1. By: Devante Downs, Gabby Atherley, Yosan Michael, and Chad Wyman

2.  “…at night I ran to the synagogue to weep over the destruction of the Temple.”  Shows us his depth of his belief in God & faith

3.  “Find me a master to guide me in the studies of the cabbala.”  Curious about his religion

4.  “ Belt and shoes in hand, I let myself be dragged off to the barbers“  Losing resistance

5.  Chosen to live or die  Abused again and again

6.  “… steaming hot soup had been left, half full… a feast for kings…”  Starved

7.  “We were all going to die here. All limits had been passed. No one had any strength left. And again the night would be long.”

9.  “Where is he? Here he is—He is hanging here on this gallows ….”  God is dead

10.  “After my father's death, nothing could touch me anymore”  Morale running low, Elie close to death  Nothing left

11.  “From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes…has never left me”  Revolves around purpose of writing

12.  Elie characterized as Jewish child  Goes teenage years in Concentration camps  Loses faith in God  As other characters lose their strong holds in story they die. (Stein of Antwerp and Family)  Elie saved by Russians after Father died

13.  Explains how horrible it was for victims and to show it really did happen  “[Wiesel] knew [he] had to testify about [his] past but did not know how to go about it.”  To “testify” to the readers