Night Reading Check Ch. 2-3

1. How do the other people on the train respond to Mme. Schaecter?2. What advice does Eli and his father receive as to what they should tell the guards about their age?3. Describe what the life in the few days at Aushwitz are like? What is their schedule like?

Themes- How do the older/younger people respond

differently to the situation?- What different views do we hear about how to

view god and faith in these chapters?- Where do we see examples of the oppressed

inflicting cruelty on each other?- Where can we note changes in the personalities

of Eli/Schlomo already?- Where do we notice fear influencing the behavior

of individuals?

Symbols: Fire

What does it usually represent?• Evil• Danger• Heat/Warmth• Destruction• Hell• Life• Cooking• Passion• Rage• Cremation• Cleanliness• Justice

What does it represent here?• Death• Fear• Auschwitz• Silence• Souls• Humiliation• Power• Separation• Fury

Never Forget

• 9-11/ Holocaust• What does it mean? What should we do with

these collective memories? How should these memories impact us and affect our lives/decisions?

How do the older/younger people respond differently to the situation?

• Page 31 – young inmates want to attack soldiers, older inmates begged their sons not to be foolish

• Page 20 – father refuses to leave ghetto when they can

What different views do we hear about how to view god and faith in

these chapters?• Page 33 – eli is angry at his dad for praying• Page 45 – akiba drumer believes that faith is

all the more important• Page 65 – eli says God is hanging from the

gallows

Where do we see examples of the oppressed inflicting cruelty on each

other?

Where can we note changes in the personalities of Eli/Schlomo already?

Where do we notice fear influencing the behavior of individuals?