1. Night – Notebook Chapter 2/3

3. Timeline  Novel begins in 1941 – Eliezer is almost 13  Moishe left and returned – end of 1942  1943 passed “normally”  1944 – spring – new gvmt, Nazi takeover, Passover, Ghettos, liquidation  May 1944 – train for 3? Days – arrival @ Birkenau – transferred to Auschwitz – Block 17 – few weeks – taken to Buna

4. Character list  Ch 1 p.3 – Moishe the Beadle- poor, goofy, religious  Ch 1 p. 4 – Father – cultured, aloof to son, high regard in community (w/ mom runs a store)  Ch 1 p. 4 –Siblings – Hilda, Bea, Tzipora  Ch 2 p. 24 – Mrs. Schachter – went ‘crazy’ on train  Ch 3 p. 43 – Stein from Antwerp – relative – Eliezer lied, he found the truth and most likely died  Ch 3 p. 45 – Akiba Drumer – fellow prisoner  Ch 3 p. 45 – Hersh Genud – fellow prisoner

5. Threaten to shoot anyone who doesn’t give up remaining valuables/or if any of the 80 go missing Fire pits/crematorium “the heat, the thirst, the stench, the lack of air, were suffocating us. Yet all that was nothing compared to her screams, which tore us apart.” - psychological vs physical torture Being treated like animals – act like animals – deprived of morality & humanity – ex – beating Mrs. S instead of helping her 1.How do the Hungarians/ Germans keep everyone in line? 2.What was foreshadowed by Mrs. Schachter’s nightmare? 3.Why were people behaving poorly on the train?

6. We know that the labor camp was not good, but it puts their minds at ease temporarily When they get off the trains “objects…were now left behind in the wagon and, with them, finally, our illusions.” p. 29 He is numb/emotionless – one goal – stay with father – and starts doubting God -separate men & women (p. 29), strip down & take clothes (p. 35), shave heads (p. 35), disinfections/showers  prison garb (p. 36), tatoo # A-7713 (p. 42) 4.What’s the dramatic irony on p. 27? 5.When do they finally realize what’s happening? 6.How does Eliezer change? 7.What do the Nazis do to strip the prisoners of their remaining identity?

7. Allusions P. 17 “It was like a page torn from a book, a historical novel, perhaps, dealing with the captivity in Babylon or the Spanish Inquisition.” p. 45 Job ~600 BC Jews were captive in Babylonia and Jerusalem destroyed 1400-1500’s – Catholic Church – convert or leave Job – was wealthy, then lost everything as a test. He doesn’t curse God, just the day he was born. God rewards him.