Events
Elie Wiesel
Themes
People
Sequence of Events
100
The place where all Jews (including Elie and his family) were forced to live before being sent to concentration camps
What is the Ghetto?
100
He tutors Elie.
What is Moshe the Beadle?
100

Elie Wiesel's Night shows that it can diminish and even fail when faced with unspeakable horror and suffering.

What is faith?

100

Elie manages to stay with him for the duration of their incarceration.

Who is Elie's father? Shlomo

100

Elie looks in the mirror and sees a corpse staring back at him.

What is the resolution.

200
The reason Elie is sent to the dentist
What is his gold crown?
200
Elie's religious realization on the eve of Rosh Hashanah.
What is lost his faith in God?
200
This instinct compels some of the prisoners to fight even their own family members for food and other resources.
What is survival?
200
He is the doctor of Auschwitz, famous for his ous "selections" and horrific experiments.
Who is Dr. Mengele?
200

Elie's foot swells until he needs surgery.

What is part of the rising action.

300
The largest and best known concentration camp where Elie and his family were first sent
What is Auschwitz?
300
The reason Elie is sent to the infirmary.
What is an infected foot?
300
This necessity of life tes the thoughts of most prisoners and their bellies.
What is food?
300
His warnings are ignored near the beginning of the story.
Who is Moshe the Beadle?
300

Elie studies the mysteries of the Kabbalah with Moishe the Beadle.

What is the exposition.

400
What Mrs. Schacter hallucinates.
What is a large fire?
400
The study of Jewish mysticism.
What is Cabbalah?
400

It can help people through difficult times.

What is faith?

400

He is the cruel Kapo at Buna who beats Elie in moments of rage.

Who is Idek?

400

Elie's father dies.

What is part of the falling action.

500
It happens to the sick prisoners who stay behind in the infirmary when the camp is evacuated.
What is liberated?
500
The number that was tattooed on Elie's arm.
What is A-7713?
500

Many prisoners face this inner-conflict in their struggle to survive in such dehumanizing and horrible conditions.

What is humanity; how do they remain human and civil while still fighting to survive.

500

A young musician whom plays his violin after the death march to Gliewitz.

Who is Juliek?

500

Elie and his family arrive at Birkenau where the women and children and separated from the men.

What is the climax.

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