Two weeks and three days after Eliezer Wiesel was released out of Buchenwald he looked himself in the mirror and saw a horror of himself. “I wanted to see myself in the mirror...From the depths of the mirror‚ a corpse gazed back at me.” said Wiesel at the end of the book. This quote has a lot of meaning because he hadn’t seen a reflection of himself since the ghetto‚ which was in 1941. He refers himself as a corpse‚ which shows the rough conditions he went through at these concentration camps. He
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Night‚ by Elie Wiesel‚ is a memoir about the author Elie Wiesel‚ who during his teenage years survived the Holocaust. Elie shared his experience of living in the concentration camps‚ dealing with the stress and thought of being killed at any moment‚ leaving and sacrificing all he once had. Elie had given up everything‚ from his shoes to his dignity. He shares his experiences to show that the Holocaust should not be forgotten or repeated. The format that Elie Wiesel chose for his memoir is narrative
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the Holocaust In the book Night the reader learns what dreadful and devastating things happened in the Holocaust. The holocaust was and still is one of the worst things known to mankind. Hope is what not only helps people get through those devastating times‚ but as well as lets them know to not give up. Night by Elie Wiesel is a very inspirational story about Elie Wiesel’s life in a lot of different concentration camps during the holocaust. It was the year 1941‚ when Elie‚ who was a deeply religious
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In Elie Wiesel’s memoir‚ “Night”‚ readers see a dramatic change from the young‚ sensitive and spiritual individual to a‚ boy with the mindset of an adult that is spiritually dead and is unemotional. Elie shows this in his memoir by rewriting what he saw‚ thought‚ or what he heard while in concentration camps‚ this occurs‚ in the three sections of the memoir. In the first section of the book‚ Eile begins the transformation from a sensitive and spiritual boy to the opposite. Elie starts describes the
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of the book Night‚ by Elie Wiesel‚ is questionable. Some say it is non-fiction‚ others historical fiction‚ and yet others complete fiction. I believe that this book is non-fiction‚ though with a few indiscretions on account of the fact that he wrote the book ten years after he experienced the events. One reason for this belief is the way Wiesel writes the book. A second is how he brings humanity into the characters in the book making them much more believable. Reason three is the way Wiesel so bluntly
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forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time” (Elie Wiesel). This is but one of many insightful quotes we can take from Elie Wiesel’s Night. In my eleven years of schooling in which time I have read over one hundred novels; Night is by far the most captivating and suspenseful. This is the best book of its kind because of the rare firsthand telling by Holocaust victim Elie Wiesel. Using his firsthand account of The Holocaust‚ Wiesel communicates a vivid telling which enables readers to feel
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Dehumanization in the Night Do you know how many people died during the time of the Holocaust? The number went up to eleven million deaths. Six million of them were Jews. Which left only three million Jewish people alive. Here is one story. In the novel‚ Night by Elie Wiesel‚ Tattoo‚ Star of David‚ and Transporting are ways the Jew were dehumanized. One way of dehumanization was the tattoo on their arms. The tattoo was a series of letters and numbers. Elie Wiesel numbers were A-7713. “I became
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Silent Night While reading “Night” by Elie Wiesel‚ I came across a lot of key ideas and themes that ran consistently through out the book. Three major ideas that I felt were important were Elie’s trial to keep faith in his God‚ the use of silence and night and finally‚ having to keep your mind at ease amongst all the inhumanity. Although these ideas are different‚ they play off of one another. Elie’s biggest struggle is to maintain his belief and fate in God’s hands. Elie’s battle with his
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being able to have food‚ water‚ and happiness‚ all taken away in a snap only to be replaced with an everlasting nightmare. Elie Wiesel was only a teenager before he was taken away by german officers to be apart of the Holocaust‚ having faced being separated from his family‚ barely a speck of food and endless torment for ten years. As a Holocaust survivor he wrote the book Night so that there would be a changed in history and nothing would repeat itself but also remember the Holocaust. Therefore war
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“Night’ shows that even in the most brutalising conditions‚ people still behave humanely. To what extent do you agree?” In the text Night‚ written by Elie Wiesel‚ it is a horrific story about how the Nazi’s invaded Wiesel’s hometown of Sighet‚ Hungry and where taken under German control and sent to many concentration camps. During his time at the concentration camps‚ Elie and fallow Jews were in harsh and unforgettable conditions and treated severe from the Germans that no one could imagine. There
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