The novel "Night" is a stunning personal history of a youthful adolescent named Elie Wiesel’s encounters taken hostage by the Nazis‚ and living eighteen months in the a wide range of inhumane imprisonment of Germany. The story starts off in the little town of Sighet‚ Romania in 1944. The reader can without much of a stretch‚ distinguish the hero Elie‚ spending incalculable measure of hours in his synagogue thinking about the Talmud‚ and contemplating Jewish mysticism. As of now‚ there isn’t even
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keep their thoughts to themselves and are afraid to speak for other people. Just like in the book Night‚ Elie was concerned about the other Jews being taken to extermination camps‚ however his father told him not to worry about it because it wasn’t them being taken and they lived in denial that anything as unpleasant of what was reality was happening to the Jews and the same would happen to them. Until Elie and his family were captured‚ he continued to believe what his father said by not taking a stand
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themselves or beliefs. It forces them to reflect on their decisions and their moral code. Elie went through a very traumatic event‚ in which no one should have to endure‚ let alone a child. The Holocaust changed him‚ as it would anyone. Elie questioned his faith many times in God and humanity. Throughout the novel you can see specific times where his faith waivers and changes. In the beginning of Night‚ Elie and his father got put into a concentration camp during the Holocaust. All prisoners stood
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just kept getting worse and worse and you could never escape no matter how hard you tried. In the memoir "Night"‚ the author Elie Wiesel faces a series of tragic events that forced him to starve to death‚ work to death and to make sure neither his father or himself was put up for selection. To dehumanize means to treat someone like an animal or to encourage him or her to behave like an animal‚ to take away all the good human qualities such as friendship‚ trust‚ and kindness and to strip someone
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Relying on Different Instincts In the book Night‚ Elie Wiesel utilizes similes and metaphors to prove that as people despite facing the most cruel dehumanization will continue to struggle to survive by relying on animalistic and mechanical instincts within themselves.. For example‚ as Holocaust prisoners were being shepherded from one camp to another in the Death March during the winter‚ Elie recounts “I was putting one foot in front of the other‚ like a machine. I was dragging this emancipated
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uses his own personal experience and memories that he remembers in order to create and write the book Night. The tone of this book is therefore intensely personal and subjective. The book Night is not meant to give readers an overall review of what happened in the Holocaust‚ but a personal and painful experience that one single victim had to experience. Historiographical Significance Elie Wiesel wrote this book in order to document the painful experiences and memories he had to endure during the
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Daniel Dukeshire 11/8/2014 English 2 Block 4 Dylan Saunders Night Night‚ by Elie Wiesel‚ is a representation of real occurrences throughout the holocaust. Said by Elie himself‚ the book was not created for sympathy or empathy in any way‚ but was to prevent the suffering of himself‚ as well as millions of other Jews‚ from repeating itself in history. Experiencing years of torture leaves obvious physical damage‚ but also chips away at the physiological standpoint of a human being. Elie’s way of portraying the unnatural events he
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Night by Elie Wiesel Notes Chapter 1 * 1941‚ Eliezer is 13 * Wants to study Kabbalah‚ but father won’t let him * Moishe the Beatle teaches him * Moishe and all foreign Jews sent off * Year later he comes back‚ already been to labor camp‚ shot in leg‚ escaped * Town assumes war won’t come to them; they are wrong * Germans polite at first * Rules upon rules; wear yellow star * Moved to ghettos * Get told they are being shipped out * Eliezer’s family in
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souls and display our true inner emotions. In Elie Wiesel’s autobiographical narrative‚ Night‚ he uses the eye motif to portray characters’ true souls. In some parts of the narrative‚ Night‚ Wiesel used eyes to display the hope and positive emotion in characters. In the beginning of the story‚ eyes were used as an indication of Moche the Beadle’s calmness in the following quote. “I loved his great‚ dreaming eyes‚ their gaze lost in the distance” (Wiesel 13). The beadle‚ like his eyes‚ is peaceful
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Dehumanization in “Night” by Elie Wiesel Dehumanization is to deprive of human qualities such as individuality‚ compassion‚ or civility. In this book set in World War II‚ it is shown to us how Jews were dehumanized by Nazis into a little more than “things”. Graphic images are drawn into our head as a young Elie Wiesel retells what he saw. First of all‚ the Jews were humiliated and treated like second class citizens and even worse than criminals. They had to wear yellow stars to show that they
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