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    suspect that there were even more. Night by Elie Wiesel is a memoir of Wiesel’s time in various concentration camps during the Holocaust. It begins in Wiesel’s hometown of Sighet, Transylvania, and follow the journey of the main character Eliezer. A few main themes of this historic recount are silence, night, and inhumanity. Night has many examples of inhumanity, specifically violence toward the inmates. Wiesel’s memoir shines a light on the violence and the inhumanity of the Nazis, and this impacts

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    great job in his book, Night, talking about some of the things the Nazis did. The Nazis treated the Jewish people in the most inhumane way history has ever seen. The book approaches this just by throwing it directly in one’s face. Elie has a lot to say about humanity and inhumanity, as does Morrie Schwartz. Morrie is a Professor at Brandeis University and does a great job explaining why humanity should overcome inhumanity. Both Elie and Morrie agree that humanity and inhumanity were both very big things

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    deceased. These three scenarios all depict man’s inhumanity to man. The oppression of mass amounts of people is often portrayed in not only life, but also in literature and film. In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel describes the inhumanity he endured while in Auschwitz during the Holocaust. Additionally, in the film Hotel Rwanda, the producers portray the acts of atrocities toward Tutsi and Hutu refugees during the Rwandan genocide. Inhumanity is a universal cruelty toward human life which

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    The memoir Night, by Elie Wiesel, depicts many inhuman acts towards the Jews during the Holocaust. One main legacy of the memoir Night is the sheer scale of genocide of one group of people towards another group, in this case, it is the German’s attempt to annihilate the Jewish population. These concentration camps work day and night trying to accomplish Hitler’s zealeos intent to wipe out the entire European Jewish population by manipulating many execution and punishments methods varying from gas

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    Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, produced the book “Night” as a way to cope with his time in the labor camps and to shed light on the reality of the inhumanity that engulfed numerous concentration camps across europe. After ten years of silence, the book was written by Wiesel to express his personal experiences inside the labor camps, as well as his testimony to horrifying and inhumane actions inflicted upon his beloved family and bunk mates. In “Night”, Elie Wiesel explores the evils in humanity by

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    Inhumanity. The cruelest of people are responsible for this. In Night, Elie Wiesel uses imagery, tone, and characterization to show the effects of inhumane actions. Night is about a young boy and his father who get separated from the rest of their family during selection of the Holocaust. This story tells how Elie survived his times in the concentration camps, even with all of the inhumane actions of the Germans. Elie Wiesel uses many literary devices to illustrate the inhumanity involved in the

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    In the book Night, Elie witnessed a woman who receives, “several blows to the head, blows that could have been lethal” (Wiesel 26). Most Jews were relieved because they didn’t have to hear her screaming anymore. No one around her wanted to comfort her because she was worrying them and they were starting to lose hope because she could have been telling the truth. Two main themes that are caused because of inhumanity are the Jews losing hope and them letting survival take over. Inhumanity can cause

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    suffering, he announced “How good it would be to die right here”(76). Obviously, during the holocaust people suffered dearly, which during the time made Elie say that. In the memoir Night, by Elie Wiesel two things people had faced were emancipated faith and hope, and weaker relationship/ survival instinct. Inhumanity can really affect a person's life by losing hope and faith. To elaborate, when Elie had heard the others praying he said, “Blessed be God’s name? Why would i bless him? Every fiber

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    death. The women and young children did not have a chance to survive they were killed upon arrival at the concentration camps. Elie Wiesel was one of the survivors from the concentration camp. He wrote a novel named Night. I’m doing my essay over the inhumanity in the novel Night, & the holocaust. The jews had to leave their homes, & move into ghettos. The ghettos houses were from families that had already been removed from their homes, & sent to the concentration camps. Elie was twelve years

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    The Holocaust was a time where a genocide wiped away Jews in many countries. Many Jews were treated with little to no respect and tolerance. Throughout the book, Night, the author portrayed many examples of inhumanity and humanity involved in the Holocaust. It is important to realize that during the time of the Holocaust, many Jews were not treated like humans. “Their fingers on the triggers, they did not deprive themselves of the pleasure. If one of us stopped for a second, a quick shot eliminated

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