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    In Night, by Elie Wiesel, his purpose is to show the pain and suffering in a world where there is no hope. Without hope he expounds that life will no longer be able to preserve itself and will get consumed by darkness. This message in his memoir is enhanced through many literary devices such as his hopeless tone and the symbol of night. His tone is very mourning and dark to demonstrate that the inhumane acts faced in the concentration camps completely took all the light in the world. For example…

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    Face Of Fear In Night, Elie Wiesel focuses on the relationship between identity and mortality, specifically the idea that fear or prolonged sight of mortality can change one’s identity and the fact that a change of one’s identity can change our views on mortality. Identity can easily change when faced with fear of death. When Elie felt death near through his hunger, he became “nothing but a body,” and “the bread, the soup -those were my [Elie’s] entire life” (Wiesel 52). All he could…

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    Elie Wiesel How would it feel if you did everything you could do to keep a loved one alive? What would it feel like to lose a loved one over starvation and tiredness? How would it feel if you had to lie to a loved one over your siblings or mother to keep one another happy? Elie Wiesel is the main person who always stayed strong through all this no matter what. Elie was fifteen years old when he was put in the concentration camps Elie lost his mother and his 7 year old little sister when he was…

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    Elie Wiesel once said “To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice”. Many people fail to truly understand the atrocious and haunting incident during WWII, the holocaust. Only the survivors and witnesses truly feel the timeless pain and long term effects that it caused. Elie Wiesel is a Holocaust survivor and readers see what the Holocaust and concentration camps caused through his short novel "Night". During his experiences in the concentration camp, Elie Wiesel loses faith in his fellow man and in…

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    march and terrifying train ride Elie Wiesel and his father had to go on. Frightening really isn’t the right word for their journey, agony means prolonged pain and suffering which is exactly what the Jews experienced. The agony they felt should have killed them. But they had to be strong, even in the darkest hour because if not, you die. “And something deep inside me rebelled against that death.” (Wiesel 89). Death was a release from the misery they called life, yet Elie didn’t want the release.…

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    forced himself to testify. For the youth of today, for the children who will born tomorrow. He does not want his past to become their future" (Wiesel XV). This quote taken from the preface of the new translation of the 2006 edition of Night is forceful and powerful and sums up the author's intention. Night is an autobiographical novel written by Elie Wiesel about his experience as a Jewish teenager in the concentration camps during the Second World War and the Holocaust. The young Eliezer…

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    When Elie Wiesel was a young boy, roughly my age, he was forced to withstand the most horrendous battle of survival in his life. He was raised into a Jewish family and was taken prisoner in a concentration camp during Nazi Germany in World War II. Elie had many exceptional traits, and some aspects of him as a person helped him survive the death camps. When Elie’s family was taken to the camps, he was separated from his mother and sister, whom he never saw again. His father was his ally from…

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    the wretched things the Nazi’s would do. As we progress through the novel, Elie matured in a way nobody should ever have to face. 1.“I was twelve. I believed profoundly…” “Why did I pray? . . . Why did I live? Why did I breathe?” In those quotes Elie had proclaimed he believed in God “profoundly” yet when Moishe had questioned him why he believed in God, Elie replied with questions himself. This was the first sign of Elie inquiring his beliefs he was raised upon. 2.”Humanity? Humanity is…

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    there can be evidence of imprisonment, torment, and intellectual change. In Night written by Elie Wiesel, the story of his experience during the Holocaust, silence is given an entirely new definition. Wiesel enters two concentration camps with ignorance, but he survives with varying levels of pain and fear that cause an internal hush. This proves to be true for others around him as well. After Elie Wiesel goes through a traumatic, life-changing struggle and…

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    see the burning of his only son.” (21) Over one night Elie Wiesel’s entire world is turned upside down and changed immensely. Perhaps just as drastic though, was the change in the relationship between Elie and his father. As events in the Holocaust concentration camps ripped families apart a previously distant and unemotional relationship between a father and son was fortified in a way that one would never suspect possible. Just as Elie Wiesel and his father’s care for each other was…

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