Gurminder Singh Mike Guevarra Nicole Hairell CHARACTERS #2 By Elie Wiesel

MADAME SCHACHTER From quiet to deadly screams? What would you do if you were separated from your family?

MADAME’S ‘BEFORE’ CHARACTERIZATION Quiet when she is deported in the same train car as Elie. “A quiet women with tense, burning eyes.” (p.22)

MADAME’S ‘BEFORE’ CHARACTERIZATION Was a family friend. “She had often been to our house” (p.22)

MADAME’S ‘AFTER’ CHARACTERIZATION Began to go crazy on the train ride. “She had already begun to moan and to keep asking why she had been separated from her family” (p.22)

MADAME’S ‘AFTER’ CHARACTERIZATION She began strangely seeing images of fire outside the of the car. “Jews, listen to me! I can see a fire! There are huge flames! It is a furnace!” (p.23)

MADAME’S ‘AFTER’ CHARACTERIZATION She became an outcast ( like Moshe the Beadle ). “Madame Schachter stayed in her corner, wilted, dumb, indifferent to the general confidence.” (p.24)

JULIEK A boy from the band plays until death The passion The dedication Can something horrific take away yours?

JULIEK’S ‘BEFORE’ CHARACTERIZATION A bright kid among the prisoners. “Juliek, a bespectacled pole with a cynical smile on his pale face” (p.47)

JULIEK’S ‘BEFORE’ CHARACTERIZATION Had a decent job in the prison. “Juliek explained to me: “we work in a warehouse for electrical equipment, not far from here. The work isn’t in the least difficult or dangerous”(pg.47)

JULIEK’S ‘AFTER’ CHARACTERIZATION Elie was separated but eventually found Juliek once again. Who was still a enthusiastic musician. “Juliek! The boy from Warsaw who played the violin in the band at Buna..”(pg.89)

JULIEK’S ‘AFTER’ CHARACTERIZATION His violin = His life “I’m afraid… I’m afraid.. That they’ll break my violin… I’ve brought it with me.”(pg.89)

JULIEK’S ‘AFTER’ CHARACTERIZATION Remained a inspirationally passionate man to his young death… “The sound of a violin, in this dark shed, where the dead were heaped on the living.” (pg. 90)

IDEK A Violent Kapo (Lead Prisoner) that beat Jews for no reason.

IDEK’S CHARACTERIZATION (QUOTE #1) “He leapt on me like a wild beast, hitting me in the chest, on the head, throwing me down and pulling me up again, his blows growing more and more violent, until I was covered in blood.” (Pg. 50)

QUOTE #1 CONTINUED Death camps gave the kapos a measure of power. Many kapos (Idek) abused the power.

IDEK’S CHARACTERIZATION (QUOTE #2) “He seized me by the throat… he said, ‘You wait and, see kid... You'll soon find out what leaving your work’s going to cost you.... You’regoing to pay for this pretty soon.... And now, go back to your place.” (pg. 54)

QUOTE #2 CONTINUED Idek had a lot of power he misused… The Nazi's turned him (and many others) savage, essentially Nazi.

THE PIPEL A handsome boy with special privileges

THE PIPEL Servant of the camp’s Oberkampo. Interrogated. Sentenced to be hanged.

THE PIPEL AS A SYMBOL GodJews Faith

HANGING OF THE PIPEL “Long Live Liberty!” “……” THE

THE PIPEL: QUOTE #1 “ For half an hour he stayed there, struggling between life and death, dying in slow agony under our eyes.” (pg. 62)

THE PIPEL: QUOTE #1 CONT. Hanging of the Pipel = The Jewish People …Agonizing, Innocent Death

THE PIPEL: QUOTE #2 “ Where is He(God)? Here He is – He is hanging here on these gallows….” (pg. 62)

THE PIPEL: QUOTE #2 CONT. Jewish prisoners looked for God… Prayed for miracles… Sought answers…

THE PIPEL: QUOTE #3 “That night the soup tasted of corpses.” (Pg. 62) …concluding sentence of chapter.

THE PIPEL: QUOTE #3 CONT. Before: Excellent Soup after Hangings. After: Soup tasted horrible.

THE PIPEL: QUOTE #3 CONT. Elie’s, & the Jewish prisoner’s faith (God, humanity, Life) was murdered.

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