1. Quick Review Why do inmates take on the role of prisoner guards?
What process did Elie and the other prisoners undergo upon entering the camp?
Provide examples of how Elie is beginning to change.
Turn to page 48: What happens to some of the children among the guards?
Explain how Franek mirrors the behavioral changes that can easily take place when brutality is the norm?

2. Identifying Tone & Mood
An author’s tone and mood can be revealed through the choice of words and details.
Pay attention to the connotation of words to decipher the tone of a text.

3. Consider the Connotation of the Words and Identify the Tone for Each Example
The policeman gave me a parking ticket.
Some bored cop tagged me with another ticket.
Someone had slipped the ticket under my windshield wiper like a blade slipped under a rib.
A citation for violation of parking regulations had been affixed to my car.
I got another ticket!

4. Identify the Tone of the Passage
“And the trees all died. They were orange trees. I don’t know why they died, they just died. Something wrong with the soil possibly or maybe the stuff we got from the nursery wasn’t the best. We complained about it. So we’ve got thirty kids there, each kid had his or her own little tree to plant and we’ve got these thirty dead trees. All these kids looking at these little brown sticks, it was depressing.”
The use of adjectives “dead” and “depressing”
sets a gloomy tone in the passage.

5. Identify the Tone of the Passage
Robert Frost
“I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”

6. Night Chapter 4 Questions

7. The Youth From Warsaw
1. What crime did the youth of Warsaw commit? 2. Describe his physical features. 3. Describe the reactions of the youth of Warsaw as he was being readied for his hanging. 4. What is the significance of Elie’s statement right after the youth from Warsaw died? 5. Based on your answers above, what is the tone of the section regarding the youth of Warsaw? 6. What words in the section helped you to understand the overall tone?

8. The Youth From Warsaw 1. What crime did the youth of Warsaw commit?
He stole during the alert.
2. Describe his physical features.
Strong built and tall
3. Describe the reactions of the youth of Warsaw as he was being readied for his hanging.
Pale but more moved than afraid, he gazed coldly at the guards (He was not afraid but angry)
4. What is the significance of Elie’s statement right after the youth from Warsaw died?
The young man died with his pride still intact as he was not afraid. When he screamed, “A curse upon Germany” right before he died, Elie himself was moved. Elie felt like the Jews that day was a small victory as the Nazi’s were unable to destroy the spirit of the Youth from Warsaw.
5. Based on your answers above, what is the tone of the section regarding the youth of Warsaw? Awed, respectful, prideful
6. What words in the section helped you to understand the overall tone?
Solemn, coolly assessing, ,strong, calm,

9. The Angelic Pipel 7. Describe the angelic Pipel’s physical features.
8. What crime did he commit?
9. Describe the reactions of the Pipel as he was being readied for his hanging.
10. What is the significance of the Elie’s statement right after the youth from Warsaw died.
11. Based on your answers above, what is the tone of the section regarding the youth of Warsaw?
12. What words in the section helped you to understand the overall tone?
Quick Fact
A pipel is a child that a concentration camp guard has taken
a special interest in,
mostly for homosexual reasons.

10. The Angelic Pipel 7. Describe the angelic Pipel’s physical features.
He had a beautiful face and a kind heart.
8. What crime did he commit?
Because of his associations with the Oberkapo, he too was charged for having weapons.
9. Describe the reactions of the Pipel as he was being readied for his hanging.
Pale and biting his lips which means he was afraid and nervous.
10. What is the significance of the Elie’s statement right after the youth from Warsaw died.
When the young child suffered unable to die because of his light weight, Elie believed that God must be dead if He would allow such an atrocity to take place. the child to die swiftly. This thought made even food, the sold desire of the prisoners, take like death.
11. Based on your answers above, what is the tone of the section regarding the youth of Warsaw? Troubled, sad, hopeless
12. What words in the section helped you to understand the overall tone? Weeping, silence, corpses

11. Symbolism
9. Another symbol Wiesel uses takes the form of a person and event. What does the hanging of the young boy, the "angelic pipel," symbolize?
The hanging of the young Pipel symbolizes the death of God because when the young child suffered unable to die because of his light weight, Elie believed that God must be dead if He would allow such an atrocity to take place.

12. Response #5:
In what ways was the hanging of the young Pipel the ultimate challenge to young Elie’s spiritual faith? How does the symbolism of “night” compare to the symbolism of the young Pipel?

13. Read beginning of Chapter 5
Class Work
Complete the handout
for further practice.
Read beginning of Chapter 5