THIS SI FROMT HE BOOK "NGIHT" PLEASE HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP
1. Probably the most famous and the most moving paragraphs in all of Night involve repetition.
Locate these paragraphs on or near page 32. What are the two words that are repeated? What is the effect of repetition in this passage?
2. The image of Juliek playing the violin in the crowded barracks is perhaps the most beautiful
one in the entire novel. “He was playing his life. The whole of his life was gliding on the strings,
his lost hopes, his charred past, his extinguished future. He played as he would never play
again.” What images do the words evoke?
3. Wiesel comments at the end of the novel that the prisoners did not think of revenge. Why does
revenge sound hollow and meaningless at the end of the story? Refer to the image with which
Wiesel concludes the story.
4. Explain the dramatic irony that occurs when the Jews arrive at Auschwitz.
5. What is the inscription above the gate to Auschwitz? Why is this phrase ironic?
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6. What painful irony occurs when Eliezer and his father decide to be evacuated from Buna?
7. Since Elie Wiesel is telling what he experienced, why does he choose to use a narrator?