Important Quotes from Night
Chapter 1
"The courtyard turned into something like an antechamber to an operating room." (pg. 13---simile)
"That was when I began to hate them, and my hatred remains our only link today." (pg. 19---theme)
"ANGUISH"--(pg 9---emphasis)
"Night." (pg. 21---emphasis, title, metaphor)
"Saturday, the day of rest, was the day chosen for our expulsion." (pg. 21---irony)
Chapter 2
"Tomorrow could be worse yet." (pg. 23---foreshadowing)
"The world had become a hermetically sealed cattle car."
(pg. 24---metaphor)
"Jews, listen to me," she cried. "I see a fire! I see flames, huge flames!" (pg. 25----foreshadowing)
"The night seemed endless." (pg. 26---emphasis, title)
"Auschwitz." (pg. 27---emphasis, foreshadowing)
"It must have been around midnight. We had arrived. In Birkenau." (pg. 28---emphasis, title, location)
Chapter 3
"Let the world learn about the existence of Auschwitz . Let everybody find out about it while they still have a chance to escape. . ." (pg. 31----theme)
"NEVER SHALL I FORGET that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed." (pg. 34----theme, title, metaphor)
"The student of Talmud, the child I was, had been consumed by the flames." (pg. 37----imagery)
"The inscription: WARNING! DANGER OF DEATH!"
(pg. 40----irony)
Chapter 4
"I WATCHED other hangings. I never saw a single victim weep. These withered bodies had long forgotten the bitter taste of tears." (pg. 63---imagery)
"One day, as we returned from work, we saw three gallows, three black ravens, erected on the Appelplatz."
(pg. 64----metaphor)
"That night, the soup tasted of corpses."
(pg. 65---metaphor)
Chapter 5
"What are You, my God? I thought angrily. How do You compare to this stricken mass gathered to affirm to You their faith, their anger, their defiance?" (pg. 66---theme)
"Defeat." (pg. 69----imagery)
"I hated that bell." (pg. 73----symbolism)
"Let's hope we won't regret it, Eliezer."
(pg. 83---foreshadowing)
"At Six O'clock the bell rang. The death knell. The funeral. The procession was beginning its march."
(pg. 84---symbolism)
"It was like an injection of morphine." (pg. 80---simile, refers to the rumors that the Russians were coming to liberate them)
Chapter 6
"Death enveloped me, it suffocated me. It stuck to me like glue." (pg. 86---personification)
"I… I'm afraid…They'll break…my violin…I…I brought it with me." (pg. 94---symbolism)
"A silent death, suffocation. No way to scream, to call for help." (pg. 94----imagery)
Chapter 7
"Then the train resumed its journey, leaving in its wake, in a snowy field in Poland, hundreds of naked orphans without a tomb." (pg. 99---imagery)
"We had been a hundred or so in this wagon. Twelve of us left it. Among them, my father and myself."
(pg. 103)
Chapter 8
"I knew that I was no longer arguing with him but Death itself, with Death that he had already chosen." (pg. 105---personification)
"One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate. One less reason to live." (pg. 109)
"I might have found something like: Free at last!. . ."
(pg. 112)
Chapter 9
"From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me." (pg. 115)