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    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

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    Night Elie Wiesel

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    In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, the novel takes place in Europe where the Holocaust was happening. Eliezer is the main character who narrates his life with his father during the Holocaust. It starts that Eliezer and his family was living a normal life in Sighet, Hungary. However, in the spring of 1944, the Nazis occupied his country and forced all the Jews to wear yellow stars. His people and his family were herded by the police into cattle cars to Auschwitz. On their way to Auschwitz, they were

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    Elie Wiesel Night

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    “Night” is an autobiographical literature by Elie Wiesel during World War II that explains the tragic events the author went through during that period. In Sighet, Transylvania, everything began in 1941; when Elie Wiesel was just thirteen years old. Elie Wiesel was a religious and devout Jew; he was passionate about studying the Talmud and Kabbalah. Elie was a brother to three sisters and the only son of a Romanian shopkeeper. He found himself a Kabbalah teacher named Moishe the Beadle who was deported

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    readers to decide how they should feel about the events taking place in the book. Not only can this affect one person, but to others around the world. “Night” by Elie Wiesel takes place during the holocaust and Elie Wiesel describes the struggles of surviving in multiple concentration camps. Throughout the book, Elie Wiesel described his experience as emotionally painful not just for him, but for his father and his conditions to live. Accordingly, to Elie Wiesel’s description of

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    which consumed my faith forever.” - Elie Wiesel. Imagine walking amongst skeletons who you once knew but cannot recognize anymore and seeing people burn as if they were a waste of space, a disappointment. Elie Wiesel, a holocaust survivor, wrote his best selling book, ‘Night’, to make sure that history doesn't repeat itself with this monstrous deeds. The holocaust changed Wiesel in a lot of ways, good and bad, but the holocaust did not break him for Wiesel kept some of the most valuable traits like

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    Night Elie Wiesel

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    Night by Elie Wiesel is a book in which has changed my perspective on the Holocaust. In previous years, I have never pondered the true events that took place. This book changed my point of view. Elie Wiesel composed a piece of literature that has reached people across the world. He used the three themes of dehumanization, complacency, and anonymity to portray his story and his struggles during his childhood. The way that he simply states the magnitude of all that happened is truly touching. He saw

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    In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel who survived from the holocaust ,he shares his most personal memories of the holocaust , he experienced directly which he lost his family and friends , although he could not retained that view throughout the remainder of his life to bear witness to the suffering that he experienced and observed in the concentration camp. In 1945 wiesel traveled to Russia and a year later he published a reported tilted the jews of based silence on his experience there the report

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    Night By Elie Wiesel

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    Jewish history that can never be forgotten, and the Jews who fell subject to this inhuman act will never be forgotten either. The Holocaust has changed Jewish culture forever, and has become the 4th crisis of Judaism. Elie Wiesel’s autobiography, Night, is an account of Elie’s terrifying experiences and memories of the Holocaust. This autobiography not only reveals many horrifying details and a first-hand account of the Holocaust, but

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    There are some characters in the novel such as Eliezer Wiesel, Chlomo Wiesel, Sarah Feig, Hilda, Bea, Tzipora, Moishe the Beadle, Juliek, the SS officer and many more. But the writer will only discuss the character that give an effect to the story like Elie Wiesel, Chlomo as Elie’s father and Moishe the Beadle as Elie’s teacher. 4.1.2.1. Eliezer Wiesel Eliezer is a narrator in the story. The Night novel is written based on his life experience during Holocaust. Elie himself is a child from small

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    memoir Night by Elie Wiesel is all about his personal journey and place in the telling of the Holocaust. In the book he is sent to Auschwitz as a lamb is sent to the slaughter. He reiterates his transformation during this time, a transformation where he diverts from his Jewish roots and loses his faith in a merciful and Almighty God. In the beginning of Elie’s time in Auschwitz, he is a faithful young Jew who not only knows his religion well but wishes to learn even more. As said in Night, “One

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