Table of Contents
- 1 What were the conditions in the cattle car in night?
- 2 How do the prisoners treat Madame Schächter during the train ride?
- 3 What are the conditions on the Jews train journey How do the Jews react to Madame Schäcter’s behavior What does this reveal about human nature?
- 4 What do Madame Schachter’s visions foreshadow?
What were the conditions in the cattle car in night?
Summary. Packed into cattle cars, the Jews are tormented by nearly unbearable conditions. There is almost no air to breathe, the heat is intense, there is no room to sit, and everyone is hungry and thirsty. In their fear, the Jews begin to lose their sense of public decorum.
How do the prisoners treat Madame Schächter during the train ride?
Her madness disturbs and frightens the other prisoners on the train, including her ten-year-old son, and she is inconsolable despite efforts to calm her. The other passengers respond by tying, gagging, and violently striking her on the head to silence the screaming episodes.
What did Mrs Schachter’s cries foreshadow?
What was foreshadowed by Madame Schacter’s nightmare? The train being set on fire. What did some of the passengers do to quiet Madame Schachter? The passengers hit her, gagged her, and tied her up.
What is the abominable odor in the air at Auschwitz?
The “abominable odor in the air” at Auschwitz is the smell of the dead being burned in the crematories and the smell of burned human flesh.
What are the conditions on the Jews train journey How do the Jews react to Madame Schäcter’s behavior What does this reveal about human nature?
They were often not fed at all and the train was very hot and stuffy. The train rides were long, usually about three or four days. Rather than put up with Madame Schachter’s outcries, the Jews tied her up and gagged her, hoping she would quiet down.
What do Madame Schachter’s visions foreshadow?
What was foreshadowed by Madame Schacter’s nightmare? The train being set on fire. What did some of the passengers do to quiet Madame Schachter?
Why do you think the German workman throws the crust of bread to the prisoners?
Why do the German workmen throw the crust of bread to the prisoners? They throw the bread because they are treating them like animals. How does Elie’s father die? He dies from becoming extremely ill and being beaten.
What does Elie see when he looks in a mirror?
From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me. This is the final passage of Night, Eliezer’s final statement about the effect the Holocaust has had on him.