1. What is the author's attitude towards actions or events?
- Author’s perspective is limited to his own experience, and the tone of Night is therefore intensely personal, subjective, and intimate. Night is not meant to be an all-encompassing discourse on the experience of the Holocaust; instead, it depicts the extraordinarily personal and painful experiences of a single victim.
2. Is the story humorous or tragic or frightening? Does the author want you to laugh or cry, to feel happy or, sad, to experience anger or fear?
- The story is tragic and frightening. The part that Nazi army treat prisoners, Jews, with cruelty make me feel bad, angry, and frightened. I was wondering how people can treat other people like in very cruel and brutal ways.
3. What is the author's attitude towards characters or the narrator? Does the author like or dislike, trust or mistrust the character or the narrator?
- As a survivor of the Holocaust, as an author, and as a main character, Eelie Wiesel, has to reevaluate God in his world. He does so through is writings, in which he questions God and tells us of the answers, or lack of answers, that he receives.
Monday, March 4, 2013
Night - Symbolism Questionnaries
1. What are some of the symbols in the story?
- There are three symbols in the story, Night, Fire, and Silence.
2. Are there any objects which seem to have a symbolic meaning? What are their meanings?
- Night is used throughout the book to symbolize death, darkness of the soul, and loss of faith. As an image, it comes up repeatedly. Fire or flames are used to symbolize hell. It has become a tool of the wicked to punish the righteous. It emphasizes Wiesel's belief that God has abandoned his people.
3. Do any people act as symbols in the story? What do they represent?
- Eliezer's father act as symbol in the story. He act not just as his father but spiritual prop. His father shows the importance of father-son bonds.
4. Do aspects of the story's setting seem symbolic? In what way?
- Aspects of the story's settings doesn't seem symbolic, but the in side of the story, when you read over and over again it give a moral and symbolic ideas.
5. Is one symbol used throughout the story or do the symbols change?
- Three symbols, night, fire, and silence, stays altogether. Fire appears throughout Night as a symbol of the Nazis’ cruel power. The Bible begins with God’s creation of the earth. When God first begins his creation, the earth was full of darkness. Darkness and night therefore symbolize a world without God’s presence.
- There are three symbols in the story, Night, Fire, and Silence.
2. Are there any objects which seem to have a symbolic meaning? What are their meanings?
- Night is used throughout the book to symbolize death, darkness of the soul, and loss of faith. As an image, it comes up repeatedly. Fire or flames are used to symbolize hell. It has become a tool of the wicked to punish the righteous. It emphasizes Wiesel's belief that God has abandoned his people.
3. Do any people act as symbols in the story? What do they represent?
- Eliezer's father act as symbol in the story. He act not just as his father but spiritual prop. His father shows the importance of father-son bonds.
4. Do aspects of the story's setting seem symbolic? In what way?
- Aspects of the story's settings doesn't seem symbolic, but the in side of the story, when you read over and over again it give a moral and symbolic ideas.
5. Is one symbol used throughout the story or do the symbols change?
- Three symbols, night, fire, and silence, stays altogether. Fire appears throughout Night as a symbol of the Nazis’ cruel power. The Bible begins with God’s creation of the earth. When God first begins his creation, the earth was full of darkness. Darkness and night therefore symbolize a world without God’s presence.
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Night - Imagery Questionnaries
1. What scenes, moments, descriptive passages, phrases, or words stand out in your reading of the story?
- Every scenes that appears in the story is concentraion camps that the main character stays and spend time. Night does not operate like a novel, using foreshadowing to hint at surprises to come. The pall of tragedy hangs over the entire novel, however.
2. Did a particular image make you feel happy, or frightened, or disturbed, or angry? Why?
- The part that Nazi army treat prisoners, Jews, with cruelty make me feel bad, angry, and frightened. I was wondering how people can treat other people like in very cruel and brutal ways.
3. Which of your five senses did this image appeal to? What did you associate with this image, and why? What do you think the authorwants you feel about a certain image?
- Every single scene that author wrote about the cruel-treatment I could sense the brutality of humanbeing, however, Night is not meant to be an all-encompassing discourse on the experience of the Holocaust; instead, it depicts the extraordinarily personal and painful experiences of a single victim.
4. How do you think your reactions to the imagery in the story contribute to the overall meaning of the story?
- As a reconstruction of the author's ego at a crucial moment in world history, Night demonstrates the narrator's willingness to face certain death and to cling to the shreds of sanity that remain.
