Book night chapter 1 questions. Can you complete these questions?

Night - Chapter 1 Notes

What does the majority of the beginning of the chapter talk about? Why do you think it begins talking about this concept?

Look at the beginning of each little section within the chapter. How is it signaled? What special things are done to the words?

When Moishe the Beadle comes back what story does he tell? Why do you believe that people do not believe him (pp. 6-7)?

Throughout chapter one, readers see our characters and the Jewish population demonstrate doubt as to what reality is. Find 2 quotations that show their doubt.

What are the Jews first impressions of the Germans (pp. 9-10)? When does this change?
Look at the following quotation: ‘“The yellow star? So what? It’s not lethal…’ (Poor Father! Of what then did you die?” (10). What is our author revealing to us here and what do you think he could be meaning?

Describe what life in the ghettos was like. How did the Jews feel about them?
Look at the following quotation: “NIGHT. No one was praying for the night to pass quickly. The stars were but sparks of the immense conflagration that was consuming us. Were this conflagration to be extinguished one day, nothing would be left in the sky but extinct stars and unseeing eyes” (21). What do you think that Wiesel is saying about night?

Examine the following quotations and explain why you think our author included them in the text: “Who knows, [the Germans] may be sending us away for our own good. The front is getting closer, we shall soon hear the guns. And then surely the civilian population will be evacuated…’”

“As far as I’m concerned, this whole business of deportation is nothing but a big farce. Don’t laugh. They just want to steal our valuable and jewelry...They know that it has all been buried and that they will have to dig to find it; so much easier to do when the owners are on vacation” (21)