Character Evolution Timeline by MICHAELA GREENLEE https://padlet.com/2627442/75zvixw0xo0ecusc en-us 2023-05-16 19:14:08 UTC 2023-06-09 15:10:06 UTC hello@padlet.com Sympathy - "Even I did not believe him. I often sat with him, after services, and listened to his tales, trying to understand his grief. But all I felt was pity. (pg. 7)" 2627442 https://padlet.com/2627442/75zvixw0xo0ecusc/wish/2593609227
Moishe the Beadle explained to the townspeople that the train with deportees was take over by the Gestapo and how the Gestapo was treating the Jews poorly. Everyone believed he was going crazy and just wanted money or pity. Elie states that Moishe the Beadle helped him enter eternity, where "question and answer would become ONE." Although Elie doesn't really believe him, he tries to be understanding.]]> 2023-05-16 19:35:34 UTC https://padlet.com/2627442/75zvixw0xo0ecusc/wish/2593609227 Horrified - "A truck drew close and unloaded its hold: small children. Babies! Yes, I did see this, with my own eyes... children thrown into the flames. (pg. 32)" 2627442 https://padlet.com/2627442/75zvixw0xo0ecusc/wish/2595152842 This was the first horrifying sight that Elie saw upon arriving. It left him in disbelief and he began to question if he was dreaming. He wonders why it's possible "that men, women, and children were being burned and that the world kept silent." ]]> 2023-05-17 18:50:51 UTC https://padlet.com/2627442/75zvixw0xo0ecusc/wish/2595152842 Mournful - "His whole being was gliding over the strings. His unfulfilled hopes. His charred past, his extinguished future. He played that which he would never play again. (pg 95)" 2627442 https://padlet.com/2627442/75zvixw0xo0ecusc/wish/2595167148 Through the piles of people, dead and alive, Elie reunites with Juliek. Juliek begins playing a fragment of a Beethoven concerto which leaves Elie shocked. The next day as Elie awakes, he sees Juliek facing him, hunched over and dead. Elie states, "I shall never forget Juliek. How could forget this concert given before an audience of the dead and dying?"]]> 2023-05-17 19:04:00 UTC https://padlet.com/2627442/75zvixw0xo0ecusc/wish/2595167148 Frustration - "I could have screamed in anger. To have lived and endured so much;was I going to let my father die now? Now that we would be able to take a good hot shower and lie down? (pg 105)" 2627442 https://padlet.com/2627442/75zvixw0xo0ecusc/wish/2597851018 Elie's father refuses to go with Elie to the showers. Instead, he insists he stay in the snow, surrounded by corpses. In this situation, the roles reverse. Elie no longer feels like the son as his father obtains the childlike traits; weak, frightened, vulnerable. ]]> 2023-05-19 17:25:00 UTC https://padlet.com/2627442/75zvixw0xo0ecusc/wish/2597851018 Realization - "From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me. (pg 115)" 2627442 https://padlet.com/2627442/75zvixw0xo0ecusc/wish/2619422563 At the end of Night, Elie Wiesel sees himself for the first time after the concentration camp and everything he's been through. This event gives him a sense of realization because he's able to see how badly it affected him mentally and physically.]]> 2023-06-09 15:09:59 UTC https://padlet.com/2627442/75zvixw0xo0ecusc/wish/2619422563