1) Elie Wiesel was born in the town of Sighet in Transylvania. 
Here you can see the main countries mentioned in the novel. (Transylvania is now part of Romania.)
2) The cabala is a system of belief developed by Jewish rabbis.
3) Elie was referring to truths about purpose and a truthful explanation for the world around him. He was ignorant of the truths about evil and patience. He was mad that God never answered his questions with words or signs.
4) Moshe the Beadle is a significant character because he represents what Elie would have become if he was not deported. Moshe represents Elie’s search for religious understanding and wisdom, he is the one that explains to Elie that through religion question and answer can become one. He is also significant because he provides the first warning of the Nazis, mostly to his “apprentice” Elie. I believe he wanted to warn Elie the most because Elie listened to him and understood him more than anyone.
5) I believe that the people of Sighet ignore Moshe the Beadle partly because he was old and feeble. However, I think that it was mostly because the stories he told were so brutal that the people listening could not comprehend or even imagine them. They did not understand what he was telling them.
6) Madame Schachter is a woman that lost her mind when her husband was mistakenly taken with and earlier group or deportees. While Elie’s group was being deported, she constantly shouted about a big fire. She was like a prophetic figure because when they finally arrived to Auschwitz, they realized there was in fact a large fire coming from the incinerator filled with fellow Jews. She is similar to Moshe the Beadle because they were both ignored prophetic figures.
7) This passage is actually one that I reflected on in my journal because of its life changing power over Elie. He realizes the truth about his position. He finds that nothing is worth what it seems, and that there really is not point in living. This part had and impact on his whole life; it began his humanitarian acts and guides him every day.
8) Elie used to think that the world was a good place, a place where he could study his religion and find answers to life’s questions. However, from this point on, his outlook changes negatively. This passage sets up the rest of the novel in that it shows his transformation and the base of all his somewhat inhumane actions and thoughts while being a prisoner.
9) At first Elie believe in God’s presence on earth and his power to change things. As the novel progresses Elie no longer believes in God’s power to find justice, but still in His presence. Finally Elie becomes rebellious to all of his Jewish traditions and mentally refuses to bless his God.
10) Night and darkness goes hand in hand with the biblical vision of hell. I relate night to a sort of evil much like the dark side in Star Wars. Therefore, I believe that the evil of the concentration camps were exemplified at night, after all, night is when fire is most vivid.
11) There are a couple of reasons I could think of for why Night is such a slim book. First it might have hurt Elie emotionally to recall all of his past. Second, Elie might want any literate person to be able to read his account and learn from it; therefore he made it small and easy to understand. Finally, I think that the Holocaust was such a powerful and horrific event that it does not take much description to demonstrate its power.
12) I think that it is more of a memoir because it is a collection of memories from Elie’s time at Auswitz. Elie did not triumph really besides the fact that he survived because he did a lot of things that he is ashamed of. However, it could be both because he did survive and it is a collection of his memories.
Here you can see the main countries mentioned in the novel. (Transylvania is now part of Romania.)
2) The cabala is a system of belief developed by Jewish rabbis.
3) Elie was referring to truths about purpose and a truthful explanation for the world around him. He was ignorant of the truths about evil and patience. He was mad that God never answered his questions with words or signs.
4) Moshe the Beadle is a significant character because he represents what Elie would have become if he was not deported. Moshe represents Elie’s search for religious understanding and wisdom, he is the one that explains to Elie that through religion question and answer can become one. He is also significant because he provides the first warning of the Nazis, mostly to his “apprentice” Elie. I believe he wanted to warn Elie the most because Elie listened to him and understood him more than anyone.
5) I believe that the people of Sighet ignore Moshe the Beadle partly because he was old and feeble. However, I think that it was mostly because the stories he told were so brutal that the people listening could not comprehend or even imagine them. They did not understand what he was telling them.
6) Madame Schachter is a woman that lost her mind when her husband was mistakenly taken with and earlier group or deportees. While Elie’s group was being deported, she constantly shouted about a big fire. She was like a prophetic figure because when they finally arrived to Auschwitz, they realized there was in fact a large fire coming from the incinerator filled with fellow Jews. She is similar to Moshe the Beadle because they were both ignored prophetic figures.
7) This passage is actually one that I reflected on in my journal because of its life changing power over Elie. He realizes the truth about his position. He finds that nothing is worth what it seems, and that there really is not point in living. This part had and impact on his whole life; it began his humanitarian acts and guides him every day.
8) Elie used to think that the world was a good place, a place where he could study his religion and find answers to life’s questions. However, from this point on, his outlook changes negatively. This passage sets up the rest of the novel in that it shows his transformation and the base of all his somewhat inhumane actions and thoughts while being a prisoner.
9) At first Elie believe in God’s presence on earth and his power to change things. As the novel progresses Elie no longer believes in God’s power to find justice, but still in His presence. Finally Elie becomes rebellious to all of his Jewish traditions and mentally refuses to bless his God.
10) Night and darkness goes hand in hand with the biblical vision of hell. I relate night to a sort of evil much like the dark side in Star Wars. Therefore, I believe that the evil of the concentration camps were exemplified at night, after all, night is when fire is most vivid.
11) There are a couple of reasons I could think of for why Night is such a slim book. First it might have hurt Elie emotionally to recall all of his past. Second, Elie might want any literate person to be able to read his account and learn from it; therefore he made it small and easy to understand. Finally, I think that the Holocaust was such a powerful and horrific event that it does not take much description to demonstrate its power.
12) I think that it is more of a memoir because it is a collection of memories from Elie’s time at Auswitz. Elie did not triumph really besides the fact that he survived because he did a lot of things that he is ashamed of. However, it could be both because he did survive and it is a collection of his memories.
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