Campbell is an american born playwright who has made his life in pre war germany. One day an american agent, after appealing to howard's sense of heroics, recruits him as a spy for america. Campbell will use his powerful way with words and his celebrity position to present nazi propaganda on a radio show.

Without knowing how this worked, these marks indicated to him where to make pauses, throat clearings, or coughs to pass this secret information to the allied forces. вќ later in the movie, his father in law even tells him he learned how to be a nazi by listening to his show. Which side was he really on? was he an american who inadvertently helped the nazis? or was he an american not reluctant to help the nazis? perhaps, he was just a nazi posing as an american? as the war proceeds, the only thing that makes any sense to him is his nation of two. He's sitting at his typewriter, preparing his next speech when he is told that his wife has died at the arms of the russians. Neihardt's black elk speaks, or corrie ten boom in the hiding place. discuss activities that enable inmates to endure hunger, despair, terror, loss, and loneliness.

For example, evaluate the importance of music, gossip, gifts, laughter, shared meals or chores, walking together, and keeping watch over loved ones. 3. contrast authority figures in terms of their lasting influence on elie and his persistent and thorough self study. Mengele, overseers, ss guards, the jewish doctor and czechoslovakian dentist, and the allied soldiers who set him free. 4. using night as a model, compose extended definitions of repression, autobiography, realism, first person narrative, literary foils, protagonist/antagonist, allusion, aphorism, polemics, irony, oral tradition, denouement, dialogue, symbol, rhetorical question, existentialism, documentary, surrealism, and parallelism. 5. contrast a child's eye view of world war ii as opposed to a journal written by a kapo, a resistance member, meir katz, stein of antwerp, chlomo wiesel, madame sch xe4 chter, moshe the beadle, rabbi eliahou, franek the violinist, the jewish surgeon, the rapacious polish dentist, or a member of the red army.

6. analyze the stratification of camp personnel into children, adult males, adult females, workers, musulmen, kapos, guards, pipels, ss troops, and supervisors. Explain why it is useful to the german camp to keep healthy workers alive and productive, then kill them and replace them with fresh inmates after the original crew is too weary or ill to work. 7. describe the support system that fellow jews share, particularly holidays, rituals, and prayers. Discuss the importance of the kaddish and its meaning when applied to countless victims. How do early scenes of prayer and study of cabbala contrast with elie's loss of reverence for god and his inability to fast? why does he neglect to say kaddish for akiba drumer? 8. account for the ghetto dwellers' lack of concern for rumors of violence and genocide aimed at jews.

Express elie's regrets that his family does not accept their housekeeper's offer of a hiding place or immigrate to palestine. 9. analyze relationships between father and son, mother and son, teacher and pupil, and fellow jews, internees, and workers. 10. compare the experiences of workers and freedom fighters in the films sophie's choice, schindler's list, shoah, the holocaust, exodus, a town like alice, julia, and playing for time. how would a filming of night depict chlomo and elie during selection? at their jobs? during the flight of the ss? 11. summarize themes of maimonides' writings that have influenced elie wiesel's character and outreach. 12. contrast the anti nazi sentiments of israel's haganah and mosad, simon wiesenthal, raoul wallenberg, corrie ten boom, otto frank, dietrich bonhoeffer, anne frank, hannah arendt, winston churchill, franklin d. 13. apply the defiance and outrage of yevgeny yevtushenko's babi yar or donald davidson's lee in the mountains to that of night. 14. relate to elie wiesel's fervent fight against moral apathy the words of pastor martin niemoller concerning nazi genocide: in germany they first came for the communists and i didn't speak up because i wasn't a communist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and i didn't speak up because i wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the catholics, and i didn't speak up because i was a protestant. 15. compare the strengths of the speaker of lord byron's prisoner of chillon with those of elie wiesel and other survivors of the death camps. 16. in his all rivers run to the sea, wiesel comments on the witness' burden: .