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    “...Silence encourages the tormentor‚ never the tormented” This means that if you continue to stay silent‚ people will continue to be tormented‚ if you don’t stand to make a difference‚ the world will remain the same. When Wiesel says “I know: your choice transcends me.” He means that the award‚ along with the powerful meaning behind it‚ is more important than him. It goes beyond him. He’s scared because he doesn’t know if he can live up to the expectations that come with receiving the award‚ he

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    Night by Elie Wiesel was a strong piece of writing‚ putting the reader through the struggles of a father and son going through the evils of the holocaust. Eliezer‚ the main character‚ survives the turmoil‚ but unfortunately his father does not. His father makes it through most of the hardships and arrives in Buchenwald‚ where he dies from both physical abuse and dysentery. Eliezer was in the bunk right above his father when he was aggressively beaten the night he had died. Eliezer‚ fearful that he

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    rest of the world pretended to be oblivious from more than a quarter of a decade? Answers may vary but one fact that remains is that many of us can only imagine how this happened much less what it was like to live through. However‚ for people like Elie Wiesel‚ our worst nightmare‚ was a reality. "Eight words spoken quietly‚ indifferently‚ without emotion. Eight short‚ simple words.

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    “Never shall I forget the little faces of children‚ whose bodies turned into wreaths of smoke beneath the silent blue sky.” That was written by Elie Wiesel. Eleven year old Krystyna and twenty one year old Pavel Friedmann had a harsh life. They both were forced to live in the ghetto. This happened from 1941 to 1942. They were forced to live in the ghetto because they were both Jewish. They both had an unforgettable story of their lives. They have similarities and differences in their lives in the

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    Elie Wiesel‚ Night (Les Editions de Minuit 1958). Book Review Elie Wiesel was born September 30‚ 1928‚ in Signet‚ Transylvania‚ known now as Romania‚ he grew up with three sisters. Wiesel pursued Jewish religious studies‚ which was strongly influenced by the traditional spiritual beliefs of his grandfather‚ as well as his parent’s liberal expressions of Judaism. Wiesel studied at the Sorbonne in France from 1948 - 1951 he majored in journalism‚ writing for French and Israeli publications

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    In Elie Wiesel’s speech titled “The Perils of indifference” he discusses the idea that individuals are slowly becoming desensitized to the ongoing crisis’ that fill the world around them‚ slowly causing indifference to overtake all other emotions toward these events. The act of indifference is one that causes society to regress and can be most detrimental because of the lack of emotion that it brings upon those who turn to it‚ creating inaction and no emotion where it is warranted. Through the point

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    “Never shall I forget The little faces of the children whose bodies turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky.” In this memoir “Night” by Elie Wiesel‚ published on September 1960 is about a terrifying place where the nazis take all Jewish people including little kids too. A tragic time where they killed Jews or burn them in the camp their taken. There are three quotes from the novel that are significant and poignant. Jewish people had suffered a lot at the camp and would pray so

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    For much of the book Eli is a dedicated Jew. He is committed in his belief in God‚!despite the unspeakable trials of pain that he must endure. As the novel progresses Eli sees more of his people suffer unspeakable events. He begins to question what kind of God can let this happen‚he begins to doubt God. I don’t think Eli ever really forsakes his belief in God rather than consider his faith and God’s role in a world that holds much evil. In the beginning‚ although his faith has not died

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    able to listen to someone. When you are showing compassion you take ownership and stand up for something or someone. Compassion should be shown and given by everyone. Elie Wiesel was talking about compassion because this was a terrible event. He was talking about compassion because he wanted to show people that he was strong. Elie talked about compassion because he wanted to show people how easy it is

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    Life in Auschwitz Elie Wiesel‚ a former prisoner of Auschwitz‚ once said‚ “The opposite of love is not hate‚ it’s indifference.” Auschwitz was a camp set up by Nazis in the early 1940s and more than 12‚000 people died a day there. Who did Auschwitz affect? What happened there? How did it start? Auschwitz was a camp for many more than just Jewish people. The Holocaust started when Adolf Hitler lead Nazis to make a perfect race when the economy crashed. They wanted blonde-haired and blue-eyed Germans

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