Pablo Picasso’s “The Tragedy” (Holt Rhinehart Winston)

How does this picture represent Elie’s relationship with his mother and father?

Pg. 16 “I did not want to see my parents’ faces.”

Pablo Picasso’s “The Old Guitarist” Pg. 1143 PH World Masterpieces.

Compare Juliek’s soul to the old man in this picture. How are they similar?

Pg. 90 “I could hear only the violin, and it was as though Juliek’s soul were in the bow.”

James Cook’s “Crows and Sycamores” (Prentice Hall)

Pretend that the tree is Madame Schächter; what or who might the crows represent and what are they doing?

Pg. 22 “Fire! I can see a fire! I can see a fire!”

Jacob Lawrence’s “War Series: Casualty ” (Prentice Hall)

The figure has no face; therefore it can represent the indifference of the SS officers in the camps. How does this painting represent the arrival of the Jews to Auschwitz?

Pg. 27 “Eight words spoken quietly, indifferently, without emotion.”

Paul Nash’s “Landscape from a Dream”

The very last image of the book is when Elie looks into a mirror. How might this painting represent what he saw at that moment.

Pg. 109 “From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me.”

“Hiroshige “One Hundred Views of Famous Places in Edo” (Prentice Hall)

An eagle is swooping down upon a landscape in this picture. If the eagle could represent the arrival of the American tanks at Buchenwald, what in the landscape itself might represent the hungry children?

Pg. 109 “At about six o’clock in the evening, the first American tank stood at the gates of Buchenwald.

Poetry:

Frost’s “Neither Out Far nor in Deep”

Lorca’s “The Guitar” pg. 1143

Cavafy’s “Waiting for the Barbarians” pg. 1148