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    Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night. Throughout his memoir, Elie Wiesel perceives how humans commit evil out of fear, however, Wiesel’s relationship with his father made him stronger, gave him purpose, and made him human in spite of the evil that surrounded them. During the Holocaust, millions of Jews suffered the atrocities that the Nazi put them through. For example, the Nazis forced them to live in inhumane conditions in ghettos, cattle cars, and concentration camps. Elie Wiesel’s memoir, NIGHT, examines

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    In Anne Moody's, Coming of age, she makes her memoir credible by using logos and ethos. One example of how she used logos is by including the names of participants and important people of the sit-in. For example “At exactly 11 a.m. Pearlena, Memphis, and I entered Woolworth’s from the rear entrance.” “While we were trying to make up our minds, we were joined by Joan Trumpauer.” “President Beittel went outside and asked Captain Ray to come and escort us out.” and last “Within ten minutes, we were

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    myself. A miracle? Certainly not. … It was nothing more than chance”(Weisel vii-viii). Many people believe that Elie Wiesel survived the Holocaust in order to write his memoir on his experiences being a Jewish boy in Auschwitz, but he believes that he just got lucky. Elie Wiesel went to Auschwitz when he was fifteen years old. In his memoir he writes about his experiences during Holocaust, which are not too pleasant. Roberto Benigni grew up in Italy with his father who worked in a camp during the Holocaust

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    Primary Sources Duras, Marguerite. The War: A Memoir. Translated Barbara Bray. New York: The New Press, 1986. The war is a memoir based on the forgotten diary of French Novelist Marguerite Duras experiences as a married women in Paris and member of the resistance network headed by Francois Mitterland. This memoir covers Paris during the Nazi Occupation and the first few months after liberation. This memoir is deals with a women going through the hardship in the changing role of resistance

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    Wiesel’s memoir, Night, Laurent Binet’s novel, HHhH, and Norman Goda’s historical overview, The Holocaust: Europe, the World, and the Jews, 1918 – 1945, to teach us about the Holocaust. This paper will discuss the different forms of Holocaust representation that I have learned about and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of memoirs, novels, and historical overviews while learning about the Holocaust. The first type of Holocaust representation that must be mentioned is memoirs. A memoir provides

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    like to be free and to be a slave. In the memoir forced, cruel, and child labor was depicted. Slaves in Africa were treated exceptionally well were as slaves in America were treated if they were not human. .Equiano was treated as if he was a part of the family he was sold to until he was sold to a family that treated their slaves poorly. Religion and Equiano determination helped him gain freedom. Also his experience was astonishingly unique. In the memoir several forms of slavery was depicted. Forced

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    voices, and discrediting language create a toxic environment that can destroy an individual’s sense of self-worth and dignity. The memoir 'House Rules' by Rachel Sontag employs several rhetorical techniques, such as vivid imagery, metaphor, and simile, to effectively convey the author's experiences and emotions regarding the author's experience with verbal abuse. In her memoir, ‘House Rules’, the author, Rachel Sontag, explores profound themes of family dynamics,

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    suffering for man than man himself. In the memoir Night, Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, tells his story about being in concentration camps for almost a year of his life to show the theme of how cruel and inhumane men can be to other men. The incidents that take place in Night are horrific. From the Nazis being cruel to the Jews to bystanders being cruel and ridiculing people for entertainment, this time period is filled with atrocities. Throughout the entire memoir, Wiesel shows how brutal people can

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    The memoir portion set in the desert was very distinctive compared to the memoir portion in West Virginia. The desert was full of good times and adventures which Jeanette fondly recalled. The Walls family was very tight-knit, and it was them against the world as they “skedaddled” from one town to the next. The Walls family loved the nature of the scorching environment and especially the creatures and objects they discovered in it. The tone of the first half of the memoir was very innocuous and relaxed

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    The memoir The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, is a perfect example of the emotional power a work of nonfiction can convey. Walls does not use her memoir to blame her parents for her unorthodox childhood, but instead turns all of her childhood suffering into a memoir that will be applicable for many years to come. The Glass Castle is a compelling work of nonfiction due to the fact that Walls didn't use this book as an excuse to blame her parents for her dysfunctional upbringing, she wrote everything

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