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.
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