1. Fire Symbol from the novella Night
Calvin Martin, Greg Bowman, Andrew Shin, Julian Vela

2. Emotions about fire
Fear
Isolation
Despair

3. Fire as a Symbol Can be helpful: Can be harmful: Survival Cooking
Warmth
Can be harmful:
Destruction
Pain
All-consuming rage

4. Quotes: Pages 1-27
Pg. 18 Elie Wiesel: “The stars were only sparks of the fire which devoured us. Should the fire die out one day, there would be nothing left in the sky but dead stars, dead eyes.”
Pg. 22 Madame Schächter “Look! Look at it! Fire! A terrible fire! Mercy! Oh, that fire!”

5. Analysis
Destruction
Death
Rage
Everything consumed completely

6. Quotes: Pages 28-54
Pg. 30-Elie Wiesel: "Not far from us, flames were leaping up from a ditch, gigantic flames. They were burning something. A lorry drew up at the pit and delivered its load--little children. Babies! Yes, I saw it--saw it with my own eyes...those children in the flames.“
Pg. 34-Elie Wiesel: "A dark flame had entered into my soul and devoured it."

7. Analysis Indiscriminate Complete and thorough Lost all will
At the mercy of the Nazis

8. Quotes: Pages 55-81
Pg.64, Elie Wiesel: Because He had had thousands of children burned in His pits?
Pg. 64, Elie Wiesel: When Sodom no longer found favor in Your eyes, you made the sky rain down fire and sulphur.

9. Analysis
God had gone through it before, he wasn’t looking after his children, they were alone and didn’t matter
The unthinkable had happened, as if the world was actually coming to an end

10. Quotes: Pages
Pg. 82, Elie Wiesel: “A spurt of red flame. A shot. Death wrapped itself around me till I was stifled. It stuck to me.”
Pg. 103, Elie Wiesel: “Oh, to strangle the doctor and the others! To burn the whole world! My father’s murderers.”
Pg. 106, Elie Wiesel: “They must have taken him away before dawn and carried him to the crematory.”
Pg. 107, Elie Wiesel: “Afterward they were going to blow up the camp.”

11. Analysis
Fire is consuming his life, it’s going to destroy it and kill him. Make everything that hurts go away
Let out the rage and anger, to tear apart like fire does
His father’s road had ended, this was how he moved on
To end the camp, get rid of it and leave behind only memories and ashes of what had happened there

12. Purpose for Fire
To show not only death, but total consumption of an entire race, to exterminate and get rid of completely, leave behind ashes of formal life
Was also what actually happened
Fire was showing his own fear as well as others
Only ashes remain

13. Purpose for writing Night
To show just how horrible the holocaust really was
To remind us of what happened
To make sure it never happens again
To share his story

14. Questions?