remain indifferent. They feel no pain in knowing the pain of others and don’t care to help in any way. Finally‚ the guards are indifferent so that they may hurt the Jews and not care about the pain that their victims feel. Indifference is central in Night and develops into a coping mechanism for everyone to cope with what they truly must deal with. To cope they must be devoid of all love‚ hate‚ and anything else that may force them to come face to face with their true
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Will Smith once said‚ "Throughout life‚ people will make you mad‚ disrespect you‚ and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do‚ cause hate in your heart will consume you too." Will Smith proves hate is a bad feeling to have since hatred only leads to more hatred. In the memoir Night‚ Wiesel shares his story about his life in concentration camps‚ and how hard it was to obtain survival during World War II. Throughout the memoir‚ Wiesel develops hatred towards God for the genocide of Jews
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Elie Wiesel’s Night is a vivid account of the horrors of the Holocaust. Describing in his memoirs the extent of the horrendous atrocities he both witnessed and experienced‚ Wiesel tells of a boy who is stripped forever of the world he has know. Night tells of not only Wiesel’s stolen innocence‚ but also of the darkness that forever extinguishes the light in both his soul as well as the soul of all those who are touched by this event. His witnessing of good people turned into brutes through atrocities
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try to do anything he could to meet his quota before the end of the day‚ Joe found Gus at his office. Joe discussed the last law with Gus because he was having a hard time understanding how any of the laws would do him any good if it did not get him anywhere. Joe was open to receiving and completing the last of his homework‚ but he could only receive if someone offered something to him. Joe decided to stay late and send Gus home (showing how he had changed within the past week from a go-getter
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Mayra I. Robles December 16‚ 2010 Mr. Dubois English 11‚ Lens Essay The Death of my Innocence “Night” a World Wide best seller‚ narrates Elie Wiesel’s experience as a survivor of the Nazi concentration camps. During 1933 Germany was ruled by Adolf Hitler‚ who belonged to the Nazi party. The Nazi believed the world should be purified by eliminating all races‚ especially the Jews. Their belief was that the Aryan race was the most pure and that the Jews were a disgrace to humanity. Hitler was
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level” (Burgoyne-Allen). Even though the voters in that age group didn’t do very well on the test‚ this doesn’t make them bad citizens. Being a bad citizen is more than not doing well on a standardized test. A good citizen pays taxes‚ votes‚ follows the law‚ and serves in the military. Taxes are a way for citizens to support their government and paying them is a sign of being a good citizen. According to the article‚ Government Is Good‚ “ To put it another way‚ you can’t support the things the government
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found a rather fascinating one for the series The Edge of Night (1956-1984). We will be exploring this paratext for a classic serial‚ and eventually find out how the paratext at hand would help promote the show for general audiences at the time. This specific paratext comes in the form of an advertisement that could have been found in a newspaper or magazine. The biggest point of this advertisement is to promote the fact that The Edge of Night is moving to ABC. This statement is highlighted by big
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XOPS Paper Presentation Competition Date -21/11/2010 “Progression of our nation towards Go Green” 1. Introduction You only have to look around and think to understand and realize the graveness and urgency‚ of why we need to “Go Green”. The computer you are using to view this document is guzzling up power and generating heat from its processor‚ thus adding to its carbon footprint‚ this is without mentioning the hazardous metals used while making it. The clothes that you are wearing might
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In the novels Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom and Night written by Elie Wiesel‚ both are faced with humanity and inhumanity from man. Although the two books are set in very different time periods and situations‚ one can the world has remained the same. One can see how the love‚ death‚ and faith aids each in the life journey. In Tuesdays with Morrie‚ Morrie states‚ “Love is the only rational act” (Albom 52). Morrie believes that love is the most important thing one could have. He does not fear
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there are ways” (Buck‚ 118). Pearl Buck‚ in her novel The Good Earth‚ shows how wealth can corrupt a man if there is too much of it. The fatal flaw for the main character‚ Wang Lung‚ was held in his wants and desires that became accessible by being rich. Pearl Buck showed in her work how wealth can corrupt a family’s work ethic‚ morality‚ and traditional values. “He was more idle than he had ever been in his life and being idle and full of good food he grew impatient when he had slept all he could
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