'Night' Character analysis by https://padlet.com/jgodfrey16/trb0sh9fcnkn Add your groups paragraph about your character and the category they fall into. en-us 2018-08-15 22:27:09 UTC 2026-01-30 18:36:47 UTC hello@padlet.com Rabbi Eliahou cri0009 https://padlet.com/jgodfrey16/trb0sh9fcnkn/wish/273369644 Rabbi Eliahou is a character whose compassion and love for his son survives through the Holocaust. During the death march, Rabbi Eliahou is separated from his son believing this is because he "fell behind a little" and that his "son didn't notice". However, Elie realises that the son "had seen him losing ground" and believed that he was attempting to "be rid of his father" to "free himself of [the] burden". Despite his son's actions, Rabbi Eliahou remained oblivious to his intent and faithfully continuing to search for his son "among the dying" and "through the snow to find [him]". Rabbi Eliahou's "face continued to radiate innocence" and concern during his search which demonstrates his love and care for his son's survival even though his own was at risk.]]> 2018-08-16 00:47:29 UTC https://padlet.com/jgodfrey16/trb0sh9fcnkn/wish/273369644 Meir Katz https://padlet.com/jgodfrey16/trb0sh9fcnkn/wish/273371217 Meir Katz was previously a friend of Elies father, Shlomo, before the war began and the Nazi’s took over their home town, Romania. He was gardener in Buna who often brought  Elie Wiesel and his family vegetables. Detention had been less hard on him leaving him with more strength than the others. This lead to the SS officers placing him in charge of the train carriage Elie and his father were locked in during their transportation to Buchenwald. The weight of the war had become too much for him, and he worried that he was “getting weak” and that his “strength is gone.” He told Shlomo that he “won’t make it”, admitting to the him that he would prefer it if “they [would] should just shoot us now”. During the first selection in 1940, Meir Katz was separated from his son and since then has been struggling to keep strong for the rest of the Jewish people, but only now he was crying for him. Elie’s father told him to keep fighting and to not “lose faith in [himself]” but everything had become too much for Meir Katz to process. Meir Katz represents how even the strongest of people can lose faith in god and humanity in times of turmoil and grief. ]]> 2018-08-16 01:01:17 UTC https://padlet.com/jgodfrey16/trb0sh9fcnkn/wish/273371217 Idek the Kapo https://padlet.com/jgodfrey16/trb0sh9fcnkn/wish/273371281 Idek is the Kapo at the warehouse of electrical materials where Eli and his father are forced to work. He, much like most other Kapos, is very cruel to the other Jewish people, and treats some people the way the Nazis would. Idek is very cruel and expects the large workload handed down on the prisoners to be completed or he will abuse them physically and say cruel things like “You old loafer, is this what you call working?” He has a terrible reputation for losing his temper and when he beat Elie for not producing sufficient work, the whole camp learnt to stay away from him quickly. Idek the Kapo fits into the three categories of Characters whose faith in humanity and god is destroyed, characters whose compassion and humanity is destroyed, and characters who abuse other Jewish people. ]]> 2018-08-16 01:01:53 UTC https://padlet.com/jgodfrey16/trb0sh9fcnkn/wish/273371281 Moshe the beadle https://padlet.com/jgodfrey16/trb0sh9fcnkn/wish/273371296
Moshe at the start of the novel was a teacher of the Jewish religion to Elie providing him with knowledge about their god and the kabbalah. He is viewed as ‘funny’ and likeable by the Jewish community (despite of his social status) only after being taken by the Nazis, Moshe was traumatized and his faith in humanity was lost and his faith in his very own god was extinguished. After his escape the “ Jews listen to me, that’s all I ask of you. No money, no pity, just listen to me!” but they didn’t listen to him. He was the first major person in Elie’s life to be broken by the Nazi regime. His teaching and religion is completely destroyed along with his relationship with his fellow Jews. Moshe serves as an embodiment of the peoples ignorance towards the impending doom. Elie was one of the few that chose to listen, but couldn’t perceive the future yet to come. For “He no longer mentioned either god or the kabbalah” lost hope and lost his faith in the Jewish religion.  ]]> 2018-08-16 01:02:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jgodfrey16/trb0sh9fcnkn/wish/273371296 The dentist https://padlet.com/jgodfrey16/trb0sh9fcnkn/wish/273371903 ‘The dentist’ is a Jewish man who was originally from Czechoslovakia. During the novel ‘Night’, he is described by main Character Ellie Wiesel as a ghastly man, ‘[who’s] face looked nothing unlike a death mask.’ During examination, the dentist immediately becomes attracted to Ellie’s gold crown and attempts to diminish its value by convincing Ellie that it’s just a gold crown. After Ellie cleverly evades the examination by pretending ‘[he doesn’t] feel well’, the dentist is found guilty of keeping possession of the gold he had previously taken from other patients. He is later ordered to be hung as a consequence of his theft. ]]> 2018-08-16 01:06:28 UTC https://padlet.com/jgodfrey16/trb0sh9fcnkn/wish/273371903 Madame Schachter https://padlet.com/jgodfrey16/trb0sh9fcnkn/wish/273371923
She did not have a massive part in the story, but her part of the story is very meaningful.
