1. MRS. CONTRERAS Language Arts 9th Grade – Eng I Gifted/Honors Room C209
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2. Weekly Forecast 5/7/07 – 5/11/07 Monday – "Night" pg 61 - pg 80
Tuesday – "Night" pg 81 – end
Wednesday – "Night" (Wrap Up Holocaust Mural). Study & take quiz on grammar rules (hdts ).
Thursday – Holocaust Project Presentations. Friday – Holocaust Project Presentations.

3. Home Learning Study grammar hdts 181-194.
By Monday, 5/14:
Study grammar hdts
Use class web page to review for Final Exam (slides for 3rd & 4th grading periods)
Movie Letters due this Friday, 5/11
Have a great week!

4. Extended Home Learning Assignment (Due 5/21/07) All students whose projects were due after 5/7/07.
In an effort to enhance student writing skills and performance, all students are to rewrite (retype) all essay writing samples editing flaws and incorporating feedback provided. This assignment includes all hand-written essays in class as well as both research paper(s). Staple updated final draft on top of previous drafts.
Recap Sheets must be updated and placed on top of all drafts which must be compiled in date order.
A student reflection must be attached to the top evaluating your written work this year. Obviously this should take into consideration the feedback that has been provided throughout the course of the year.

5. Night
By: Elie Wiesel
Pages
Analay Perez Honors English I May 4, 2007 Period 5
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6. Plot sequence
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The man who reached out for the two caldrons of soup gets shot at (Wiesel 60).
They begin to bomb the Buna factory. Elie is anxiously thinking about his father till at last he sees him (60).
Then we are introduced to a young boy from Warsaw. The Lageralteste reads this verdict:
“In the name of Reichsfuhrer Himmler… prisoner number… stole during the air raid… according to the law… prisoner number… is condemned to death. Let this be a warning and an example to all prisoners” (62).
This is seen as a form of manipulation or control. It serves as a warning to the other prisoners if they ever do such a thing. As a result, they stay there to watch.

7. Plot sequence (cont.)
The boy was hung with a rope around his neck. After this occurred, Elie watched other hangings (63).
One time the Gestapo ordered an inspection. “They found a trail. It led to the block of the Dutch Oberkapo.” There they found carious number of weapons and the Oberkapa was arrested. His pipel was condemned to death (63-64).
As the boy (pipel) is there waiting to be killed, someone say’s “Where is merciful God, where is He?” (64).
I believe this person is asking such a question due to the fact that he’s an innocent young person who’s going to be hung. Why couldn’t God be there to help him, in this most significant time of his need?
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8. Plot sequence (cont.)
The two other men died, but the little boy who was too light, was still alive. He was on the verge of life and death and the people (including Elie) were forced to watch (65).
Elie hears a voice behind him ask, “For God’s sake, where is God?” And from within me, I heard a voice answer: “Where He is? This is where- hanging here from his gallows…” (65).
This symbolizes a point in Elie’s life where faith in God is almost forgotten or insignificant. Before, when he was asked questions about God he knew the answers, now, he’s more doubtful and shows some type of anger towards his faith. Its meaning is not the same as before.
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This was worn by Jews during World War 2.

9. Plot sequence (cont.)
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Anti- Nazi
As the story continues, Elie begins to have this anger inside of him toward religion or God. When he hears people say “Blessed be God’s name…Elie ask if they should bless God’s name because, He caused thousands of children to burn in His mass graves? Because He kept six crematoria working day and night, including Sabbath and the Holy Days?...” (67). Once again here we are presented with the issue of Elie and God. Elie seems to be opposing God, bringing up issues that are contradictory.
Elie states, “But look at these men whom You have betrayed allowing them to be tortured, slaughtered, gassed, and burned, what do they do? They pray before You! They praise your name!” (68) By this we realize how Elie’s view towards God, religion and faith has changed through the course of the book. How innocent people are dying yet they continue praying to God, without receiving any salvation.

