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    A Violent Faith ¨For God’s sake, where is God?¨ And from within me, I heard a voice answer: ¨Where He is? This is where - hanging from this gal- lows.¨ (xx) The author Elie Wiesel, wrote an autobiography titled Night, which took place in many different camps in Germany but the main one was Auschwitz, the author wrote about himself and everyone else that went through and suffered in the Holocaust during WWII did to survive for as long as they did and they had to do to overcome many hardships.…

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    Elie Wiesel's Night

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    Painful. Horrific. Terrifying. In the memoir book Night written by Elie Wiesel was based on a true story of the author. Elie was just a young Jewish boy when he lost everything including himself during the Holocaust. Elie's relationship with his family and dad was very weak. Elie's relationship with his father was very distant while living in Sighet but once they arrived at the camps they realized that they only had each other thus creating a bond until the very end. Elie's and his father's…

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    “What a shame, a shame that you did not go with mom… I saw many children your age go with their mothers…” (33). - Night by Elie Wiesel,The book has two main characters Elie and his father, Who find the hardships in trying to make it through the almost unbearable wrath of the Nazis during the holocaust. They found that it was exceptionally hard to survive and keep their faith through there journey. Keeping faith throughout the holocaust is difficult. One example on why its hard would be…

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    It’s interesting to see how certain events can shape a person and how they can completely change them. This drastic change in character can clearly be seen in Elie Wiesel's novel “Night,” in which we see events from the Holocaust unfold from the eyes of younger Jewish Elie Wiesel. “Night” is set during the nineteen-forties when the Nazi party still ruled Germany. Twelve-year-old Elie Wiesel and the rest of his family are sent to the concentration camps after their own town is taken control of…

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    All around the world are different types of people, each being unique in their own ways. Since everyone is vastly different, they’re all sure to have differing opinions, beliefs, and customs. Taking away a person’s rights just because they’re not the same doesn’t make it acceptable. The memoir Night follows the life Sighet Jew, Eliezer and his father. Going from concentration camp to concentration camp, Elie learns about himself and discovers what religion truly is. This memoir takes place…

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    Night And Life Analysis

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    For the arrival of the camp both in Night and Life is Beautiful the families were separated. When they arrived in Auschwitz the men were separated from the women, so Elie and his dad were separated from Elie’s mom and his sister. In life is beautiful Joshua and his dad Guido get sent on a train to the German concentration camp. Dory is stuck at home and begs to be sent to them and eventually does get on the train. After arrival, the men and the women get separated Joshua is told that the camp…

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    How is one person capable of losing all faith in their God, after being in an extensive, deadly, and cruel circumstance? Just ask Elie Weisel. Elie Wiesel is an American Jewish writer who wrote Night based on his accounts of the Holocaust. At the age of 15, Elie, his three siblings, and his parents were all taken by Nazi forces to Sighet, a local ghetto. He was separated from his mother and sister and deported to Auschwitz. He faced many obstacles along the way to his liberation. Throughout…

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    Death is not what the greatest loss is, it is, in fact, when we die on the inside, while our hearts continues to beat. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, the author retells the horrors he went through during his time in the concentration camps during World War II. The book tells an unbearably painful story that describes all the pain, hunger, work, and beatings Wiesel and his fellow prisoners had to experience. Wiesel details the emotional death within the other prisoners, spawned through the…

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    January 30th, 1933 Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany is anointed by President Hindenburg, it can be argued that this is when all of this horror began. Night written by Elie Wiesel is a true story about Elie’s personal experiences with being forced to go through the horrible conditions of the Holocaust. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne is a Historical Fiction book and is the complete opposite of Night. While their situations were totally different, both Elie and Bruno had to adapt to…

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    Night Rhetorical Analysis

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    Regarding the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel wrote Night, for the sake of showing his readers, that he was, indeed, a rightful candidate to stand up for all of the Jewish people who were tortured and murdered during that gruesome event. To ensure that he would reach his goal, Elie Wiesel used emotional, logical, and ethical appeals. To begin, Elie Wiesel showed emotional appeals, by sharing the tragic experiences he had, and the terrible events he witnessed, while he was in the concentration camp. He…

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