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LITERATUR UNIT 1
STFU
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English
8th Grade
02/26/2014

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the man from sea devil

 

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a man who loves fishing but gets dragged to sea unexpectedly

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Richard Wright
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the protaginist of Black Boy
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Mrs. Wright
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the mother of Richard Wright and she is divorced and had to take care of Richard and his brother and she made Richard beat up his bullies
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Ellie Wisesel
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The main character of nights and is a survivor of the holocaust
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Mr. Wiesel
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Ellies dad and ellies only reason for staying alive
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Madame Schater
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A Jewish woman from Sighet who is deported in the same cattle car as Eliezer. Madame Schächter is taken for a madwoman when, every night, she screams that she sees furnaces in the distance. She proves to be a prophetess, however, as the trains soon arrive at the crematoria of Auschwitz.
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Dr. Mengele
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When he arrives at Auschwitz, Eliezer encounters the historically infamous Dr. Mengele. Mengele was the cruel doctor who presided over the selection of arrivals at Auschwitz/Birkenau. Known as the “Angel of Death,” Mengele’s words sentenced countless prisoners to death in the gas chambers. He also directed horrific experiments on human subjects at the camp.
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Moshe the Beadle
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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. Tragically, the community takes Moshe for a lunatic.
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Juliek
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A young musician whom Eliezer meets in Auschwitz. Juliek reappears late in the memoir, when Eliezer hears him playing the violin after the death march to Gleiwitz.
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Idek
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Eliezer’s Kapo (a prisoner conscripted by the Nazis to police other prisoners) at the electrical equipment warehouse in Buna. Despite the fact that they also faced the cruelty of the Nazis, many Kapos were as cruel to the prisoners as the Germans. During moments of insane rage, Idek beats Eliezer.
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Yossi and Tibi
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wo brothers with whom Eliezer becomes friendly in Buna. Tibi and Yosi are Zionists. Along with Eliezer, they make a plan to move to Palestine after the war.
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Akiba Drumer
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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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John Henry
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A mighty man who drove steel for a living and died doing it
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Richard Cory
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A very wealthy handsome man who killed himself because he was very lonily
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Mrs. Luella Bates
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A woman who gets her purse almost snatched but instead proceeds to take the purse snatcher home to teach him a lesson
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Roger
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A boy with no family and became a purse snatcher only to be catched by a women and taught a lesson

( he wanted Blue suede shoes)

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The Sniper
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A young man use to death from sniping all his enimes but one day he gets in a sniper duel with a man who is as skilled as him he gets shot but wins but ultimitly loses when he finds out he killed his brother
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onomotopia, irony, puns
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onomotopia: a sound written in words like boom

irony:the use of words that mean the opposite of what you really think especially in order to be funny

puns:a humorous way of using a word or phrase so that more than one meaning is suggested

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