 
Madame Schachter’s faith in humanity was destroyed during the train ride to the camps, by her own community. Men bound and gagged her as she received several blows to the head. Everyone thought “she [was] mad”. “Jews look, look at the fire, look at the flames”, her prophetic visions could have saved them, if only they had “[listened] to [her]”. What she thought was warning her fellow Jews, they took as being crazy, which played a large part in making her lose faith in humanity, “poor woman”. 

kia & Macca
]]> 2018-08-16 01:06:38 UTC https://padlet.com/jgodfrey16/trb0sh9fcnkn/wish/273371923 The French Girl https://padlet.com/jgodfrey16/trb0sh9fcnkn/wish/273372040 At the warehouse, Elie works near a young French girl who seems Jewish to him but she passed herself off as Aryan “I thought she looked Jewish, though she passed for ‘Aryan.’ She was a forced labor inmate.” After Elie was beaten by the crazy Kapo (IDEK), the French girl is kind to him and helps him. “I dragged myself to my corner. I was aching all over. I felt a cool hand wiping my blood-stained forehead. It was the French girl. She was smiling her mournful smile as she slipped me a crust of bread.” Years later in Paris, Elie and the French girl run into each other in the Metro. After reviewing what happened in the past, Elie finds out that the she is Jewish. The French Girl fits into the category of characters whose compassion/humanity survives. ]]> 2018-08-16 01:07:42 UTC https://padlet.com/jgodfrey16/trb0sh9fcnkn/wish/273372040 Akiba Drumer  https://padlet.com/jgodfrey16/trb0sh9fcnkn/wish/273372511 A prisoner at Auschwitz and Buna. Akiba Drumer is a man with a beautiful voice. He is a singer with a deep voice who inspires the other inmates in the concentration camps with his traditional songs. However when Block 36 is chosen he loses his faith. His last wish is that the remaining inmates will hold a Kaddish for him. They forget to do this.]]> 2018-08-16 01:12:00 UTC https://padlet.com/jgodfrey16/trb0sh9fcnkn/wish/273372511 Akiaba Drumer https://padlet.com/jgodfrey16/trb0sh9fcnkn/wish/273372589 The book entitled night written by Elie Wiesel, is a real-life story based on the struggles to survive a world that striped people out of humanity, dignity and faith. Other than the main characters, the holocaust has shown impacts through the minor characters as well, Akiba drummer. He was a deep voiced singer that had a prediction of deliverance from Buna within in few weeks. He was a man who applied cabbalistic numerology to scripture. in the text, “he was not alone in having lost his faith during” the selection of block 36, afterwards he departs the place with despair also a faith being destroyed. In the chapter, Akiba drummer was identified as “a victim of the selection.” 
Out of the four categories, drummer suits into the first category of “characters whose faith in god/ faith in humanity is destroyed.” due to the loss of faith during the days of selection at Buna. 
]]> 2018-08-16 01:12:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jgodfrey16/trb0sh9fcnkn/wish/273372589 Franek the foreman https://padlet.com/jgodfrey16/trb0sh9fcnkn/wish/273373044 Franek is Eliezer’s foreman at Buna, a selfish man who wants Eliezer’s gold tooth and does what it takes to get it. Franek even gets the dentist in the camp to take it out with a rusty spoon. He is typical of the people in charge at Auschwitz, from the higher ups to the low downs: selfish, greedy, and willing to exploit others. Franek falls in the category of compassion and humanity is destroyed because his only purpose is to try and take out Eliezer’s gold tooth.]]> 2018-08-16 01:15:53 UTC https://padlet.com/jgodfrey16/trb0sh9fcnkn/wish/273373044 Juliek https://padlet.com/jgodfrey16/trb0sh9fcnkn/wish/273373115 Juliek was a “Pole with eyeglasses and a cynical smile in a pale face” whose compassion and humanity was destroyed during the holocaust. He came from Warsaw and played the violin in the Buna band which is where Eliezer met him for the first time. Juliek gives Elie advice about working in the warehouse and how “the work is neither difficult nor dangerous”, however warns him about Idek the Kapo who “occasionally has fits of madness”, and advises Eliezer to stay out of his way. Juliek adds humanity into the camp by playing his violin. His violin was a symbol of humanity. The night prior to Juliek’s death, he is playing Beethoven. The violin’s music was a shred of humanity inside the hell of the concentration camp and calmed many people. Juliek and the violin resembled humanity which was unfortunately demolished by the evil of the Night. Juliek dies and “next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse”, which shows us that Juliek is a character whose humanity was destroyed. ]]> 2018-08-16 01:16:36 UTC https://padlet.com/jgodfrey16/trb0sh9fcnkn/wish/273373115