Holocaust Literary Techniques

1Write in paragraph form using complete sentences. Use proper grammar, spelling, mechanics, and formal writing techniques. Write your answers in a different color. Use direct quotes that are properly introduced and explained to support your claims.
This should go without saying at this point, but don’t cheat on this assignment and don’t help others cheat. If you copy and answer from a friend or an outside source you will get zero credit for this assignment and will not have the opportunity to redo it.
This assignment must be submitted prior to class on Friday, March 10th. If you turn it in after we discuss our answers in class you will not receive more than 50%.
1. What is the significance of the title of this memoir?
The significance of the

Considering all the terrible things that happen at night like Mrs. Schächter has her visions of fire, Wiesel and his father arrive at
Auschwitz and wait in line all night long with the smell of burning flesh, there is the night the soup tastes like corpses, they march through long nights, and smother each other to death in the night.
2. Human rights of Jews were violated during the Holocaust. Describe which human rights were violated in the memoir using textual evidence and examples. Discuss at least three specific rights that were violated.
Many human rights were violated during this time, some examples of the rights that were violated is no one should be deprived of food or water ,everyone is created equal whether it's in religion,sex, race etc., No one should be beaten or tortured in anyway, everyone should be able to be free as a person, No one should be held as a slave in any case. Three examples of the Jew’s human rights being violated are "I no longer felt anything except the lashed of the whip." (Pg.57) The Jews were being whipped, executed, and shot for things that they did "wrong". "Not far from us, prisoners were at work. Some were digging holes, others were carrying sand. None as much as

37). The last example of human rights being violated is "Men to the left!
Woman to the right!" (Pg.29), The men were being separated from the woman and children, and Jews were being punished just because the were jewish.
3. Describe and analyze Elie W iesel's changing view of God throughout the memoir and how it affected his identity. Explain specific examples of this transformation from Elie’s experience beginning in Sighet to his liberation at Buchenwald.
At the beginning of Night, Eliezer is an observant Jew. Throughout the book his faith was significantly put to the test in multiple ways. A example of how his faith was tested in the book is
"May His name be celebrated and sanctified..." whispered my father. For the first time, I felt

anger rising within me. Why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty, the eternal and terrible
Master of the Universe, chose to be silent. What was there to thank Him for?” Wiesel became uncertain of his relationship with God because he witnessed many awful things and he thought
God would be able to stop it since God is so