52-62 of Night2. Write four metaphors for the Holocaust, an idea or theme you have encountered in Night or events you have ‘witnessed’ through reading Night. (These can be from anywhere in the novel)

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