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| A Jewish Holocaust victim who gradually loses his faith in god as a result of his experiences in the concentration camp |
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| Description Of Pauls Death |
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| All Quiet On The Western Front |
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| The narrator of Night ; Night traces his psychological journey, as the Holocaust robs him of his faith in God and exposes him to the deepest inhumanity of which man is capable |
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| Main Character in "All Quiet On The Western Front" |
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| The 20 year old narrator of "All Quiet On The Western Front" |
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| A thin, 19 year old soldier with an immense appetite ; A former locksmith,who is unable to control his urine during sleep and draws ridicule from Himmelstoss |
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| A scholarly young man who continues studying his physics books and thinking of exams ; Takes Kemmerich's boots after he dies |
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| Theme of The Devil's Arithmetic |
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The theme of family is one of the most reoccuring themes. Hannah hates her family traditions and tries to avoid
the members of her extended family as much as she can |
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| Who Turns Out To Be Hannah's Aunt? |
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| She is the main character of the story who experiences a trip through time from present day New York to WWII era Poland |
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| Hannah Takes Her Place When It Is Time To Go Into The Gas Chamber |
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| The authority figure who leads Germany during the Great War and whom Paul's friends perceive as the cause of the war |
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| Commander of the Second Company, he sets a worthy example for his men, whose respect he earns |
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| The hometown schoolmaster,who fills his students' heads with impassioned speeches about duty to the Fatherland and sends them letters that depict them as "Iron Youth" |
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| Veteran of the battlefield, serves as a noncommissioned tutor and father figure to Paul and the others, who depend on him for locating food, arranging for light duties, and helping them cope with the exigencies of survival, such as listening for incoming shells and sensing an attack |
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| Eliezer's father ; He is respected by the entire Jewish community of Sighet, and by his son as well |
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| Eliezer’s teacher of Jewish mysticism ; He is a poor Jew who lives in Sighet. He is deported before the rest of the Sighet Jews but escapes and returns to tell the town what the Nazis are doing to the Jews |
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A Jewish woman from Sighet who is deported in the same cattle car as Eliezer
-She is taken for a madwoman when, every night, she screams that she sees furnaces in the distance |
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| A young musician whom Eliezer meets in Auschwitz ; Eliezer hears him playing the violin after the death march to Gleiwitz |
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Cruel doctor who presided over the selection of arrivals at Auschwitz/Birkenau
“Angel of Death” |
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| A kapo at the electrical equipment warehouse in Buna |
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| Foreman at Buna ; He notices Eliezer’s gold tooth and gets a dentist in the camp to pry it out with a rusty spoon |
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| A devout Jewish prisoner whose son abandons him |
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| Chlomo friend from Buna ; In the cattle car to Buchenwald,he saves Eliezer’s life from an unidentified assailant |
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| Eliezer’s youngest sister |
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| Eliezer’s relative from Antwerp, Belgium |
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| Author of "All Quiet on the Western Front" |
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| One of Paul’s close friends in the Second Company. A young man with a wife and a farm at home; he is constantly homesick for his farm and family. |
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| A gigantic, burly man, and before the war. He plans to serve a full term in the army after the war ends, since he finds peat-digging so unpleasant. |
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| Outcome of "The Devils Arithmetic" |
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Chaya dies, but Hannah returns to the present with the realization that her Aunt Eva was actually Rivka and
Grandpa Will was Wolfe. |
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| Eliezer’s struggle with his faith is a dominant conflict in Night. His belief in an omnipotent God is unconditional, and he cannot imagine living without faith in a divine power. But this faith is shaken by his experience during the Holocaust. |
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| Two brothers;They make a plan to move to Palestine after the war. |
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| One of Eliezer’s fellow prisoners. Zalman is trampled to death during the run to Gleiwitz. |
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| One of Paul’s classmates who serves with Paul in the Second Company. An intelligent, speculative young man, Kropp is one of Paul’s closest friends during the war. His interest in analyzing the causes of the war leads to many of the most critical antiwar sentiments in the novel |
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| Paul Refers To His Fellow Peers As This |
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| Author of "The Devils Arithmetic" |
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| French man who paul kills in hand to hand combat. |
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