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, November 20 and is worth 32-points.

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

|Example 1: Elie experiences kindness |Example 1: Elie experiences cruelty when|Example 1: Elie is basically giving up |Example 1: There was distance between |

|when the young French girl comforts him |the baton pointed left, he was then on |on his faith because the way that he is |Elie and his father but now they are |

|after he has been severely beaten by |his way to the crematorium as he |seeing it, is that if there’s a god why |starting to form new bond between them, |

|Idek. |witnessed human beings being cremated. |isn’t he helping us? Why is he just |because of the intense happenings in the|

| | |letting this happen? Elie is saying this|camp it has almost forced them to stick |

| | |after seeing the people be tossed into |by each other. |

|Quote 1: “I felt a cool hand wiping the | |the fire to burn. | |

|blood from my forehead. It was the | | | |

|French girl. She was smiling her | | | |

|mournful smile as she slipped me a crust| | | |

|of bread” (Wiesel 53). | | | |

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| |Quote 1: “A truck drew close and | | |

| |unloaded its hold: small children. | | |

| |Babies! Yes, I did see this, with my own| |Quote 1: “I ran to look for my father. |

| |eyes . . . children thrown into the |Quote 1: “Why should I sanctify His |At the same time I was afraid of having |

| |flames” (Wiesel 32). |name? Te almighty, the external and |to wish him a happy year in which I no |

| | |terrible Master of the Universe, chose |longer believed. He was leaning against |

| | |to be silent. What was there to thank |the wall, bent shoulders sagging as if |

| | |him for?” (Wiesel 33). |under a heavy load. I went up to him, |

| | | |too his hand and kissed it. I felt a |

| | | |tear on my hand. Whose was it? Mine? |

| | | |His? I said nothing. Nor did him. Never |

| | | |before had we understood each other so |

| | | |clearly. (Wiesel 68-69). |

|Example 2: Franek is giving Elie advice |Example 2: Elie watches as foreign Jews |Example 2: Elie is starting to find |Example 2: Elie’s father has passed … |

|on how that there is no need for him to |were shot in cold blood after they dug |change in his belief when the Jewish |His father’s last words was him calling |

|be killing himself at work. The only |their own grave. |holiday Rosh Hashanah which was the last|out to his son. Elie had not replied as |

|time that he should be “working” is when| |day of that cursed year. Elie is getting|his father had taken a vicious blow to |

|a guard is patrolling by the scene. This| |tired of being in this hell hole. |the head. Elie had heard his father |

|is showing kindness because he is | | |gasping and mumbling his name but he had|

|looking out for his fellow workers. | | |decided to turn the other cheek and get |

| | | |some rest. |

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| |Quote 2: “The Jews were ordered to get | | |

| |onto the trucks and they headed towards |Quote 2: Where are you, my God? I | |

| |a forest. They were forced to dig huge |thought angrily. How do you compare to | |

| |trenches. When they finished their work,|this stricken mass gathered to affirm to| |

|Quote 2: “Don’t kill you. There’s no |the men from the Gestapo began theirs. |you their faith, their anger, their | |

|hurry. But watch out. Don’t Let an SS |Without passion or haste, they shot |defiance? What does your grandeur mean, |Quote 2: “The officer came closer and |

|catch.” (Franek 50). |their prisoners.” (Wiesel 6). |master of the universe, in the face of |shouted to him to be silent. But my |

| | |all this cowardice, this decay, and this|father did not hear. He continued to |

| | |misery? Why do you go on troubling these|call me. The officer wielded his club |

| | |poor people wounded minds, their ailing |and dealt him a violent low to the head.|

| | |bodies? (Wiesel 66). |I didn’t move. I was afraid, my body was|

| | | |afraid of another blow, this time to my |

| | | |head. My father groaned once more, I |

| | | |heard: |

| | | |Eliezer |

| | | |I could see that he was still |

| | | |breathing—in gasps. I didn’t. I had |

| | | |watched him for more than an hour. Then |

| | | |I had to go to sleep.” (Wiesel 112). |

|Example 3: Elie was told that they |Example 3: How strangers would give |Example 3: Elie is considering taking |Example 3: Elie abandoned his father, he|

|cannot lose hope or faith because |coins to the Jews on the train just to |the advice of the blockalteste about |felt that he should care for himself now|

|they’ll grow a step closer to death. |watch them kill each other over a coin |taking his father’s rations. Instead of |and grew disappointed. |

| |to their amusement. |giving him food and water he infers that| |

| | |he should be taking his rations meaning | |

| | |that it is survival of the fittest in | |

| | |that concentration camp. | |

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|Quote 3: “Don’t lose hope. You have | | |Quote 3: “During the alert, I had |

|already eluded the worst danger: the | | |followed the mob, not taking care of |

|selection. Therefore, muster your |Quote 3: “Passengers amused themselves | |I’m. I knew he was running out of |

|strength and keep your faith. We shall |by throwing coins to the natives who |Quote 3: “Listen to me, kid. Don’t |strength, close to death, yet I had |

|all see the day of liberation. Have |dove to retrieve them.” (Wiesel 100). |forget that you are in a concentration |abandoned him.” (Wiesel 106). |

|faith in life, a thousand times faith. | |camp. In this place, it is every man for| |

|By driving out despair, you will move | |him, and you cannot think of others. Not| |

|away from death.” (Wiesel 41). | |even your father. In this place, there | |

| | |is no such thing as father, brother, | |

| | |friend. Each of us lives and dies alone.| |

| | |Let me give you good advice: stop giving| |

| | |your ration of bread and soup to your | |

| | |old father. You cannot help him | |

| | |anymore.” (Wiesel 110). | |

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|Example 4: When Elie’s father gives him |Example 4: In the beginning, after the |Example 4: Elie lost faith once again |Example 4: |

|all he has to offer which is a knife and|Nazis occupied Sighet, Jewish families |after seeing the little boy get hung and| |

|spoon along with some bread. |had to identify themselves by wearing a |struggling on the edge of life and death| |

| |yellow star. They also had curfews and |while looking directly into his eyes. | |

| |could no longer own a radio, bicycles, | | |

| |and whatever else. | | |

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|Quote 4: “Take this; you’ll need it more| |Quote 4: “Where He is? This is | |

|than I do.” (Wiesel | |where—hanging here from this gallows . .| |

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| |Quote 4: “Jews were prohibited from | | |

| |leaving their residences for three days,| | |

| |under penalty of death. Forbidden to own| | |

| |gold, or any valuables.” (Wiesel 10 & | | |

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