- Every scenes that appears in the story is concentraion camps that the main character stays and spend time. Night does not operate like a novel, using foreshadowing to hint at surprises to come. The pall of tragedy hangs over the entire novel, however.
2. Did a particular image make you feel happy, or frightened, or disturbed, or angry? Why?
- The part that Nazi army treat prisoners, Jews, with cruelty make me feel bad, angry, and frightened. I was wondering how people can treat other people like in very cruel and brutal ways.
3. Which of your five senses did this image appeal to? What did you associate with this image, and why? What do you think the authorwants you feel about a certain image?
- Every single scene that author wrote about the cruel-treatment I could sense the brutality of humanbeing, however, Night is not meant to be an all-encompassing discourse on the experience of the Holocaust; instead, it depicts the extraordinarily personal and painful experiences of a single victim.
4. How do you think your reactions to the imagery in the story contribute to the overall meaning of the story?
- As a reconstruction of the author's ego at a crucial moment in world history, Night demonstrates the narrator's willingness to face certain death and to cling to the shreds of sanity that remain.
Night - Point of View Questionnaries
1. What point of view does the story use? Is the story told from a first-person perspefctive, in which the narrator is one of the characters in the story, and refers to himself or herself as "I"? Or is the story told from a third-person perspective, in which the narrator is not one of the characters in the story or may not participate in t he events of the story?
- Eliezer speaks in the first person and always relates the autobiographical events from his perspective.
2. What are the advatages of the chosen point of view? Does it furnish any clues as to the purpose of the story?
- The advantage of story telling as the first-person perspective, we can get how the main character feels and thinks in the story specifically.
3. Is the narrator reliable or unreliable? Does he/she have a limited knowledge or understading of characters and events in the story? Does the narrator know almost everything about one character or every character, including inner thoughts?
- The narrator of story is reliable, because he narrator is the main character itself, and the main character is the author himself. And the story of the book comes from the real circumstances. So the narrator tells every single feeling how he felt in every situation he experience.
4. Does the author use point of view primarily to reveal or conceal? Does he ever unfairly withhold important information known to the focal character?
- The author use the point of view primarily to reveal, because the purpose of this book is to reveal the act of barbarity and impeach Nazi for their brutalities.
- Eliezer speaks in the first person and always relates the autobiographical events from his perspective.
2. What are the advatages of the chosen point of view? Does it furnish any clues as to the purpose of the story?
- The advantage of story telling as the first-person perspective, we can get how the main character feels and thinks in the story specifically.
3. Is the narrator reliable or unreliable? Does he/she have a limited knowledge or understading of characters and events in the story? Does the narrator know almost everything about one character or every character, including inner thoughts?
- The narrator of story is reliable, because he narrator is the main character itself, and the main character is the author himself. And the story of the book comes from the real circumstances. So the narrator tells every single feeling how he felt in every situation he experience.
4. Does the author use point of view primarily to reveal or conceal? Does he ever unfairly withhold important information known to the focal character?
- The author use the point of view primarily to reveal, because the purpose of this book is to reveal the act of barbarity and impeach Nazi for their brutalities.
Night - Character Questionnaries
1. Who is/are the main character(s) in the story? What does the main character look like?
- Eliezer is the main character of this story. He is a jews and looks very ill becuase of cruel treatment from German soldiers.
2. Describe the main character's situation. Where does he/she live? Does he/she live alone or with others? What does the main character do for a living, or is he/she dependent on others for support?
- Eliezer is an introspective teenager, Elie first begins to hate when Hungarian police strike out with billy clubs and force Jews from their homes. At Auschwitz's Block 17, he berates himself for being a spoiled child and rejecting his first plate of prison soup. Eliezer lives in the prison with his father and many other Jews prisoners in the jail. Each of them support all of the people and be hope for each other.
3. What are some of the chief characteristics (peronality traits) of the character?
- Eliezer maintains his devotion to his father. It is important to note that we learn Eliezer’s last name only in passing, and that it is never repeated. The main character interact very well with other characters.
4. What sort of conflict is the character facing? How is this conflict revealed? Is it resolved? If so, how?
- The major conflict is Eliezer's struggles with Nazi persecution, and with his own faith in God and in humanity. The persecution is the physical conflict, the death of Eliezer's father is intellectual conflict for the main character. The major conflict and other different conflicts are solved by the fall of the Nazi and Liberation of the camp brought by American army.
