The following questions count as a QUIZ GRADE and are due at the beginning of class on Thursday, February 11.
- On pg. 23, Elie says, "Tomorrow could still be worse." How is this a shift in mindset from the beginning of the memoir?
- The narrator uses words like "thirst" and "hunger" during this section. Do you think these words are powerful enough to convey how he really feels?
- Mrs. Shachter is referred to as a "mad woman" on page 25. Who else was referred to as "mad" earlier in the memoir? What might this tell us as a reader?
- On page 27, the narrator says, "Nobody ever heard that name," referring to "Auschwitz." How has that word gained power since WWII?
- What do you think happens to people who go to the hospital car?