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Akiba Drumer
Jewish prisoner at Auschwitz and Buna1. He is initially a religious man with strong faith, seeing the camps as a way in which God tests His people. He comforts the other prisoners with his singing and studies the Caballa and the Bible. However, he eventually loses his faith while in the camps. He is killed by the Nazis at Buna
Elizer
The narrator of Night and the stand-in for the memoir's author
Shlomo
Eliezer's father; respected by the entire Jewish community of Sighet
Moishe the Beadle
Eliezer's teacher of Jewish mysticism, he is a poor Jew who lives in Sighet. 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. Tragically, the community takes him for a lunatic.
Madame Schächter
A Jewish woman from Sighet who is deported in the same cattle car as Eliezer. She is taken for a madwoman when, every night, she screams that she sees furnaces in the distance. She proves to be a prophetess, however, as the trains soon arrive at the crematoria of Auschwitz.
Juliek
A young musician whom Eliezer meets in Auschwitz. He reappears late in the memoir, when Eliezer hears him playing the violin after the death march to Gleiwitz.
Yosi
brother of Tibi and both of whom Eliezer becomes friendly in Buna. They are Zionists. Along with Eliezer, they make a plan to move to Palestine after the war.
Idek the Kapo
Eliezer's Kapo (a prisoner conscripted by the Nazis to police other prisoners) at the electrical equipment warehouse in Buna. Despite the fact that they also faced the cruelty of the Nazis, many Kapos were as cruel to the prisoners as the Germans. During moments of insane rage, he beats Eliezer.
Rabbi Eliahou
A devout Jewish prisoner whose son abandons him in one of many instances in Night of a son behaving cruelly toward his father. Eliezer prays that he will never behave as Rabbi Eliahou's son behaves.
the French Girl
fearful worker in the electrical warehouse. She pretends to be Aryan by forging papers and speaking only French. After a severe beating, she comforts Elie by slipping him a piece of bread and whispering comforting words in German. Years later in Paris, Elie Wiesel runs into her in the Metro and discovers that she is Jewish.
Anaphora
rhetorical device that features the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive sentences, phrases, or clauses. It works as a literary device to allow writers to convey, emphasize, and reinforce meaning. This word repetition at the beginning of each phrase in a group of sentences or clauses is a stylized technique that can be very effective in speeches, lyrics, poetry, and prose.
Repetition
literary device that involves intentionally using a word or phrase for effect, two or more times in a speech or written work. For it to be noticeable, the words or phrases should be repeated within close proximity of each other. Repeating the same words or phrases in a literary work of poetry or prose can bring clarity to an idea and/or make it memorable for the reader.
Metaphor
figure of speech that makes a comparison between two non-similar things. As a literary device, it creates implicit comparisons without the express use of "like" or "as." It is a means of asserting that two things are identical in comparison rather than just similar. This is useful in literature for using specific images or concepts to state abstract truths.
Connotation
refers to a meaning that is implied by a word apart from the thing which it describes explicitly. Words carry cultural and emotional associations or meanings, in addition to their literal meanings or denotations.
Simile
a figure of speech in which two essentially dissimilar objects or concepts are expressly compared with one another through the use of "like" or "as."
Hyperbole
figure of speech and literary device that creates heightened effect through deliberate exaggeration. It is often a boldly overstated or exaggerated claim or statement that adds emphasis without the intention of being literally true. In rhetoric and literature, it is often used for serious, comic, or ironic effects.
Dialogue
refers to spoken lines by characters in a story that serve many functions such as adding context to a narrative, establishing voice and tone, or setting forth conflict.
Allusion
reference, typically brief, to a person, place, thing, event, or other literary work with which the reader is presumably familiar. As a literary device, it allows a writer to compress a great deal of meaning and significance into a word or phrase.
Personification
figure of speech in which an idea or thing is given human attributes and/or feelings or is spoken of as if it were human. IT is a common form of metaphor in that human characteristics are attributed to nonhuman things. This allows writers to create life and motion within inanimate objects, animals, and even abstract ideas by assigning them recognizable human behaviors and emotions.
Diction
the author's choice of words and their connotations
Imagery
The use of descriptions that appeal to sensory experience
Details
Facts included or those omitted
Language
Characters of the body of words use (slang, jargon, scholarly language, etc)
Syntax
the way sentences are constructed
the pipel
The young boy that was hanged and choked to death because he was so small. All the prisoners were forced to watch this.
Blockalteste
Block leader. Told Elizer and the other block members to run fast to look as healthy as possible as to not be selected.