5. Is any character a develoing character? If so, is his change a large or a small one? Is it a plausible change for him? Is he sufficiently motivated? Is the change given sufficient time?
- The developing character is the main character itself. As the Holocaust robs him of his faith in God and exposes him to the deepest inhumanity of which man is capable.
- Eliezer is the main character of this story. He is a jews and looks very ill becuase of cruel treatment from German soldiers.
2. Describe the main character's situation. Where does he/she live? Does he/she live alone or with others? What does the main character do for a living, or is he/she dependent on others for support?
- Eliezer is an introspective teenager, Elie first begins to hate when Hungarian police strike out with billy clubs and force Jews from their homes. At Auschwitz's Block 17, he berates himself for being a spoiled child and rejecting his first plate of prison soup. Eliezer lives in the prison with his father and many other Jews prisoners in the jail. Each of them support all of the people and be hope for each other.
3. What are some of the chief characteristics (peronality traits) of the character?
- Eliezer maintains his devotion to his father. It is important to note that we learn Eliezer’s last name only in passing, and that it is never repeated. The main character interact very well with other characters.
4. What sort of conflict is the character facing? How is this conflict revealed? Is it resolved? If so, how?
- The major conflict is Eliezer's struggles with Nazi persecution, and with his own faith in God and in humanity. The persecution is the physical conflict, the death of Eliezer's father is intellectual conflict for the main character. The major conflict and other different conflicts are solved by the fall of the Nazi and Liberation of the camp brought by American army.
5. Is any character a develoing character? If so, is his change a large or a small one? Is it a plausible change for him? Is he sufficiently motivated? Is the change given sufficient time?
- The developing character is the main character itself. As the Holocaust robs him of his faith in God and exposes him to the deepest inhumanity of which man is capable.
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Night - Setting Questionnaries
1. Place: the geographical location of the story.
- The story begins in Sighet, Transylvania (part of Romania), and it also take place in several concentration camps in Europe: Auschwitz (Poland), Buna (camp that is part of the Auschwitz complex), Gleiwitz (Poland), and Buchenwald (Germany).
2. Time: the period in history, the season of the year, the day of the month, and/or the hour of the day in which the event of the story occur.
- The time setting of this story is between 1941~1845, during World War II.
3. Social environment: the location of characters and events in a particular society and/or a particular social class (lower, middle, or upper class).
- In the story, there are only two classes, Officers and the prisoner or victims. The location of most characters are prisoners and only few of them are soldiers and doctor.
- The story begins in Sighet, Transylvania (part of Romania), and it also take place in several concentration camps in Europe: Auschwitz (Poland), Buna (camp that is part of the Auschwitz complex), Gleiwitz (Poland), and Buchenwald (Germany).
2. Time: the period in history, the season of the year, the day of the month, and/or the hour of the day in which the event of the story occur.
- The time setting of this story is between 1941~1845, during World War II.
3. Social environment: the location of characters and events in a particular society and/or a particular social class (lower, middle, or upper class).
- In the story, there are only two classes, Officers and the prisoner or victims. The location of most characters are prisoners and only few of them are soldiers and doctor.
Night - Plot Questionnaries
1. What is the story about? What are the main events in the story, and how are they related to each other?
- This story is about the Holocaust and the way in which one young Jewish boy struggles to stay alive and stay sane as he lives through the ordeal of the concentration camps. The major event of this story is when the protagonist struggle with the Nazi's persecution, and having his own faith in God and in humanity. The story and the main event related by the Jewish boy having a hard time staying in the Nazi's concentration camp and suffers there.
2. Are the main events of the story arranged chronologically, or are they arranged in another way?
- The main events are arranged in chronologically way. Not even main events but every stages and the scenes are written in order, so the story can be flow naturally and smooth.
3. How is the story narrated? Are flashbacks, summaries, stories within the story used?
- The story, Night is narrated by the protagonist, Eliezer. In the story, there are summary, story, symbols, and foreshadowing. Symbols and the foreshadowing represents something in the story and it help the readers to understand and to make people feel pity for the characters in the story.
4. Is the plot fast-paced or slow-paced?
- The plot of the Night goes with the fast-paced, however, even its flows with the fast-pace, the story tells us the whole story and we could able to understand it.
