Questions

Marco Corona
Ms. Bosch
English H. 10
7 January 2009
Questions for Night

1) Wiesel's childhood home, Sighet, a town in northern Romania near the meeting of the Hungarian and Ukrainian border.2) A system of esoteric philosophy developed by rabbi’s, reaching its peak in the Middle Ages and based on a mystical method of interpreting the Scriptures.3) A.Elie was trying to find truth, he believed he would find truth through God or the cabala, the truth he was looking for was one that explains why things thing happen.
B.Young Elie was ignorant for he always thought inside the box, he always felt that whatever is going to happen to him it were to happen in Sighet, he was wrapped up in his own little world and would hardly speak his mind, he feared the unknown and when his parents were not there for him to depend on he fell apart.
4) A. Moshe the Beadle is a significant character, for in the novel it almost seemed as though Moshe was a foreshadowing of how all the Jews were to behave. He was a strong believer and then later he steps back like a coward. He represented something symbolic to me he represented man.
B. The admonition that Moshe gave Wiesel was prophetic in the sense that you shouldn’t worry about other’s life but your own for if you intervene with someone’s life it can ruin your life and there’s, he also warned the people after his escape to run away to flee before the Hungarian police come and destroy their lives.
5) A. The people of Sighet refuse to believe what Moshe has to say; the people feel as though Moshe were to be exaggerating, some even thought he had gone mad.
B. The people won’t listen to him because they think that Moshe has gone mad.6) Madame Schachter is a woman who was taken away from her family from the city of Sighet and also a woman who had visions of torture, she is similar to Moshe for he warned yet no one paid any attention every one thought he was mad, just like the prophet Noah, the man whom built Noah’s Ark.7) Consider this passage on pg. 32; “Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desires to live. Never shall I forget those moments, which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God himself. Never.”8) A. The context of the passage is explaining that these images are dehumanizing young Wiesel. These images are ones that are engraved in your memory, you will never forget, thus Wiesel implies he rather die then live with those memories.

B. Young Elie feels as the though he had just awoken to reality and feels that if that is truly reality then, there is no God.9) A. Wiesel at first believed strongly in God, but during his time in the concentration camps he felt at times, the lack God’s presence and how if there was a god he was not doing a good job.
B. Wiesel is probably most angry with God, when it is New Years Day and there was a religious ceremony, him amongst the other Jews question him and his abilities.10) The word night means darkness therefore in darkness you cannot find a clear path, thus night represents Wiesel being lost trying to find a way out to seek truth and light.
11) Surely Night is a slim book but the book as it is truly grand and to add anything else would just be considered fluff. Power does not come from, but from heart, and as we can see Night had heart. 12) Night is a memoir of a tragedy; to me it is not both for the Jews did not receive a plaque or award in recognition of the tragedies they went through. The award they received was freedom, they had it before, and so when they return home all their time at camp was just wasted horrific time.