10. Plot sequence (cont.)
At this point is Rosh Hashanah, the last day of the year. Then came “Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement,” which was the day that they were suppose to fast. One question was widely debated “should we fast?” (69). Some people did fast, however, Elie decided not to fast. “I no longer accepted God’s silence. As I swallowed my ration of soup, I turned that act into a symbol of rebellion, of protest against Him” (69). By Elie not fasting this shows us his anger towards God. It seems as a form of you scratch my back I scratch yours.
Then they move Elie to a different block, the construction one. There he was informed that selection was soon to take place. When selection took place and SS would examine everyone and whoever he found frail, he would obtain his number and would be sent to the crematorium (69-70).

11. Plot sequence (cont.)
The SS officers were with Dr. Mengele and they were choosing and selecting the people. Finally, Elie goes and runs fast, knowing that by doing this that they won’t find him frail or obtain his number. He’s safe (71-72).
Then Elie is surprised to see his father. They both passed. His dad gave him some things and at last the bell rings and it’s time to separate once again (73).
Days pass and the ration grows smaller. The Blockalteste comes running announcing a list of numbers which signifies the selection (74).
Elie sees his father running and said they had gotten his number without knowning a thing. Elie’s father gives him his knife and a spoon and tells him not to sell it (75).
Schindler’s List is a movie about the Holocaust.
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12. Plot sequence (cont.)
At last, Elie finds his dad alive and gives him back his knife and spoon (76).
“Akiba Drumer who was a victim of the selection died. He had lost faith during the days of selection”(77). One day a Polish rabbi tells Elie, It’s over. God is no longer with us”(77). Elie say that he lost the fight and opened the door to death” (77). I think that by this Elie means that if Akiba could’ve believed for a while longer, continued believing in God, he wouldn’t have died.
Winter arrives and in January Elie’s right foot begins to swell due to the cold. He goes to a Jewish doctor and insist that he has to operate (77).
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13. Plot sequence (cont.)
Knowning that, Elie stays in the infirmary. There he meets a man who tells him selection still occurs in the infirmary “more often than outside” (78). He also tells him to “leave the infirmary before the next selection” (78).
Finally the doctor operates Elie and tells him he’ll stay there for two weeks for recovery. Elie is worried that he had his leg amputated so he asks him and the doctor answers him with a no and soon he’ll be walking (79-80).
At last, the Russian army is coming to Buna (80).
Adolf Hitler
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14. Who is Elie Wiesel? Born on September 30, 1928 in Sighet Romania.
He married Marion Erster Rose in 1969 and had a son named Shlomo Elisha.
Elie attended Sorbonne, known as the University of Paris from
Elie has received an unimaginable number of awards including The Nobel Peace Prize.
In 1956 he was hit by a taxi cab. He applied for American citizenship and lived in New York writing for the Jewish Daily Forward.
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15. Elie Wiesel and his influences.
From then on, he continued to write books in French, including Dawn, The Accident and many more.
People began to find out more about him and as a result found out about his books.
The time in history is what influenced Elie to write his books, including Night, known as the Holocaust.
Politically, there was a war going on, World War 2 due to “worldwide conflicts”.
Religion wise, there were also many conflicts between the Jews.
Socially, there were problems as well because, Hitler wanted to be the only dominant person, as a result, he wanted to destroy people who were similar to him, and in some way you could consider this racist.
All of these crucial elements bring up Elie Wiesel’s influence towards writing the book Night.

16. Literary Criticism
“That is why silence is the language of Wiesel's first book, Night, as it documents the camp experience that killed his faith "forever." Its neutral tone is the language of the witness. By suppressing all emotion, analysis, and embellishment, it speaks of despair and cynicism. But it also forces the reader to fill in the feelings and judgment that Wiesel has silenced. It thus communicates Wiesel's perception, the perception of the witness. The absence of causal connectives is symptomatic of the broken Covenant between God and His people. Stripped to the essence, Wiesel's concise expression adheres closest to the truth.”-Marie M. Cedars
From this we can see Elie’s way of words through his novel. The way he expresses his emotions through the language used. It makes the reader step into his place and take over that “silence”. His way of words and how he explains things is what actually makes the book seem more realistic.

