Night Chapter 2

She cried quietly to herself during the entire train ride.

She shouted about a fire on the horizon for multiple days.

She tried to convince everyone to rebel and escape the cars.

She focused only on saving her remaining son.

The Jews sit in a dirty train that breaks down and stops moving.

The Jews are escorted to an old train with missing windows.

The Jews are packed in cattle trains with no room to move around.

The Jews each have their own seat in the train but can't talk to each other.

in spite of anything to the contrary

move quickly

it never happened

critical language

Dead bodies.

Clothes, suitcases, etc.

His mother and sisters.

Prisoners of war.

The concentration camps

Her possessions being lost

The fires from the crematoriums

irrevocably

anguish

glacial

imperative

He is directed down the hall.

He is put in charge of cleaning the bathrooms.

He is beaten in front of his son.

The officer doesn't understand his language.

His mother's.

Tzipora's.

His father's.

The stranger in front of him.

Buchenwald

Buna

Birkenau

They ignored her.

They bound and gagged her.

They told the German soldiers to shoot her.

move quickly

get better after being sick

friendship

extremely important

Hit her, gag her and tie her up.

Distract her with songs.

Threaten to push her off the train.

Alert the soldiers to punish her.

Her husband and two of her sons were deported before her.

Her husband died right before deportation.

A German officer burned her house.

She had to give up a necklace that had been in her family for five generations.

metaphor

allusion

foreshadowing

flashback

Jewish prisoners who were working in the camp.

figurative way of saying flames

Nazi soldiers

the train conductor and other people who work at the train station

Foreshadowing

Rhyme

Personification

Science Fiction

Memoir

Realistic Fiction

Elie's group had just ignored everything they heard about the holocaust.

The Germans were keeping what they did to Jews a secret from everyone,

It must be called something different in other languages.

Nobody was listening to when the person said the name of the camp.

nothing but clear sky

Nazi soldiers

fog, but it looks like ghosts

fire