SOAPStone

What is going on in this picture?

Answer these questions…

S: Who is the speaker? (survivor or Nazi?)

O: What is going on in the photo?

A: Who is the piece directed to?

P: Why did the author paint this picture?

Tone: list 5 words to describe painting

This picture was painted by a Holocaust survivor.

Describe what is going on in this picture.

What does the smoke towers in the distance spell out?

What does the arm with the gun represent?

What is symbolic about who is still alive?

Role reversal?

S: Who is the speaker? (survivor or Nazi?)

O: What is going on in the photo?

A: Who is the piece directed to?

P: Why did the author paint this picture?

S: Subject wordsTone: list 5

words to describe painting

Speaker1st personHolocaust survivor telling his storyElie Wiesel:

Born in 1928, in Sighet—small town in RomaniaHe and his family were forced to live in the ghetto

and then eventually deported in 1944 to the concentration camp Auschwitz

He is a writer, professor, political activist, and a Holocaust survivor

Took a ten year vow of silence after the HolocaustHe’s written more than 57 booksCurrently lives in Boston and teaches at Boston

University

OccasionDescribes the Holocaust during WW2Germany and AustriaFrom Jewish boy’s point of view

AudienceAnyone who wants to know details about the

Holocaust under Hitler’s rule

PurposeTo create a memoir about Elie Weisel’s

experiences in the Holocaust from the point of view of a Jewish boy.

To recognize the atrocities that the Jewish people endured under Hitler’s rule.

To inform people of the inhumane treatment of Jews during WW2 in concentration camps

To examine… To tell…To evoke…

SubjectEyes (motif)Night (motif)FlamesRumorsDeportationTerror

HungerIndignityFateGodList as many as you

can (minimum of 10)

ToneBraveOptimisticPessimisticProud of religionBitterDisappointedFactual

EmotionalHurtShamefulFamily orientedconfused

Literary DevicesMotif:

EyesNight

Historical Context: WW2

Novella

Theme: KindnessCrueltySelfishnessUnselfishness

How to Write Intro…In the YEAR (1940s)Talk about what was going on during this

time frame (discuss Holocaust)Author published… (Elie Wiesel)In the book…author uses SPEAKER to

PURPOSE and/with/through LITERARY DEVICES