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Characterization Chart Will Karaman

Elie Wiesal - The narrator of Night and the stand-in for the memoir’s author, Elie Wiesel. Night traces Eliezer’s psychological: journey, as the Holocaust robs him of his faith in God and exposes him to the deepest inhumanity of which man is capable.
Social: Despite many tests of his humanity, however, Eliezer maintains his devotion to his father. It is important to note that we learn Eliezer’s last name only in passing, and that it is never repeated.
Physcial :His story—which parallels Wiesel’s own biography—is intensely personal, but it is also representative of the experiences of hundreds of thousands of Jewish teenagers
Found on pages 22,15,38,45
Moshe the Beadle -
Physcial:Eliezer’s teacher of Jewish mysticism, Moshe is a poor Jew who lives in Sighet.
Social: He is deported before the rest of the Sighet Jews but escapes and returns to tell the town what the Nazis are doing to the Jews.
Physcialoglaclly Tragically, the community takes Moshe for a lunatic. found on pages 4,8,12,16,24,37
Mister Wiesel : social: In the beginning of the story, Wiesel's father was like the patriarch not just to the family, but to the community as well. physcialogly : When the Germans occupied Sighet, the neighbors would sought the advice of Wiesel's father because he wasn't least afraid of what the Germans had in store.
Physcial: He encouraged everyone to have a positive outlook for it was the the 20th century.
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