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    memoir, Night, by Elie Wiesel he describes the way that the Nazis treat him and the other Jews, which is horrific and progressively worsens. When Wiesel first arrives at the camp he is seperated from his mom and sisters, unfortunately he did not know that it would be the last time he would ever see them, “I saw them disappear into the distance . . . And I did not know that in that place, at that moment, I was parting from my mother and Tzipora forever.” (Wiesel, 29). Even after Wiesel…

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    so through their faith. In Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, Wiesel tells of his experiences during the Holocaust at a young age, mainly exploring his time in Auschwitz. In Night, Wiesel uses Eliezer’s struggle in keeping his faith to show that even the strongest believers could lose their faith in such hard times but that faith is also often necessary for survival. The first day Elie arrived at Auschwitz was also one of his most traumatic. In this section of the book, Elie arrives to his first…

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    Night, by Elie Wiesel is about the Holocaust and the struggles that Jews went through. Elie and his family were Jews who were taken to a concentration camp. This is a story retelling the tragic and cruel things that happened to Jews during WWII. Elie’s message during the story is indifference. There are many scenes in the book showing indifference such as lack of emotion toward cruelty, the Jews themselves, and how the world helped with the Holocaust. By writing this book, Elie proved how cruel…

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    Between 5 and 6 million Jews were slaughtered during the horrifying years of World War II. Night is a holocaust survivor's memory of the happenings before and inside the concentration camps, giving the vivid details of his horrid experiences. In Night, Elie Wiesel uses bread as a motif to demonstrate that in dire times food can be worth more than life and bring death as shown in Elie’s attempt to keep his tooth, the fight of death in the boxcars, and his father’s death. In the book, because of…

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    Locked In! Elie Wiesel’s work, Night, published in 1958, demonstrates the struggles Jewish society and other minorities faced in order to live a life of liberty. I, myself, felt bound and trapped, not by iron doors, but by words. Although being open and outgoing can help communication growth, rudeness and unnecessary judgement can hinder one’s ability to socialize and express themselves. On August 21, 2010, as my mother dropped me off at Georgetown Middle School, thoughts of panic plundered…

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    Night Assessment In Night by Elie Wiesel there are many themes applied to the situation that Elie was in and how he describes it. Man’s Inhumanity to Man, The Importance of father son bond, the loss of faith, The Dangers of Silence. These are the four main themes that are clear in the novel all of these themes are directly related to how Elie Wiesel progresses in in the novel from caring about others, god and himself. The first theme Man’s Inhumanity to Man shows how Elie and the people around…

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    began on the night of January 30, 1933. The first train arrives in Dachau. The word spreads of Hitler 's plans, that will soon begin World War II. It wasn’t until 1938 that the rest of the world discovers Hitler’s true plan for evacuating the Jews. Hitler had his mind set on world domination but his hate for the Jewish people would not allow him to focus on his greatest goal. The Germans had removed all Jews from Germany, Poland, and Soon moved toward Sighet Transylvania, where Elie Wiesel is…

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    this point in history, humanity was not even a word. The word humanity, was destroyed, such as the Jews faith was during the Holocaust. The word to describe this time period is inhumane. In Night, by Elie Wiesel, this was his everyday life for two years. All humanity was erased, and there was only inhumanity. Elie shows this to the reader through conflict, and character development. Conflict occurred when the Jews were taken over in their own society. Before the concentration camp conflict…

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    The horrors that Jewish and other groups of people faced during the Holocaust were tragic. Ihe book Night, by Elie Wiesel follows his struggle through life as a Jew in this time and place. His whole world was flipped around when Germans invaded his home, and through the tragic events he witnessed, he watched the people around him become less and less human, going into survival mode. He managed to survive, and wrote this book about what he experienced. Some of the atrocities that the Jewish…

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    five million Gentiles. Over three million Jews Survived. One Jew, named Elie Wiesel, lived to tell the tale of his experience in the Holocaust. His book, Night, exhibits how horrendous the Holocaust was while displaying how he changed. He became the most celebrated survivor and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. Elie’s experiences with the Holocaust changed his emotions and his relationship with his father. At just 13, Elie had decided what he was going to do for the rest of his life, which…

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