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    My fingers slip on the keys during cool night rehearsals where the condensation gathers mischievously in the location it should not. I forgot my jacket on the day determined to dip below forty degrees; the player in front of me lent his jacket to his girlfriend but Will wears vests. During the break, whoever was kind enough would lend me their sweater until the next break. It was a regular stadium rehearsal that lasted two and a half hours but it was longest rehearsal I’ve ever endured. I was in…

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    In Elie Wiesels life changing memoir “Night” he travels the path of hate, cruelty, and silence. He then recounts his life in the concentration camps, as a young boy named Eliezer, describing his experiences that shaped him into the person he is today. Sharing with us his tragic experiences, and all the feelings he had to hold in during the horrid time of the Holocaust. For feelings were not something to be defined in the camps, in order to survive feelings were not an option. During the…

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    The world is filled with selfish people, but there are always people who are so selfless that they’d do anything for another person. In his memoir, Night, Elie Wiesel comes in contact with selfless people. Wiesel shows with characterization and significant details that thinking about others before yourself is the right thing to do. Being selfless is key. The way an author describes a person through characterization shows the reader what kind of person they are, in this case it’s how selfless…

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    The book “Night” by Elie Wiesel follows Wiesel through the terrifying experiences of concentration camp. Elie is the author and main character of the novel, providing a chance to see inside his mind and a World War II Concentration Camp. Elie is a fifteen year old Jew living in Sighet, Transylvania when he is taken to the Auschwitz concentration camp, and later to Buchenwald. The camps quickly change Elie into someone he does not want to be, shaping him into someone a little more greedy, silent,…

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    A traditional definition of a family is defined as a group made up of 2 or more people stitched together with love for one another that is usually taken for granted in modern times. Throughout Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night Wiesel tells his firsthand account of how he had to live for both himself and for his father the nightmare in the concentration camps . This proved to have both benefits and consequences. Seeing his father every day gave him a reason to keep going. Once Wiesel’s father dies, Elie…

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    There are many events in the world everyday that can affect a child’s innocence. In Elie Wiesel’s Night, Elie demonstrates how the concentration camps has changed his view of many different aspects on life and how he has to change himself to survive the horrific events of Aushwitz. Elie’s loss of innocence contributes directly to the survival of the Holocaust. Elie’s loss of innocence is shown when he has to change his beliefs between right and wrong, when he witnesses events that even adults…

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    Wiesel spent his early years in a small Jewish community in Eastern Hungary as one of four children. His instructor, Moshe the Beadle, is the first character introduced in Night whose lessons and values resonate throughout the book. Moshe’s words shape the conflict of Elie’s struggle for faith, which is one of the main themes within Night. Moshe returns from a near-death experience and warns everyone that Nazi aggressors will soon arrive and disturb the tranquility of their lives. Despite the…

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    The University of Alabama Theatre and Dance Department’s version of Twelfth Night, written by William Shakespeare, was absolutely amazing! I have never seen a show quite like it. It was unique in its very own way. Every aspect of the show worked together perfectly. I love how the director, Seth Jones, put his own twist on the script. It added a lot to the show and made it more interesting than it was in the actual script. Honestly, when reading the script I wasn’t really interested in seeing the…

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    In the book Night by Elie Wiesel a young boy describes his experiences as a Jew in the concentration camp during World War II. Wiesel had witnessed many horrific things. Two of those were executions. Though the two processes were the similarities, the Jews’ reactions to the executions were different. The first execution that he had witnessed was of a well-built boy who had three years of concentration camp life. The boy was from Warsaw And he was caught stealing. You can tell from some of…

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    kept that promise. After two years in a concentration camp, Elie Wiesel is finally freed--his first thought as a free man: to eat. Years later, however, he has a new motive--to detail his life in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps. In his memoir Night, Wiesel shares about the separation of his family, the violence he experienced at the hands of SS-officers, the malnutrition and times he and the other Jews were pushed to their breaking points. Despite the struggles, Wiesel and the survivors…

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