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NIGHT COMMENTARY In this passage from the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie had been snatched from his home and transported to a concentration camp, in a cattle car. Passage two talks about Elie’s first experience with the Nazis, and the process of how he was treated, and how he felt. This passage shows how a person can be dehumanized by being affected by war and tragedy, it talks about the use of imagery, symbolism, hyperbole, and other literary devices used by the author. The story is told in…

Night: by Elie Wiesel I chose to do a book report on this book called: “Night” written by Eliezer Wiesel. The author, Eliezer Wiesel is an actual survivor of the Holocaust, and he endured the suffering of living in the Auschwitz labour camps. This book is a first hand memoir of the horrors and painful experiences Elie Wiesel had endured when he was only fifteen years old. Throughout the book, Elie describes his struggle to keep his faith in God, as he is unable to believe that a loving God…

The air was crisp and cool. The sky was a deep shade of purple that signaled night was setting in the sky. There was no illumination of this land other than the shimmering moon and the warm, eerie glow from the apartment buildings scattered among the fields. In the fields themselves, insects buzzed and chirped, hidden deep within the underbrush. In the soil, prairie dogs scrambled fervently, navigating their tunnels in search of a nighttime meal. On the edge of the fields, a deserted path lay…

conclude that the guards of the concentration camps were the only ones who dealt out the inexplicable cruelty to the innocent Jewish prisoners of World War II. This statement later proves to be completely fictional. Elie Wiesel, writer of the memoir, Night describes the unthinkable injustice dealt to the prisoners by the German officers, but also the inconceivable: the dehumanization of prisoners by other prisoners. In his memoir, Wiesel goes beyond explaining the horrors of Hitler and the Nazi…

comfortable with or believe in themselves; this is alternately called peer pressure. However, even through moments of weakness and the struggle to belong, one shapes and forms their own identity simply by knowing what they do and do not believe in. No one lives the exact same life as another person, so no one has the exact same identity as someone else. In this way, everyone is an individual, no matter how similar…

contrast a Play and Night The play version of The Diary of Anne Frank tells the story of a teen girl and her family going into hiding during the Holocaust. In this play it tells about where she and her family are hiding ,and different problems she has to face ,that mostly involve trying not to get caught by the Germans. While on the other hand, the book Night tells about a teen boy who is in going through different concentration camps ,who is trying to survive with his father. In Night the teen…

In Elie Wiesels life changing memoir “Night” he travels the path of hate, cruelty, and silence. He then recounts his life in the concentration camps, as a young boy named Eliezer, describing his experiences that shaped him into the person he is today. Sharing with us his tragic experiences, and all the feelings he had to hold in during the horrid time of the Holocaust. For feelings were not something to be defined in the camps, in order to survive feelings were not an option. During the…

The book “Night” by Elie Wiesel follows Wiesel through the terrifying experiences of concentration camp. Elie is the author and main character of the novel, providing a chance to see inside his mind and a World War II Concentration Camp. Elie is a fifteen year old Jew living in Sighet, Transylvania when he is taken to the Auschwitz concentration camp, and later to Buchenwald. The camps quickly change Elie into someone he does not want to be, shaping him into someone a little more greedy, silent,…

Imagine you are a prisoner in a nazi concentration camp, and a dying soldier asks for your forgiveness. How would you respond? This is the situation a young Simon Wiesenthal was put in during his time in a concentration camp, afterwards simon reached out to many different people from many backgrounds and experiences in life. And he had them respond with what they would have done. I have chosen 6 of these people and an article on forgiveness to talk about their opinions, and my personal opinion…

of the Holocaust would be a true test of any relationship. This idea is displayed in the memoir Night, penned by Elie Wiesel . Throughout their time at the concentration camps, Elie Wiesel and his father endured the treachery of the Holocaust while relying on each other for much needed support. Naturally, Wiesel and his father grew closer than they have ever been as this pivotal moment changed their lives forever. Elie Wiesel’s will to survive through the heinous punishment that he experienced…