1. Guiding Questions 1 Question
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Connotation: What meanings, associations, or emotions do the word, “Night” suggest?
Sleep, loneliness, death, depression, evil, fear, darkness, dreams, nightmares, sadness, ghosts, mystery, suspicion, cold, anxiety, pain

2. Guiding Questions 2 Question
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Why did Elie witness and experience his first night in camp?
The elderly being shot in cold blood
He was separated from his mother and sister.
He lied about his age to save his life.
He saw children and adults being burned alive.
He smelled burning flesh.
He heard children and people screaming.
He saw people being beat like animals.

3. Guiding Questions 3 Question Possible Answers
Based on the connotation of “night” what does Elie mean when he says that his first night in camp has turned his life into one long night?
Elie’s life after the Holocaust was most likely filled with pain, loneliness, nightmares, and a difficulty for him to enjoy joyful events as he often thought of all those who suffered at and died during the Holocaust.

4. Guiding Questions 4 The absence of God
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What does “Night” symbolize for Elie?
The absence of God

5. Guiding Questions 5 What is the “silence” that Elie is referring to?
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What is the “silence” that Elie is referring to?
The silence of God and the world as no one came to stop the Nazi or help the Holocaust prisoners.

6. Warm-up #51
How does the connotation of night (nighttime) help to develop the symbolism of night (the absence of God)? Use our class discussion and examples from the text to explain this question in more detail.