EWRT 1C Class A man walked in the house. He was about to hang up his coat when he heard his wife say, "No John! Don't do it!" There was a shot and the woman was dead. There was a police officer, a doctor, and a lawyer standing next to her. The woman's husband knew that the police officer did it. But how did the husband know?
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EWRT 1C Class
A man walked in the house. He was about to hang up his coat when he heard his wife say, "No John! Don't do it!" There was a shot and the woman was dead. There was a police officer, a doctor, and a lawyer standing next to her. The woman's husband knew that the police officer did it. But how did the husband know?
AGENDA
New Teams
Author Introduction
Historical Context
Summary
QHQ
1. You must change at least 50% of your team after each project is completed.
2. You may never be on a team with the same person more than twice.
3. You may never have a new team composed of more than 50% of any prior team.
Elie Wiesel
Known As: Wiesel, Eliezer; Wiezsel, Eli; Wiesel, Elie
American Writer ( 1928 - )
Born in Sighet, Romania (Then Transylvania)
He survived Birkenau and later Auschwitz and Buna and Buchenwald. His father, mother, and youngest sister did not. After the war, he was reunited with his two older sisters who also survived.
“The only way to stop the next holocaust… is to remember the last one.”
After his release from the war camps, he boarded a train for Belgium, which was ultimately diverted to France. He stayed there, completing his education at Sorbonne, University of Paris, from 1948-51.
Wiesel immigrated to the United States in 1956, and received his U.S. citizen in 1963
He eventually married Marion Erster Rose, and together they had one son, Shlomo Elisha.
Other novels by Wiesel about the Jewish experience during and after the Holocaust include Dawn and The Accident, which were later published together with Night in The Night Trilogy
The other two books in the trilogy have concentration camp survivors as their central characters. Dawn concerns one survivor just
after World War II who joins the Jewish underground efforts to form an independent Israeli state.
The Accident is about a man who discovers that his collision with an automobile was actually caused by his subconscious, guilt-ridden desire to commit suicide.
Some content courtesy of Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2013. From Literature Resource Center.
Historical Context
Night takes place in Romania, Poland, and Germany during WW II
(1939-1945) This war, sparked by German aggression, had its roots in the ending
of an earlier war. With Germany’s defeat in WWI, the nation was left with a broken government. a severely limited military, shattered industry and transportation, and an economy sinking under the strain of war debts. Many Germans were humiliated and demoralizedThe Nazi party (The National Socialist German Workers Party) came to power in late 1920s. The party aimed to restore German pride.
Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler, the party leader,
spoke at rallies of Germany’s long military tradition, its national character, and its entitlement to greatness. To explain Germany’s fallen state, Hitler blamed the Jews and others he said were not “true” Germans.
Soon after he took control, he took away German Jew’s citizenship and right to work, barred Jews from public schools and gathering places, made it so they could no longer marry non-Jews, and he attacked their homes and businesses frequently.
He defined Jews as those with at least one Jewish grandparent, whether or not they observed their religion
The people he “targeted” were imprisoned in ghettos, where they were often starved or murdered
.
It is believed that eleven million people were killed by the Nazis. These included political opponents (particularly Communists), Slavs, gypsies, mentally and/or physically disabled, homosexuals, and other "undesirables.” An estimated six million men, women, and children were killed because they were Jews.
The Nazis forced concentration camp inmates to wear various symbols on their uniforms. The Jews wore a yellow "Jewish Star" (made of two inverted yellow triangles). The homosexual inmates wore an inverted "Pink Triangle.” (In some camps, such as Schirmeck, homosexuals wore blue bars on their uniforms.) This chart from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's archives depicts the various other groups and their respective colors; such as black for "A-socials" (including lesbians and feminists), purple for Jehovah's Witnesses, red for political prisoners, green for criminal prisoners, brown (maroon) for gypsies.
Night
Night In the spring of 1944, the Nazis entered the
Transylvanian village of Sighet, Romania, until then a relatively safe and peaceful enclave in the middle of a war-torn continent. Arriving with orders to exterminate an estimated 600,000 Jews in six weeks or less, Adolf Eichmann, chief of the Gestapo's Jewish section, began making arrangements for a mass deportation program. Among those forced to leave their homes was fifteen-year-old Elie Wiesel, the only son of a grocer and his wife. A serious and devoted student of the Talmud and the mystical teachings of Hasidism and the Cabala, the young man had always assumed he would spend his entire life in Sighet, quietly contemplating the religious texts and helping out in the family's store from time to time. Instead, along with his father, mother, and three sisters, Wiesel was herded onto a train bound for Birkenau, the reception center for the infamous death camp Auschwitz.
Wiesel at age 15http://www.pbs.org/eliewiesel/life/
Genre: Non-fiction; Holocaust autobiography
Type of Work: Memoir (narrative composed from personal experience)
Time Period: 1941-1945 (during WWII)
Setting: story begins in Sighet, Transylvania (now part of Romania) and follows Wiesel to concentration camps in Europe (Auschwitz/Birkenau – modern day Poland) & Germany
Survivors at Buchenwald Concentration Camp remain in their barracks after liberation by Allies on April 16, 1945. Elie Wiesel, the Nobel Prize winning author of Night, is on the second bunk from the bottom, seventh from the left. (Photo : Corbis)
Group Discussion: Main/Significant Characters
and QHQ
Main/Significant CharactersMoshe the Beadle: After his deportation, Moshe returns with a
report on the massacre of those deported. The community dismisses him as a madman.
Madame Schächter: On the journey to Auschwitz, she goes out of her mind. At night she shrieks "I can see fire!” The last time she shrieks, everyone looks, and they see the flames of the crematory.
Chlomo Wiesel: Eliezer's father, Chlomo, is a "cultured, rather unsentimental man … more concerned with others than with his own family.” However, while he is in the death camps, he lives to keep his son alive
Eliezer Wiesel: The narrating survivor of the camps is Eliezer, who becomes A-7713.
Franek: The foreman in the electrical warehouse; he terrorizes Eliezer's father when Eliezer refuses to give up his gold crown.
Idek: A Kapo, a prisoner put in charge of a barracks. One Sunday, he takes the prisoners under his charge to the warehouse for the day so he can be with a woman. Eliezer discovers them and is whipped.
QHQs1. Q: What does Wiesel mean by “Because if we
forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices” ? (Wiesel 118).
2. Q: What is the significance of the title Night, and its purpose inside the story?
3. Q: What is the significance of Moshe the Beadle in the beginning of the story?
a. Q. Why don’t the residents of Sighet listen to Moshe the Beadle?
4. Q: On page 62-65, why did the deaths of the young man and the pipel have a different impact on the inmates?
QHQ1. Q: Why do the Jews treat each other badly
when suppressed by the Nazis?
2. Q: Why do the camp veterans taunt the less experienced prisoners?
3. Q: How is genocide of this magnitude possible?
4. Q: Has the Holocaust become so famous and integrated into the mainstream education of countries all over the world because of the nature of the event itself or because of the efforts of storytellers such as Wiesel?
HOMEWORKRead Outer Dark
Post #28 QHQ Night: Focus on a close reading of a passage (or passages) that you could use to do a critical reading through a particular theoretical lens. Consider New Critical, Feminist, Psychoanalytic, or Trauma Theories. You may use another theory with which you are familiar.