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    Ellie Wiesel's Night

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    Night Night by Ellie Wiesel starts off in a small town in Hungary it was the spring of 1944 the rise of the nazi army was on the horizon every person in the town was scared not a single soul was living yet everybody seemed to be alive ….. At the beginning of the text we are introduced to Ellie and his family we find out he has a mother a father and a younger sister we find out that the Wiesel family is going to be moved to the camp Birkenau because of the fact that the person warning people to…

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    “Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes. Never shall I forget those things, even were I condemned to live as long as God Himself” (Wiesel 34). The world of Auschwitz is talked about frequently, discussed in many historical contexts, and the barbaric nature of this death camp is widely acknowledged. Nevertheless, the works of Elie Wiesel and Primo Levi – two holocaust survivors with countless stories to tell – open up a vivid scope into…

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    3. The exposition of “Night” by Elie Wiesel begins with his family being transported to ghettos; this sets the stage by emphasizing the feeling of danger and uncertainty. Some of the rising actions of this novel include, his family being herded into cattle cars, separation from his mother and sister, and lastly lying about his father’s and his own names. While it’s difficult to pinpoint a certain climax to such a devastating story, the scene when they are forced to run in the snow and him and…

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    Alone or Together About six million Jews out of the nine million living in Europe died in the holocaust during World War II. The concentration camps are a well known tragedy of Germany. Many Jews go taken away from their families and were sent on marches to the death camps where they got worked to the bone. Elie and his family were part of the unlucky crowd that had to get separated from each other and work in the death camp. When words weren’t able to express the hardship, Elie used the help…

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    PART 3: END OF WAR THE HOLOCAUST Olivia Flores The Holocaust was a tragic event that took place in World War 2. The Holocaust killed many innocent people and left the survivors traumatized. Every survivor of the Holocaust has a story to tell, amongst these survivors is Eli Wiesel. Eli Wiesel was born on September 30, 1928, in Sighet, Transylvania. Eli grew up in a jewish home with three sisters. At the age of 15, Eli and his family were forced to relocate to Auschwitz. during his…

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    The holocaust was a tragic event that Elie Wiesel went through making a speech and wrote a book about his experience. Elie Wiesel’s speech the Perils of Indifference is explaining about his opinion on his experience rather than the book he wrote Night explains his experience. I believe that his speech Perils Of Indifference got his message across better. Both were very informative and well written and got his message across. The book Night written by Elie Wiesel was a great book…

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    In a passage from Night by Elie Wiesel, the author utilizes the effects of anaphoric, repetitive, language and parallelism along with precise details to create a mood of suspense. Throughout this passage, the audience gains knowledge of young Elie Wiesel’s thoughts. Suspense builds up as the Elie began to list out his thoughts starting with, “The last night at home.” This reflection leads to “the last night in the ghetto,” then, “the last night in the cattle car” and finally ends in, “the last…

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    Indifference is thought to be neither right nor wrong because of what indifference is--a lack of thought on a subject. However, indifference is not only a state of not caring in the middle of right and wrong. Elie Wiesel presented a speech called “The Perils of Indifference” in 1999 on the topic of indifference. In this speech, he argued that being indifferent towards suffering is just as wrong as acting violently towards others. Elie Wiesel builds his argument that indifference can be just as…

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    Communism, a type of government in Eastern Europe at a time, where everyone was poor, became every citizen’s worst nightmare. Drakulić, Slavenka’s, How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed (1992), describes the struggle of Eastern European citizens, specifically women in the fight to end communism. Slavenka Drakulić was a Croatian journalist who travelled through various countries such as Yugoslavia, Poland, Czechoslovakia East Germany, and Bulgaria, spending time with women and listening to…

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    The Holocaust was a terrible time. Many Jewish people were captured and taken to concentration camps by the Nazis. Elie and his family are taken to a concentration camp, when they get there the are separated with other Jews. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, he explains how the Nazis dehumanize the Jews by not giving them enough food to survive, treating them like animals, and separating them from their families. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, the Nazis don't give the Jews enough food to…

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