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Why is it important to remember and tell stories of conflict and adversity?

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How does a person overcome adversity?

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How can learning about multiple viewpoints and perspectives help others face and overcome adversity?

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A foreign Jew. Poor.

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Got taken. Everyone else got killed. He survived.

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Everyone doubted him. No one believed him. "He had gone mad"

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Germans showed up in town. Everything they doubted ended up being true.

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How did Elie and other Jews lose their rights?

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How did Elie and other Jews lose their rights?

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Put into Ghettos. Had a 6 o' clock curfew. Can't travel. Gave up all valuables. Yellow star was worn. Dehumanizing begins.

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Why & How did they stay so optimistic? What truths did they ignore?

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Why & How did they stay so optimistic? What truths did they ignore?

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They tried to see the other side of the story. They ignored all the truths. They ignored Moishe, radio broadcast, other people that heard what was happening, final solution.

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80 people in one car, if 1 person escaped they would all be shot. Given few pals of bread and on thing of water.

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Germans were so nice at first.

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"Our principle was to economize, to save for tomorrow. Tomorrow could be worse yet" (23). The Jews had a mindset of adversity. They knew that it could be worse and that anything could happen to them in one day.

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"Every human being has his own gate. He must not err and wish to enter the orchard through a gate other than his own. That would present a danger not only for the one entering but also for those who are already inside" (5). To me, this is symbolic of how steadfast the Jewish people were to their faith. Often people ask why didn't they just lie about who they were, but there is a danger in trying to be someone that you are not-- whether that is lying about your religion or whether just ignoring your true identity in whatever form. Being your own person if the most important piece of anyone's identity.

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His eyes were something Elie has mentioned throughout chapter 1. He mentions how his eyes change throughout everything that has happened to him.

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Mrs. Schächter sees fire throughout the time on the train. Little did everyone know that this fire would later be in their lives. Everyone thought she was going mad yet she saw the fire that would later burn their bodies after the gas chambers.

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The Germans told the Jew multiple times that they would be shot dead if they didn't do something. "Anyone who will be found to have kept any of these will be shot on the spot" (24). The Germans want their rules made clear which is why they tell the Jews they would be shot if those rules were broken. Repeating the threatening scared the Jews to were all the rules were followed.

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When questioned by the S.S officer, why did Elie lie about his age and occupation?

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When questioned by the S.S officer, why did Elie lie about his age and occupation?

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Protect him from being considered a child. Students wouldn't be any help here. "Working makes you free."

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What was the first horrifying sight that Elie at first disbelieved? 

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What was the first horrifying sight that Elie at first disbelieved? 

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The babies thrown into the fire.

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Explain what Elie meant when he said, "Never shall I forget these flames which consumed my faith forever."

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Explain what Elie meant when he said, "Never shall I forget these flames which consumed my faith forever."

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The crematoria that they were two steps away from (they thought they were to be burned) scared them so much that they were questioning God. Making them question their faith.

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He became wiser. Keeping mouth quiet and listening to the guards. Faith is going back and fourth.

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What was Elie's first impression of Auschwitz after leaving Birkenau?

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What was Elie's first impression of Auschwitz after leaving Birkenau?

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Better than Birkenau. Cement buildings with two stories rather than wooden barracks. Little gardens here and there. We were led toward one of those "blocks." Seated on the ground by the entrance, we began to wait again. From time to time somebody was allowed to go in. . These were the showers,  a compulsory routine. Going from one camp to the other, several times a day,  we had, each time,  to go through them.

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What was Bela Katz forced to do after he was chosen for his strength?

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What was Bela Katz forced to do after he was chosen for his strength?

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Place his own fathers body in a furnace.

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What formalities did the prisoners have to go through at the entrance to the camps?

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What formalities did the prisoners have to go through at the entrance to the camps?

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What sort of identification was used on the prisoners?

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What sort of identification was used on the prisoners?

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Numbering system. Each prisoner had a number that was their new name.

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Why was the prisoner in charge of Elie's block removed from his position?

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Why was the prisoner in charge of Elie's block removed from his position?

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He was to human.

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What were the prisoners' rations at each meal?

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What were the prisoners' rations at each meal?

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Breakfast: black coffee
Lunch: soup (more broth than anything)
Dinner: a ration of bread

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What is the irony of the gate that says Arbeit Mach Frei?

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What is the irony of the gate that says Arbeit Mach Frei?

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Work won't set you free. They were prisoners that would not be set free.

