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Describe Elie's relationship
with his father BEFORE the events of the Holocaust?Explain how this relationship is transformed over the course of the story. What was Elies "inheritance"? How do they look out for reach other?

2) They werent very close they showed respect toward each other, they slowly relied more and more on each other throughout the course of the story. Elies inheritance is a spoon (he was instructed not to sell) and a knife to defend himself. They relied on each other more they ever had, they told each other where not to go, what not to do, and they encouraged one another.

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1. What did Akiba Drumer ask the prisoners to do for him? Why didn't they?

- They had to do the Kaddish ritual, but they forgot to do it because a whole lotta stuff is going down in the camp.

2. Explain the instances of victim,bystander, and perpetrator as seen in this memoir

- They had to see babies being used as target practice and then after they had to treat it like nothing happened.

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''How does Wiesel demonstrate the dark side of human nature, in both the German soldiers and the Jewish prisoners? Describe the rhetorical and narrative techniques that he uses.''

1.) The German Soldiers demonstrate the dark side of human nature through their carrying of the holocaust, as well as through the treatment of the Jewish prisoners. The Jewish Prisoners also treat each other poorly through neglect.

''How does Wiesel's relationship with God change throughout the memoir?''

2.) Wiesel begins the book with a strong faith in God, but he loses his faith that God is in everything, because he realizes that God can not be reflected within the holocaust.

''Explain and recount some of the instances of victim, bystander, and perpetrator as seen in this memoir.''

3.) All of the Jews are victims. This is prevalent through the holocaust. They are also bystanders because at the beginning of the book they begin to neglect that other people are being persecuted, This is also prevalent through the way they don't stand up for each other through the camp. The soldiers are the obvious perpetrators.

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Zeb Lord: What did Akiba Drumer ask the prisoners to do for him? Why didn't they?

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Zeb Lord: What did Akiba Drumer ask the prisoners to do for him? Why didn't they?

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They were supposed to recite Kaddish, but they didn't because after everything has happened throughout being in this camp, they have lost all faith and hope in their religion and have forgotten about it.

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"What purpose did Moshe the Beadle have in this story? Why did Elie tell us about him?"

When Moshe returns from being taken away in the beginning he tells everyone what he has seen and gone through yet no one believes him. This sets up the purpose of just how diminished this horrible event was, even around the world. This was such a terrible thing it seemed unrealistic to everyone, but it showed just how badly the Jewish people needed help yet the world kept quite. Also, Elie told us that Moshe the Beadle was very spiritual and was dependent on his religion, he was also very poor and was the only poor man that the town would help out. Elie told us about him so that we would have a grasp on just how bad this event was getting in the beginning and since Moshe would keep to himself most of the time, then it must have been true.

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1. Explain  Wiesel's purpose in including Mrs. Schachter in the memoir. What function does she serve?
- To show the irony of running into her after they had both escaped the concentration camps. - Kayla

2. Discuss Eliezer's character and the transition he makes from the young boy in Sighet to the man who is liberated.
- He goes from always being at his fathers side and his father having to take care of him to him having to take care of his father and making sure he doesn't die. - Jenna

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1) Analyze Wiesel's unemotional response to highly charged incidents of 🤬, hanging, violence, and deprivation he witnesses after he is forced from Sighet. How are they different from the way he initially responds to being deported to being deported and his arrival at Auschwitz?
- In section 7, Elie witnesses a fight on the cattle car between men that are very hungry, fighting for a small piece of bread. He responds by not doing anything; to not even try and grab any "food" he can find. He has grown accustomed to the crazy beings that are these people after being in the concentration camps. This is different from when he first arrived in Auschwitz, because when he arrived there, everything was so new and so frightening; he didn't know what to expect. He has now grown to the madness and torture that is his situation.

2) Analyze the relationship between Eliezer and his father. Be sure to cite instances that demonstrate a shift in the the relationship.
- The relationship between eliezer and his father I feel is very strong. They went through a lot of obstacles and still remained strong and full of love. You can see how it remains strong even through the toughest of times in the line, " were he to have gone to the right, I would have run to him." You can see here how much he truly loves and needs his father because he is willing to risk his life to be with him. But you can see how the relationship becomes strained in the quote, " "Don't let me find him! If only I could get rid of this dead weight, so that I could use all my strength to struggle for my own survival, and only worry about myself." Immediately I felt ashamed of myself, ashamed forever. " You can see here how their relationship becomes tested, but they still stay strong.

