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One of them was about the cruelty that the Nazi Soldiers had done. The Nazi Soldiers were so messed up to them, and treated them horribly like slaves. They were practically slaves, putting them to work and all. In the book Elie Wiesel reflects on his past life in the Holocaust. Elie knew that during the Holocaust, especially the time it happened, one day would be judged. (“Elie Wiesel” Biography.com).

From the time where Elie had to decide to fight for his father’s life, to the time where he questioned his beliefs, Elie has had to make many life-changing decisions. As some of his decisions left negative consequences, some were left a positive outcome. In the end, all the decisions Elie had made in the camps has made his life miserable or at its best. For better or for worse, the events that Elie encountered makes his life unforgettable as realizes there was more to life than he had thought of

A3 Suzy Kassem once wrote, “The gut is the seat of all feeling. Polluting the gut not only cripples your immune system, but also destroys your sense of empathy, the ability to identify with other humans.” The destruction of the human sense of apathy, as mentioned by Suzy Kassem, is the same kind of emotional desensitization that Auschwitz caused Elie to experience. Night by Elie Wiesel uses symbolism, personal conflicts, and flashbacks to show how desensitization leads to people becoming emotionally dormant, as he experienced during his time at Auschwitz. Through his use of symbolism, Elie exposes the emotional dormancy he experienced during his time at Auschwitz.

Elie’s faith in humanity starts disappearing on his first day at the camp. “Was I still alive? Was I awake? How was it possible that men, women, and the children were being burned and that the world kept silent? No. All this could not be real. A nightmare perhaps…”(32). Elie’s thought was that if thousands of people were being murdered each day that someone was bound to notice. No one would let a genocide happen right in front of them and not do

Imagine yourself being born as a Jew in the time of the Holocaust. Being forced to go into hiding, and go every day not knowing what will come next, living in fear of being captured by the Nazis and sent to a concentration camp. The Holocaust was a time in period when a guy named Adolf Hitler came into power of being the leader of the Nazis. The Nazis rounded and relocated nearly 1 million Jews from all across Europe to forced labor camps and extermination camps. There were different ways they got rid of the Jews. A quarter of the Jews were worked to death. The rest were sent immediately to gas chambers to be killed. Literature helps us remember and honor the victims of the Holocaust by reading and seeing all the suffering they went through.

The book opens with Elie’s life before him and his family were taken away. The story continues talking about how when they arrived in Auschwitz his mother and sister were taken to the crematorium with other women and children who were not strong enough to work in the camps. The only people left from Elie’s family were him and his father. Throughout the whole book Elie talks about how his father was his only motivation to keep going. When Elie’s father dies he contemplates to keep going or just to give in. In the end he is liberated and is freed.

“He was finally free, but there was no joy in his heart. He thought there never would be again”. This quote stated by Elie Wiesel from his speech, “The Perils of Indifference”, refers to the day Elie Wiesel got liberated from the Holocaust when he was young. The Holocaust was just one of the many horrific tragedies that occurred during that century. In hopes of changing the future for the better, Wiesel decides to deliver a speech about helping the victims of injustice. He gives this speech intended for the President, Mrs. Clinton, members of Congress, Ambassador Holbrooke, Excellencies, and friends hoping that they will make positive changes for the future. By using rhetorical strategies such as anaphora, rhetorical questions, and ethos, Wiesel tries to help the victims of injustice and prevent future tragedies from happening.

As Elie’s life continues he endures more tests that at his age majority of the people would not have experienced. Elie's father was suffering from dysentery and other maladies. On the night of January 28th in 1945, Elie goes to his bunk in exhaustion with his father still alive and in the bunk below him, “I had to go to sleep. I climbed into my bunk, above my father, who was still alive. The date was January 28, 1945”(112). In the morning, Elie wakes up to a new person in the bed where his father had laid. Elie realizes that he has no emotion left to show, especially not sympathy, “I

Traumatic and scarring events occur on a daily basis; from house fires to war, these memories are almost impossible to forget. The Holocaust is only one of the millions of traumas that have occurred, yet it is known worldwide for sourcing millions of deaths. Elie Wiesel was among the many victims of the Holocaust, and one of the few survivors. In the memoir, “Night”, by Elie Wiesel, Elie, the main character, is forever changed because of his traumatic experiences in the Auschwitz concentration camps.

Forty-two years after entering the concentration camp for the first time, Elie Wiesel remarked, “Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope” (Nobel Lecture 1). This means a lot from someone who endured almost two years of the terror in the WWII concentration camps. During these two years, Elie endured the sadness of leaving his former life and faith behind, the pain of living off of scraps of bread, and the trepidation of the “selections”, where he almost lost his father. He watched the hanging of innocent people, was beat by Kapos and guards time after time, and marched in a death march right after having a foot surgery. Through all of this, he survived because he remained hopeful. Hope was all the Jewish people

As soon as the speech begins, Elie uses pathos with an anecdote on his experience after being freed from a concentration camp by American soldiers. This successfully elicits emotion from the audience and collects their attention for the rest of the speech with phrasing like “there was no joy in his heart”. Then, further in, Elie compliments Mr. Bill Clinton by saying he has gratitude for him being the “Commander and Chief of the army that freed me, and tens of thousands of others” and Mrs. Clinton is thanked for her efforts to help “…the victims of injustice, the victims of destiny and society directly. However, he continues on and calls the government out on their seeming indifference when it came to the events of WWII. By saying, “We believe that Auschwitz and Treblinka were closely guarded secrets…but we learned that

In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie Wiesel is a young boy who struggles to survive after being forced to live in the brutal concentration camp of Auschwitz. In Auschwitz, death and suffering is rampant, but due to compassionate words and actions from others, Elie is able to withstand these severe living conditions and overcome the risk of death in the unforgiving Auschwitz. As shown through the actions and words of characters in Night, compassion, the sympathetic pity for the suffering or misfortune of others is critical to the human experience because it enables humans to empathize with each other, empathizing which allows us to feel the need to assist others which can often be vital for survival.

In Elie Wiesel’s Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, “Keep the Memory Alive”,  he speaks about you should speak up for others when they have no voice themselves. Elie Wiesel feels he isn’t worthy to accept the honor on behalf of all the perished people. Wiesel spoke about the hardships he had to undergo of being a Jew. People don’t stand up for others in fear that they will be next. If you don’t stand up for others, then no one will be there to stand for you.

As Elie Wiesel gave his Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, he made his purpose clear by stating, “ I swore never to be silent ...”. To further elaborate, Elie knew if nothing was said about the abuse and maltreatment he lived through, many would go through the same; therefore, he promised himself to expose the truth. Furthermore, Elie goes on stating, in his speech, “ Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere.” Wiesel’s proclamation indicates the quietude of a bystander or person who lived through the horror, like himself , gives power to those who caused the damage and he encourages the people to speak up and help end the act of genocide. At this rate, Elie’s motive is to put an end to the humiliation and abuse that occur to others and for the people of the world to stand up and rise against the horrific events and to do all to their abilities to help the people in desperate

On December, 10, 1986 Elie Wiesel gave a speech in honor of accepting the Nobel peace prize. Martin Luther began by giving thanks to his fellow nonviolent followers. However, Elie gave thanks and honor to all the survivors and their children. Elie gives you a strong more emotional start to his speech. Elie wants to pay his respect to those friends and families and teachers whom were taken away from him.