Characters
The narrator of the memoir Night.
Who is Eliezer?
Eliezer's religion. He studies it day and night.
What is Judaism? [What is being Jewish?]
Symbol of physical death, this is everywhere Eliezer looks on the first night at Birkenau. Also, what Mrs. Schachter believes she sees while traveling in the cattle car.
What is fire?
Eliezer begins expressing his anger with God from his first minutes in the camps.
What is Having and Losing Faith?
Eliezer's friend from the Buna orchestra who may have played a Beethoven sonata on his violin when prisoners were cramming into the barracks at Gleiwitz.
Who is Juliek?
A respected member of his community, this man paid little attention to his own family until it was too late.
Who is Shlomo Wiesel?
Eliezer's family consists of these individuals.
Who are Shlomo (his father), Sarah (his mother), Hilda, Bea, Eliezer, and Tzipora?
Ages Eliezer and Shlomo Wiesel are told to report to the SS during their initial interview.
What are 18 (Eliezer) and 40 (Shlomo)?
Cramming humans into cattle cars, telling people they will be shot "like dogs," and cleaning to make sure the Soviets know "men, not pigs" lived in a block.
What is dehumanization or animal imagery?
Eliezer's cousin-by-marriage from Antwerp, Belgium who asks for information about his wife and sons.
Who is Stein?
A foreign Jew, he teaches Eliezer about Jewish mysticism.
Who is Moishe the Beadle?
When the Germans come to Hungary, the changes they make to the lives of Sighet's Jews.
What are the people lose their citizenship, are unable to have jobs, must wear the yellow star, are confined to ghettos, etc.?
Steps in the entrance process at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
What are stripping clothing, showering and disinfecting, being shaved, getting a tattoo, receiving "stripes," being beaten and dehumanized, etc.?
Eliezer's reaction to his father being slapped across the face by the gypsy Kapo on their first day at Auchwitz-Birkenau.
What is Guilt and Inaction?
Person from Buna who Eliezer meets again as an adult in Paris, France.
Who is the French girl?
These characters are symbolically warnings to the Jews of Sighet regarding the danger to come.
Who are Moishe the Beadle and Mrs. Schachter?
On the day of the first transport, Eliezer and his sisters provide this to those waiting to board the cattle cars.
What is water?
Work Kommando at Buna to which Eliezer and his father are assigned.
What is the orchestra Kommando? Also, what is sorting electrical components in a factory?
The death of the pipel is most closely related to this theme.
What is Having and Losing Faith?
Prayer Eliezer prays after realizing Rabbi Eliahu's son was running away from his father and his responsibilities.
What is Eliezer prays to never be like Rabbi Eliahu's son?
Eliezer's last memories of her are of their mother patting her blonde hair and her little red coat.
Who is Tzipora, Eliezer's 7 year old sister?
Two non-Jews who attempt to help the Wiesel family before they are deported to Auschwitz.
Who are the Hungarian police inspector (Shlomo's friend) and Maria, the Wiesel's former maid?
Kapo at Buna whose fits of rage result in random beatings for both Eliezer and Shlomo, as well as a beating in front of the entire camp for Eliezer.
Who is Idek?
Eliezer sees a corpse looking back at him when he looks in the mirror at Buchenwald. Corpses in Night are symbols of ______________________.
What is spiritual death?
Shlomo Wiesel's last word.
What is "Eliezer"?