The Wiesel family consists of Elies father Chlomo a shopkeeper and well-respected Jewish community leader Elies mother his two older sisters Hilda and Bea and youngest sister Tzipora. Eliezers family consists of himself two older sisters one younger sister and his parents.Įliezer whos also Jewish is very religious. Eliezers father is a highly respected person in Sighets Jewish community. In Chapter 1 Michael Rogers tries to determine if his story began when he saw the bill of sale for The Towers when he met Santonix or when he first saw Ellie. They live in the town of Sighet in Transylvania on the border of Hungary and Romania. Moishe the Beadle is awkward and shy but 12-year-old Eliezer likes him anyway. The memoir begins in 1941 in Sighet a village in northern Romania under Hungarian control.Įliezer was the third of four children. His father who is a prominent leader of the Jewish community thinks that he is too young. The man who appears in Chapter 1 Port thinks himself a traveler rather than a mere tourist. A shrouded doom hangs behind every word in this first section of Night in which Wiesel laments the typical human inability to acknowledge the depth of the cruelty of which humans are capable. He knows that his desire for a beautiful house that Santonix would build for him began during his talks with the architect. I made a quick summary of the chapters 1 - 4. The year is 1941 and Elie Wiesel the narrator of the story is twelve years old. There in a camp called Auschwitz Eliezer is separated from his mother. Eliezers mother has a feeling something bad is going to happen. His parents and sisters run a shop in the town and his father is highly respected in the Jewish community. He lives in a Jewish community of Sighet. It will be easier for you to follow the discussion in these Notes if you number the segments in pencil before you begin reading Near the close of 1941 twelve-year-old Elie Wiesel son of a devout Romanian shopkeeper and brother to three girls two older and one. Learn vocabulary terms and more with flashcards games and other study tools. The Jews of Sighet are unable or unwilling to believe in the horrors of Hitlers death camps even though there are many instances in which they have glimpses of what awaits them. Hes deeply religious and spends much of his time studying the Torah the Bible and the Talmud and praying. In the first chapter of Nobel prize-winning author Elie Weisels powerful memoir Night the exposition is set. At the start of the memoir its 1941 and Eliezer is a twelve-year-old Jewish boy in the Hungarian town of Sighet. As a result the entire Jewish population is sent to concentration camps. Night is a memoir by Elie Wiesel that was first published in 1960. Breaking Night usernamefiti When life changes Liz Murray had a rough life hut overcame many obstacles to berter herself. In 1941 Eliezer the narrator of the story is a preteen boy from Sighet a Transylvanian town annexed by Hungary but now part of Romania.ĭiscover the foreshadowing in the. As a child in Sighet Hungary Elie Wiesel. Eliezer is deeply devout and wants to study the Cabbala the mystical doctrines of Judaism. Pin On Reading Comprehension The 12 year old is the only son in an Orthodox Jewish family all of whom are shopkeepers by profession. He wanted to live happily in that house with the girl he loved.

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