Chapters 1-3
The narrator of the book.
Who is Elie/Eliezer?
This is technically the 2nd camp Elie arrives at.
What is Buna?
This is what prisoners on the cattle car started fighting over, at the amusement of German citizens.
What is bread?
This is the device used in the following quote: “The stomach alone was measuring time” (32).
What is personification?
This major symbol represents impending doom, the absence of god, and evil.
What is Night?
Upon his return, the town deems his stories & warnings crazy.
Who is Moishe the Beadle?
This is the work Kommando Elie is "lucky" to be assigned to.
What is the electrical warehouse?
This is the concentration camp Elie and the others arrive at at the end of chapter 7.
What is Buchenwald?
The literary device used when Elie compares the empty houses in his town to "An open tomb" (17).
What is metaphor?
This conversation is representative of this big idea:
"'For God's sake, where is God?' And from within me, I heard a voice answer: 'Where He is? This is where - hanging here from this gallows...'
That night, the soup tasted of corpses" (65).
What is loss of faith?
The first concentration camp Elie reaches.
What is Auschwitz?
This is the "weak spot" that Franek used to manipulate Elie into giving up his gold crown.
Who is Elie's father/Schlomo?
This is why the date January 29, 1945 is significant to Elie.
What is his father died?
This is the literary device used in the following quote: "And so we would sometimes hum melodies evoking the gentle waters of the Jordan River and the majestic sanctity of Jerusalem. We also spoke often about Palestine" (50).
What is allusion?
The fact that the Jews of Sighet did not know about the concentration camps highlights this big idea...
What is silence/ignorance/misinformation?
Elie, 15 at the time, tells doctor Mengele he's this age.
What is 18?
This is how Elie's father responded when he finds out he's been chosen for selection.
What is by giving Elie his inheritance (a spoon and a knife)?
This is what Eliezer's father died of.
What is dysentery?
This is the literary device used in chapter 2 when Ms. Schacter says "Look at the fire! Look at the flames!" (28).
What is foreshadowing?
This aspect of the setting seems to become a symbol in chapters 6-9.
What is the snow/cold?
The motto outside of Auschwitz, which translates to "work makes you free" is an example of this type of literary device
What is irony?
This was Juliek's one act of rebellion before he died. (Must explain WHY it was rebellious as well)
What is playing a piece by Beethoven? It is rebellious because at the beginning of the novel they were told they couldn't play Beethoven because he was a German composer
This was Elie and the other prisoner's first act as free men.
What is throwing themselves onto the provisions?
This is the literary device used in the following quote, and the big idea it relates to: "Then, two "gravediggers" grabbed him by the head and feet and threw him from the wagon, like a sack of flour" (99).
What is a simile? And what is inhumanity/dehumanization?
This character, for Elie, might represent the loss of innocence.
Who is Tzipora, his younger sister?