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    Dehumanization “Never shall I forget the small faces of the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transform into smoke under the silent sky.” - Elie Wiesel. This quote is very important to dehumanization because children are being burned during the holocaust. The holocaust was in WWII. The jewish race was being exterminated. In the memoir, Night, Wiesel reveals the theme of dehumanization throughout the book. Dehumanization affected Elie’s identity; however he still wrote the book because he wanted

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    horrors of a concentration camp. Elie Wiesel is no exception. He was taken to a concentration camp in 1944 and lost his mother and father in the concentration camps. Mr. Wiesel was brave enough to step forward and share his experiences during the Holocaust, which he recorded in his book Night. In his book Night, Elie Wiesel uses irony, foreshadowing, and tone to describe the uncertainty of one’s future before going and while in a concentration camp. Elie Wiesel uses irony to illustrate that he did

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    committed. Elie Wiesel tells his story in his memoir Night. Elie Wiesel uses pathos to tell his story and to inform the readers of the horrendous things that happened during the Holocaust so as to prevent it from happening again. Elie Wiesel uses imagery to appeal to his readers’ emotions in his book Night. As Wiesel narrates his arrival at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, he describes his flood of thoughts and what he sees. As he arrives at Auschwitz for the first time Wiesel says, "We stared

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    the novel “Night”, author, Elie Wiesel uses imagery to share his experiences as a jew during the holocaust. Wiesel’s use of imagery helps demonstrate the tone and purpose of the entire novel. Elie Wiesel’s journey starts off  subtle but in the end leaves the reader heartbroken.    Throughout the story, Wiesel describes his tragic memories during the nazi concentration camps, which establishes a dark and somber tone. His descriptions and use of imagery creates the tone and purpose of “Night”.     Wiesel

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    Silence! With nobody to speak out and help those in need, how was Elie Wiesel and his father going to survive the camps? Elie and his father are apart of a jewish family in the 1940’s. That means they would be sent to a concentration camp. Hitler is in power and is conducting a genocide against jews. Throughout the book you notice the theme silence being used. Wiesel wanted his audience to know that not only were the Jewish people in camps silenced, but the world around them was silenced as well

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    The memoir Night by Elie Wiesel is the recounting of a teenage Wiesel’s experience during the Holocaust, through a narrator named Eliezer. Throughout the text, the Nazis use many sinister methods to dehumanize their victims physically, mentally, and emotionally. One of these methods is controlling every aspect of their victims’ lives. In Night, upon entering a camp, none of the Nazis care to keep any Jewish families together, and they do not allow the prisoners to keep any items that have value,

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    Night, a narrative by Elie Wiesel, contains many themes. However, the universal theme is survival. In his narrative, Wiesel expresses how the concentration camps were harsh and deadly. This contributes to the theme of survival because not many people survived these camps. Every day, thousands of helpless, innocent citizens died from the cruel treatment exerted on them. Even though he was weak, Wiesel survived the harsh treatment from Hitler’s soldiers. He also conquered the starvation in the camps

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    In “Night”, by Elie Wiesel , A very brave contender, who slowly began to lose faith in God. “Where is merciful God, where is he”, (wiesel 64) ? In this Quote Elie Wiesel was crying out for God's absence wanting to know why he is letting these terrible thing happen to his family. As Elie and his father were being tortured by the Germans, not knowing when or what him and his father eat. Elie was even beginning to lose faith in keeping his father alive. “In spite of myself , a prayer formed inside

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    Night by Elie Wiesel is an autobiography about his experience during the Holocaust when he was fifteen years old. Elie is fifteen when the tragedy begins. He is taken with his family through many trials and then is separated from everyone besides his father. They are left with only each other, of which they are able to confide in and look to for support. The story is told through a series of creative writing practices. Mr. Wiesel uses strong diction, and syntax as well as a combination of stylistic

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    Promises Were Meant to be Broken : Dehumanization of Holocaust Victims In history there is no true justice, just death, in the case of the Holocaust, much death. In Night by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel describes his life of a fourteen year old religious Jewish boy, who was sent to Auschwitz, the largest concentration camp, where he lost both his faith and his family. In 1933, Adolf Hitler began putting Jews and other “despicable” ethnic groups into concentration camps and blaming them for the problems

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