Background+to+Night

=Characters=

Elie Wiesel: Elie is the main character in the book.

Father: Old cultured held in highest in community, and r arely s howed his feelings.

Mrs. Schachter: She went crazy a perdictied the fire from the camp.

Stein: Realted to Elie's family. Ask if his family is okay.

Hitler: General of Germany wants to kill all jews and take over world.

Moishe the Beatle: Mentor to Elie's mentor. Taken by Germans and told of what happened and nobody believed him.

Sara Weisel,Bea,hilda, and tzipora: Elie's Mother and sister and they were seperated at camp and never saw each other again, mother and tzipora perished, Bea and Hilda survived. Dr. Mengele: Tortured people with his experiments.

Kapos: German officers.

Gypsy: Slapped Elie's father

Idek: Kapo tortured the Wiesel's

Franek: Wanted Elie's gold tooth and beat up Elie's dad

Pipel: Hated by people

The Red Army:Allied Power

God:Master of Universe

SS: Group of German officers

Zalman:Electrician mocked for praying, died by being trampled

Juliek:Friend of Elie, plays the violin

Rabbi Eliahu:Kind man, loved by everyone looking for his son asked elie where his son is

by Marina fletcher, Geneva mendez, and luis

​

=Most Important Quotations in novel with explanations=

"You should have hanged yourselves rather than come here."pg. 30 All that this quote is saying is it's better to die than come here.

"Look! Look at this fire! this terrible fire! Have mercy on me!" pg. 25. This quote is foreshadowing what the people will soon see.

"Remember it always, let it be graven in your memories.You are in Auschwitz. And Auschwits is not a convalescent home. It is a concentration camp. here, you must work. If you don't you will go straight to the chimney. To the crematorium. Work or crematorium- the choice is yours." pg. 39. This quote is saying either you work or die and the decision totally up to you.

"I know. No one has the right to say things like that. I know that very well. Man too insignificant, too limited, to even try to comprehend God's mysterious ways. But what can someone like myself do? I'm neither a sage nor a just man. I am not a saint. I'm a simple creature of flesh and bone. i suffer hell in my soul and my flesh. I also have eyes and see what is being done here. Where is God's mercy? Where's God? How can i believe, how can anyone believein this God of mercy?" pg. 76 & 77. This quote is asking how God could let something like this happen to many innocent people and why it is happening.

"God is testing us. He wants to see whether we are capable of overcoming our base instincts, killing the Satan within ourselves. We have no right to dispair." pg. 45 this is a trial for the jews, testing whether or not they are able to overcome the eviles of their inner selves. therefore we have no reason to dispair.

"Long live liberty! My curse on Germany! My curse! My" pg. 62 This quote says Long live freedom, down with the Nazis!!!

"For God's sake, where is God?"pg. 65 this quote says how could God let this happen.

"All the earth and universe are God's!" pg 67 God controls all

"Just you wait, kid...you will see what it costs to leave your work... you'll pay for this later...now go back to your place"pg. 57 Just wait, you will pa yfor this!!

=Map of Places visited in //Night//= Sighet,Transylvania buchenwald gleiwitz monowitz birkenau Auschwitz I Elie's home was here in Sighet, Transylvania, and thats where he was in chapter one. This is Auschwitz, which was the worst death campwhere Elie's, first camp he had to go to. Elie was here in chapter two.

This is Auschwitz Birkenau, Elie second camp he had to go to. Elie was here in chapter two also.

Elie was here in Auschwitz III-Monowitz, the third camp where Elie was in. Elie was here in chapter three and four Elie was here in Gleiwitz this was his fourth camp, Elie was here in chapter five and six

Elie's last and final camp he went to and was here in chapter seven