1. Think-Pair-Share Work with a partner
What traits are brought out in people placed in extreme situations?
Meyer
Meyer’s father
Meir Katz
German soldiers
Elie (narrator)
Elie’s father
People throwing bread
The “strangler”

2. Allusion
An allusion is a reference to another work of literature or to a historic person or event, usually as a comparison.
What is the author’s intent in making the allusion to manna from heaven in the Torah?
(The Torah is the Jewish name for the first five books of the Old Testament.)

3. Character Foil
A foil is a character who demonstrates a contrast to the main character of a story. Usually a foil has something in common with the protagonist, but the foil’s actions are much different or even opposite of those of the protagonist.
Example – Laertes is a foil to Hamlet.

4. Character Foil
What example of character foil does Wiesel use in his narrative?
Compare and contrast these character foils with the main characters.
What is the effect of these comparisons on the reader?

5. Homework The World Was Silent, by Elie Wiesel
In your notebook, answer questions 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 on pg
Next reading:
The Spy by Bertolt Brecht