17. Literary Criticism
“Silence as a mood, silence as a mysterious presence, remains in Wiesel's books, even while he moves from despair to affirmation of literature and life and as he continues to probe the unanswered questions of human cruelty and God's silence. As he shifts responsibility from God to men and women, Wiesel's voice against silence begins to emerge.”-Marie M. Cedars
Even though there is mystery lurking throughout parts of the book, there’s still that presence of silence. His life in the concentration camp continues with him not knowing the answers to these assortment of questions dealing with “human cruelty and God’s silence.”

18. Literary Criticism
“Yet even if, as Wiesel contends, "everything to do with Auschwitz must, in the end, lead into darkness," questions remain concerning what that darkness might be and whether the leading into darkness is indeed the end.”-John K. Roth
As Elie describes in his book that “everything to do with Auschwitz must, in the end, lead to darkness”, we are still wondering what this darkness leads to. Could it possibly be death or could it just be, moving to a more harsh and more unfair concentration camp?

19. Literary Criticism
“This illusion continues even after the Jews are rounded up and taken to the death camps. Rumors persist that liberation is near, that the war is almost over, even when there's no evidence of this and conditions are growing steadily more brutal. Wiesel says of the rumors, "Often we believed them. It was an injection of morphine," meaning that the brief period of belief in something good dulls the pain of being in the camps, but ultimately cannot cure it. The rumors are inevitably false, just as faith is.”-Kelly Winters
Wiesel and his companions once believed the rumors going on about freedom coming back to the Jews and that the war was almost over. They liked to believe this, and this helped them by not being on their mind the whole time, but once reality struck, they knew it wasn’t possible.

20. Literary Criticism
“Eliezer believes that he has betrayed his father, in thought if not in deed. After his father dies, he is left "terribly alone in a world without God and without man," and with the knowledge of his betrayal to haunt him forever.”-Kelly Winters
Elie begins to believe that he has betrayed his father. Once his father dies he states that he is in a world along “without man and without God”, this feeling of “betrayal”, unfaithfulness, haunts him. Some sort of guilty conscience.

21. Literary Criticism
“In Night, the relationship between God and man is first questioned and then reversed: God becomes the guilty one who has transgressed and who deserves to be on trial. God, not man, has broken His promises and betrayed His people.” -Ted L. Estess
In night there are connections between God and man. At the beginning, God is there serving as there guide, but then God is known as the culpable one, who has disobeyed and “deserves to be on trail.” On the other hand, instead of man breaking his promises, it’s God who has, also “betrayed his people.”

22. Bloom’s Taxonomy Questions
Describe the scene where the pipel is being hung.
Interpret Elie’s views towards the day of Yom Kippur.
What would you do if you’re father had to leave and you don’t know where he’s going or if he’ll be back?
Where did the doctor operate Elie?
What do you think will happen when Elie gets better? What will he begin to do?
Place yourself in the pipel’s shoes. How would you react while being in front of a crowd, knowing you might die anytime?

23. Works Cited
" Night by elie wiesel. 14 Apr 2007 <
" night by elie wiesel. 22 Apr 2007 <
" concentration camps during world war Apr 2007 <
" Jews from world war Apr 2007 <
" nazi. 18 Apr 2007 <

24. Works Cited
" concentration camps for Jews during world war Apr 2007 <
" concentration camps for Jews during world war Apr 2007 <
" Hitler. 20 Apr 2007 <
" Literature Resoure Center. 20 Apr 2007 <
" elie wiesel. 19 Apr 2007 <
" elie wiesel. 19 Apr 2007 <

25. Works Cited
" causes of world war Apr 2007 <
" elie wiesel. 20 Apr 2007 <
" Literature Resource Center. 21 Apr 2007 <
" Literature Resource Center. 23 Apr 2007 <

