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    Language:- The book Night written by Elie Wiesel, is about his and his father’s personal experience in Second World War around 1944 – 1945. The location of the book is set at Nazi German concentration camp at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. In this short novel of about 100 words Wiesel basically tells about the inhumanity, cruel and torturous behaviour of Nazi Germans towards Jewish people. The writing is personal, and is in first person. In the whole book, author keeps on relating the…

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    prisoners feel. Every man for himself is the moto being played out in these camps. Once they evacuated from Birkenau they had to take a long journey to the new camp called Buchenwald. It would prove to be a life defying journey as many prisoners would have lost their lives, no food or water and only living off the snow on the ground. Survival had become the only way of life at this point, just to make it to the next camp alive in hopes food, water and sleep would be waiting. To calm one’s pain…

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    The Jewish people were dehumanized by the Nazis and robbed of hope and faith in God. The novella “Night” by Elie Wiesel begins in Seguit and continues from Auschwitz to Buchenwald during which time, Eliezer and his father, along with millions of other Jews were enslaved, tortured, starved and killed over a period of nine years. The treatment of the Jews during the Holocaust, broke their physical and mental stability and left them helpless. Hitler achieved his goal of making the Jews feel…

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    powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” Wiesel, throughout his memoir Night, narrates his experience as a young Jewish boy during the Holocaust. He delves into how the captured Jews are enslaved in concentration camps and faced with the absolute worst forms of torture and abuse. In Night, Wiesel explores how the complete absence of social justice leads to mutations in a person’s character and morality. Using character, plot, and symbolism, Wiesel…

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    This new place is called “Out-With” and Bruno notices that it is next to a rather strange looking camp. Bruno has always had a taste for exploring so he decides to check it out. So, Bruno follows the fence all the way. He stumbles upon a young boy sitting on the opposite side of the fence. The boy is not wearing shoes and is wearing striped “pyjamas”…

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    struggle in the concentration camp but he did not technically forget about what happened, as that will take some time. Another way that I feel this book impacted my view of the world is that I now have a feeling of despondency. I feel that it is such a horrible thing that at that time, no one was able to put an end to what was going on. I believe that back in that time, there were more than enough people that would’ve have been able to make a difference for the people in the concentration…

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    Possession Identity is important because it truly defines who the person is, but it is very easy to lose your identity. The Holocaust was a genocide in which Adolf Hitler’s Nazis killed many Jewish people. The Nazis sent the Jews to concentration camps, tortured them and striped them out of their identities. In his memoir, Night, Elie Wiesel describes the awful actions the Nazis did to him and his family; for example, they forced the Jews to wear a yellow star armband, which makes them…

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    Night is an autobiography written by Elie Weisel about his experiences that occurred during World War II. The novel follows Eliezer and his father through the treacherous hells of Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald from 1944-1945. It explores the dehumanization process and atrocities committed by Nazi Germany to the Jews in Europe. This process of dehumanization reduced the Jews into nothing more than insignificant pests. The dehumanization process begins rather abruptly…

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    Before WW11, As the German government and community were collapsing, Adolf Hitler rose to power. He soon convinced his followers that Jews were a threat and needed to be killed. The Holocaust was the mass killings of 6 million innocent jews, led by Adolf Hitler. These were innocent people just like us that the Nazi Germans believed were undesirable. They were killed, beaten, starved, and tortured.Life is Beautiful and Night are both stories involving families trying to survive the Holocaust.…

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    Wiesel was deported from his home as a youth and shipped to the death camp that has become infamous throughout generations for its cruelty, Auschwitz. Shortly after arrival, Wiesel was stripped of nearly everything including…

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