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Irony in Night
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Night Quotes: Explain what is ironic in each of the following passages of the book.
1. Page 11: ““The yellow star? So what, it’s not lethal.”
2.
Page 16: [When the Jews were being evacuated from their ghettos]: “At last, at one o’clock in the afternoon
came the signal to leave. There was joy, yes, joy. People must have thought there could be no greater torment in
God’s hell than that of being stranded here, on the sidewalk, among the bundles, in the middle of the street under
a blazing sun. Anything seemed preferable to that.”
3. Page 21: [When describing their forced evacuation] “They just want to steal our valuables and jewelry. They know
that it has all been buried and that they will have to dig to find it; so much easier to do when the owners are on
vacation. On Vacation!”
4. Page 27: [Upon arriving at Auschwitz] “Confidence soared. Suddenly we felt free of the previous nights’ terror.
We gave thanks to God.”
5. Page 40: [Describing he sign over the gate at Auschwitz]: “This one had an iron gate with the overhead inscription:
ARBEIT MASCT FREI. Works makes you free.”
6. Page 44: “At the start of the third week, our Blockalteste was removed; he was judged too humane.”
7. Page 82: “After the war, I learned the fate of those who remained at the infirmary [that Eli and his father chose to
leave]. They were, quite simply, liberated by the Russians, two days after the evacuation.