Reading Homework

-------------------------------------- -~~~-~-~

Night YIW'" tv..\

9.... 1\ ML'" _~6>y£\~n••~~ -\"~ ef.c\....4 qv.e~il\ll. ~loo"t. ? T'lA~~. ~'r""'4 ~

Directions: On a separate typed sheet of paper, choose three of the five of the following questions and answer using your critical thinking skills learned while reading and in class. Give

specific answers to these questions.

End of book final

1. Did reading Night make you look at the world and your family differently? How is the Holocaust similar to other atrocities you've studied in your history or social studies classes at school? How does this book make you feel about the world today? Give specific examples from the book to support you opinion.

2. Who did you identify most within Night? Who do you most admire? Give specific examples from the book to support you opinion.

3. What does Eliezer mean when he writes that he feels free after his father's death? Is he free of responsibility? Or is he free to go under, to drift into death? Explain

4. At the end of Night, Wiesel writes: "From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me" (p. I 15). What parts ofEliezer died during his time in the concentration camps? What was born 111

their place?

5. Could something like the Holocaust happen today? Discuss more recent genocides, such

as the situation in Rwanda in the 1990s and the ongoing conflict in Sudan.

Does Night teach us anything about how we can react to these atrocities?