26. Works Cited
" Literatre Resource Center. 21 Apr 2007 <
" Literature Resource Center. 21 Apr 2007 <

27. Zeugen Sie und Sohn
Night
Dayami Perez
P.3

28. Pages
After Eliezer’s operation on the sole of his foot, he is frightened to ask the doctor whether his leg was amputated or if it will ever work again. The doctor assures him that, in 2 weeks, time his foot will be back to normal. (Wiesel 80)
2 days after the operation there is talk that the Red Army was racing towards Buna. In the afternoon, they were told that the camp was going to evacuate each and everyone of them, except those who were in the infirmaries. (81)
There is talk amongst the patients who say that they will be first to go into the furnaces and that the camp will be mined. Eliezer is terribly frightened by this and even though his foot is not nearly healed he runs towards his father to as what they are to do. In a short to-the-point sentence his father tells them to evacuate with the others. After the war, it is found out that those in the infirmaries were let free first. (81,82)
One hour before leaving the camp they are told to clean the block from top to bottom. (84)
As it snowed on and on, Block 57 marched on to their destination. It got to a point where everyone was running and if anyone stopped to rest even for a second, a shot would go off and they would find themselves dead. (85)
This shows how nervous people were to ask a simple question, yet there is trust with this one doctor & Elie.
Illustrates the anticipation for the Red Army to arrive yet leaving the sick behind so they can just die with no care.
This shows the obnoxious behavior that patients have shown to-wards their own funeral. They don’t care & don’t acknowledge the truth of the matter which is that Hitler has be-en eliminating the Jewish population.
Explains that they have some sort of human actions when they show that they don’t want to be pigs but be what they are: humans.
Analyzing this, it is shown that right now, the Nazis were not babysitting anymore. They were serious about their orders and any weakness shown would be shot down. Before they would give them time to rest and get better. But it isn’t a pity party anymore. It’s the real deal.

29. Pages 86-90
Everyone is running, there’s gunshots every so often, people are dying and all Elizer can think is “Keep running” no matter the pain going through his foot. (86)
Zalman, a young boy from Poland, is running beside Elie when all of a sudden he breaks out in a cry claiming he has a big cramp in his stomach. He says he cannot go on yet Eliezer refuses to give up and tells him to keep running. Unfortunately, Zalman stops and gets caught in the crowds stampede. (86)
Soon they come to rest at an abandoned village. Eliezer sinks into the snow and starts to sleep but his father awakes him saying that it is dangerous to fall asleep in the snow because “one falls asleep forever”. (87)
Eliezer and his father go to a shed where they take turns sleeping and watching over each other. When it is Eliezer’s turn to watch he sees someone fall asleep next to a corpse of a relative and Eliezer wakes him up telling him the same thing his father told him. The stranger kindly gives him a smile of gratitude. (90)
Ends with the Rabbi asking for his son for he lost him in the march. (90)
This explains how survival of the fittest works. No matter who needs help its every man for themsel-ves.
Contradicting the above analysis, Elie on the other hand wants to help Zal-man to survive.
Shows how tired Eliezer was that he almost risked death by falling asleep but his father was there to rescue him.
Eliezer yet again caring for a complete stranger’s survival.
Shows how easy it is to lose anyone, no matter how close you are to them.

30. Pages 91-95
Starts off explaining how the Rabbi was looking for his son and if anyone had seen him. Elie’s response was that he hadn’t seen him but then he remembers that he did see him and that his son had noticed his father losing ground and instead of waiting for him he kept running. (91)
As they keep running, Elie feels as if he has lost his foot because he no longer feels it. When people start losing pace the officers give words of encouragement stating that they were almost at Gleiwitz. (92)
They are all thrown in barracks where all of them are crushing each other on all their weight. Eliezer is clawing his way through just trying to find some air to breath. (93)

31. Bloom’s Taxonomy 1. When did Eliezer's father die? (K)
2. Discuss whether Eliezer should have left his father or stayed with him helping him to survive. (C)
3. Demonstrate what you would have done to survive? (Ap)
4. Explain why the workers would do such a thing to the Jews (throwing bread into cart). (An)
5. What would have happened if Eliezer's father would have lived? (S)
6. Compare the ways of thinking between Eliezer and the Rabbi's son. (E)

