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    Elie Wiesel, throughout the book, uses the word “night”, symbolically and conceptually. Night, in the book not only means the physical time of night, but also the night or darkness in the human soul. This darkness or night of the soul can be shown on page 67, when Eliezer starts to question his faith in god and says “Why, but why would I bless Him… He caused thousands of children to burn in His mass graves?” (67) This demonstrates that the faith for everything he lived for before, or God, is crumbling

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    The novel Night is an autobiography by Elie Wiesel written in first person. It is narrated by a boy from Sighet, Transylvania. Elie tells us about his experiences of the Holocaust. Eliezer’s struggle to maintain faith is a major theme and conflict in this novel. He struggles to maintain faith in God, his father, and mankind. However, in the end, I believe his journey during the holocaust left his faith in God, as well as himself, stronger than ever. In the beginning of the novel, Eliezer studies

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    you are forcibly relocated. Or maybe, your freedom and your identity are taken away from you. You are no longer treated like a person, now more like an animal. These cruel acts of dehumanization are present frequently in the novel, Night by Elie Wiesel. Elie and the other Jews are stripped of their homes, families, and even their names. In order to help those facing these horrible atrocities, many people step up to help the helpless. One of these people is Anonymous, who helped fight the dehumanization

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    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 Jews was by referring to them by numbers, depriving

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    Night have a lot of darkness in them. Night basically means darkness, from when Elie spent his first night in the ghetto, until he was freed from the labor camp, he counted the days by counting the nights. Shadows were the demons of the Holocaust, that is why I chose to write about them. Shadows. A word that accordding to Dictionary.reference.com/ means, “shade or comparative darkness, as in an area.” Night by Elie Wiesel, shows the evil that shadows can bring. During the times of the Holocaust, when

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    current time. Although it may seem that mankind would learn from past experiences and be able to prevent the formation of dystopias, all failed endeavors at utopia, in turn, lead to dystopia. A prime example of this is found in the novel Night, by Elie Wiesel. The story recounts the Holocaust, a mass genocide of Jews conducted by Adolf Hitler, who believed he could create a utopia by basically eradicating a religious group. This inhumane act created a dystopia which was extremely disparate from our modern

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    Dear Elie Wiesel, “But the third rope was still moving: the child, too light, was still breathing… And so he remained for more than half an hour, lingering between life and death, writhing before our eyes. And we were forced to look at him at close range. He was still alive when I passed him. His tongue was still red, his eyes not yet extinguished. Behind me, I heard the same man asking: “For God’s sake, where is God?” And from within me, I heard a voice answer: “Where He is? This is where- hanging

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    Night by Elie Wiesel tells a very powerful story about the severe oppression that Jewish people faced during the time of World War II. We received a first -hand account of the emotions, thoughts and struggles of these people as they experienced days, weeks, months, and years of torture. Jewish people were mistreated by people who believed had authority over them, people who believed they were not worthy of being treated like humans. Throughout the novel, we encounter situations that testify to the

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    Keandre Santiago Mr. Roe English 4 CP Book Report Part 1 Title: Night Author: Elie Wiesel Number of pages:120 Where published: Buenos Aires Copyright date:1972 Setting (time and place): Early 1940s, during World War Two, Holocaust era. starting in Sighet, Transylvania, and moving throughout concentration camps in Europe. Type of book: Holocaust autobiography I would describe the main character Eliezer as polluted. His innocence as a child was stolen. his beliefs that were fueled by his curiosity

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    memoir, Night, Elie Wiesel recalls his experiences with his family during World War II. After he first arrives at Auschwitz, Elie Wiesel’s mother and sisters are taken away from him. His father is suddenly all that remains of his family. Elie Wiesel witnesses many other terrible events during his first night at camp; the only thing that keeps him sane is his father. Elie Wiesel’s father even keeps him from rebelling and possibly getting himself killed before the Germans intended. When Wiesel lives in the

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