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1.) Is it right to lie to "protect" someone from the painful truth? Were Elie and his father right in lying to Stein in Antwerp?

2.) Why did Elie Wiesel write this painful memoir?

1a: One can think, especially in the context of the book, that it was right to lie to protect, for the slightest bit of ignorance could give a prisoner hope in survival. Elie and his father thought that, in hiding the truth and letting him have hope, Stein could hold on to the sense of what life once was for them. In giving him a "blind spot", he was still a hopeful, bright man. One can assume that they wanted him to hold onto that for just a bit more (for it was only a matter of time before "He had been given the news. The real news" (page 45). the truth).

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1.) There are many things that can be said about Wiesel's style of writing. What are some things you notice? Describe it.
- Wiesel's style of writing is very unique. He describes the events that happened in a manner that is very short and to the point. He doesn't need many words to describe how horrific the events were. On page 9 Weisel describes  how the Germans came into their town and into their streets. When he says "Anguish." on this page it describes how he feels and how everyone else feels in that moment when they first meet the Germans, the people that would fill their lives with anguish. Wiesel also describes his different experiences but adds little details to make you really think about the events. Towards the end of the book when he talks about him and his father being in the train and the father and son beside them fighting over a tiny piece of bread and killing eachother over it he says "I was sixteen years old". Adding this last sentence reminds the audience of how old Ellie was when all of this happens and how horrific it was that a 16 year old boy and younger children had to experience such horrific events.

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1) Much has been discussed about the ending of this memoir. What is the significance of it? Why do you think Wiesel ends it so abruptly?

He ends The novel so abruptly, because it causes an impact, it causes us to think. He sees himself as as a lifeless corpse. It’s significant because it’s the ending. Because it symbolizes the end yet beginning.

2) Describe Elie’s Relationship with his father BEFORE the haulocaust

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Why did some survive and others did not? It could be because of luck, faith or a strong inner voice keeping them going, fighting for their life. For example: Elie had lost all faith in God but he had a strong will to survive,  he made himself a machine just to keep moving and survive.
What did survival depend on? It depended, most importantly on the want to survive. If one does not want to live it's pointless to keep on going however, even if one does want to live they will still have thoughts that cause them to lose faith in survival. One might begin the think, what is even the point? Is all this pain even worth living? could death be better than this, a lesser of two evils? If one continues to want to survive and has faith that they can, then survival is possible.
Did some just have a stronger will to survive? Yes, Elie especially just had a stronger will to survive. Others like Elie's father had just given up. His father had no motive, he was sick and old and had been beaten up, he was done. But Elie kept fighting, he had an infected, and bleeding foot and had just had surgery for his foot, that didn't stop him. He was told to run and he knew if he didn't he would die, so he ran and when trapped under a mound of heavy, dead bodies he clawed his way through.

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Much has been said about the symbolism of the pipel. What is faith? Was Elie's faith "true" to begin with?
Faith is believing in something even though things are tough and believing even though you can't see it. I believe his faith was true at the beginning but then his faith broken because he didn't think that God could do something so Horrific and let these horrible things happen. Later in his life in his Nobel peace prize speech he said he believes in God and that he had a reason to let these things happen and he has grown up and accepted this

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Elizabeth, Josephine, & Lydia: Wiesel's story does not focus solely on the horrors of the concentration camps. At certain points in the memoir, he writes about events that gave him hope. Chronicle both the events and emotions that led to Eliezar to wish for death and those that encouraged him to keep fighting to live. 

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Elizabeth, Josephine, & Lydia: Wiesel's story does not focus solely on the horrors of the concentration camps. At certain points in the memoir, he writes about events that gave him hope. Chronicle both the events and emotions that led to Eliezar to wish for death and those that encouraged him to keep fighting to live. 

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The first thing that really made him lose hope and wish for death was when the line of men he was in headed for the crematory and he thought that they would all be burned. At that point he had thoughts of throwing himself on the electric fence, because he would rather die that way than die from burning alive. When they are walking that long way to their final destination in the snow he begins to lose hope then as well. He wants to just lay down in the snow and sleep without ever having to wake up. He also gains hope in these times though, because he knows if he holds on for just a little while longer he can make it to the end and be free. He also fights to live for his father, because if he were to give in to death, his father would stop fighting for his own life.

