History Figurative Language Plot IPlot IIMotifs

Name two factors that contributed to the Holocaust leading up to WWII.

National Indifference Treaty of Versailles Anti Semitism Depression Hitler’s charisma

Name four different types of victims targeted

Jews Gypsies Handicapped Polish people Soviet prisoners Homosexuals Jehovah’s Witnesses Political prisoners Black Europeans

Name two methods of killing the Nazi’s adopted prior to adopting the Final Solution.

Killing Squads Euthanasia

In what city does this memorial stand? What does it represent? Name two.

Berlin Nuremberg Laws

This term is a violent riot against a group of people condoned by the forces of law. An example would be Kristallnacht

Pogrom

Three days after the liberation of Buchenwald I became very ill with food poisoning. I was transferred to the hospital and spent two weeks between life and death.

irony

The march began. The dead stayed in the yard under the snow, like faithful guards assassinated, without burial.

simile

Men threw themselves on top of each other, stamping on each other, tearing at each other…Wild beasts of prey, with animal hatred in their eyes; an extraordinary vitality had seized them.

Metaphor

Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust.

Personification

She [Madame Schachter] continued to scream, breathless, her voice broken by sobs. 'Jews, listen to me! I can see a fire! There are huge flames! It is a furnace!'

Foreshadowing

When and where was the author’s early boyhood spent?

He’s 13 in 1941 Sighet- little town in Transylvania

What is a Kapo and how do they function within the camp and the novel?

A head prisoner, gains power They keep the other prisoners in line They show the hierarchy of power and the way anti- Semitism was institutionalized and exploited.

Describe Elie’s arrival at Auschwitz. Include selection. Double: who is this person? Angel of Death.

Men/women separated. Stripped, decontaminated, tattooed. Dr. Mengele

Why was the Dutchman and the angel faced pipel hanged?

Stole during the raid Hoarded weapons Prepping for a resistance movement

What part of his body does Elie describe himself as becoming while in the camp? Why is this significant?

A stomach Dehumanizing Why not a heart for example?

At what moment in the text does Elie lose his faith?

Jewish New Year. States that he is stronger than the Almighty.

What is Elie’s father’s inheritance to him?

A knife and spoon

Name two examples of irony in the text.

Beginning: Jews “help” needy but did not like them- foolish optimism of Jews & denial of facts Evacuation of Auschwitz Auschwitz's motto “Work is Liberty”

Name two characters in the text that experienced a physical death. Explain.

Zalman Juliek

Name two characters in the text that experienced a spiritual death. Explain.

Meir Katz Akiba Drumer Elie Madame Schachter

Name one instance of SILENCE in the novel and why it is significant.

Elie not crying out when his father is beaten by the kapo shows how he was forced to silence his morals in fear of abuse.

What is the significance of NIGHT in the book. Cite one example.

First night in Auschwitz. Begins a time in Elie’s life where he loses all meaning.

What facial feature does Wiesel continually describe. Why is this feature significant?

Eyes Windows to the soul

What urge does Elie repeatedly say he is defined by? Name one instance in the text.

Hunger

In Auden’s “Refugee Blues,” natural references like a yew tree are used. Name another example and explain the significance of this creative choice.

Cats/Dogs Fish Birds Irony of humans being so advanced but so cruel.