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    I Felt that Night was a very depressing story and that it truly showed the horrors of the holocaust. Night mostly talks about everything that Ellie went through during the holocaust. It tells how he lost his entire family and how he struggled to stay alive in the camps. Years after he got out of the camps he won the nobel peace prize for This book. He wrote an acceptance speech for it about how thankful he was to the Americans for saving him. He wrote a speech called The perils of Indifference. In

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    An author’s form of word usage and manipulation provides stories their feeling, tone, and pace while simultaneously creating a reader’s suspension of belief. Elie Wiesel in his book Night tells us of the year he spent in concentration camps during the Holocaust. Like many people have said and proven true, a lot of things can happen in a year making it almost impossible to retell every experience down to a tee; with this information in mind Wiesel writes of the moments that stuck with him, and would

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    In the beginning of the novel Night, Wiesel did not quite grasp what was going on, when he first heard of the troops coming to his neighborhood he never imagined what the outcome of their visit would be. Wiesel was like most children of his age, very naive and looked at the world with a sense of wonder and merriment. However when the dreadful day came and him and his family were taken from their home, he left his bed, his house, and his innocence. At first Wiesel thought the armed guards were trying

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    Surprise. Terror. Sabotage. Assassination. These are the words used to describe the war of the future by Adolf Hitler, Chancellor of Germany and murderer of more than 5.93 million Jews. Eliezer “Elie” Wiesel, author of Night, was one of the Jews who were lucky enough to survive the Holocaust. Wiesel was deported from his hometown of Sighet, Transylvania to Auchwitz in 1940 at the age of 15. Through the course of his captivity as number A-7713, Wiesel struggled to maintain his humanity and

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    Elie Wiesel´s bestseller Night reveals Elie´s experiences as a victim of the Holocaust from 1941 to 1945. The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was a racial genocide where the notorious Hitler and Nazi soldiers had wanted to annihilate all the Jews. Elie Wiesel was one of the millions of the deportees imprisoned in the ¨death¨ camp. During the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel changes from a full-spiritual, sensitive young man to a spiritually dead, unemotional man. To introduce, before the Holocaust, Elie

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    Elie Wiesel is an important man who survived the Holocaust, and should go down in history. He had a wonderful life with a loving family and they lived in Hungary with a father that owned a grocery store, and a mother who was there for him when he got sick to take care of him. Even though he lost his family and had a hard time in the Holocaust, he ended up having a successful life. My working thesis is: As a WWII Jewish Holocaust victim and Auschwitz survivor, Elie Wiesel used his life before, during

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    What does silence mean? In Night, a book wrote by Elie W, answer is shown. Night explains what silence is. Silence is the absence of, therefore silence is the path of death. Silence deprive from the desire of live, because we can see how the silence deprive the character the desire of live. “Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence that deprived me for all eternity of the desire of live” (Wiesel e22). The live of the main character is a night, that makes he lose his hope and want the death. Silence

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    The novel Night by Elie Wiesel and the poem I,Too by Langston Hues discus topics that are very similar describe their point of views of their experiences, Elie’s was the holocaust and in the poem it was just racism . In the novel Night Elie Wiesel and the poem “I,Too” by Langston Hughes the two author’s use of imagery is similar because they both say words that make you feel emotional. It makes the reader feel pity,because they’re telling you how bad racism really is. An example of this similarity

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    Elie Wiesel argues that indifference denies the humanity of victims and urges people to face their own indifference. Wiesel uses negations to address his point that indifference leads to inhumanity. The series of “no”, “not”, and “never” used in paragraph 7 explicitly convey Wiesel’s point that indifference is a punishment of humanity. These negations are arbitrary, and the simple syntax structures used create a sense of authority of Wiesel. The straightforward paragraph uncovers the cruelty of indifference

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    “Light can be found in even the darkest of times, if only one remembers how to turn on the light” - Albus Dumbledore from J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter” Like J.K Rowling, Elie Wiesel and Edgar Guest use imagery to reveal how they feel about the experiences they went through. One of the ways Wiesel and Guest reveal how they felt about their experiences is through imagery. For example, in the novel Night by Elie Wiesel and the poem “See It Through” by Edgar Guest, the two author’s use of imagery is

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