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    The Holocaust inspired many works of art such as the memoir Night and the poem “Mercy and Grace,” which both show how faith and religion declined with the Jewish people, with the more suffering, and torture they endured. For example, in the memoir Night, by Elie Wiesel, a Jewish citizen of Sighet, and a Holocaust survivor, is watching the world slowly drip into chaos. Often times in his society, people are being dragged to concentration camps, and their families are separated. Then, as Wiesel…

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    even when scared half to death.” This quote is relevant throughout Night because braver is a quality that most characters in this book possess. Night by Elie Wiesel is an autobiography that takes place in 1944, Poland during World War Two. We follow the story of Eliezer and his dad, Shlomo, as they live in various concentration camps in Poland. They and other prisoners have to show bravery to stay alive in hard times. Through Night, Elie Wiesel shows us that bravery is doing the right thing,…

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    In the book Night by Elie Wiesel a young boy describes his experiences as a Jew in the concentration camp during World War II. Wiesel had witnessed many horrific things. Two of those were executions. Though the two processes were the similarities, the Jews’ reactions to the executions were different. The first execution that he had witnessed was of a well-built boy who had three years of concentration camp life. The boy was from Warsaw And he was caught stealing. You can tell from some of…

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    enough to survive. In both Night and Sold We see the ability to adapt throughout the book. Night is about a young jewish boy named Elie that gets taken from his home along with his family and put in a concentration camp by the nazis,this book was written by Elie Wiesel himself.Sold is about a young girl named Lakshmi, who gets taken from her home in the mountains and brought to the city to work in prostitution.The author of Sold is Patricia McCormick.By examining the novels Night and Sold we can…

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    I Will Never Forget ”Shall I never forget that night, the first night in camp. Which has turned my life into one long night” Grit is using perseverance, passion, and strength to face life’s difficult challenges. Elizer “Elie” Wiesel was born on September 30, 1928 in Sighet, Romania. Elie was a Noble Peace prize winner of writing more than fifty books, Elie is a holocaust survivor, and an Author. Elie Wiesel was deported when he was about fifteen years old, along with his family in Auschwitz,…

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    Every day we process what we see and hear most of the time unconsciously, even if we have great self-awareness. They influence the decisions we make, how we see ourselves, the people we meet, and what we focus on. Perception begins when the human brain receive data from all five senses. The mind then processes and applies meaning to sensory information. Viktor Frankl, the author of “Man Search for Meaning” was a Jewish physiatrist who spent three years during world war 3 under unspeakable…

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    To correctly teach and convey the meaning behind English words a series of techniques and methods must be used, these have been applied to the words below. Yesterday, the best way to convey the meaning of this word in my opinion would be to uses a combination of visual aids and making sentences. To begin with I would ask the class “What date it is today?” they would then present me with the answer, I would then bring out an enlarged printout of a calendar and whilst the class are watching I…

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    Mary W. Shelley once said “Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.” The book Night, a memoir on Eliezer Wiesel life in several Auschwitz Concentration Camps, Eliezer faced many challenges throughout the book an example being the death of his Mother, Father, and sister. All of the challenges he faced shaped and changed Elie in a way that affected him throughout his life. This shows that when we are faced with problems we try to adapt and change to solve them. In the…

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    Elie Wiesel published Night in 1955. This book is his testimony to the awful situations he and millions others had to encounter. Eliezer is a devout Jew at a young age. His conviction is flipped upside down when the Nazis enter his life, and he believes God walked out. In Night, Wiesel uses Eliezer to depict how his once unconditional faith is shaken down to nonexistence during the Holocaust. Before Eliezer’s living nightmare reigns down, he is dedicated to his religion. At twelve years old, he…

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    The world is filled with selfish people, but there are always people who are so selfless that they’d do anything for another person. In his memoir, Night, Elie Wiesel comes in contact with selfless people. Wiesel shows with characterization and significant details that thinking about others before yourself is the right thing to do. Being selfless is key. The way an author describes a person through characterization shows the reader what kind of person they are, in this case it’s how selfless…

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