10 Average Questions about "Night" by Elie Wiesel

Answer: Sighet

Sighet, Transylvania, is a small town in present day Romania where Elie Wiesel was born and lived until he was taken away. Sighet, located in Transylvania, became part of Hungary in 1940 due to the Second Vienna Award. Before the war Transylvania was a key area of Jewish settlement, but most of the Jews living there were killed in the Holocaust.

Answer: Elie

Since this book is an autobiography the author himself is the main character. Moshe was talked about in the story as someone who help the author in his studies and Tripora and Tobias are the author's other siblings.

Answer: first person

First person is when the speaker is talking about themselves using "I". In the book, the narrator says "I was twelve." Second person view is when the author uses the word "you" to speak directly to the reader. This is normally found in self-help books. Third person is when the narrator is removed from the story using words like "he", "she", "they", "him", or "her".

A primary source is something made by someone who directly experience the events talked about. The diary of Anne Frank is a primary source. Even though the book, "Night", can be considered a primary source, the question was asking its point of view.

Answer: A-7713

Everyone who was sent to a work camp had a tattoo with their number on it so they could be identified easier by the Nazi officers. Though most people called him "Eliezer", that was not his official name. C3PO is a name from a popular movie.

Answer: Auschwitz

After getting off the train the author arrived in Auschwitz a large concentration camp. Auschwitz was one of the largest concentration camps created by the Nazis during the holocaust it was made up of many different camps including Buna and Birkenau.

Answer: fire

Well on the train Madame Schachter screams about how she sees the fire but when others look there is nothing there. Madame Schachter and her ten-year-old son are in the same train as Elie and his dad. Her husband and other kids were taken by accident on a earlier train.

Answer: Juliek

Juliek died while playing a piece from Beethoven's concerto. He had been trapped under the dead and dying bodies and had somehow freed himself and started playing. The author describes this:

"It was pitch dark. I could hear only the violin, and it was as though Juliek's soul were the bow. He was playing his life. The whole of his life was gliding the strings his hopes, his charred past, his extinguished future. He played as he would never play again." ("Night")

Juliek was later found dead lying next to his broken violin.

Answer: they were set free

The people who stayed behind in the hospital were freed by the Russian army. The author could have stayed in the hospital due to his injury but decided not to because he feared that the Nazis would kill all the sick before the Russians came.

Answer: Dysentery

The authors father died from dysentery which is an infection of the intestine, especially of the colon. This cased the author's father to be unable to leave his bunk when Nazis came to inspect. He just kept calling for the author to bring him water. Due to this, one of the Nazis hit him and he was later taken to the crematorium.

Answer: Food

The first thing the author thinks about when freed is food. He had very little food for days. He had nothing to eat for six day except for a bit of grass and potato peelings.

When the last of the people were about to be evacuated by the Nazis, the resistance acted and took over. Soon the American army got there and the author writes a paragraph about it:

"Our first act as free men was to throw ourselves onto the provisions. We thought only of that. Not of revenge, not of our families. Nothing but bread. And even when we were no longer hungry there was still no one who thought of revenge." ("Night")