"Night" Literary Analysis Quote Bank (Period 4) by Mary Jane Butac

Click on the "+" button and write your quote in the subject line.

20326680_ — 2023-11-15 19:58:21 UTC

Click on the "+" button and write your quote in the subject line.

20326680_ — 2023-11-15 19:58:23 UTC

Click on the "+" button and write your quote in the subject line.

20326680_ — 2023-11-15 19:58:26 UTC

"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" (115).

20326680_ — 2023-11-15 22:47:12 UTC

"Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed" (34).

20326680_ — 2023-11-15 22:47:52 UTC

2023-11-15 22:48:48 UTC

“My father's presence was the only thing that stopped me. He was running next to me, out of breath, out of strength, desperate. I had no right to let myself die. What would he do without me? I was his sole support.” (105)

"Since my father's death, nothing mattered to me anymore" (113).

20326680_ — 2023-11-15 22:48:57 UTC

2023-11-15 22:51:17 UTC

“We were the masters of nature, the masters of the world. We had transcended everything–death, fatigue, our natural needs. We were stronger than cold and hunger, stronger than the guns and the desire to die, doomed and rootless, nothing but numbers, we were the only men on Earth.” (87)

“As for me, I had ceased to pray. I concurred with Job! I was not denying his existence, but I doubted His absolute justice” (45).

2023-11-15 22:51:34 UTC

“I decided to look at myself in the mirror on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto.” (115)

2023-11-15 22:52:24 UTC

“Since my father's death, nothing mattered to me anymore” (113)

2023-11-15 22:52:26 UTC

“My father was crying. It was the first time I saw him cry” (19).

2023-11-15 22:52:42 UTC

"I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name" (42).

2023-11-15 22:53:53 UTC

“The bread and the soup — those were my entire life. I was nothing but a body.”

2023-11-15 22:54:02 UTC

"And deep inside me, if I could have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like: Free at last! . . " (112).

2023-11-15 22:54:05 UTC

2023-11-15 22:54:07 UTC

"My hand tightened its grip on my father. All I could think of

was not to lose him. Not to remain alone" (30).

How could I say to Him: Blessed be Thou, Almighty, Master of the Universe, who chose among all nations to be tortured day and night, to watch our fathers, our mothers, our brothers end up in furnaces? Praised be Thy Holy Name, for having chosen us to be slaughtered…” (67).

2023-11-15 22:54:12 UTC

“Something was being burned there. A truck drew close and unloaded its hold: small children. Babies! Yes, I did see this, with my own eyes… " (32) & "When they actually struck her, people shouted their approval: 'Keep her quiet! Make that madwoman shut up...' She received several blows to the head." (26)

2023-11-15 22:55:09 UTC

“My father had just been struck, in front of me, and I had not even blinked. I had watched and kept silent. Only yesterday, I would have dug my nails into this criminal’s flesh. Had I changed that much? So fast” (39)?

20326680_ — 2023-11-15 22:55:35 UTC

“Yet at the same time a thought crept into my mind: if only I didnt find him! If only i were relived of this responsibility, I could use all my strength to fight for my own survival, to take care only of myself…Instantly, I feel ashamed, ashamed of myself forever.” Page 106

2023-11-15 22:57:19 UTC

One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate. One less reason to live." (109)

2023-11-15 23:11:09 UTC

2023-11-16 06:07:13 UTC

"I thought deep down, not daring to admit it to myself. Too late to save your old father ... You could have two rations of bread ... it left me feeling guilty" (111).

2023-11-16 06:21:23 UTC

"When had we left our homes ... Only a week ago? One night? One single night?" (37).

2023-11-16 06:33:15 UTC

"The days resembled the nights, and the nights left in our souls the dregs of their darkness" (100).

"Night. No one was praying for the night to pass quickly. The stars were but sparks of the immense conflagration that was consuming us. Were this conflagration to be extinguished one day, nothing would be left in the sky but extinct stars and unseeing eyes" (21).

2023-11-17 21:07:57 UTC