Table of Contents
- 1 What does the music mean to Eliezer?
- 2 Why do you think Elie Wiesel begins night with the story of Moishe the Beadle?
- 3 Why did Elie get beaten with 25 lashes?
- 4 What do the prisoners not think about after they are freed?
- 5 What lessons does the narrator seem to learn from Moshe experiences in telling his own story?
- 6 Why does Mrs Schachter scream?
What does the music mean to Eliezer?
What does the music mean to Eliezer? It is beautiful music for everyone that Juliek is determined to play. Elie falls asleep to the music because it is so calming and peaceful.
What does Eliezer mean when he writes that he feels free after his father’s death is he free of responsibility or is he free to go under to drift into death?
What does Eliezer mean when he writes that he feels free after his father’s death? That the burden of his father will be done if he dies. That he is free of the responsibility of having to take care of him. Free to drift into death because his father was the reason he did not die.
Why do you think Elie Wiesel begins night with the story of Moishe the Beadle?
Why do you think Elie Wiesel begins Night with the story of Moshe the Beadle? Because it foreshadows what will to Elie. Elie questions his faith and his purpose as he bears witness to the horrible consequences of war. What lessons does the narrator seem to learn from Moshe’s experiences in telling his own story?
What did it mean to see bread and soup as one’s whole life?
What does Eliezer mean when he refers to his father as “his weak point”? Before getting sent off to a concentration camp soup and bread were just things Elie had access to. Now that he truly knows what being starved is like he is always hungry. Elie’s whole life revolves around the rations of bread and soup.
Why did Elie get beaten with 25 lashes?
Because he is having an affiar with the polish girl. How did Idek Punish Elie for spying on him? he layed him down on a table, and whipped him 25 times in front of everyone , Elie passed out idek , told him that the worse would come , if he told anyone what he saw.
What stops the final evacuation of prisoners from the camp?
What stops the final evacuation of prisoners from the camp? Originally, the final evacuation was delayed by an alarm telling them that it was too late to evacuate the prisoners, but the next day it was taken over by the resistance. What is the first act of the prisoners after the first Americans begin to arriving?
What do the prisoners not think about after they are freed?
What did the prisoners do when they were freed? Once the ordeal at Buchenwald had come to its close and the Nazis were on the run, the prisoners think only of food as they find freedom and liberation from the camp. They do not think of anything else but survival and the barest of means to accomplish this end.
Is Night a true story?
Night is a memoir based on real events, so it is classified as nonfiction. When Elie Wiesel wrote Night, he described his own experiences in Auschwitz…
What lessons does the narrator seem to learn from Moshe experiences in telling his own story?
What lessons does the narrator seem to learn from Moshe’s experiences in telling his own story? He learns the importance of learning from the terrible things that happened in the Holocaust and to not ignore it. Why do you think the book is written in first person?
What broke Madame Schachter?
What had “broken” Mme. Schachter? That she had been separated from her husband and children, all but one.
Why does Mrs Schachter scream?
Madame Schachter screams because she is going mad scared. She is put in a cattle car with her son after accidentally being seperated from the rest of her family. She “kept” screaming “FIRE!” because she was seeing visions of the Holocaust.