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Beside physical harm, in what other ways did the Nazis mistreat Jews? The Nazis emotionally/mentally abused the jew's. They took away their manhood, their honor and dignity. They also took away their families. The Nazis verbally abused the jew's and socially excluded them. They also took away and damaged of their property.
The title of this memoir alludes to one of the themes present in the book. Locate references to dark and light, in its many different manifestations. Note the conflicts and emotions that are developed. Explain how the title relates to these scenes and how it functions as a unifying theme.
"Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed" (page 34). "We stood shivering in the darkness" (page 47). The emotions that are developed during this time create scaredness, loneliness, and sadness.  How night is an underling theme for the book is because night and darkness correlates and darkness is the sadness and bad things in this book.

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Why would Elie Wiesel say that the most dangerous and destructive thing to mankind is NOT hatred, but rather indifference?

While hatred does aggravate conflict and sometimes might even cause it, how it's dealt with determines how it's solved.

In a normal situation, people will try and resolve this conflict because they actually care. That's how change occurs. What Elie is saying when he made that statement is that when people don't care, conflict isn't resolved as easily (or not at all).

During the time of the Holocaust, there were times where people around the world could've stepped in to stop the Germans. They either knew what was happening and didn't care, or they weren't even aware. They stood and watched.

Should something similar happen in the future, indifference could spell out worse things to come.

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Wiesel brings up people who give up hope during their time in the concentration camps. Find examples of passages that illustrate the reasons why people choose to lose hope. Why are some people able to persevere and others not?
Akiba Drummer, a victim of the selection, "had no more strength," and "no more faith" (76). A rabbi lost his faith in the selection, too, and one day he said "It's over. God is no longer with us" (76). These people are not able to persevere through these devastating times because they know that the end is near for them and there is no escaping; however, Elie, although he has lost his faith in God, is still able to persevere because he hasn't been chosen for the selection and he still has hope to one day be free from the concentration camp.

What did the prisoners debate when it came time to honor Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur? What did Elie decide?
When it came time to honor Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the prisoners debated whether or not to acknowledge the Jewish holidays. Elie has turned his back on God, and does not acknowledge the holidays in order to rebel against God.

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Magic Foot: How are prisoners able to keep their humanity, even if it is only in small amounts?

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Magic Foot: How are prisoners able to keep their humanity, even if it is only in small amounts?

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Elie Wiesel and his fellow Jews lied their way thru the camps in order to avoid the crematorium. They survived and the soups and daily rations of bread they received. The healthy Jews of the block would share their rations of bread with the weak. But towards the end, when the train leaves the current camp, taking all prisoners to escape the advancing war-front of the Russians, the 🤬'stake the prisoners to another camp called Buchenwald. There, Eliezer encountered a doctor that let him know that concentration camps are a place where it is man for himself, no helping others. The surviving Jews must do anything they could in order to survive.

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Camillia & Ellie: what was the most painful part of Elie's experience and why? & Throughout the memoir, Wiesel uses references to specific dates to help the reader understand the pacing of the events in the book. In fact, on several occasions he mentions Jewish holidays. How do Jews in the concentration camps attempt to observe their religion in spite of the brutality they face on a daily basis?

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Camillia & Ellie: what was the most painful part of Elie's experience and why? & Throughout the memoir, Wiesel uses references to specific dates to help the reader understand the pacing of the events in the book. In fact, on several occasions he mentions Jewish holidays. How do Jews in the concentration camps attempt to observe their religion in spite of the brutality they face on a daily basis?

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1. The most painful Ellie's experience is when he had to let go of his father, to take care of himself because throughout the book, his father is the only thing keeping him alive (and not killing himself).
2. People in the concentration camp continue to pray and talk about their religion, and they recite Kaddish over bodies after they die. At the electrical warehouse Yossi and his brother Tibi befriend Elie and hum Jewish melodies to distract them. Midway through the book, Elie wants to fast for atonement day, but being in a concentration camp their rations of food are tiny, so his father tells him not to, so he can survive.