FAST BOOT CAMP: Night by Elie Weisel

Select two phrases from the passage that show the son was indifferent to the situation.

• I’m your father…you’re hurting me…you’re killing your father!

• The old man again whispered something, let out a rattle, and died amid the general indifference.

• But the other one threw himself upon him and snatched it

• When they withdrew, next to me were two corpses, side by side, the father and the son.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

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Select the theme of this passage

• Don’t be a bystander when you observe injustice.

• If you avoid making a decision, even that is a decision

• When humanity is compromised, people revert to instinct

• Survival justifies violence.

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Part A: How does the narrator’s past experience affect his actions at the beginning of the excerpt?

• He enjoyed watching the children dive for the coins

• He was no longer a bystander in times of need

• He was glad for the woman’s charity

• He understood that the woman was sophisticated

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Select two statements from the text that supports your inference in Part A

• “Why not? she said, I like to give charity…”

• “An attractive aristocratic Parisienne was deriving special pleasure…”

• “A piece fell into our wagon, I decided I would not move.”

• “Please,” I begged, “don’t throw any more money in!”

• “When they withdrew, next to me were two corpses, side by side, the father and the son. I was fifteen years old.”

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Directions: Read the short text and answer the following questions.

We who lived in the concentration camps can remember the men who walked though the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of his freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.

How do the writers portray the idea of indifference similarly in the two passages? Answer in short response.

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We who lived in the concentration camps can remember the men who walked though the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of his freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.

How do the authors use bread figuratively in the two excerpts?

• Bread is used as a metaphor for death.

• Bread is used as a symbol to represent survival

• Bread is used as a symbol of amusement

• Bread is used as an allusion to one’s past

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