Name: Date: Hour: Suspense in Night [CCSS.ELA.9-10.W.3] Composition 9 - Rea In order to create a good narrative, you must build suspense. Suspense is the intense feeling that a reader goes through while waiting for the outcome of certain events. It basically leaves the reader holding their breath and wanting more information. Writers use a variety of methods of building suspense including: chronological events - events are arranged in the order in which they occured. foreshadowing - a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story. flashback - interruptions that writers do to insert past events in order to provide background or context to the current events of a narrative. Another way that writers build suspense is by building rising action after the introduction of the major conflict. In this chapter, Wiesel creates suspense by describing several situations in which he is in danger. Directions: In your group, read your assigned pages of Chapter 4 of Night (pp. 47-65) and answer the corresponding questions. Look carefully and discuss your answers. Be prepared to share your answers. GROUP 1: Pages 47-49 1. According to the inmates, which camp is the best? 2. What do the head of the camp and the tent leader have in common? 3. What is the ironic part about Elie s determination to keep his shoes? 4. Which part of the medical checkup was the most extensive and why? GROUP 3: Pages 51-53 10. What three things are the prisoners given? 11. Why does the dentist get hanged? 12. Explain what Elie means when he says, The stomach alone was measuring time. 13. Copy down a quote that show how the French girl tries to comfort Elie. GROUP 2: Pages 49-51 5. The Kapos pick the men in the same way that. 6. Why is Louis mad? 7. When Elie s work Kommando arrives at the warehouse, he says that the Meister paid as much attention to them as a receiving a delivery of. 8. Who else worked with them? 9. Yossi, Tibi, and Elie have dreams (or plans) to do what? GROUP 4: Pages 53-55 14. How did the French girl escape being sent to a concentration camp? 15. Elie says, That was what life in a concentration camp had made of me. What does he mean? How has he changed? 16. Why is Franek beating Elie s father on a daily basis?
GROUP 5: Pages 55-58 17. What nickname do the inmates give to Elie? 18. What strange thing happens a few days before the Poles left? 19. What sentence (evidence) from the TEXT shows that Elie was scared before the lashings? 20. Circle which of Elie s five senses are damaged by the lashings. Look at the passage for evidence. Sight / Sound / Touch / Taste / Smell GROUP 6: Pages 59-61 21. In the metaphor, the two lambs are the and the hundreds of wolves are the. 22. How does the man move toward the soup? 23. Choose one sentence that truly shows Elie s desperation for the war to end at ANY COST: 24. What is the word for the assembly point? What is the word for the head of the camp? GROUP 7: Pages 61-63 25. The two purposes of the first execution are for it to be a(n) and a(n). 26. Why would the youth refuse to be blindfolded? 27. Which two words qualify as foreshadowing?. 28. The young boys who the Oberkapos are called. 29. The Dutchman and his pipel were well-liked and kind toward the prisoners; in fact, they tried to... GROUP 8: Pages 64-65 30. Why wasn t the Dutchman hanged? 31. What did the SS want to achieve by torturing the Dutchman and the pipel? Were they successful? 32. Two pieces of evidence that show that even the Lagerkapo knew it was wrong to hang a boy:
ANSWER KEY GROUP 1: Pages 47-49 1. According to the inmates, which camp is the best? Buna 2. What do the head of the camp and the tent leader have in common? They both like children. 3. What is the ironic part about Elie s determination to keep his shoes? Later, they were taken from me anyway. In exchange for nothing, that time. 4. Which part of the medical checkup was the most extensive and why? The dental examination because they were looking for gold teeth/crowns. GROUP 3: Pages 51-53 10. What three things are the prisoners given? a blanket, a washbowl, and a bar of soap 11. Why does the dentist get hanged? It appeared that he had been dealing in the prisoners gold teeth for his own benefit. 12. Explain what Elie means when he says, The stomach alone was measuring time. He lost track of the days because he was so entirely focused on the next crust of stale bread. 13. Copy down a quote that show how the French girl tries to comfort Elie. ANY OF THE FOLLOWING TWO LINES: She was smiling her mournful smile as she slipped me a crust of bread. She looked straight into my eyes [ ] then her face lit up and she said, in almost perfect German: Bite your lips, little brother GROUP 2: Pages 49-51 5. The Kapos pick the men in the same way that one might choose cattle, or merchandise. 6. Why is Louis mad? [ ] they would not let him play Beethoven; Jews were not allowed to play German music. 7. When Elie s work Kommando arrives at the warehouse, he says that the Meister paid as much attention to them as a shopkeeper receiving a delivery of old rags. 8. Who else worked with them? Polish civilians and French women 9. Yossi, Tibi, and Elie have dreams (or plans) to do what? Leave Europe/Board the first ship to Haifa GROUP 4: Pages 53-55 14. How did the French girl escape being sent to a concentration camp? She kept it a secret that she spoke German and was Jewish. 15. Elie says, That was what life in a concentration camp had made of me. What does he mean? How has he changed? His anger was directed at his father for not avoiding trouble, instead of at Idek. 16. Why is Franek beating Elie s father on a daily basis? My father had never served in the military and could not march in step.
