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title name I figured it would be a horror story, never the less, I was wrong for the most part. “Night” is an autobiography by a man named Eliezer Wiesel. The autobiography is a rather unsettling record of Elie’s early life in the Nazi concentration camps, such as Buchenwald and Auschwitz, during world war two. Even though “Night” is Elie Wiesel’s supposed first person narrative about his experiences in the Holocaust, he is not exactly the main character who is speaking. “Night” is narrated by a…

“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood” (Lucius Annaeus Seneca). Beautiful friendship can only be received if there is understanding between each person. The Chosen, by Chaim Potok, is about two Jewish boys living in Brooklyn, New York, towards the end of World War II era. A disagreement between two contradicting viewpoints of the same religion about the Jewish homeland and tradition is what causes a stir of emotion that becomes the basis of…

an unsung hero because he always put his life at risk to help others that were wounded, to retrieve them, to give them their last rites, not minding the fact that he could be shot dead at any time. He also risked his life many times in prisoner war camp to help his friends who were hungry, sick, or needed spiritual needs while suffering in this prison. Until he himself was ill and could no longer walk. Father Emil Kapaun was a selfless person who dedicated his life to his soldiers. Father…

Morris Gleitzman’s fictional novel, ‘Once and Then’ teaches us that everyone in life needs to see the world in a different way. Gleitzman shows this by using the perspective of a little Jewish boy. Felix’s dangerous, yet very meaningful journey to find his parents also shows that even though Felix is a child he can play such an important role in showing the reader what really happened. During the Holocaust, Jewish people had some hard times. Getting relocated, losing family members, but one…

Humanization Denied The book Night by Elie Wiesel is a story of a young boy who goes through the holocaust from the time the Germans took over his home town of Sighet to the time he was set free from the Germans and their concentrations camps that totally stripped away their faith, all their rights, human qualities and for some the will to live. This is all due to by the way they were treated and made to feel like they were no longer humans. To define dehumanizing is to say to deprive one of…

concentration camp under horrid, unimaginable conditions. Everyday he fights for his life and protects his father. In Life is Beautiful, Joshua believes he is playing a game, but really, he is in a concentration camp with his father. This helps both Joshua and his father fight to stay healthy and keep their spirits up as they deal with reality. Night and Life is Beautiful have many similarities; for example, both stories are about a father and a son who struggle to survive in concentration…

Many people survived to tell their stories of suffering and torture. One of the most prominent survivors was Elie Wiesel. The book Night was written by Elie Wiesel. The book is about Elie and his family in the 1940s who were sent to concentration camps by the German Nazis. The mother and youngest daughter were sent to the gas chamber as soon as they arrived. Elie and his father were stripped of their belongings and sent to work or die. They had to struggle to survive everyday. Near the end of…

Art Spiegelman’s Maus is a prize winning masterpiece work on history and memoir. The book narrates the story of Spiegelman’s father in Poland at the advent of World War 11 and how he turned out to be a second generation Holocaust survivor. This literary work draws so much comparison with Elie’s work in the book Night. Elie’s work is more of a memoir just as it is with Art’s work. These two characters survive a difficult period in their life and they therefore end deciding to put their personal…

Elie Wiesel was the author of the book Night and he was a Nobel-Prize winning writer, in which he recounted his experiences surviving the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel was born on September 30, 1928, in Sighet, Romania, and he died on July 2, 2016 at the age of 87. Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, whatever our nationality, place of residence, sex, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, language, or any other status. We are all equally entitled to our human rights without…

concentration camp in Poland during World War II. During his time here Primo experienced many ethical issues and struggled to survive. In this paper I will be analyzing the moral decisions that were made how they were faced and how my view has been impacted by his time in Auschwitz. Primo levi was a chemist that came from a good University but was declared a Jew which made it difficult for him to thrive after graduating. After Primo declared himself a Jew he was first sent to an Italian prison…