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    It’s impossible to imagine what it’s like to be abused and murdered to such measures during the Holocaust. In the story Night, Elie Wiesel uses diction to show what brutal effects the Holocaust had on him and his fellow prisoners, his tone is quite somber, honest, and stern to stress his figurative language, to rather affect their feelings to give a sense of what the prisoners of the Nazi’s camp were feeling. In Night, Elie Wiesel compared himself to just an object, he writes, "The night was gone

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    Hate is gasoline. Indifference is fire. In society, indifference is the force that ignites the true colors of evil to emerge - to cause the darkest decades known to man. The concept of indifference, in more ways than one, becomes a predominant force in the life of Elie Wiesel, author of the memoir Night. Wiesel provides a raw account of the Holocaust’s horrors and the devastatingly life-altering effect it had on his character, intertwining the concept of indifference and its crucial role in the events

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    Picturing the Holocaust In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel imagery was used to help convey the tone of the Holocaust to everyone which helps the reader understand the extent of the terrible tragedy known as the Holocaust. Elie had shared his story so his voice could be heard, and to alert the world the drastic side effects hate can cause. The tone throughout the story changes, as Ellie was morphed into a different person due the non stop hatred. The reader can pick up on the tone changes due to

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    Night contains a significant amount of figurative language. Select 3 examples from the text to analyze. In analyzing each example, be sure to explain how the specific example impacts the text. (How does it affect the reader? How does it affect the reading experience? Why did Wiesel make that specific choice?) Please use a different type of figurative language for each example. Of the countless examples of figurative language in Night I have decided to perform my in-depth analysis of the

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    In the memoir Night, Elie Wiesel depicts different kinds of relationships and their effects on the people they involve. Night is a true story about a Jew’s appalling experience in the holocaust and through World War II. We see the abyss of horror that they were living in during this time. It shows us all of the people that Wiesel came in contact with and the way he and his father became closer. In Night, Wiesel reveals to readers that relationships can be uplifting yet burdensome and sometimes difficult

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    An important Noble Peace Prize Winner, Dr. Martin Luther King, once conveyed, “Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” This quote clearly depicts that nothing is more treacherous than stupidity. In our society people are living backwards and we are repeating our mistakes from history. For example, war, in war you gain somethings but mostly you lose a lot and it still happens. Victor Frankenstein, from the story of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

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    After hypothesizing how indifference could affect society, he questions the audience about the possibilities of America knowing about the Holocaust by adding his personal experience of how indifference split his community, “In the place that I come from, society was composed of three simple categories: the killers, the victims, and the bystanders.” This portrays the reaction indifference can cause in one community and how not only the Nazis but also the American government has displayed a sign of

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    Night Elie Wiesel Quotes

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    Night is a ‘record’ of Elie Wiesel’s (who is both the author and the main character) memories from the holocaust. He is taken from his home in Sighet, and goes through several concentration camps. Auschwitz, Buna, Gleiwitz and Buchenwald are where each concentration is. In the beginning of the book, Eliezer is seen praying very often and he has a very strong faith in god. As the book goes on, he loses faith and by the end of the book he believes there is no god. In the beginning of the book Elie

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    We live in a society where communications and cares bridge people together. In this speech, Wiesel persuades people to be aware of their own indifferences by arguing indifference is inhuman with appeals to the audiences’ logos, ethos, and pathos. Though appeals to ethos and pathos are power tools to bring audiences on the speaker’s side, it is the appeal to logs and repetition that successfully persuade Wiesel’s audiences to face their own indifferences. Indifference is inhuman. Wiesel addresses

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    Elie Wiesel: The Great Humanitarian Elie Wiesel a man who survived the long days and nights of the death camp Auschwitz Birkenau, he became a great humanitarian from the adversities he faced. These experiences made him the man he is today and a great humanitarian who won a Nobel peace prize. Wiesel had to overcome starvation, the mass murder and killing of the Jewish people, and the long and terrible death marches. These adversities made Elie Wiesel become the man he is today; he is truly a humanitarian

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