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-The narrator of Night
-Night traces his psychological journey, as the Holocaust robs him of his faith in God and exposes him to the deepest inhumanity of which man is capable |
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-Eliezer's father
-He is respected by the entire Jewish community of Sighet, and by his son as well |
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-Eliezer’s teacher of Jewish mysticism
-He is a poor Jew who lives in Sighet. He is deported before the rest of the Sighet Jews but escapes and returns to tell the town what the Nazis are doing to the Jews |
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| -A Jewish Holocaust victim who gradually loses his faith in God as a result of his experiences in the concentration camp |
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- A Jewish woman from Sighet who is deported in the same cattle car as Eliezer
-She is taken for a madwoman when, every night, she screams that she sees furnaces in the distance |
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-A young musician whom Eliezer meets in Auschwitz
-Eliezer hears him playing the violin after the death march to Gleiwitz |
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-Cruel doctor who presided over the selection of arrivals at Auschwitz/Birkenau
-“Angel of Death” |
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-A kapo at the electrical equipment warehouse in Buna
-During a time of rage he beats Eliezer |
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-Foreman at Buna
-He notices Eliezer’s gold tooth and gets a dentist in the camp to pry it out with a rusty spoon |
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| -A devout Jewish prisoner whose son abandons him |
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-Chlomo friend from Buna
-In the cattle car to Buchenwald,he saves Eliezer’s life from an unidentified assailant |
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-Eliezer’s relative from Antwerp, Belgium
-Who Eliezer lies to about the well being of his family |
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| -Eliezer’s youngest sister |
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-Struggle to Maintain Faith in a Benevolent God
-Inhumanity Toward Other Humans
-Importance of Father-Son Bonds |
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-Fire
-Star of David
-Tattoos
-Night |
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| -Elie Wiesel and his family being sent to the concentration camps, being separated, Elie having to care for his father while struggling to survive himself, and finally being released |
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| Author of All Quiet on the Western Front |
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| Who is the main in All Quiet on the Western Front? |
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| How did they describe the day of Paul's death? |
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| -All Quiet on the Western Front |
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-The twenty-year-old narrator of the novel
-He reaches manhood during three years' service as a soldier in the Second Company of the German army during World War I |
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-A thin, nineteen-year-old soldier with an immense appetite
-A former locksmith,who is unable to control his urine during sleep and draws ridicule from Himmelstoss |
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-A scholarly young man who continues studying his physics books and thinking of exams
-He gets Kemmerich's boots after he dies |
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| -veteran of the battlefield, serves as a noncommissioned tutor and father figure to Paul and the others, who depend on him for locating food, arranging for light duties, and helping them cope with the exigencies of survival, such as listening for incoming shells and sensing an attack |
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| -The hometown schoolmaster,who fills his students' heads with impassioned speeches about duty to the Fatherland and sends them letters that depict them as "Iron Youth" |
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| - former postman and wartime drill instructor caught up in an illusion of power,he demonstrates bullying and tyranny, incurring wrath for humiliating two bed-wetters. |
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| -Commander of the Second Company, he sets a worthy example for his men, whose respect he earns |
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-French soilder who is knifed to death by Paul
-Feeling guilty after killing him, Paul searches his wallet for an address and discovers letters and pictures of his wife and child |
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| -The authority figure who leads Germany during the Great War and whom Paul's friends perceive as the cause of the war |
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| What does Paul call his fellow soilder? |
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| Author of The Devils Arithmetic? |
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| Who is the man character in The Devil's Arithmetic? |
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| What is the plot of The Devil's Arithmetic? |
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| -The book is about Hannah, a Jewish girl who lives in New Rochelle, New York. During a Passover Seder, Hannah is transported back in time to 1942 Poland, during World War II, where she is sent to a Nazi concentration camp and learns the importance of knowing about the past |
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| Whose place does Hannah take when it is time to go to the gas chamber? |
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| Who turns out to be Hannah's aunt? |
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| -She is the main character of the story who experiences a trip through time from present day New York to WWII era Poland |
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| Theme of The Devil's Arithmetic |
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-The theme of family is one of the most reoccuring themes. Hannah hates her family traditions and tries to avoid
the members of her extended family as much as she can. |
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