32. Literary Criticism
In the criticism “An Essay on Night", Dougherty explains many incidences where faith is questioned and how it is followed by loss of faith or disbelief. All the people in the camp used their faith and belief in God to help them survive. Once that was gone, they had nothing else to live for. Dougherty goes on to explain how the Jews had to find a way to keep themselves together, but also trying to keep fighting even after there was no hope for them.
In the criticism “Critical Essay on Night”, Korb writes about Wiesel’s relationship to God and how it slowly changes throughout the story. Korb uses plot sequence to show connections and this clearly shows how Eliezer changes with time in his novel.
In the criticism “Critical Essay on Night”, Winters shows that Wiesel writes openly in his autobiographical novel. This allows the readers to find their own perspective about it. She also writes about Wiesel fight for survival and how his perspective changes.

33. Works Cited
* Wiesel, Elie., Night. Union Square West, NY: Hill and Wang., 2006.
* Korb, Rena. "Critical Essay on Night." 4. 6 May <
* Winters, Kelly. “Critical Essay on Night.” 4. 6 May <
* Dougherty, Jane Elizabeth. “An Essay on Night.” 4. 6 May <
* Online Image. 6 May 2007 <

34. “Wrap Up” Joshua Tapia P.5 4/30/07 Mrs. Contreras
Night
By Elie Wiesel
“Wrap Up”
Joshua Tapia
P /30/07
Mrs. Contreras
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35. Night
As a 12-year-old boy living in Transylvania, Eliezer wants to understand the Kabbalah (Jewish mystical texts) and wants to find someone who explain it to him. (4)
Moshe the Beadle, a local pauper, mentored Eliezer and revealed questions that Eliezer did not know how to answer. (4-5)
Moshe, later was teaching Eliezer the Kabbalah and was later deported out of Transylvania by the Hungarians.
Month’s had passed since Eliezer explained that the town of Transylvania lived on as it did before until one day Elizer saw Moshe the Beadle sitting on a bench just outside of the synagogue.(6)
Moshe went around explaining to everyone what occurred during his trip with the Hungarians.(6-7)

36. Night
Moshe the Beadle was no longer happy neither did he sing but only wanted the people to believe his tales.(7)
The towns people ignored Moshe. Some people taught he was mad, others taught he wanted their pity.(7)
In 1944, News broke loose that the Jews of Budapest live in horror and Anti-Semitic acts take place every day. Since then, all the Jews of Transylvania were only talking about the terrible situation.(9)
Three days later, German vehicles arrived with armed soldiers.(9)
During Passover, the Germans arrested the leaders of the Jewish Community and since then, hell broke loose on the Jews. They were forced to give up there jewelry and wear a Yellow Star.(11)
Jews were forced to move into small ghettos. (12)

37. Night
Believer and his family moved into a nearby ghetto where they were offered to go live in a village with there servant Martha, but declined the offer.(15)
A few days passed and the Nazis, along with a few of their Hungarian henchmen, transported the remaining of the Jews that lived in ghettos to Auschwitz. (22)
All the Jews were packed into the cattle where they crowded around each other, hungry and thirsty, not knowing where they were to be taken to.(23)
The train stopped in Kaschau, a small town on the Czechoslovakian border, where a German official take control of the train and threatens to kill anyone who still possesses jewelry along with any missing passenger.(23-24)
The Germans nailed the cattle door shut and got the train moving.(27)

38. Night
Mrs. Schächter, a woman with her child who got separated from her husband and son, began going crazy. (28)
With all the shouting and scaring away the Jews, 3 guys began to beat her up with the help of other people from the cattle.(29)
The train stops at Auschwitz where the Jews were taken off the train. As soon as they got off the train they were desperate to find out the local news.(31)
The Jews were told that they were at a Labor camp where they were to work, but in families. This relieved everybody.
(31)

