First Semester Final exam review English 12 First Semester Final exam review
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Night Author: Elie Wiesel Point of view: First Person Setting = location: Sighet, Romania; Aushwitz-Birkenau camp in Poland Buna & Gleiwitz subcamps in Poland; Buchenwald camp in Germany
Night Setting = time period: 1941; Spring 1944-April 11, 1945 Purpose of writing: to bear witness (p.xv) Type of writing (genre): Memoir
Terms to Know Annihilation: total destruction; extinction Genocide: the systematic and planned extermination of an entire national, racial, political, or ethnic group. the Holocaust: the state-sponsored systematic persecution of European Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933-1945. Prejudice: an irrational hatred of a person, group, or race based on preconceived opinion or judgment.
Character Identification Eliezer Wiesel: main character/narrator Tzipora: Elie’s youngest sister; sent to death with mother Mr. (Shlomo) Wiesel: Elie’s father; shopkeeper Mme. Schachter: lost her mind & screamed about fire Dr. Mengele: notorious Nazi doctor (Angel of Death)
Character Identification Akiba Drumer: lost his faith; when he died others forgot to say Kaddish for him Juliek: played violin the night he dies Idek: hot-tempered Kapo who beat Elie in the warehouse & whipped him Rabbi Eliahou: father whose son deserted him Meir Katz: strong man who saved Elie from being strangled
Character Identification Adolf Hitler: Nazi leader. Jews of Sighet doubted he would really exterminate Jews. Man at infirmary praised him. Moishe the Beadle: tries to warn the Jews of Sighet about the impending danger The pipel: put to death for working for a man who stashed weapons and planned a revolution. French girl: comforted Elie after he received a beating from Idek