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Night

Night. By Elie Wiesel. Systematic persecution of European Jews began as soon as the Nazis gained control of Germany's government in 1933. The Nuremberg Race Laws deprived Jews of German citizenship.

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Night

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  1. Night By Elie Wiesel

  2. Systematic persecution of European Jews began as soon as the Nazis gained control of Germany's government in 1933. The Nuremberg Race Laws deprived Jews of German citizenship. Kristallnacht (Night of the Broken Glass) organized attack, resulted in the destruction of Jewish synagogues, businesses, and homes. Soon Jews were forced to wear the Star of David. The Holocaust

  3. Adolf Hitler’s Genocide Genocide: the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group. Holocaust: the systematic killing of millions of Jews, gypsies, etc. by fire: The Final Solution Hitler’s army

  4. Memoir: a literary nonfiction genre; collection of memories recorded by the individual who experienced them…. (similar to an autobiography) Elie- narrator and protagonist of his own history. Why do you think Wiesel called his memoir Night? Genre of Night

  5. Eliezer -  The narrator of Night, Jewish teenage boy in the 1940’s. Dedicated to his faith in the beginning. Chlomo - Eliezer’s father. His name is only mentioned one time throughout the novel. Highly regarded in the community. Moshe the Beadle - Eliezer’s teacher of Jewish mysticism, Moshe is a poor Jew who lives in Sighet. Characters

  6. Elie has two older sisters, Hilda and Bea, and a younger sister, Tzipora (described as having “golden hair”).

  7. Chapter 1 It is 1941…..The memoir opens with a description of Moishe the Beadle, devoutly religious, “poorest of the poor” Moisheis an expert on the Kabbalah that Elie has a deep interest in. He tells Elie that one grows closer to God by the questions one asks. Elie as a young boy….

  8. Moishe, since he is a foreign Jew, is deported out of Sighet • He tries to warn the others of his horrible experiences, but they do not listen • What are some ways the Jews of Sighet delude themselves? • The German soldiers seem nice • The yellow star is not lethal

  9. Chapters 2-3 • Inhumane conditions on cattle cars • -cramped/cannot lie down • -little to drink • -referred to as “dogs.” • Forshadowing: • What did Mrs. Schachter see? • How did the others react? • How is this foreshadowing?

  10. Chapters 2-3 • Arriving in Auschwitz what is the “illusion” Weisel refers to? • What do they hear about conditions at the camp? • -only young workers • -families not separated • What is the “selection”? • How did Elie and his father avoid the crematoria?

  11. Auschwitz Pretending family was alive gave prisoners hope. What did Elie tell his relative, Stein from Antwerp?

  12. Chapters 2-3 • Who is Dr. Mengele? • “Angel of Death” Infamous SS Officer who conducted horrific medical experiments on the Jews • What does Elie see that he cannot believe is real? • Who are the SonderKommando? • What is Bela Katz forced to do? Dr. Mengele

  13. Chapters 4 • At the end of Chapter 3 Elie and his father are moved from Auschwitz to Buna. • How are young boys treated by Nazi officers? • In the camps survival is everything. Two Examples: • The French Woman • Elie’s reaction to his father being beaten

  14. Fire Night Eliezer’s struggle to maintain faith in a benevolent God Silence Inhumanity toward other humans The importance of Father-Son bonds SymbolsThemes

  15. Rhetorical Devices • Rhetorical Questions: • The speaker may want to encourage reflection in the reader. • For example, when Eliezer sees the babies being thrown into the fire, he asks a series of questions. • “Was I still alive? Was I awake? How was it possible that men, women, and children were being burned and that the world kept silent?” (p. 32) • Eliezer does not expect an answer to these questions. • He wants the reader to think about what his or her reaction might have been in seeing the same thing.

  16. Motifs • Throughout Night, Wiesel repeats literary devices and images that help to develop the memoir’s major themes. • Notice • how night and light are used throughout the text; • how the Jewish traditions and holidays help to pace the memoir; and • how animal imagery is used to explore the dehumanization of the Jews.

  17. U.S. President Barack Obama presents the 2009 National Humanities Medal to Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel… …in the East Room of the White House in Washington, February 25, 2010.

  18. Recognition… • Wiesel has lived his life speaking out against all forms of racism and violence. • In 1985 awarded the Congressional Medal of Freedom and, in 1986, the Nobel Prize for Peace. • Role in creating the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C.

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