Night - Elie Wiesel
Plot the Action
Rising Action:
At first they describe Moishe, Eliezer, and his family. Eliezer starts her initiation in Kabbalah with Moishe´s leads but a little time after, they take Moishe away because he was a foreign Jew. He miraculously returns home but he is not the same; he doesn´t talk about God or Kabbalah, he just talked about what he had seen. Shortly after, Fascists came to power. Germans gained the Jew´s trust and then they started to take their rights, restrict them from doing things, leaving their homes, attending cafés, synagogues; everything under penalty of death. Two ghettos were created but the Jews actually felt safer in them, being entirely among themselves. Some time after, Jews were transported out of the ghetto; and Eliezer and his family were moved into the smaller ghetto by the Hungarians. Afterwards, they were taken under the authority of the German Army and 80 people were placed on a wagon for several days, with little water, food, and space. There was a woman who was separated from her family, except for her little son, and she was going mad. Every night she yelled “Jews, look! Look at the fire! Look at the flames!” but once they looked out, they could only see darkness. When they arrived to Birkenau, their destination, the woman yelled this again, pointing at the same place she had always pointed, but this time, they saw flames rising from a tall chimney into a black sky.
-Why is Eliezer so interested in learning Kabbalah at such young age?
-Why were the people of Sighet so confident that the Germans wouldn´t go to their land?
-Will this woman be important later on? If not, why do they talk about her so much?
At first they describe Moishe, Eliezer, and his family. Eliezer starts her initiation in Kabbalah with Moishe´s leads but a little time after, they take Moishe away because he was a foreign Jew. He miraculously returns home but he is not the same; he doesn´t talk about God or Kabbalah, he just talked about what he had seen. Shortly after, Fascists came to power. Germans gained the Jew´s trust and then they started to take their rights, restrict them from doing things, leaving their homes, attending cafés, synagogues; everything under penalty of death. Two ghettos were created but the Jews actually felt safer in them, being entirely among themselves. Some time after, Jews were transported out of the ghetto; and Eliezer and his family were moved into the smaller ghetto by the Hungarians. Afterwards, they were taken under the authority of the German Army and 80 people were placed on a wagon for several days, with little water, food, and space. There was a woman who was separated from her family, except for her little son, and she was going mad. Every night she yelled “Jews, look! Look at the fire! Look at the flames!” but once they looked out, they could only see darkness. When they arrived to Birkenau, their destination, the woman yelled this again, pointing at the same place she had always pointed, but this time, they saw flames rising from a tall chimney into a black sky.
-Why is Eliezer so interested in learning Kabbalah at such young age?
-Why were the people of Sighet so confident that the Germans wouldn´t go to their land?
-Will this woman be important later on? If not, why do they talk about her so much?
Characters
Why were the men moved around so much? (Barracks and camps)
Big Ideas
Big Ideas