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    you get taught about the holocaust in history the basics of the Jews and how hitler was the devil himself to them but it never went beyond that. In this novel you get a deeper fuller understanding of what life was like back then in the concentration camps, we don’t need to know this just because we like to know everything…

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    Elie Wiesel a Jewish person his family was forced into Nazi death camps during WWII Wiesel survived, and later wrote the book night About his survival and being there. The Year I chose from the book is the year 1944 because so many things had happened in that timeline of the book .In the year 1944 from the book Night by Elie Wiesel In 1944, the Nazis begin focusing on the Jews. Elie and his family are conveyed to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where Elie's mom and sister are sent to the gas chambers.…

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    All through history there are many periods of evil and darkness, such as the Holocaust. The novel Night it follows the author Elie Wiesel through his time in concentration and work camps. After facing death, extreme labor and lack of food and shelter Wiesel is weakened spiritually, physically and, mentally. As an illustration, as time goes on Wiesel gradually loses his faith in God. This is can be seen in chapter five when he questions: When Adam and Eve deceived You, You chased them from…

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    One can imagine the horrific events that a person went through at a concentration camp not knowing when it will come to an end. Thus at the same time, the question, why was everyone silent when the holocaust was happening? comes into play. Elie Wiesel was a holocaust survivor. He lost his parents in his early childhood. Wiesel and his father were forced to work under appalling conditions in the concentration camps. On January 29, 1945, Wiesel’s father died due to dysentery, and starvation…

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    To be uncertain means to be unable to rely on; to not be completely confident or sure of something. From 1933 to 1945, “uncertain” was most likely a word the Jews used to describe how they felt day in and day out. The Holocaust was one of the most horrific events that has ever happened to this day. Millions died while few survived; Elie Wiesel being one of the survivors. Elie is able to depict the misery of the Holocaust through his novel Night. While some may find photos as the easiest way to…

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    killing, specifically Jews. Elie Wiesel, a concentration camp survivor who made a book,Night, about his experience, talked about his family and the people he encountered (Such as officers or friends). In a nutshell, Elie was deported to the largest concentration camp, Auschwitz, where he was split from his mother and sister. Elie then moved twice to two other concentration camps, (With his dad) while he was on the edge of dying. At the last camp he went to, his dad died, though once he died, the…

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    No food, no water, and no clothes are just the facade of it. “Behind me, someone said, sighing, ‘What do you expect? That’s war…’” (6) is where it all began for Eliezer Wiesel and his family in the memoir Night. Despite the ways Hitler is able to dehumanize the Jews and permits the SS officers to beat Eliezer, along with how others treated each other in acts of survival, Elie escapes the fate of becoming a brute like others. It doesn’t take much to tear a person down. Dehumanization began…

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    marches transport them to a more suitable place of death. Victor Frankl, the author of Man's Search for Meaning was placed in four different concentration camps between the years of 1942-1945. Although he went through terrible events, he was still able to find a reason to go on. Elie Wiesel, the author of Night was put into concentration camps at a young age. He endure many horrible things as a teenager. Such as, watching his own father die a sickness that could've been avoided if the death…

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    lost his faith by the tragic times he spent throughout the time he spent in the concentration camp. When he sees the times, when a family member turned on the other family member he began to question; why would god let a monster like adolf hitler away with the way he was doing the Jews and why they all had to suffer so much. The first moment we see Wiesel loses his faith is when they all got to the camp he seen everyone praying for the dead, and Elie says for the first time, I felt…

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    In Elie Wiesel’s Night there are several examples of the physical, mental, and emotional dehumanization strategies used by the Nazis. One of the prime examples of this dehumanization is when Eliezer has an identification number tattooed on his arm and Wiesel writes, “I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name” (Wiesel 42). This quote shows clear dehumanization because Eliezer feels like he is nothing more than a number, and most likely the Nazis feel this way too. Eliezer and the other…

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