Possible essay prompts and questions

Possible essay prompts and questions

• From the beginning of the memoir, the author shows how the jews are dehumanized, treated more like animals or objects than like people. Cite example of this treatment in text. What objective do you think dehumanizing people archives? Does surviving the camps work to dehumanize the jews further? If so, in what ways?

The dehumanization of people causes them to lose contact with their own personality and makes it harder for them to keep hope or keep a notion of time well. I cuases the poeple to feel lost in a void. The surviviving the camps means that they cant keep caring for their family and that they have to steal and causes them to do things out of their personality and that they would not do if not underdose circumstances. It does work since it makes them act out of caracter and makes them question themselves nad who they are.

This questions deals with bearing witness, sanity, brutality, inhumanity, father and son.

• Though his father says Elie is not ready, Moishe the Beadle is willing to study and discuss Kabbalah, Jewish mysticism, with him. Describe how the relationship between Moishe and Eliezer develops and ends. Why does Wiesel begin his memoir with Moishe the Beadle?

The relationship begins with them studiyng together jewish mysticims and in this studiyng Moishe ask a couple of questions that Elie was not ready to answer and simply was niot ready to deal with just how his father thought. The relationship ends when Moishe was taked by the germans since he was not a local jew, when he was with the germans he was witness about the things they did and their brutality but nobody belives them and moishe runs away from the town when the germans get there. He begins the memoir with Moishe because its when he starts to question god and because its when he was first warned of the germans brutality.

Elie is not sure of who he is and what he wants to do

The friendship begins with the question of “Why do you pray”

Moishe goes crazy from seeing what the germans did to the babies they toss i the air

Possible short answer questions

Describe the various occasions on which Elie and his family are warned regarding the Germans’ actions toward the jews. Why do they not take the opportunity to escape? What part does disbelief or denial play in their choices? Do the identities of those who warn them make a difference?

• By two different characters
• One being Moishe and hungarian guard
• Because they don't believe it and they only hear rumors
• Or don’t want to believe it
• That they don’t run from the germans and don’t resist to do what they are told
• No they don't get to make a difference since people don't believe them or did not pay attention to them

Wiesel says that “in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude,and, of course, its consequences.” explain what you think Wiesel means and how Night relates to memory of the Holocaust

• He means that he as be a witness to what happened in the concentration camps and how it changed him witnessing all the he suffered and persevered through.

Oftentimes in novels, authors write with a purpose to teach the reader something about a subject. What lesson is Wiesel teaching in Night?

• To pay attention to what happends around your town to investigate and never simply block out rumors that might affect you later on.
• To never give up hope and that you should appreciate what you have and not to take things for granted like food but to really appreciate and not be spoiled.

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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 dust.

Never shall I forget those things, even were I condemned to live as long as God Himself.

Never.

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