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    span of four years, over six million Jews alone were slaughtered in an event called the Holocaust. Eliezer may have survived the odious events of the Holocaust, but the ways it has affected him will have changed Eliezer forever. The memoir the Night by Elie Wiesel shows the transformation of Eliezer physically, mentally, and spiritually during the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel’s immediate and most easily recognized changes throughout the memoir were his physical changes. At the beginning of the memoir, Eliezer

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    The holocaust is one of the most horrific, disgusting, painful things that have ever happened in history, but how did that affect suffering the victims of this time. In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the main character, Elie is affected by the events in the book because he stopped believing in his religion, no longer cared about his father, and lost his humanity. Ellie stopped believing in his religion to rebel against God because he thought that God was letting everyone get killed and not

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    Jewish Dehumanization by the Nazis What if someone today treated you how the Nazis treated the Jews, as mere objects? The Nazis dehumanized the Jews and treated them as disposable things. In the 1956 novel “Night” by Elie Wiesel, Elie describes his experience during the Holocaust. He describes how he was separated from his family and then forced to work in a labor camp. Elie goes into detail of how harsh the conditions were during his camp life. A few of the ways that the Nazis dehumanized the

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    altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be 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

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    ​ Unimaginable. Unbearable. Unsaintly. The memoir Night by Elie Wiesel depicts the treacherous story of Elie and his father's daily obstacles in the 1940's. But this isn't any type of story, it is of the reoccurring nightmares in the various concentration camps that were constructed in the time period well known as the Holocaust. In the beginning of the story, the act of dehumanization caused Elie to lose many things like his belief in God, compassion and remorse towards others and comfort.

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    The novel "Night" written by Elis Wiesel talks about his religious life at home in the little town of Sighet in Transylvania and how his religion began fading day to day while being held in the concentration camps during World War II. At the age of thirteen Elis started showing interest in Kabbalah, a Jewish religion. When he asked his father to help find him a master and guide him through the study of Kabbalah, his father simply said no. He felt that Elis was too young and needed to be older before

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    Over the course of the book, Night by Elie Wiesel. Elie changes mentally from being a regular boy with a little boy mindset to a grown man with a man mentality. This is important to the book as a whole because it connects to the life of jews and all the struggles they went trough. The change is apparent when they were rumors of them being transferred, when idek refused to leave him in the camp and also when his dad dies. At the start of the book when there were rumors of them being moved to somewhere

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    family. He should not say anything about that but instead keep quiet and try something else. Some truths can hurt, so tell a lie instead to make someone feel better; however, lying is bad morally, while making someone feel better is not. In Night by Eliezer Wiesel about his experience in a German concentration camp at Auschwitz, Eliezer finds himself in one of the difficult situations. He and his father had been in the concentration camp when they encounter a forgotten relative named Stein. His actions

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    Sufferage. Loss. Tears. Night, a memoir written by Elie Wiesel, explains what his father & himself went through as prisoners during the Holocaust. Elie describes everything his father and himself saw and experienced while in a concentration camp. Elie had great faith before the Holocaust, but questioned it due to his experiences at the camp. ​ Before the Holocaust, Elie's religion was very strong. ​Elie wanted someone to teach him the ways of Kabbalah. His father would always tell him that he

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    learned that the hard way” it is a statement that is often used in regular everyday conversation. Situations or struggles that individuals have to deal with teach them lessons about the world and may in turn impact who they are. In Elie Wiesel’s novel, Night, Elie develops the idea that adversity in one's life can quite drastically change or shape a person's identity and mentally wear them down to the point where they are incapable of being who they truly are even after they already have developed their

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