5. How do the thoughts, behaviors, and action of characters move the plot forward?
- Characters' beliefs against their God and the values help them to be endure. As the story goes and goes by, the importance of the family bond shown in the story.
6. What are the conflicts in the plot? Are they physical, intellectual, moral or emotional? Are they resolved? How are they resolved? Is the main conflict between good and evil sharply differentiated, or is it more subtle and complex?
- The major conflict is Eliezer's struggles with Nazi persecution, and with his own faith in God and in humanity. The persecution is the physical conflict, the death of Eliezer's father is intellectual conflict for the main character. The major conflict and other different conflicts are solved by the fall of the Nazi and Liberation of the camp brought by American army. The good and the evil are sharply differentiated.
7. What is the climax of the story and at what point in the story does the climax occur? Is the ending of the story happy, unhappy, or indeterminate? Is it fairly achieved?
- The climax of the story is the death of Eliezer's father. This happens three month ahead before the concentration camp become liberated. The story ends with the happy ending.
8. Does the plot have unity? Are all the episodes relevant to the total meaning or effect of the story? Does each incident grow logically out of the preceding incident and lead naturally to the next?
- The unity of this story is family and the bond between prisoners. All the episodes are relevant to the total meaning of the story, and it each of the incident grows logically out of the preceding incident and it leads naturally to the next story.
9. What use does the story make of chance and coincidence? Are these occurrences used to initiate, to complicate, or to resolve the story? How improbable are they?
- Author use the symbol and the foreshadowing idea to make the chance and coincidence. Those ideas are used to tells and resolve the story. It cannot be improbable, because the story is based on the facts and the real events that happens during the World War II.
- This story is about the Holocaust and the way in which one young Jewish boy struggles to stay alive and stay sane as he lives through the ordeal of the concentration camps. The major event of this story is when the protagonist struggle with the Nazi's persecution, and having his own faith in God and in humanity. The story and the main event related by the Jewish boy having a hard time staying in the Nazi's concentration camp and suffers there.
2. Are the main events of the story arranged chronologically, or are they arranged in another way?
- The main events are arranged in chronologically way. Not even main events but every stages and the scenes are written in order, so the story can be flow naturally and smooth.
3. How is the story narrated? Are flashbacks, summaries, stories within the story used?
- The story, Night is narrated by the protagonist, Eliezer. In the story, there are summary, story, symbols, and foreshadowing. Symbols and the foreshadowing represents something in the story and it help the readers to understand and to make people feel pity for the characters in the story.
4. Is the plot fast-paced or slow-paced?
- The plot of the Night goes with the fast-paced, however, even its flows with the fast-pace, the story tells us the whole story and we could able to understand it.
5. How do the thoughts, behaviors, and action of characters move the plot forward?
- Characters' beliefs against their God and the values help them to be endure. As the story goes and goes by, the importance of the family bond shown in the story.
6. What are the conflicts in the plot? Are they physical, intellectual, moral or emotional? Are they resolved? How are they resolved? Is the main conflict between good and evil sharply differentiated, or is it more subtle and complex?
- The major conflict is Eliezer's struggles with Nazi persecution, and with his own faith in God and in humanity. The persecution is the physical conflict, the death of Eliezer's father is intellectual conflict for the main character. The major conflict and other different conflicts are solved by the fall of the Nazi and Liberation of the camp brought by American army. The good and the evil are sharply differentiated.
7. What is the climax of the story and at what point in the story does the climax occur? Is the ending of the story happy, unhappy, or indeterminate? Is it fairly achieved?
- The climax of the story is the death of Eliezer's father. This happens three month ahead before the concentration camp become liberated. The story ends with the happy ending.
8. Does the plot have unity? Are all the episodes relevant to the total meaning or effect of the story? Does each incident grow logically out of the preceding incident and lead naturally to the next?
- The unity of this story is family and the bond between prisoners. All the episodes are relevant to the total meaning of the story, and it each of the incident grows logically out of the preceding incident and it leads naturally to the next story.
9. What use does the story make of chance and coincidence? Are these occurrences used to initiate, to complicate, or to resolve the story? How improbable are they?
- Author use the symbol and the foreshadowing idea to make the chance and coincidence. Those ideas are used to tells and resolve the story. It cannot be improbable, because the story is based on the facts and the real events that happens during the World War II.
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