To Kill a Mockingbird Advanced Placement in English Literature and Composition Teaching Unit Study Guide Teacher’s Copy Chapter 1 1. What narrative point of view does Harper Lee use to begin the story? The story is told in fi rst person‚ from the point of view of Scout‚ who is six years old at the beginning of the story. The story is told as a fl ashback‚ with the adult character of Scout describing events that happened when she was a child. 2. What can the reader expect to learn from
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life of the small 15 year old jewish boy‚ Eliezer Wiesel. The Nazis had come to take them away into the concentration camps. When there‚ unknowingly without time for a final goodbye was the last time Eliezer ever saw his mother and sisters. The book “Night” by Eliezer Wiesel focuses on his experience during the horrors of holocaust as a teen with his father‚ Shlomo‚ by his side. At the beginning of the story it was said their relationship was almost nonexistent. Eliezer goes on to say how his father
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Night Study Guide Answers 1. Who was Moshe the Beadle? Moshe was the caretaker at the Hasidic synagogue. 2. What does Wiesel tell the reader of Moshe? He was poor and lived humbly. He was physically awkward and a dreamer who could appear to be so insignificant as to almost disappear. 3. How does Wiesel describe himself as a boy of 12? He was a serious student of religion who studied the Talmud during the day and prayed at night. 4. How does Wiesel describe his father? He was a
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Elie wiesel wrote the book night to tell people about what his life was like during the holocaust. Because he was jewish the nazis sent him to a concentration camp and after he was released at the end of the war he wrote the book night to talk about what happened‚ and how his life had changed significantly throughout the holocaust. Elie wiesel suffered a lot throughout the holocaust. Throughout the book his life changed significantly but it changed the most in the very beginning when he witnessed
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Book Review: The Gift of The Jews Yvonne Cintron Bristol Community College Page Break At first glance it seems that Steven Cahill’s The Gift of The Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels‚ would be about just that "gifts." Upon further reading it becomes known that while Cahill does speak about the importance of these "gifts" the book is also filled with accounts in history‚ brief stories found in the Hebrew Bible‚ which depict the history of the Jewish people
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Dehumanization in Kurt Vonnegut’s "Harrison Bergeron." "The year was 2081‚ and everybody was finally equal‚" the story begins. "They weren’t only equal before God and the law. They were equal in every which way"(1354). In this haunting story‚ Vonnegut probably wanted to warn our society of similar kind of equality‚ equality that can be fatal for human race. In this work the theme is only a minor feature and is not really developed. The idea probably intrigued Kurt Vonnegut and forced him to develop
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Night Essay Surviving the Holocaust can alter a person’s faith – it can either strengthen it or cause it to falter. In 1941‚ in the village of Sighet‚ Romania‚ twelve-year-old Elie Wiesel spends the majority of his time studying the Talmud and exploring other aspects of the Jewish religion. One day‚ all foreign Jews‚ including Elie’s instructor‚ Moishe the Beadle‚ are expelled from Sighet. Upon his return‚ Moishe tries to warn the Jews of the horrific dangers that lie ahead. They all refuse to listen
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prisoners and dissenting clergy and Jews. One Jew‚ named Elie Wiesel‚ survived this horrific event and told his story of inhumanity in the memoir Night. Most people would never do some bad to a person they deem equal to oneself‚ so the cruelty started out slow‚ first jews were not allowed to marry any germans‚ then they could not hire any female citizen under the age of 45‚ and they are not allowed to display the national colors. That was when the dehumanization started. They were
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feels Jews persevere and when they commit to something they should be dedicated. The writer says “ It was about belonging to a people who are committed to becoming better and bettering the world around us. Although not a missionizing people‚ Jews have always been a mission-driven people.” He says that Jews are supposed to be dedicated people that should be improving the world‚ not making it worse. 3. Why is the idea of belonging so important? Do you feel that sense of belonging as a Jew? Why or
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Why did Hitler hate the Jews? Adolf Hitler‚ ruler of Germany from 1933-1945‚ and his Nazi Party murdered more than half of Europe’s 11 million Jews in the Holocaust. The vast majority of these murders took place in just 4 years from 1941 to 1945. Hitler was able to do this because of his feelings of hatred towards the Jews (known as anti-Semitism) were shared by many other Germans and people in Europe. Anti-Semitism was not invented by Hitler or the Germans. It existed everywhere in Europe and
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