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.