Night Questions

Questions for Consideration: Elie Wiesel's Night

1. Wiesel's childhood home was in a small town Romania, Transylvania.

2. The cabala is a the world of mysticism, and the mystery or God and the universe itself.

3. Elie wanted proof that God was there and that he truly existed. He didn't understand the fact that God was there with him, and this moved him to study the cabala.

4. Moshe the Beadle is a significant character because he told everyone the reality of concentration camps and how they treat people. He was the reason that Elie kept kept his faith in God, but ever since the deportation he came back a different person. All this changed what Elie thought and believed.

5. The people of Sighet ignore Moshe after he returns because they all think he is a mad man just making up stories to make the people pity him. They also thought the war would ne over before anything happened.

6. Madame Schachter was in the same vehicle as Elie, and she kept crying out that there was a fire even though there really wasn't. When they arrived at Auschwitz, they saw the fire. Madame Schachter and Moshe the Beadle were alike because they warned everyone of the evil ahead, but they were ignored.

7. In the passage Elie says he will never forget all those horrible moments of his life where God did nothing to save him. Elie had to suffer because God was not there to help.

8. With everything Elie has seen and experienced at Auschwitz, he is led to believe that God doesn't exist. He no longer had faith in God and he realized it was pointless to believe in someone who never saved anyone. He let people be tortured, punished, and burnt, and he didn't do anything to stop it. Obviously one would question the man he believed so much in.

9. Throughout the entire novel, Elie's views change drastically. At one point he thought God was killed and that there would be no one to save them from the pain and misery they were going through.

10. Night has many meanings to it, for example it could mean that they were sent into darkness not knowing there faith and what they were in for. It can also mean that night is when everyone goes to sleep, it can be there only way to escape.

11. Night is such a slim book but there is so much detail and thought put into it, I'm sure writing about that time was a hard thing for Wiesel to do as well. The readers can fully understand the depth and meaning of this memoir.

12. Night is a memoir of both tragedy and triumph. Elie lost his family and everything he cared about. The triumph is when Elie survived all the hardships he went through. With God with him every step of the way he was able to stand the tragedy and triumphs.