Transcript Night Journals

Night Journals
Reflecting thoughts and emotions
Directions
Over the course of reading Elie’s
memoir, we will be writing journals.
 These journals need to be at least ½
page long and need to be grammatically
correct.
 I will collect them at the end of reading
Night.
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Journal #1
From “My Most Precious Possessions”,
what would you take and why?
 Why are those things so important?
Why did you choose those particular
items to pack over others?
 How would you feel if you had to pack
one bag and leave your home forever?
 What would you be feeling, scared, sad,
lonely, depressed?
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Journal #2
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Section 2 has Elie and his family on a very
tight spaced cattle car.
How would you deal with being on a cart that
small with 80 other people?
What feelings would you be feeling as you
were being taken to an unknown place?
What questions would you want to ask?
What would be your main priority in this
situation? Family? Survival?
Journal #3
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From your handout, we discussed what Elie
believed in.
What do you believe in?
Do you believe in faith? That everything
happens for a reason? That everyone
deserves a chance in life?
Write about one or two of your believes and
explain them.
Why do you believe them and why are they
important to you?
Journal #4
How do the people Wiesel interacts
with strengthen or diminish his hope
and desire to live? Talk about his father,
Madame Schachter, Juliek (the violin
player), the French girl, Rabbi Eliahou
& his son, the Nazis. Which of their
actions touched you the most?
Journal #5
Why do you think Wiesel titled the book
"Night?" What are the literal and
symbolic meanings of "night" in the
book?
Journal #6
Why do you think it is so important for
Elie to stay with his father?
 Is there a person that you would do
anything for? Tell me about them.
 Why are they so important to you and
what would you do in order to protect
them?
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Journal #7
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What do you think has been the hardest
struggle for Elie during the novel so far
and why?
Journal #8
Do you think that Elie’s father’s death
made him free?
 Do you think he had a hard time with it or
was it something that was a good thing?
 How is death a theme in this novel?
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Journal #9
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What scenes from Night do you
remember most vividly? Have they made
you look at the world or your family
differently?
Journal #10
Could something like the Holocaust
happen today? Discuss more recent
genocides, such as the situation in
Rwanda in the 1990s and the ongoing
conflict in Sudan. Does Night teach us
anything about how we can react to
these atrocities?