Night Reader Responses

  • NIGHT READER RESPONSES:  Reminder- write AT LEAST two paragraphs for each question- you MUST cite the text in each response.

     

    1. (Chapter 1) WHY DID NO ONE LISTEN TO MOSHE THE BEADLE’S WARNING?  WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE DONE IN HIS PLACE?

     

    2. (Chapter 1) WHY DO YOU THINK THE NAZIS MADE THE JEWS WEAR A YELLOW STAR? HOW WOULD YOU HAVE REACTED IF YOU WERE TOLD YOU HAD TO WEAR THE STAR?

     

    3. (Chapter 2) HOW DOES MADAME SCHECHTER’S MENTAL BREAKDOWN FORESHADOW THE HOLOCAUST?

     

    4. (Chapter 2) CHOOSE A QUOTE FROM CHAPTER TWO AND RESPOND TO IT.

     

    5. (Chapter 3) WHAT EVENTS LEAD ELIEZER TO SAY HE HAS LOST HIS FAITH IN GOD?  DO YOU THINK HE REALLY HAD LOST HIS FAITH?  DO YOU THINK YOU WOULD HAVE LOST YOUR FAITH?

     

    6. (Chapter 2-3) AT ONE POINT IN THE BOOK ELIE CONSIDERS TAKING HIS LIFE, BUT CHOOSES NOT TO.  WHY DID HE MAKE THIS CHOICE?  WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE DONE IN THIS POSITION?

     

    7. (Chapter 3) WRITE A ONE PAGE REACTION TO THE PASSAGE THAT BEGINS, “NEVER SHALL I FORGET THAT NIGHT…

     

    8. (Chapter 4) WHAT SMALL ACTS OF KINDNESS KEEP ELIEZER GOING?

     

    9. (Chapter 5) HOW DID ELIEZER’S RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS FATHER HELP HIM SURVIVE? DID IT HINDER HIM IN ANY WAY?  EXPLAIN. 

     

     

    11. (Chapter 5) SURVIVAL IN THE CAMP CAUSED YOUNG MEN TO DO VICIOUS AND CRUEL THINGS. GIVE THREE EXAMPLES OF THIS.

     

     

    12. (Chapter 5-6) EACH OF THE FOLLOWING CHARACTERS COPED OR DEALT WITH THE HORRORS OF THE HOLOCAUST IN DIFFERENT WAYS.  EXPLAIN HOW EACH CHARACTER COPED:  1. MOSHE THE BEADLE, 2. RABBI ELIAHOU, 3. JULIEK, 4. FRENCH GIRL.

     

    13. (Chapter 5) WHY WERE THE REACTIONS OF THE PRISONER TO THE HANGING OF THE MAN WHO STOLE SOUP SO DIFFERENT FROM THEIR REACTION TO THE HANGING OF THE SAD-EYED ANGEL?

     

         

    14.    (Chapter 6) ONE OF THE THEMES OF WIESEL’S BOOK IS THAT SOME EXPERIENCES ARE SO PAINFUL AND DEGRADING THAT WE ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING OUR HUMANITY.  THE EXTREME HUNGER, PHYSICAL ABUSE, AND MENTAL TORTURE CAUSED PRISONERS TO COMMIT CRIMES AGAINST THEIR OWN FAMILY.  DO YOU THINK ELIE EVER LOST HIS HUMANITY?  WHY OR WHY NOT?

     

    15. (Chapter 6) SOME PEOPLE THINK THAT THE PUNISHMENT SHOULD FIT THE CRIME.  FOR EXAMPLE, MANY PEOPLE APPLAUD THE ARAB CULTURE’S TRADITIONAL PUNISHMENT FOR STEALING, CUTTING OFF A HAND.  IN THIS COUNTRY MANY STATES STILL USE THE DEATH PENALTY.  DO YOU THINK THE PUNISHMENT SHOULD FIT THE CRIME?  HOW WOULD YOU PUNISH SOMEONE GUILTY OF HOMICIDE?  HOW WOULD YOU PUNISH SOMEONE GUILTY OF GENOCIDE? 

     

    16. (Chapter 7) WHY DO YOU THINK ELIE WIESEL WROTE NIGHT?