Your Ongoing Assignments for "Night"- Be sure to respond in full sentences.

Night – Chapter Three

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

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

3.    How had Elie changed in a short time?

4.    What sort of identification was used on the prisoners?

5.    Why was the prisoner in charge of Elie's block removed from this position?

6.    What were the prisoners' rations at each meal?

7.    What was Bela Katz forced to do once he was chosen for his strength?

Night – Chapter Four

1.    Describe Elie’s new friends, Yossi and Tibi.  Who are they and what have they been through?

2.    What happens with Elie’s tooth?  Why does he have to go to the dentist?

3.    Why is Elie disciplined by the Kapo? What does the Kapo do to him?

4.    What events lead to the two hangings Wiesel describes? 

How does Wiesel feel about his evening meal after each hanging? 

What do Elie’s reactions suggest about how he is changing?

Night – Chapter Five

1.    How has Wiesel’s belief in and about God changed over the course of this book?  Provide evidence – quote a sentence or phrase from the book – to support your answer.

2.    What happens that terrifies Elie and his father in this chapter of the text and how is it resolved? 

How would you feel if you went through this with a relative of yours?

3.    What happens to Elie that puts him in the hospital? 

How does he feel about being there?

4.    What do you predict will happen in the coming chapters of the text?  (Where will Elie wind up at?  Who will survive? Etc.)

Night – Chapter Six

1.     On page 58 Wiesel writes, “Death wrapped itself around me till I was stifled.  It stuck to me.  I felt that I could touch it.”  Describe what Elie felt in your own words.

Why does Elie feel this way? How does he deal with those feelings?

2.     How does Wiesel feel about death during the march?  Is he afraid of it?

3.     Describe Juliek.  What remarkable thing does he do during this chapter?  Why do you think he does it?

Night – Chapter Seven

1.    What is your reaction to this passage on page 66?

Outside, the SS went by, shouting:

“Throw out all the dead!  All corpses outside!”

The living rejoiced.  There would be more room.

2.  Describe the scene that takes place when a piece of bread is thrown in to the train car Elie and his father are in.  What do the other father and son do?   Why?

3.    Why do the people in the train cars cry out?

Night – Chapter Eight

1.    How is Elie’s arrival at Buchenwald different from his arrival at Auschwitz?  How is his reaction to this place different?

2.    What does Elie mean when he writes the following passage on page 72? 

“I gave him what was left of my soup.  But it was with a heavy heart.  I felt that I was giving it up to him against my will.  No better than Rabbi Eliahou’s son had I withstood the test.”

3.    Describe the final days of Elie’s father’s life.  What were they like? 

How did Chlomo die?

Night – Chapter Nine

1.             Several times in this chapter Elie says that he no longer thought of his family or freedom after his father’s death.  What did he think about instead?  Why?

2.             On page 76, Elie states, “This was the end!  Hitler was going to keep his promise.”  What promise do you think he is referring to?  What did Elie think was going to happen to the prisoners?

3.             Describe the final days of the German control of the camp.  What were conditions like?

4.             When Elie looks in the mirror at the end of the book, he says, “From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me.”  What does he mean by this?  Describe what you think he looked like and how it made him feel.