Themes/Big Ideas:
1. More struggle with faith (Sad angel)
2. Inmates abusing other inmates--Is this the nature of power? fear?
3. More internal conflict as Elie does nothing while his father gets beaten
4. Indifference to death
Important quotes/moments:
"Where He is? This is where--hanging here from this gallows. . ." (65).
"That night, the soup tasted of corpses" (65). (interpretative value!)
"This ceremony, will it be over soon? I'm hungry. . . "(62).
The man who "kills himself" for soup during the air raid (59-60)
"Why couldn't he have avoided Idek's wrath? That was what life in a concentration camp had made of me.
literary term:
motif: a recurring image, symbol, action,object, phrase or idea in a work of literature.
FREEWRITE: Freewrite: What was the take-away message or most impactful moment for you while reading section 4. Elaborate on why?
HW: Please read section 5. Please compose 2 clarification, 2 interpretation, 2 open-ended questions
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