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    But Night by Elie Wiesel touched the hearts of millions. Each and every word written in his novel not only teaches people about the horrible experiences of those in the holocaust, but the book also explains how people act the way that they do. In his memoir, Wiesel exposes how people are either selfish or selfless, emotionally fragile and blame their faith in times of hardship. One theme Wiesel shows in Night is that there are 2 types of people in this world; the selfless and selfish. Wiesel gives

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    that occurred from the years 1933 to 1945. It was a racial injustice in which Jews, along with people seen as inferior, were persecuted by the German Nazi’s. Author Elie Wiesel and director Steven Spielberg both do excellent jobs at educating an audience of the horrors people experienced during this time. In Wiesel’s novel Night, the Holocaust is shown from a Jewish boy’s perspective as Elie struggles to survive the torment of several concentration camps. Steven Spielberg’s film Schindler’s List

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    Yes, I did see this, with my own eyes… children thrown into the flames.” (Wiesel 32). The previous sentence is a quote from Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night. Wiesel’s memoir is a first person account of a survivor of the Holocaust that occurred between 1933-1945. Over six million Jews were placed in concentration camps and murdered during this time period. Less than one percent of the Jews in the holocaust survived, but Elie Wiesel was one of the very few survivors. He lived on to tell his story of the

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    history and in the book Night by Elie Wiesel, it is evident that gentiles did not care about the Jewish nation. Moreover, not even the Jewish people stick together and cared for one another. Thus the Jews ceased to feel like human beings during and after the Holocaust. Over the course of history, many people from many nations dehumanized the Jews. In the book Night, Jews were treated as if they were not humans. When Dr. Mengele sorts Wiesel and his father in Birkenau, Wiesel says that “[they] did

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    In Night, by Elie Wiesel, one man tells his story of how he survived his terrible experiences in the Holocaust. Wiesel takes you on a journey through the his “night” of the Holocaust, how he survived the world’s deadliest place, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Elie Wiesel pulls you along on his dramatic journey through his endless night. Night, by Elie Wiesel forces you to open our eyes to the real world by using; irony, diction, and repetition to prove to his readers that man does have the capability to create

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    In Elie Wiesel’s autobiography Night, Wiesel has been exposed tribulations during The Holocaust; he had been taken captive at the young age of fifteen and spent months at the precipice of death. When several people would have an array of words to illustrate the entirety of the novel, Wiesel had saw fit one to fully do the job. Night is entitled Night because it depicts, symbolizes, and is a personification of Wiesel experiences and thoughts of The Holocaust. Night is the time where one reflects

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    In his autobiography Night and in his article “How Can We Understand Their Hatred?,” Elie Wiesel claims that indifference is the primary catalyst of fanaticism and therefore terrorism. Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, has been the voice of millions of Jews who had also experienced the Holocaust first hand. Wiesel wrote Night to educate others of the problems caused by indifference and fanaticism during his childhood. In Night, Wiesel recalls Jews as lesser beings to the German Nazis because they looked

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    English 2 Period 14 10 June 2015 Night Trilogy Criticism Elie Wiesel’s Night Trilogy is comprised of an autobiography about Wiesel’s experience during the Holocaust and the horrific struggle he faced while in concentration camps, and two other stories depicting the rise of Israel and an accident. The acclaimed Holocaust writer is most well-known for Night due to its effect across the globe. Dawn and Day are not autobiographies, yet they have lingering presences of Wiesel in the main characters and narrators

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    The Holocaust: Night by Elie Wiesel

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    Jews were persecuted, tortured and slaughtered in concentration camps (“The Holocaust” 1). Night by Elie Wiesel is the powerful memoir of his experiences during the Holocaust. Night shows the tragedy of the Holocaust through the use literary devices, including the themes of loss of faith and cruelty toward other human beings, night as a symbol of suffering and fear, and the use of first person narrative. Night allows the reader to emotionally connect with the victims of the Holocaust, encourages them

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    whether it be in family, passion, or love. Otherwise, without a purpose, life would be tedious and monotone. During my reading of “Night”, by Elie Wiesel, I discovered that the value of a life could not be measured accurately because there was no definite answer to the value of a life. The perspective of one person may differ than the perspective of another person. In “Night”, the value of a life through a pair Jewish eyes contrasted greatly with the value of a life through a pair of Nazi eyes. Jackie

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