ANSWER KEY GROUP 5: Pages 55-58 17. What nickname do the inmates give to Elie? little general 18. What strange thing happens a few days before the Poles left? Elie found Idek in the warehouse with a young Polish girl. 19. What sentence (evidence) from the TEXT shows that Elie was scared before the lashings? I felt the sweat running down my back. 20. Circle which of Elie s five senses are damaged by the lashings. Look at the passage for evidence. Sight / Sound / Touch / Taste / Smell GROUP 6: Pages 59-61 21. In the metaphor, the two lambs are the two cauldrons of soup and the hundreds of wolves are the prisoners. 22. How does the man move toward the soup? He was seen crawling, snakelike 23. Choose one sentence that truly shows Elie s desperation for the war to end at ANY COST: But I was glad nevertheless. 24. What is the word for the assembly point? Appelplatz What is the word for the head of the camp? Lageralteste GROUP 7: Pages 61-63 25. The two purposes of the first execution are for it to be a(n) warning and a(n) example. 26. Why would the youth refuse to be blindfolded? He wanted the executioner and Nazis to have to look him in the face. 27. Which two words qualify as foreshadowing? Except once. 28. The young boys who worked for the Oberkapos are called pipels. 29. The Dutchman and his pipel were well-liked and kind toward the prisoners; in fact, they tried to... help the prisoners plan a sabotage/rebellion. GROUP 8: Pages 64-65 30. Why wasn t the Dutchman hanged? He was transferred to Auschwitz and never heard from again. 31. What did the SS want to achieve by torturing the Dutchman and the pipel? Were they successful? They wanted names of prisoners who were involved in the rebellion, but they did not give up a single name/number. 32. Two pieces of evidence that show that even the Lagerkapo knew it was wrong to hang a boy: This time, the Lagerkapo refused to act as executioner and His voice quivered.
Group 1 (pp. 47-49) Group Members: 1. According to the inmates, which camp is the best? 2. The head of the camp and the tent leader have this in common: 3. What is the ironic part about Elie s determination to keep his shoes? 4. Which part of the medical checkup was the most extensive and why?
Group 2 (pp. 49-51) Group Members: 5. The Kapos pick the men in the same way that. 6. Why is Louis mad? 7. When Elie s work Kommando arrives at the warehouse, he says that the Meister paid as much attention to them as a receiving a delivery of. 8. Who else worked with them? 9. Yossi, Tibi, and Elie have dreams (or plans) to do what?
Group 3 (pp. 51-53) Group Members: 10. What three things are the prisoners given? 11. Why does the dentist get hanged? 12. Explain what Elie means when he says, The stomach alone was measuring time. 13. Copy down a quote that show how the French girl tries to comfort Elie.
Group 4 (pp. 53-55) Group Members: 14. How did the French girl escape being sent to a concentration camp? 15. Elie says, That was what life in a concentration camp had made of me. What does he mean? How has he changed? 16. Why is Franek beating Elie s father on a daily basis?
Group 5 (pp. 55-58) Group Members: 17. What nickname do the inmates give to Elie? 18. What strange thing happens a few days before the Poles left? 19. What sentence (evidence) from the TEXT shows that Elie was scared before the lashings? 20. Circle which of Elie s five senses are damaged by the lashings. Look at the passage for evidence. Sight / Sound / Touch / Taste / Smell
Group 6 (pp. 59-61) Group Members: 21. In the metaphor, the two lambs are the and the hundreds of wolves are the. 22. How does the man move toward the soup? 23. Choose one sentence that truly shows Elie s desperation for the war to end at ANY COST: 24. What is the word for the assembly point? What is the word for the head of the camp?
Group 7 (pp. 61-63) Group Members: 25. The two purposes of the first execution are for it to be a(n) and a(n). 26. Why would the youth refuse to be blindfolded? 27. Which two words qualify as foreshadowing?. 28. The young boys who the Oberkapos are called. 29. The Dutchman and his pipel were well-liked and kind toward the prisoners; in fact, they tried to...
Group 8 (pp. 64-65) Group Members: 30. Why wasn t the Dutchman hanged? 31. What did the SS want to achieve by torturing the Dutchman and the pipel? Were they successful? 32. Two pieces of evidence that show that even the Lagerkapo knew it was wrong to hang a boy: