Night – Specific Examples of Kindness, Cruelty ...



Night – Finding Examples to Support Themes

In order to prepare for our first formal essay, in this assignment you will practice finding examples and pulling quotations from the text that show a particular theme.

• For each theme, find four examples from the book.

• In each box, explain the example from the book in your own words and include the quotation from the book using MLA Citation that shows this example.

This project is due on Tuesday, December 4 and is worth 25-points.

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|Kindness |Cruelty |Loss of Faith |Relationships Between Fathers and Sons |

|Example 1: Elie experiences kindness |Example 1: He beat me up Elie because |Example 1: Elie doesn’t believe in god,|Example 1: Elie’s father had no |

|when the young French girl comforts him |he was venting his fury and Elie was |he lost his hope on believing god. He |emotional in the beginning of the book |

|after he has been severely beaten by |crossing his way. After he beat up Elie,|thinks god has given up on him because |Elie says his dad is very cultural and |

|Idek. |he sent him back to work as if he didn’t|he thinks there’s no chance of hope in |basically doesn’t have time for |

| |just brutally beat him to death |the concentration camps. |anything. |

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| |Quote 1: “He threw himself on me like a |Quote 1: “He recited entire pages from | |

|Quote 1: “I felt a cool hand wiping the |wild beast, beating me in the chest, on |the Talmud, arguing with himself, asking|Quote 1: “My father was a cultured man, |

|blood from my forehead. It was the |my head, throwing me to the ground and |and answering himself endless questions.|rather unsentimental. He rarely |

|French girl. She was smiling her |picking me up again, crushing me with |One day, he said to me: its over. God is|displayed his feelings, not even within |

|mournful smile as she slipped me a crust|ever more violent blow until…” (Wiesel |no longer with us” (Wiesel 76). |his family, and was more involved with |

|of bread” (Wiesel 53). |53). | |the welfare of others with that of his |

| | | |own kin” (Wiesel 4). |

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|Example 2: The French girl risked her |Example 2: Elie witnessed little |Example 2: Elie and the other prisoners|Example 2: Elie is looking out for his |

|life for him and she is helping him |children even babies being sent to the |were forced to watch young pipel get |father so the SS officers don’t take his|

|after getting beaten by idek, She was |crematorium, some were dead and some |hanged. Pipel was an only child and that|dying father away and be with the |

|kind enough to clean him up and feed |were alive. How could people just had |hurt Elie to such an atrocity. |corpses or maybe to the crematorium. |

|him. She spoke perfect German to Elie. |loads of trucks to kill children because| |Elie knows his father is tried but |

| |of their race, that’s cruelty. | |doesn’t want him to rest at this |

| | | |specific area but at the rooms. |

| | |Quote 2: "Why, but why should I bless |Quote 2: “Father I said, you cannot say |

| |Quote 2: “A truck drew close and |Him? In every fiber, I rebelled. Because|here. I pointed to the corpses around |

|Quote 2: “I felt a cool hand wiping the |unloaded its hold: small children. |He had had thousands of children burned |him; they too had wanted to rest here. I|

|blood from my forehead. She was smiling |Babies! Yes, I did see this, with my own|in his pits? Because He kept six |se my son. I do see them. Let them |

|her mournful smile as she slipped me a |eyes . . . children thrown into the |crematories working night and day, on |sleep. They haven’t closed and eye for |

|crust of bread…” (Wiesel 53). |flames” (Wiesel 32). |Sundays and feast days? Because on His |so long (Wiesel 105). |

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|Example 3: Elie’s father is giving Elie|Example 3: His father got beaten for |Example 3: Elie lost faith in his self |Example 3: Elie is protecting his |

|protection because he knew it was maybe |not putting fort effort in working. As |because he couldn’t save his father from|father from getting taken by the |

|his time to go soon. The knife was |the days and months go by people start |dying. He thought he could do it but he |gravediggers because they tried to take |

|Elie’s father protection from other |to age and get lazy and loose strengths.|failed. He woke up the next morning to |him. Elie’s father is very ill so they |

|people who tried to eat him. The spoon |Elie’s father was at that stage and he |see that his father wasn’t in the bunk |thought he was dead because he wouldn’t |

|maybe was for eating or to dig his way |couldn’t put effort in working strong. |below him and someone else was. |wake up. Elie wants his dad alive as |

|out of the camps if his dad wasn’t there| | |long as possible so they could end |

|with him. | | |together. |

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| | |Quote 3: "It's too late to save your old| |

|Quote 3: “Here, take this knife, he said|Quote 3: “You old loafer! He starting |father, I said to myself..."(Weisel |Quote 3: “Father! Father! Wake up. |

|I won’t need it anymore. You may find it|yelling. Is this what you call working? |105). |They’re going to throw you outside . . .|

|useful. Also take this spoon. Don’t sell|And he began beating him with an iron | |His body remained inert. The two |

|it. Quickly! Go ahead, take what I’m |bar” (Wiesel 54). | |gravediggers had grabbed me by the neck:|

|giving you!” (Wiesel 75). | | |leave him alone. Can’t you see he’s |

| | | |dead? No! I yelled. He’s not dead! Not |

| | | |yet!”(Wiesel 99). |

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