39. Night
The prisoners were transported to Birkenau, a processing camp for arrivers from Auschwitz.(28)
As they road in the train, the noticed a chimney of flames with a horrible stench in the air. This was the burning stink of human flesh.(28)
At Birkenau, the Germans separated the weak from the ones who are able to work. Eliezer and his father stayed together. His mother and sisters were separated and never heard of since then.(29)
A prisoner tells Eliezer and his father to lie about their ages. Eliezer lied that he was 18 instead of 15, and his father lied that he was 40 instead of 50.(30)

40. Night
The Jews were shaven, disinfected with gasoline, given prison clothe, and tattooed their prison numbers to their bare skin. (35-36)
Eliezer’s father asked if he could use the bathroom and was beaten by the officials in front of Eliezer.(36)
Since the moment Eliezer saw the burning of babies and his father being beaten down, he continued to lose faith in God.(38)
Finally, Eliezers father dies in Buchenwald.(59)

41. About the Author
Elie Wiesel was born on September 30, 1928, in Sighet, a small town in Transylvania.
He had a father, a mother, and two sisters.
As a American-Jewish novelist, political activists, and Holocaust survivor, Elie has written more than 40 books, best one known as “Night”.
Elie was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986.
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42. About the Author (TimeLine)
1928 – Born in Sighet, Romania (later Transylvania)
1944 – Deported to Auschwitz
Jan – Father dies in Buchenwald
Apr – Liberated from concentration camp
1948 – Moved to Paris to study at Sorbonne
1948 – Work in journalism begins
1954 – Decides to write about the Holocaust
1956 – Hit by a car in New York
1958 – “Night” was published
1963 – Receives U.S. citizenship
1964 – Returned to Sighet
1966 – Publishes “Jews of Silence”
1969 – Married Marlon Rose
1972 – Has a son

43. About the Author (TimeLine)
1978 – Appointed Chair of Presidential Commission on the Holocaust
1980 – Commission renamed U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council.
1985 – Awarded Congressional Gold Metal of Achievement
1986 – Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
1995 – Publishes memoirs

44. Literary Criticism 1
“Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky. Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever. Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never.” (Jane Elizabeth Dougherty)
Eliezer and the villagers are forced to give up Jewdism because of the Holocaust. Eliezer did not expect to see burning children and people being tortured by studying the Kabbalah.

45. Literary Criticism 2
“I ran off to look for my father. And at the same time I was afraid of having to wish him a Happy New Year when I no longer believed it.
He was standing near the wall, bowed down, his shoulders sagging as though beneath a heavy burden.
I went up to him, took his hand and kissed it. A tear fell upon it. Whose was that tear? Mine? His? I said nothing. Nor did he. We had never understood each other so clearly.” (Jane Elizabeth Dougherty)
The Holidays in Auschwitz are far from existing and impossible to practice. Eliezer describes eating on Yom Kippur, traditionally a day of fasting and atonement for sins, as an act of defiance against a God in whose mercy he no longer believes. Yet he feels a great emptiness within him, as his identity, and thus his humanity, has depended on his membership in the Jewish community, a community which is being destroyed around him.

46. Literary Criticism 3
“I had to stay at Buchenwald until April eleventh. I have nothing to say of my life during this period. It no longer mattered. After my father's death, nothing could touch me any more." (Rena Korb)
He thinks not of family, not of God, not of ideals, but only of food. After his liberation, he looks in a mirror to see the eyes of a corpse looking back at him; the Nazis have succeeded in stripping Eliezer of all the characteristics that make a person human; now, it is his great task to regain these elements. Wiesel finds a way to do so by writing about his experiences, exploring his past to find a way to head into this future.

