Night

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Night

• A Memoir By Elie Wiesel

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Literary Techniques

• Parallelism is the similarity of construction or
  meaning of clauses placed side by side,
  especially clauses expressing the same sentiment
  with slight modifications.
• Never shall I forget those flames that consumed
  my faith forever. Never shall I forget that
  nocturnal silence that deprived me, for all
  eternity, to live. Never shall I forget those
  moments that murdered my God and my soul and
  turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget
  these things

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Literary Techniques

• Simile is a figure of speech in which two
  essentially unlike things are compared, often in
  a phrase introduced by like or as.
• At first my father crouched under the blows, then
  he broke in two, like a dry tree struck by
  lightening, and collapsed.

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Literary Techniques

• Metaphor is a figure of speech in which a word or
  phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is
  used to designate another, thus making an
  implicit comparison.
• We were already accustomed to rumors of this
  kind. It was not the first time a false prophet
  had foretold to us peace-on-earth,
  negotiations-with-the-Red-Cross-for-our-release,
  or other false rumors. . .And often we believed
  them. It was an injection of morphine.

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Literary Techniques

• Paradox is a seemingly contradictory statement
  that may nonetheless be true.
• And, in spite of myself, a prayer rose in my
  heart, to that God to whom I no longer believed.

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Literary Techniques

• Personification is a figure of speech in which
  inanimate objects or abstractions are endowed
  with human qualities or are represented as
  possessing human form.
• Death wrapped itself around me.

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Literary Techniques

• Juxtaposition is an act or instance of placing
  close together or side by side, esp. for
  comparison or contrast.
• When they withdrew, next to me there were two
  corpses, side by side, father and son. I was
  fifteen years old.

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Literary Techniques

• Foreshadowing is the act of presenting materials
  that hint at events to occur later in a story.

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3 incidents at the beginning of the memoir that
foreshadow the coming danger to the Sighet Jews

• Moved into the ghettos
• Deported foreigners
• Yellow Stars required for all Jews to wear

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Literary Techniques

• Symbol is a thing that stands for or represents
  both itself and something else.
• What associations do you make for the following
  symbols?
• Yellow Star
• Faded Portraits
• Cauldron of Soup

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How might the following observation apply to
Night?

• Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils
  are sufferable, than to right themselves by
  abolishing the forms to which they are
  accustomed.

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Story of Job

• There was an extremely pious man named Job. He
  was very prosperous and had seven sons, and three
  daughters. Constantly fearing that his sons may
  have sinned and "cursed God in their hearts" he
  habitually offered burnt offerings as a pardon
  for their sins.
• The angels of heaven and Satan present themselves
  to God. God asks Satan his opinion on Job,
  apparently a truly pious man. Satan answers that
  Job is only pious because he is prosperous. In
  order to test if Job would still be pious if he
  was stricken with poverty, God gives Satan
  permission to destroy Job's possessions and
  family.
• All of Job's possessions are destroyed and all of
  his family are killed. Job does not curse God
  after this but instead shaves his head, tears his
  clothes and says "Naked I came out of my mother's
  womb, and naked shall I return  the Lord has
  given, and the Lord has taken away.

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Story of Job

• As Job endures these calamities without
  reproaching Divine Providence, Satan solicits
  permission to afflict his person as well, and God
  says, "Behold he is in your hand, but dont touch
  his life." Satan, therefore, smites him with
  dreadful boils, and Job, seated in ashes, scrapes
  his skin with broken pottery. His wife prompts
  him to "curse God, and die" but Job answers,
  "Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?"
  In all of this, Job doesn't sin by cursing God.

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How does Wiesel sympathize with Job?

• He more understood the trials of Job.
• Job was faithful to god even when bad things
  happened.
• Wiesel puts his faith towards god on trial.

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Dehumanization

• To deprive of human qualities such as
  individuality, compassion, or civility.
• How many components of the definition must be
  removed for dehumanization?

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Themes/ Central Ideas in Night

• With a partner, come up with at least 5 themes in
  Night.
• Loss of Innocence
• Dehumanization
• Trauma
• Faith
• Father and Son Relationship
• Oppressed v. Oppressor
• Reality v. Illusion

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Viewing

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vbHAF0sgzKOs

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http//www.youtube.com/watch?vlBDh1Rl9OXo