Night 5

HARACTERS:

Detail everything you know about them (physical description, personality, etc.):

Akiba Drummer:

Lost his faith, publicize his weakness, didn’t listen, offered his own neck

SETTING:

Detail the time and place the story begins:

What time of year is it?

Janurary

What holidays are the prisoners celebrating?

Christmas, Happy New Year

IN-TEXT QUESTIONS:

Infer the answer from the text (Minimum 1-2 sentences):

What is “selection”?

When you are examined to be determined whether you shall die next because you are weak and worthless.

Why does Elie hate the bell?

He didn’t have to work, roll call, or survive the way he has been; to worry about death.

What might the bell be a symbol for?

Death perhaps.

What two things does Elie’s Father give to him before going to the “Decisive Selection”?

A knife and spoon.

LITERARY ELEMENTS:

ALLUSIONS:

Rosh Hashanah (Pg. 63):

Last day of the accused year

Sodom (Pg. 64):

Is a story about two cities.

Yom Kippur (Pg. 65):

The Day of Atonement

Red Army (Pg. 76):

Russian Army

“I’ve got more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He’s the only one who’s kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people.” (Pg. 77):

God has not kept his promises to the Jewish people at all; Hitler has see through his to the end.

SIMILIES AND METAPHORS: GIVE THREE EXAMPLES

“I wandered about as if sleepwalking.” Metaphor

“Like an orphan!” simile

“It was an injection of morphine.” Metaphor

IRONY: explain why the statements are ironic and what type of irony it is.

“I head people wishing one another a Happy New Year!” (Pg. 65):

Verbal and Situational, their New Year Day is not happy at all.

SHORT ANSWER QUESTION

Minimum 4-5 Sentences

Discuss the quote and what is means for Elie’s faith: “Blessed art Thou, Eternal, Master of the Universe…to be butchered on Thine altar.” (Pg. 64)

He is losing his faith.

EXTRA CREDIT: Should the Jewish people fast for their holiday? Why or why not?

No, they shouldn’t, but you can argue for both sides to this. Technically they’d been fasting all year, any more they could die. That’s when they could fast- if the only REAL redemption of that hell camp is death, then you can do it by starvation, to death knowing you chose how you died, not them.