Events
The place where all Jews (including Elie and his family) were forced to live before being sent to concentration camps
What is the Ghetto?
He tutors Elie.
Who is Moshe the Beadle?
Elie Wiesel's Night shows that this quality can diminish and even fail when faced with unspeakable horror and suffering.
What is the power of faith?
The reason Elie is sent to the infirmary.
What is an infected foot?
Being with his father for most of the book.
What is 'the importance of familial bonds'?
Elie Wiesel meets this person in Paris after the war.
Who is the French woman with whom he worked in the factory while they were prisoners?
This instinct compels some of the prisoners to fight even their own family members for food and other resources.
What is the need to survive or the inhumanity that emerges under dire circumstances?
What Madame. Schachter hallucinates, or imagines she sees.
What is a large fire?
The study of Jewish mysticism.
What is Kabbalah?
Elie's interest in Kabbalah wanes as he comes to question God's existence in light of what's happening to Jews.
What is a loss of faith and belief?
He is the cruel Kapo who whips Elie because Elie has seen him with a girl.
Who is Idek?
To serve as a comfort.
What is console?
This happens to the sick prisoners who stay behind in the infirmary when the camp is evacuated at the end of the book.
What is they are liberated?
What Elie has on his arm.
What is a tattoo (A-7713)?
Many prisoners face this inner-conflict between two forces in their struggle to survive in dehumanizing and horrible conditions. (Think: Lord of the Flies)
What is the struggle between civility vs. savagery?
An infection of the intestine with bacteria or amoebae, that can lead to dehydration and death.
What is dysentery?