47. Literary Criticism 4
"Here, every man has to fight for himself and not think of anyone else. Even of his father. Here, there are no fathers, no brothers, no friends." ‘A second piece of advice:’ "[D]on't give your ration of bread and soup to your old father Instead, you ought to be having his ration.“ (Rena Korb)
Similarly, although Eliezer quickly realizes that the best way to protect himself is to forsake his father, he never does so. While he chastises himself for even acknowledging this bitter truth in his own consciousness, he differs from the other sons in his group because he does not take action to free himself of the responsibility that his father imposes. The men around him uphold no such similar scruples. They beat Believer's father for urinating in the bunk and for calling out his son's name.

48. Literary Criticism 5
"Men threw themselves on top of each other, stamping on each other, tearing at each other, biting each other. Wild beasts of prey, with animal hatred in their eyes." (Rena Korb)
One man obtains a bit of bread, which he intends to share with his son; however, his son responds not with acknowledgement or thanks but instead by attacking his father. When the father dies of his son's blows, the son immediately takes the bread from his dead father's hand.

49. Literary Criticism 6
"Instead of being transported out of the body and into the bliss of eternity, Eliezer moves steadily into degradation in an agonized physical world." (Kelly Winters)
Abruptly, Eliezer is yanked out of his sheltered existence and forced into a world where babies and children are slaughtered, where old people are executed because they cannot work, where corpses, and sometimes the living, are burned and the smell of constant cremations hangs in the air. Death is everywhere, and among the living, cruelty becomes rampant as prisoners fight for their own survival, killing each other for food or water.

50. Outline (Research Paper)
“Night”
Thesis Statement: Eliezer explains the discouragement in believing in his faith. His character let’s us know what he feels towards his religion.
I. Before we can appreciate how Eliezer feels towards religion, let us contrast to what the villagers and family feel toward the faith in God.
A. Neighbor’s and families experience what it is to feel terrified by the torture of Nazi’s. As they were brought up to Auschwitz and the other concentration camps, these people saw what occurred during their unexpected visit.
1. Jew’s were sent to different Ghetto’s, as forced by the Nazi army. Jewelry and other valuables were seized by their owners.
2. Throughout the novel, Eliezer and his father get split apart, lied to, and abused by Nazi soldiers. They saw little children being burned in the pits of the flames, while mothers and children were separated to be cremated.
3. Food and water was at waste. The food given to the Jewish prisoners was as hard as solid, and the water was filthy. Eliezer suffered from starvation and thirst.

51. Outline (Research Paper)
II. Eliezer is stopped by a wall of trouble. Eliezer quickly realizes that the best way to protect him is to forsake his father, he never does so. This comes to conclude the death of his father, in which, he blames his faith.
A. Elie feels guilty by not standing up as a man to protect him and his father, but understands that if he does attempt to try and stop the Nazi’s, he can be killed.
Eliezer’s father gets beaten up by Nazi’s, but Eliezer could not do anything but stand and watch as his dad got shoved and kicked around the ground.
Death calls upon the camps where Eliezer is located in. The Narrator begins to uncover the truth of life, stating that there is no point in praying for God if no “good” has been brought to the Jews.
Babies are being burned in the chambers. Women and young children are brought to the crematory.
Old men are killed because they are too old to work in out in the fields.
IV. Families are separated because of the “Separation Class” where the ones who have the ability to due hard work live and the ones who can’t work at all die.
A. Eliezer blames God for the cause of all this chaos.
Eliezer regret’s not believing in what Moshe the Beadle told him about the Nazis.
2. After being separated by the Nazis from his families, Eliezer felt guilty.
Conclusion: Eliezer eventually took time to think over his religion, but gave up on it as he went through the Holocaust. His example of God would never be the same. All he has left is a pencil, a paper, and a memory.

52. Questions Who was Moshe the Beadle? Why did Eliezer lie about his age?
Why did the Nazi’s tattoo numbers on the Jews?
Why were families separated at the concentration camps?
What option would have made if your mother and sisters were being taken away to another place?
Who was Martha?

53. Work’s Cited Information found in the book. “Night”, by Elie Wiesel
1 Image: “Night Cover Page”
2 Image: “Elie Wiesel”
3 Image: “Night Cover Page #2”