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Buna

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Elie says how his first human words spoken to him were days in the camp. They came from a young Pole who was in charge of them. When he first met them that is when he tells them to keep their faith and hope. That they must help each other if they were to survive. This being told to Elie helps him keep what hope he had left.

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Multiple people and signs have said work meant freedom. These were around the camps to have everyone keep working. The guards would tell them this so they would work without giving a hard time about it.

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"How we would have liked to believe that. We pretended, for what if one of us still did believe" (46). Elie knew what had happened to his family. He never wanted it to happen but he knew it did. Both Elie and his father pretended that they were still alive just in case the other still believed. They knew if one did believe then that news would crush them. They both knew that they needed hope in these camps if they were to survive. This is why they wouldn't want to tell the other that they died.

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What were the objectives of the medical examinations?

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What were the objectives of the medical examinations?

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To determine good health to work. They looked for gold crowns for money.

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Why were the Jewish musicians not allowed to play music by Beethoven?

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Why were the Jewish musicians not allowed to play music by Beethoven?

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Beethoven is German. They didn't want any jew playing a German artist.

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Describe one of Idek’s bouts of madness.

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Describe one of Idek’s bouts of madness.

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Beat Elie's father. For no reason.

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How did Elie initially avoid losing his gold crown?

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How did Elie initially avoid losing his gold crown?

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He said he wasn't feeling good.

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Whom did Elie meet years later on the Paris metro?

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Whom did Elie meet years later on the Paris metro?

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The same woman that helped him after Idek beat him.

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What happened when Elie refused to give his crown to Franek? What was the end result?

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What happened when Elie refused to give his crown to Franek? What was the end result?

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Bread and soup was the deal. I will keep you with your father (deal). It was stolen from him.

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Describe the scene with the soup cauldrons.

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Describe the scene with the soup cauldrons.

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The soup was out in the open. One man tried to go and get it and got shot. The soup later tasted better than ever.

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During one of the preliminary “ceremonies” for a hanging, what did Juliek whisper to Elie? What does this suggest?

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During one of the preliminary “ceremonies” for a hanging, what did Juliek whisper to Elie? What does this suggest?

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That he just wanted to eat. They couldn't process what was happening because of their hunger.

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During one hanging, Elie and the other prisoners cried. What made this hanging different from others? 

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During one hanging, Elie and the other prisoners cried. What made this hanging different from others? 

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The person being hung was a little boy.

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The tasting of the soup changes throughout the chapter. After a person dies the soup tastes different. One time it was the best soup the inmates had. Then another time it tasted like died people. This soup change can be an important part of the chapter.

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"And from within me, I heard a voice answer: 'Where He is? This is where—hanging here from this gallows...'" (65). Elie is questioning his faith. He is losing hope that God would save them. He is saying that God knows what was happening to these people and he just watched. With this specific piece of evidence, a little boy was being hung. He was saying here that God knew this and just sit back and watched.

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Throughout this chapter many of the prisoners were being hung or killed. During the hangings the other prisoners were being forced to watch. None of them were distraught about the deaths until a little boy was hung. Once he was hung that's when some of the inmates cried. They couldn't watch a little boy died.

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Elie lost his faith. When the Jews were celebrating their holidays Elie did not participate in these activities. He even said he ate his food in protest to God. He then say "Deep inside me, I felt a great void opening" (69). This void is believing that God is not real or there. After their celebrations went on Elie got split up with his father. When they came to the camp they were told to have faith and have someone to help you to survive. Elie now has none of that. He lost his hope and his father.

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"Poor Akiba Drumer, if only he could have kept his faith in God, if only he could have considered this suffering a divine test, he would not have been swept  away by the selection" (77). Akiba lost his faith and Elie is saying how he should have kept it. Yet, Elie lost his faith and said nothing about how he should have remained faithful. It is kind of ironic that Elie is saying how Akiba should have remained faithful yet Elie wasn't to remain faithful.

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The story is titled "Night" which is important to keep in mind when reading. Throughout all of the chapters so far most of the main events happened during the night time. The prisoners are always thinking that this would be their last night most nights. During chapter 5 right before the death march Elie is thinking how many more days could they live through thinking that this is their last night.

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When Elie and his father chose to go back into the shed to sleep this was important in how they were. Both were exhausted and wanted to sleep but they knew that going to sleep meant they would never wake. Elie tried to fall asleep yet he couldn't because he knew what would happen. His father fell asleep for a second and Elie woke him up. Luckily he woke up but that could have been a close call on his death.

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How did Elie again help his father when they were on the train?

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How did Elie again help his father when they were on the train?

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He makes sure he wakes up so they don't think he is dead. If you die you get thrown out.

