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    sacrificed.” The novel “Night” by Elie Weisel is about Elie and his suffering through a bad period in time. He suffered many losses and he suffered in concentration camps. During this time Elie was only fifteen years old and he was being worked to death in concentration camp. In the novel “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the main character, Elie, was effected by the events in the book because he lost his faith, he was effected emotionally, and was going through a mental illness. Elie took a turn on his faith because

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    I believe that Rebecca Skloot included this quote from Elie Wiesel as it represents how important each person really is. This quote says that every person is different and inside of them is something special, their own personal hopes and fears. This quote comes from a man who spent time in a concentration camp as a number, and being labeled doesn't make you feel very special, such is the case with the HeLa cells. The cells, which came from a real person, were labeled in such a way that whose they

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    The atrocity expressed throughout Night, by Elie Wiesel, gives us a clear understanding into the levels of inhumane management which occurred in the times of World War II from the Germans. During the Holocaust, Hitler’s main objective was to make the Jews feel defective; he was ahead of the game. The Jews were tortured everyday for no reason at all other than for the SS officers’ own laughs. Wiesel exercises imagery, dialogue, and plot events to voice his own experience with the trauma of inhumanity

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    present in our society, be it in the previous century with fascists, or today with the Taliban. It is now a concept that is feared by many; however, it is crucial to keep it in mind as humanity advances towards the future. In his novella Night, Elie Wiesel offers the perspective of a victim of religious persecution facing the injustices of fanaticism through a first-person recollection of the Holocaust. Now, seventy years following the unforgettable events of World War Two, Malala Yousafzai is walking

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    time all their hopes, dreams and achievements disappeared. Elie Wiesel believed that whenever “men and women are being persecuted because of their race, religion or political views…” then it falls on all of us, both individuals and government, to help. I agree with Wiesel that to stop future genocide and further racism, we must all come together because not only are we all human beings, but if we don't then we will never advance. Wiesel was only a teenager when he was forced to witness and experience

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    those situations. In Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, he writes about his life spent in the concentration camps, while explaining the experiences and struggles that he went through. Although, not everything during that period was completely unbearable for Wiesel. At the time when Wiesel first arrived at the camps, the fear instilled in Wiesel and the loneliness he would have felt forced him to form a stronger attachment to his father. That dependence towards his father gave Wiesel a reason to keep on

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    area with many people fighting to just get by each day. Would you try to help others for the sacrifice of your mental or physical health? Would you give up your food so that you can give it to someone who is in worse condition than you? Night shows Elie Wiesel’s experiences with the concentration camp called Auschwitz. Even if people would say that they would help others for sacrificing your health there is always a breaking point. If people think that life will be better in some sort of way in the

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    Prompt 1- One of the most tragic themes in Night is Eliezer's discovery of the way that atrocities and cruel treatment can make decent people into brutes. Does Elie himself escape this fate? Use specific events to convey your opinion. Many people in the story Night are exposed to the horrors of the Holocaust and these terrors bring out the bad sides of their character. A prime example is of the son who abandons his father because he is slowing him down to much and the son does not want to be responsible

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    In the memoir Night, Elie states that once his father “had just been struck” he had not even blinked (Wiesel 39). These inhumane situations can lead to many other things such as trauma and even lead some people to give up. Two themes related to inhumanity as shown in the book are losing faith and also long term effects. One theme in Night is that overwhelming inhumanity can lead people into losing faith. To begin with, on the day of atonement in Appelatz, Elie stated “I did not fast… I no longer

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    turned my dreams to dust." (Page 133) The are the words of Elie Wiesel in the book “Night”. The book takes place during World War II while Elie is only 15 years old and is forced to go to a concentration camp, Auschwitz. He and his father are separated from the rest of his family and has Elie working in the camp while taking care of his father. The more time he spends in the camp the more changes he starts to develop. One significant change of Elie during the book is his loss of faith in God. As stated

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