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    ” (Wiesel 115). Since the inmates were treated horribly for such a tremendous amount of time, it left images of the beatings they took, the never ending-work they had to do, and the killing of their friends in their head. Two main points proven in Night by Elie Wiesel is how he created stronger bonds with people and how he lost faith in someone he use to praise and pray to every day. When going through a rough period of time, people may lose hope in their faith or religion. To start with, when the

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    In the memoir Night, the narrator Elie Wiesel recounts a moment when he started to lose his faith due to his experiences at the concentration camps, for example, ¨ But now, I was no longer able to lament. On the contrary, I felt very strong. I was no longer able to lament God the accused. My eyes had opened and i was alone, terribly alone in a world without God, without man,¨ (Wiesel 68). Wiesel was a very faithful and hopeful boy but due to his experiences in the concentration camp, he lost his

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    Remarkable events are portrayed in Eliezer’s Night, to show his experience in the era of severe anti semitism during the horrors of Hitler's rule. The autobiography encomposses the redefinintion of a young man was who once lived in his hometown of Sighet, in Hungarian Transylvania. As a young boy he, “gave himself fervently and almost completely to the Hasidic way of life. From early till late each day, ten or eleven months out of the year, he studied Torah, Talmud, and Kabbalah... He had little

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    suffering and inhumanity. The novel Night, which took place during this time, was written by Elie Wiesel and talks about his teen self-experiencing the concentration camps of Auschwitz. This is related to the movie The Boy in the Striped Pajamas which is the story of a young German boy named Bruno who befriends a Jewish boy in a concentration camp. The many similarities and differences between the movie The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and the novel Night include their many themes of “inhumanity” and “guilt

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    The main theme in the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel is inhumanity. This story represents what inhumanity is and it's really hard to understand how someone can go through all of the pain and suffering that has happened in the night. The theme inhumanity identifies this passage, there is a perfect theme that fits this passage and it is inhumanity, it describes the pain and all the suffering faced through this genocide. After all of the cruelty in "night" there's some horrible things to say about humanity

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    Paton once said, “There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s inhumanity to man.” By stating these words, Paton means that the only way one can stop the mistreatment of humans is to completely abolish inhumanity and strive for more humanity. Throughout the novels Tuesdays with Morrie and Night, both inhumanity and humanity are displayed. Inhumanity is the extremely cruel behavior bestowed upon humans and humanity is

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    the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie claims that his father would “get beat for not marching in place correctly”(Wiesel 55). This shows that when a place is filled with inhumanity such as, the concentration camps even the tiniest mistake could cost you. In Night two themes about inhumanity are the way inhumanity causes even a whole religion to seem so apart from each other and how the survival instinct that kicks in affects how they feel towards one another. One of the themes in night is that no

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    me” (Wiesel, pg. 115, 1956). Night by Elie Wiesel depicts the author's experiences as a teenage Jewish boy during the Holocaust. After being removed from his home in Sighet, Transylvania, Eliezer and his family are relocated from ghetto to ghetto. They then are taken away to Birkenau and then separated. Eliezer only has his father as they face the horrors of surviving in Auschwitz and other concentration camps. From 1944-1945, they are forever changed by the inhumanity that surrounds them. Cruelty

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    In the memoir Night, the narrator Elie Wiesel recounts a moment when they were using babies as target practice ‘’Infants were tossed into the air and used as targets for the machine guns (Wiesel 6)’’.This horrific scene had haunted Elie Wiesel because he couldn't believe they would treat people like trash. As the Author describes his experiences, many others examples of inhumanity are revealed.Two Significant themes related to inhumanity discussed in the book Night by Elie Wiesel are Loss of faith

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    faced with overwhelming inhumanity?I believe we all have at least once in our lifetime.In the memoir, Night the narrator Elie Wiesel recounts a moment he saw “Three “veteran” prisoners, needles in hand, tattooed numbers on our left arms.I became A-7713”(Wiesel 42).The inhumane circumstances of the camp has lead to being dehumanized.This is just one of the several themes related to inhumanity circumstances that the book “Night” describes.Two significant themes related to inhumanity discussed in the book

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