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| He is, at heart, a kind, compas-sionate, and sensitive young man, but the brutal expe-rience of warfare teaches him to detach himself from his feelings. |
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| narrator of Night and the stand-in for the memoir’s author, Elie Wiesel. Night traces Eliezer’s psychological journey, as the Holocaust robs him of his faith in God and exposes him to the deepest inhumanity of which man is capable. Despite many tests of his humanity, however, 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. His story—which parallels Wiesel’s own biography—is intensely personal, but it is also representative of the experiences of hundreds of thousands of Jewish teenagers. |
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| Author of All Quiet on the Western Front |
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| One of Paul’s classmates. A hardheaded, practical young man, and he plies his friends in the Second Company with questions about their postwar plans. |
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| One of Paul’s friends in the Second Company. A wiry young man with a voracious appetite. He bears a deep grudge against Corporal Himmelstoss. |
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| A pompous, ignorant, authoritarian schoolmaster in Paul’s high school during the years before the war. He places intense pressure on Paul and his classmates to fulfill their “patriotic duty” by enlisting in the army. |
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| A noncommissioned training officer. He is a petty, power-hungry little man who torments Paul and his friends during their training. |
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| One of Paul’s classmates and comrades in the war. After suffering a light wound, contracts gangrene, and his leg has to be amputated |
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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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| The first in Paul’s class to lose his virginity |
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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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| Paul’s best friend in the army. |
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| Eliezer’s teacher of Jewish mysticism, Moshe 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 Holocaust victim who gradually loses his faith in God as a result of his experiences in the concentration camp. |
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| 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 |
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| Author of The Devil's Arithmetic |
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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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| Centeral Conflict of Devil's Arithmetic |
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The protagonist is Hannah who Fate takes in hand to teach her a lesson about remembering what horrors came
before in her heritage and about the importance of never allowing it to be forgotten |
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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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| 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
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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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| Hannah's aunt in the future and cousin in the past |
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| Climax of the Devil's Arithmetic |
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| The climax occurs when Hannah takes Rivka’s place in the camp during selection |
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