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Describe the scene Elie witnessed between the father and son.

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Describe the scene Elie witnessed between the father and son.

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The father got bread the son started to attack him for the bread. The son killed the father. The son gets killed from other prisoners.

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How many got out of the wagon? Where had they arrived?

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How many got out of the wagon? Where had they arrived?

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Twelve left the wagon. They had arrived in Buchenwald.

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Explain how the father/son roles have been reversed in the case of Elie and his father.

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Explain how the father/son roles have been reversed in the case of Elie and his father.

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Elie is now taking care of his dying father. Elie is trying to keep hope alive in his father.

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He was so weak that he couldn't get up to go outside to the bathroom. They were discussted.

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What did Elie think of the advice given to him by the head of the block?

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What did Elie think of the advice given to him by the head of the block?

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Elie was told to stop helping his father because he was to far gone. He told elie to take his food instead of his father. Elie considered it and guilt consumed him.

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What happened to each of them at the end of this chapter?

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What happened to each of them at the end of this chapter?

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Elie's father was gone by day. Elie did not know what had happened to him. Elie's father was calling out to him and Elie did not answer him. This guilt consumed him for the rest of his life.

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Why does he say, "I shall not describe my life during that period. It no longer mattered" (113).

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Why does he say, "I shall not describe my life during that period. It no longer mattered" (113).

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Nothing mattered to him anymore so every action that he did he did not care about.

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They were waiting for roll call and the officers were late. This was something that never happened. They were returned to their blocks and told they would be evacuated. They thought they would be killed.

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What was the resistance movement? What were they trying to accomplish?

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What was the resistance movement? What were they trying to accomplish?

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They were the group that wanted to liberate the camps. They tried to get all the Jews and prisoners free. And too force the SS out of the camps.

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What did the prisoners do when they were freed?

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What did the prisoners do when they were freed?

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They ate. All they thought about was bread. They didn't care about anything else but food.

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He went ill three days after liberation. He was going between life and death in the hospital.

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What did Elie see in the mirror the first time he looked at himself? How is this symbolic to why he tells his story?

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What did Elie see in the mirror the first time he looked at himself? How is this symbolic to why he tells his story?

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He saw a corpse that was contemplating him. It's symbolic because he says, "The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me" (115). The look in his eyes that he saw changed him.

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Elie explains all these events and most of them happened at night. In chapter 7 one main night occurrence is when they are on the train at the very end of the chapter. Elie states, "And the night seemed endless" (103). These prisoners had very little hope left. Most of them were in pain and wanted everything to be over. With Elie using this phrase to explain that night shows that they were giving up hope. That them being prisoners would be forever and would never end. The quote shows how hopeless they were. Their families were gone and people were dying beside them. To the prisoners they thought they would be imprisoned forever. They thought it would be endless.

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At the end of chapter 8, Elie's father had died. But before that, he was so sick that walking wasn't an option. He was moaning and the guards beat him for it. Elie watched his father get beat while his father was yelling his name. Elie did nothing. For any normal child, this would be completely absurd. Yet, with everything Elie has been through this isn't completely shocking. Elie lost most of his humanity throughout his years in the camps. At this time he had lost most humanity yet he still had some left. Elie didn't move because he was scared that he would get hit. Which was a normal thing to think about in these camps. When Elie found out his father was dead, however, he couldn't react. He had no tears left to cry and he was scared of what he might say. He had no reaction because of that. Which is shocking because it was his father. Though, Elie was not a normal person anymore. He had no feelings left by this time.

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"The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me" (115). This is the last thing Elie wrote in the book. It is symbolic because of the recurring theme of the eyes. Throughout the novel, Elie talks about everyone else's eyes never his own. With him saying that this look that he saw in the mirror has stuck with him is a boom moment in this novel. Elie saw this man's eyes that weren't his own. The boy he once was and the last one he saw wasn't there. There was someone different. The eyes of this person were eyes that he hadn't wanted to see. These were the eyes that saw babies thrown into fire, the eyes that saw men being beat and hung, these were the eyes that saw his father being beaten and did nothing. These eyes never left him because these eyes have seen all and these eyes show that.

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Elie has talked to Rabbi Eliahu and had then realized that his son left him because Rabbi was too weak. Elie had then prayed. This is important to note because he had not believed in God at this time. Elie prayed that he wouldn't do the same thing that Rabbi Eliahu's son did. Elie loved his father so much that he prayed to a God, whom to Elie wasn't there, to not let him leave his father. The fact that Elie prayed to never leave his father shows how much he loved him.