"Night" Section 6 Reaction

- - -  Are Eliezer's actions regarding his dying father honorable?  Explain your answer.

- - -  Why is the memoir called Night?

- - -  Is the Holocaust the last major human catsptrophe?  I mean, seriously, this kind of thing couldn't ever happen again, right?  Explain.

"Night" Section 5 Reaction

- - -  How does Eliezer’s realization of what Rabbi Eliahou’s son did during the forced march affect the way he feels about his own father?

- - -   Choose one theme that you can derive from the reading, support the presence of the theme in the memoir with evidence from text and EXPLAIN the theme.

 

"Night" Section 4 Reaction

- - - -  Why did Eliezer’s father give him the spoon and the knife as his inheritance?  What is the significance of such a gift in Auschwitz?

- - - -   What choices are open to Eliezer and his father when the camp is evacuated?  How is the decision to leave made?  Who makes the decision?  Is it the “right” choice?  Or is it an example of a “choiceless choice?”

"Night" Section 3 Reaction

- - -  While Eliezer witnesses many hangings, he decides to describe two in particular.  Why are these two hangings so important to him?

- - -  When the young boy is hanged, a prisoner asks, “Where is God now?”  Eliezer thinks to himself, “He is hanging here on this gallows . . .”  What does this statement mean?  Is it a hopeful, fearful or angry statement?  

"Night" Section 2 Reaction

- - - Explain the significance of the poem in the middle of page 34.

- - - how has the Eliezer's relationship with his father changed since the beginning of the book. Why is this important?

"Night" Section 1 Reaction

- - -  Why does Wiesel begin the memoir with the story of Moishe the Beadle?

- - -  What themes has Wiesel begun to establish in Section 1?  Explain.