Graham's Class

• Read through to page 25 and answer questions as you go
• After progress reports, review relationships (applicable to last page of worksheet)

1. There are five types of conflicts:
1. man vs. man
2. man vs. self
3. man vs. society
4. man vs. fate
5. man vs. nature
   
2. These conflicts can be seen through relationships:
1. Elie and his father
2. Elie and the way he sees himself
3. Elie and the way he see humanity
4. Elie and God
5. n/a (man vs. nature doesn't really fit...you can see this through Elie's struggle for survival and against starvation, but there's not really a relationship there)
   
3. Before the Holocaust, the relationships are thus:
1. Elie's father is more focused on his work than his family; he didn't approve of his son's ideas and dreams; he is "unsentimental" and unfeeling
2. Elie considers himself holy, but perhaps lonely; he feels a little unloved by his father; he focuses on God; he is very much in the spiritual world
3. Elie thinks all people are basically good, or at least humane
4. Elie has absolute "profound" faith in God
   
4. After the Holocaust, the relationships are thus:
1. Elie and his father draw closer together because they have no one else; they depend upon each other; they act like a real family; family becomes the most important thing
2. Elie begins to question and doubt God; he definitly no longer believes that God always answers prayers and is good
3. Nazis lack humanity and are thus beastial; the Jews are divided into those who remain humane and those who have been made beastial because of the Nazis
4. Elie questions God (see above)
   

Posted by Graham on Tuesday, May 16, 2006 at 2:41 PM | Permalink