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    The Horrific Events of the Holocaust The Holocaust was one of the most notorious acts of genocide in modern history. Wiesel tells the reader about all the these acts that he went through his book Night. During Wiesel’s trials and suffering that he endured through the genocide, Wiesel had to have hope that he would make it out alive and tell his story: “Don’t lose hope...have faith in life, a thousand times faith...help each other. That is the only way to survive.” This quote comes from his memoir

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    The book Night by: Elie Wiesel is a book that follows Elie Wiesel’s life during the holocaust. The book describes the tragedy first hand from Elie Wiesel. Elie Wiesel got separated from his mother and sisters and only has his father throughout this tragedy. Throughout all of the chapters in the book Night, Elie Wiesel uses the literary device imagery to describe the theme of horror and despair to the reader. By sharing his experiences in the concentration camps during the holocaust. At the start

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    Well to me Elie Wiesel quote is based on human rights and responsibilities. This quote is good mostly because the quote relies on the human live in danger and this quote basically explains everything that happens in live now in days mostly on the danger part because all this live is full of danger. Like osama bin laden was an horrible person he haded the americans that's why he flew two airplanes straight to the towers in meaning of war.He shows the angerness he has against americans , and

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    The death march described in Chapter six in Night by Elie Wiesel is a striking and memorable moment. Throughout the march, the people are pushed to their limits and many do not make it. In order to create such a memorable scene, Elie Wiesel uses imagery to construct often inhuman descriptions of the people’s bodies and the surrounding events to create an intense and striking scene. An example of how Wiesel uses imagery is how he is able to create vivid descriptions of what he was feeling during

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    Inurement In Night

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    The book Night by Elie Wiesel is an autobiography that depicts his lasting experience with the Holocaust. The book is written in Eliezer’s perspective and recounts his remarkable story. The memoir exhibits three prominent themes: father and son relationship, loss of faith, and inurement. One of the most important themes in Night is the relationship between Eliezer and his father, Shlomo. Throughout Eliezer’s journey, his feelings toward his father are constantly changing. At some points, Shlomo

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    “For the dead and the living we must bear witness” (Elie Wiesel). In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, it describes the hardships people had to endure throughout World War II, and how suffering brings out the worst in people. No one is immune to corruption brought upon them from suffering. The Jews, including Elie, along with the Nazi officials all seem to suffer both physically and mentally. Put ting these groups together creates a lethal combination of mental instability which shows the innate flaw

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    Elie Wiesel uses metaphors, Rhetorical questions and personification to demonstrate that dehumanization ultimately causes negative, mental, physical changes in victims. Wiesel uses metaphor to demonstrate the effects of dehumanization. For example, “Two lambs with hundreds of wolves lying in wait for them. Two lambs without a shepherd , free for the taking”. In this line Wiesel leaves a sense of irony for us. He refers to the Cauldrons as lambs compared to them which he refers as wolves which is

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    “I decided to look at myself in the mirror on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto. From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me” (Wiesel 115). Traumatized by his experiences in concentration camps during the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel reflects on just how deeply the extreme torture and dehumanization affected him. This feeling of dissociation is common among the survivors of the Holocaust, but this feeling

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    dominant rhetorical devices Elie Weisel integrated in his speech, either knowingly or unknowingly. In this essay, the rhetorical devices used will he thoroughly looked into, as well as evaluated, too see their individual effects to Weisel's overall speech. Elie Weisel's main topic is indifference, and the consequences of being indifferent. Most tragedies occur because of indifference, or they continue on longer than they should. For example, the Holocaust, where several important people knew about

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    Irony of “Night.” “To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.” This is a quote by Elie Wiesel giving us his feelings about the holocaust. There was a lot of Irony throughout the Holocaust, but I would like to focus on the irony through Elie’s experience from when his family and he started this awful adventure. After the Germans invaded Elie’s small town and put all the Jewish people in ghettos, his Father was asked about whether it was safe to wear the yellow star on their

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