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    Night takes place during the time period of World War II. The story features a boy named Elie and his father. The two men witness horrible crimes against humanity in the concentration camps, living under the bitter rule of the Germans. The Germans treat the Jews with extreme harshness by shaving their heads, forcing them into a poisonous gas room and giving them hardly any food. I chose to discuss the topic of inhumanity because it is the most prominent idea exhibited throughout the novel. In Night

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    Night contains a significant amount of figurative language. Select 3 examples from the text to analyze. In analyzing each example, be sure to explain how the specific example impacts the text. (How does it affect the reader? How does it affect the reading experience? Why did Wiesel make that specific choice?) Please use a different type of figurative language for each example. Of the countless examples of figurative language in Night I have decided to perform my in-depth analysis of the

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    In the memoir Night, Elie Wiesel depicts different kinds of relationships and their effects on the people they involve. Night is a true story about a Jew’s appalling experience in the holocaust and through World War II. We see the abyss of horror that they were living in during this time. It shows us all of the people that Wiesel came in contact with and the way he and his father became closer. In Night, Wiesel reveals to readers that relationships can be uplifting yet burdensome and sometimes difficult

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    longevity. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie and his family are sent to concentration camps and his mother and sisters are separated from him and his father. This book is categorized as an autobiography because Elie is writing about his past and not somebody else. Elie Wiesel uses characterization, structure, and imagery to develop the theme of the power of kindness. Wiesel uses characterization to develop the theme of the power of kindness. The evolution of Shlomo Wiesel is a characterization

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    concentration camp. This point in time is commonly referred to as the Holocaust. In Elie Wiesel’s book "Night” that documents Elie Wiesel’s struggles in a ghetto and then being transported throughout Germany to these awful places that are made for death. However, in the novel “Night,” Elie Wiesel uses dialog, ellipses, and symbolism to show the bond he has with his father. (73) In “Night”, Elie Wiesel shows their bond with dialog, as Elie yells to get his father to wake up, trying to convince

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    god, and if he is a just one. Throughout Night, a Holocaust memoir, it is shown that faith does not only refer to religion, but also the belief that humanity is sympathetic and warm-hearted. Elie Wiesel, author of Night, demonstrates how he loses his faith and watches those around him lose their confidence in God, and each other. Wiesel shares his thoughts with the readers writing how from a very young age he believed profoundly yet within a few months Wiesel finds himself questioning “Where is God

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    as 6 million Jews died at the hands of the Nazi soldiers, and many suspect that there were even more. Night by Elie Wiesel is a memoir of Wiesel’s time in various concentration camps during the Holocaust. It begins in Wiesel’s hometown of Sighet, Transylvania, and follow the journey of the main character Eliezer. A few main themes of this historic recount are silence, night, and inhumanity. Night has many examples of inhumanity, specifically violence toward the inmates. Wiesel’s memoir shines a light

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    In the memoir Night, Elie Wiesel goes through the worst experience of his life along with his father- they are taken to Nazi-German concentration camps during the Holocaust. Wiesel turns his painful story into an acclaimed work of nonfiction. The Jews lost their humanity through prolonged periods of starvation, beatings, murders, separation of families, and theft of their belongings. Throughout the book, dehumanization grows and slowly begins to exhaust the Jews while they are also drowned in fear

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    acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize as well his novel Night Elie Wiesel asserts “Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” Elie Wiesel clearly demonstrates that his opinion with the listed statement. Elie Wiesel demonstrates his opinion on neutrality very often due to his status as a Jew and the horrors they faced during the holocaust and throughout history. Wiesel shows support for intervention in the following “Sometimes we

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    and murdered to such measures during the Holocaust. In the story Night, Elie Wiesel uses diction to show what brutal effects the Holocaust had on him and his fellow prisoners, his tone is quite somber, honest, and stern to stress his figurative language, to rather affect their feelings to give a sense of what the prisoners of the Nazi’s camp were feeling. In Night, Elie Wiesel compared himself to just an object, he writes, "The night was gone. The morning star was shining in the sky. I too had become

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