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    Imprisonment. Faith. Emotionless. In the memoir, Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie and his father were kept prisoners in a concentration camp in Auschwitz for being Jewish. This time period was called the Holocaust. Elie and his father were distant but later they become closer and depend on one another. Elie and his dad are somewhat distant with one another when they live in Sighet. Distance is when someone finds themselves uncommunicative or undemonstrative. In the beginning, Elie experiences a distant

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    In Ellie Wiesel’s non-fiction novel, Night, he is telling his experiences of living in a concentration camp. The following passage is one that gives an example of how human lives were disregarded, “Faster, you filthy dogs! We were no longer marching, we were running like automatons. The SS were running as well, weapons in hand. We looked as though we were running from them. The night was pitch-black. From time to time, a shot exploded in the darkness. They had orders to shoot anyone who could not

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    have heard, keep people from believing in God at all. In reflection of reading Night, by Elie Wiesel, I think that this is an important question to tackle. One of the themes of the memoir Night is, “the silence of God in all the atrocities and evil of this world.” Eliezer becomes hopeless, we see this when he says, “And then, there was no longer any reason for me to fast. I no longer accepted God’s silence.” (pg. 69, Night). When investigating such a heavy topic, it is important to focus on a few different

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    A Loss in Faith, Ever Found? Night, written by Elie Wiesel, tells the terrifying experience in the concentration camps that many Jews were imprisoned in during World War II. Throughout most of the novel, Elie Wiesel tells about how many prisoners, including himself, lost faith in God. During the Holocaust many groups of people, especially Jews, were taken to concentrations camps and treated in the most inhumane way. Many were taken away from their homes, and lost everything that was once their own

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    hand tightened its grip on my father, all I could think of was not to lose him. Not to remain alone.” How far does love for our family go? How much could we suffer for the people we love? How much do we want to be alive with people we’re related to? “Night” is a memoir written by Elie Weisel. He wrote about his experiences and what he endured while we was being kept hostage at multiple concentration camps. He was taken there with his family, but everyone besides his father was taken away to never see

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    Elie Wiesel is the author of Night, in Elie’s memoir, he explains how the Jews were dehumanized throughout the time they spent suffering in the Labor Camps. Dehumanization is the act of depriving a person or group of positive human qualities, while the Jews were forced to live in the concentration camps they were treated as anything but humans. In the memoir Elie explains the observations the fellow Jews made during their time of suffering. During the Holocaust Jews, as a race were treated as nothing

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    inflicted upon countless souls was not easy to adapt to. Over six million Jews, handicapped, and ‘different’ people were executed in Hitler’s murder spree. In Elie Wiesel’s novel Night, the author paints an image for the reader of what an unimaginable, first-hand experience of the Holocaust was like: starvation, abuse, inhumanity. Night is just one example that proves that inhumanity can cause anyone to become evil because the cruelty can morph them into a barbaric individual, who lacks a sense of identity

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    In the novel “Night” by Elie Wiesel there are many examples of how indifference can affect individuals and society. The novel is an autobiography of Elie Wiesel’s experience throughout World War 2. At the beginning of the story indifference is seen negatively affecting the Jewish and Elie’s friend Moishe. Moishe is a foreign Jew who was evacuated from Sighet and taken into Polish territory controlled by the Gestapos. There Moishe sees many horrific sights happen to the Jews, including: Jewish being

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    Max de Janosi 2-21-16 English - Night Final Essay During the Holocaust, the Jewish people were victim of dehumanization and desensitization. This is evident in the novel Night, by Elie Wiesel. The definition of the word dehumanization is: Dehumanization is the psychological process of demonizing the enemy, making them seem less than human and hence not worthy of humane treatment. Not only were the Jews victim of dehumanization, but also desensitized. “We were incapable of thinking. Our senses numbed

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    changed out of survival? People who survived the holocaust changed because of what they went through so they could survive. Just like Elie he survived Auschwitz and he will never be the same person he was before the concentration camps. In “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the main character, Elie developed into a new person through his experiences at Auschwitz Concentration Camp and survived. Before he was exiled to a concentration camp, Elie exhibited some character traits that he has had from day 1, such

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