Vocabulary 1
Severe Poverty
Penury
State of inactivity or Laziness
Idleness
Survives the Holocaust but is a changed person
Elie
“Selected” prisoners for life or death
Dr. Mengele
The Jewish people are herded on and off crowded trains like cattle, tattooed with a number, and tortured, killed, burned and tossed into pits without thought by the Nazis in order to what?
Dehumanize them
The most worthless part of something
Dregs
Never Done or Known Before
Unprecedented
Comforted Elie after he was beaten; met years later
The French Woman
Ultimately died of a blow to the head
Schlomo
How does Elie’s spiritual faith changes over the course of the text?
deeply religious, but experiences leave him with barely any faith left
Distrustful of Human Nature
Cynical
To mourn a loss
Lament
Elie’s younger sister who died in the gas chambers
Tzipora
Screamed about fire and flames on train
Mrs. Schachter
a central theme of Night
Mankind is capable of unimaginable cruelty and barbarism
Abnormally thin and weak (not waiflike)
Emaciated
Bizarre, weird, unreal
Surreal
Played his violin for prisoners until his death
Juliek
His son left him behind during the march
Rabbi Eliahou
Elie sees WHAT staring back at him at the end of the novel due to his resembling a dead person, the young, innocent, faithful boy he once was being dead, and death replacing everything important to him--God, love and family.
a Corpse
To gather or collect
Muster
Magnificence, splendor
Grandeur
One of Elie’s good friends at Buna
Yossi
Young, innocent boy hanged in front of prisoners
the Pipel
Elie refers to the knife and spoon given to him by his father as “my inheritance.” Why is this Situationally ironic?
inheritances are typically of significant monetary value
Lack of interest or enthusiasm
Apathy
To beg desperately
Implore
Kapo who whips Elie for catching him with a girl
Idek
The Jews disbelieved his warnings of horrors ahead
Moishe the Beadle
In his famous passage from chapter 3 after his first night at camp, Wiesel repeats the phrase “Never shall I forget” seven times. What his most likely purpose for repeating those lines?
To emphasize the importance of remembering these atrocities
Clearness of Thought
Lucidity
Unable to be changed or reversed
Irrevocably
Tortures Elie’s father to get Elie’s gold crown
Franek
Elie’s older sister who works in the family store
Hilda
What one word is used in this memoir to symbolize the unimaginable suffering and death the Jews experienced during the Holocaust, the loss of spiritual light and faith in a world that seems to be without God, and the eternal darkness of soul that one must live with after such atrocity
NIGHT