Transcript Night Opener #1

Night Opener #1
• What do you know about the Holocaust?
• A metaphor makes a comparison without
using like or as.
• Create your own metaphor:
Night Exit Slip 1
Explain the meaning behind the following
metaphors:
“The world had become a hermetically sealed
cattle car.” (Wiesel 24)
“They were the first faces of hell and death.”
(19)
“Open rooms everywhere. Gaping doors and windows
looked out into the void. It all belongs to everyone
since it no longer belongs to anyone. It was there for
the taking. An open tomb. A summer sun.” (Wiesel
17)
Night Opener #2
• Repetition is when an author repeats a word or
phrase to add emphasis or create sound pattern.
• What tone is created with the repetition in the
following:
“Over there. Do you see the chimney over there?
Do you see it? And the flames, do you see
them?...Over there, that’s where they will take
you. Over there will be your grave.” (Wiesel 31)
Night Exit Slip #2
• Repetition is used in the selection on page 34.
How does this use of repetition contribute to
Elie’s meaning and help create mood?
(emotional appeal)
Night Opener #3
Simile is when a comparison is made using the
words “like” or “as.”
• What comparison is being made here?
“The camp looked as though it had been
through an epidemic: empty and dead.”
(Wiesel 47)
Find a simile in Night. Be sure to record the page
number.
Night Exit Slip #3
“The dentist, a Jew from Czechoslovakia, had a
face not unlike a death mask.” (Wiesel 51)
“He threw himself on me like a wild beast,
beating me in the chest, on my head, throwing
me to the ground and picking me up again,
crushing me with ever more violent blows,
until I was covered in blood.” (Wiesel 53)
“He had some seven hundred prisoners under
his command, and they all loved him like a
brother.” (Wiesel 63)
What comparison is made in each quote?
Night Opener #4
Symbolism is the practice of representing things by
means of symbols or of attributing symbolic
meanings or significance to objects, events, or
relationships.
“Three days later, a new decree: every Jew had to
wear the yellow star…. “The yellow star? So
what? It’s not lethal…” (Poor Father! Of what
then did you die?)” (Wiesel 11)
Explain the symbol.
Night Exit Slip #4
“Yom Kippur. The Day of Atonement. Should we
fast? The question was hotly debated. To fast
could mean a more certain, more rapid
death…But there were those who said we should
fast, precisely because it was so dangerous to do
so. We needed to show God that even here,
locked in hell, we were capable of singing His
praises.” (Wiesel 69)
What does fasting symbolize?
Night Opener #5
Personification is giving human qualities to
non-humans.
• “All around me, what appeared to be a
dance of death.” (Wiesel 89)
• Original translation: “Everything around
me was dancing the dance of death”
Night Exit Slip #5
Explain the personification of death in the
following quote:
“Death, which was settling in all around me,
silently, gently. It would seize upon a sleeping
person, steal into him and devour him bit by
bit.” (Wiesel 89)
A2
Night Opener #5
Opener: Imagery is description using the five
senses.
“The volunteers undressed him and eagerly
shared his garments. Then, two “gravediggers”
grabbed him by the head and feet and threw
him from the wagon, like a sack of flour.”(99)
What senses are addressed in this quote?
Extension: What other literary device is found in
this quote?
A2
Night Opener #6
Personification is giving human qualities to
non-humans.
• “All around me, what appeared to be a
dance of death.” (Wiesel 89)
• Original translation: “Everything around
me was dancing the dance of death”
Night Opener #6
Opener: Imagery is description using the five
senses.
“The volunteers undressed him and eagerly
shared his garments. Then, two “gravediggers”
grabbed him by the head and feet and threw
him from the wagon, like a sack of flour.”(99)
What senses are addressed in this quote?
Extension: What other literary device is found in
this quote?
Night Exit Slip #6
What senses are used in this piece of imagery?
To which words do they apply?
“He collapsed. But his fist was still clutching a
small crust. He wanted to raise it to his mouth.
But the other threw himself on him. The old
man mumbled something, groaned, and died.
Nobody cared. His son searched him, took the
crust of bread, and began to devour it.”
(Wiesel 101)
False Analogy: Assuming that because
two things are alike in some respect,
they are alike in all.
1. Who would have been the intended
audience?
2. What is the purpose of this propaganda?
3. Why would or would not this propaganda be
affective?
Create a chart of Elie’s faith in God:
• Where was it during his childhood?
• How about at his entrance to the camp?
• Now where is it after the execution of the
“sad-eyed angel”?
Analyze these quotes-Study Guide
“From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed
back at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared
into mine, has never left me.” (pg. 119)
“Pressed up against the others in an effort to
keep out the cold, head empty and heavy at
the same time, brain a whirlpool of decaying
memoires. Indifference deadened the
spirit…The night was long and never ending.”
(pg .103)
Analyze these quotes-Study Guide
• “And he began to beat him with an iron bar. At
first my father crouched under the blows, then
he broke in two, like a dry tree struck by
lightning, and collapsed.” (pg. 62)
• “Everywhere rooms lay open. Doors and
windows gaped onto the emptiness…It was
simply a matter of helping oneself. An open
tomb. A hot summer sun.” (pg. 27)
MLA Citation
Wiesel, Elie. Night. New York: Hill and Wang.
2006. Print