Plot 1
What does Eliezer keep requesting from others everywhere he goes?
That he wants to stay with his father.
Why was the dentist sentenced to death?
He was stealing prisoners' gold teeth for his own benefit.
"I was nothing but a body. Perhaps even less: a famished stomach. The stomach alone was measuring time." Besides the metaphor, other type of fig. language?
Personification: stomach measuring time.
The entire scene in the future when Eliezer reunites with the Frenchwoman is an example of what lit. device?
Flashforward
The Frenchwoman's advice about reserving his hatred eventually payed off for Eliezer. How?
He went on to survive and write Night.
What Kommando did Eliezer and his father get assigned to?
Warehouse of electrical materials
What advice did the Frenchwoman give Eliezer after Idek assaulted him?
To not unleash his anger and hatred, but reserve it and wait for another day when his anger and hatred can be used in a better way.
"You...you...you..." They pointed their fingers, the way one might choose cattle, or merchandise. Type of fig. language?
Metaphor: prisoners = merchandise/cattle
Idek the Kapo being described as having fits of madness before he's introduced is an example of?
Eliezer desperately trying to cling to his father shows his father is a symbol for Eliezer's what? 2 things.
Hope, and last shred of humanity.
Franek the Pole had his dentist friend pull it and Eliezer lost it for nothing.
Eliezer is being dehumanized and losing his humanity so much, that when Idek beats his father, who is he angry at?
His father for not trying to get out of Idek's way.
What type of fig. langauge is describing Alphonse the Blockalteste as a "German Jew?"
Oxymoron: contradictory elements = German vs. Jew
Every scene of prisoners treating their fellow prisoners horribly, that calls back to and repeats similar events/moments, is an example of what?
Parallelism.
What is the importance of Eliezer clearly highlighting Alphonse as a "German Jew?"
Alphonse was condemned despite having German blood - showing the Germans hatred for Jewish blood was stronger than the love for their own blood.
1. What did Eliezer catch Idek doing in the back of the warehouse?
2. What was Eliezer's punishment?
Copulating (making love to) a young Polish girl.
25 lashes
What happened when the prisoners stumbled upon the abandoned kitchen?
Americans started bombing the camp, and one prisoner was killed.
2 types:
"I nodded, once, ten times, endlessly. As if my head had decided to say yes for all eternity."
Hyperbole: his inability to move is exaggerated
What lit. device is evident when the one prisoner, who actually got food from the abandoned kitchen, was the only one who was killed in the bombings?
Irony: You wouldn't expect someone to perish immediately after finally getting a rare luxury in their enslavement.
What is most tragic about the prisoners being joyful about their camp being bombed?
They care more about the destruction of their oppressors than their own safety/liberation.
Why was the little boy (the pipel) and tow other men condemned to hanging?
They were caught smuggling arms/weapons.
What was most tragic about the little boy's hanging?
Because he was so light, the rope didn't kill him quickly, and instead suffocated him in a torturous half hour.
"Then the entire camp...filed past the hanged boy and stared at his extinguished eyes, the tongue hanging from his gaping mouth." Fig. language?
Imagery - especially gruesome visual with the hanging tongue.
The little boy being quiet right beside two larger men who were vocal during their deaths is an example of what lit device and why?
Juxtaposition: the placement of the little, young boy next to two grown men serves to illustrate the sheer cruelty and evilness of this hanging.
What is the importance of Eliezer answering someone's question of where is God by saying: "Where is He? This is where - hanging here from this gallows..." ?