Night Journals

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Night Journals

• Reflecting thoughts and emotions

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Directions

• Over the course of reading Elies 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

• 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?

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Journal 3

• 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?

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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?

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Journal 5

• Why do you think Wiesel titled the book "Night?"
  What are the literal and symbolic meanings of
  "night" in the book? 

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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

• What do you think has been the hardest struggle
  for Elie during the novel so far and why?

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Journal 8

• Do you think that Elies fathers 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

• What scenes from Night do you remember most
  vividly? Have they made you look at the world or
  your family differently?

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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?