Night II

How are Eliezer and his father able to understand the complexities of religion, yet not the political system?

• Religion lasts forever, politics do not
• religion is of faith, politics has no influence on way of life
• religion and politics are the same, to understand one is to understand the other 
• thy don't understand either

Meaning of: "The Germans were already in our town, the Fascists were in power, the Jews of Sighet were still smiling"?

• Jews still don't believe the truth about what's happening
• Jews were happy about the change of leadership
• Jews and Germans are best friends
• Jews think they are going to get better housing

Why is Jewish community unafraid after they are transferred to the two ghettos?

• Their life is better than it was before
• They have more food to eat now
• Their life is somewhat the same as before and they are together
• They realize that community living has its advantages

Explain: "The ghetto was ruled by neither German nor Jew; it was ruled by delusion."

• Germans feel like they are superior
• Jews think they can defeat the Germans
• Germans who are fighting really respect Jews deepdown
• Jews still don't understand their danger

What event is happening when Eliezer's father is telling a story?

• He is sold into slavery
• He begins to play the piano
• He is called away to a meeting
• He is taken to Auschwicz

Explain the symbolism: "The shadows around me roused themselves as if from a deep sleep."

• Shadows are men/women who will soon be shadows
• Shadows are symbols of night in literature
• Shadows hide the evil
• Shadows are a reflection of good

Why the elipses . . . ?  "It was all in jest . . . ."

• The author lost his train of thought
• It was simply a typo
• The reader is encouraged to keep thinking about what's happening
• The author didn't know how to explain the situation

How does reader understand hopelessness of men, women, and children being corralled and led to the convoys?

• Through lack of freedom and even water
• Through building new relationships
• Through the countryside
• Through the heat of the day

What joy do men and women find when they are moved out of ghetto?

• They get to return to their homes
• More freedom to move about
• More food and water
• The hot sun is gone

Interpret tombstones: "They began to walk without another glance at the abandoned streets, the dead, the tombstones . . . "

• houses were burned down
• knowing they would die, they picked out their tombstones
• walking past actual cemetery and leaving ghetto behind
• they abandoned the idea that they would die