Review for Night

How Does Wiesel Show Themes?•Self-preservation versus family commitment.

•Dignity in the face of inhuman cruelty.

•Struggle to maintain faith.

•Emotional death.

Who are These Characters?•Eliezer•Chlomo Wiesel•Moche the Beadle•Tzipora (p. 28)

Who are These Characters?•Stein of Antwerp•Madame Schachter•Mrs. Wiesel•Dr. Mengele

Who are These Characters?•Juliek•The Pipel•Franek

•Hilda •Idek

Vocabulary•Anti-semitism

•Aryan•Genocide•Gestapo•Ghetto•Holocaust

•Kapo•Nazi•Prejudice•Scapegoa•SS•stereotype

What are Examples of Irony?

a technique of indicating, as through character or plot development, an intention or attitude opposite to that which is actually or stated.

What are Examples of Simile and Metaphor?

1.Explain what is being compared.

2.Explain what the comparison is saying.

MotifsA recurring theme or idea

that has symbolic meaning

MotifsNight15: evenings a time of study,

mystery30: no one prayed, filled with

tension and fear33: Mme. Schachter, fear and

terror, endless nightmare

MotifsEyesMoche13, 17Mme. Schachter, 13French girl, 61Men on train, 105-6Eliezer, 119