Think-Pair-ShareWork with a partner

• What traits are brought out in people placed in extreme situations?

• Elie (narrator)• Elie’s father• People throwing

bread• The “strangler”

• Meyer• Meyer’s father• Meir Katz• German soldiers

Allusion

• An allusion is a reference to another work of literature or to a historic person or event, usually as a comparison.

• What is the author’s intent in making the allusion to manna from heaven in the Torah?

• (The Torah is the Jewish name for the first five books of the Old Testament.)

Character Foil

• A foil is a character who demonstrates a contrast to the main character of a story. Usually a foil has something in common with the protagonist, but the foil’s actions are much different or even opposite of those of the protagonist.

• Example – Laertes is a foil to Hamlet.

Character Foil

• What example of character foil does Wiesel use in his narrative?

• Compare and contrast these character foils with the main characters.

• What is the effect of these comparisons on the reader?

HomeworkThe World Was Silent, by Elie Wiesel

•In your notebook, answer questions 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 on pg. 1242.

• Next reading: • The Spy by Bertolt Brecht