Night Chapter 5 Chapter Five Journal Vocabulary: Functionaries- People who function in a specified capacity Lamentation- the act of expressing grief Kaddish- liturgical prayer‚ consisting of three or six verses Achtung- attention in German Characters: Hospital Patient: He says that he is going to die soon‚ and warns Eliezer that there are more “selections” at the hospital. Symbol(s): Number: This symbolizes your identity in the concentration camps‚ it is what defines your fate. Reflection:
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Why Lying Is Not Okay Elie Wiesel is the author of Night. The novel is about what Elie went through when he was in those different concentration camps. The novel’s themes ties to the topic of dishonesty by saying that no matter how much a person lies‚ the truth will come out. Lying is never okay because it gives people false hope ‚it hurts people’s feelings‚ and everything that was covered up will come into the light. The first reason lying is never okay is because it gives people false hope. One
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In writing the book Night‚ Elie Wiesel was able to document his experiences to help society not repeat the past. It is often said that we study history to not make the same mistakes‚ and Wiesel’s Night helps contribute to why we do not want to make the same mistakes. By writing about life in a concentration camp‚ Wiesel allows people to realize that persecution this extreme is considered inhumane and cruel. In Night‚ Wiesel was subject to poor treatment. The prisoners were given small amounts thin
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In the book‚ Night by Elie Wiesel‚ Elie and his father have a distant relationship‚ but as the story continues‚ their relationship grows closer‚ eventually degenerating‚ but resolving in peace. Elie and his father have a very distant connection due to the lack of support his father gives to him. Before they are sent away to the camps‚ Elie and his father have a chance to escape and leave the country and avoid all of this. Elie’s father replies “I am too old my son. I’m too old to start a new life
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dissatisfaction. In Elie Wiesel’s Night‚ Elie undergoes a similar transformation alongside his father as Elie experiences his father’s conspicuous change. Under the perpetual cruelty and harsh conditions faced in the concentration camps‚ Elie’s exasperation steadily evolves. His father is the stemming of his
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In Elie Wiesel’s Night the scenes of the hangings represent a turning point for Elie’s faith in God and affect him and the reader alike. The first hanging of the dentist fails to torment Elie. He recalls‚ “I remember that on the evening‚ the soup tasted better than ever” (Wiesel 63). Seemingly‚ the death of the dentist causes Elie to be indifferent. The dentist assists the Nazi force by pulling gold teeth from the mouths of the prisoners and his death meant the preservation of Elie’s crown. However
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The narrator is Death. He sees life in terms of colors because he views the world in terms of color. He understands his role and task in the world by using color The thing that was ironic about the first book LieseI stole that she didn’t know how to read yet she dug up a book that was about grave digging in a graveyard. The thing that is ironic about is that it relates to heaven‚ and the street didn’t have anything to do with heaven in the war. This statement should not be taken literally because
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Night expresses darkness and of something being lost. The book‚ Night‚ by Elie Wiesel is an autobiography of Elie’s childhood which occurred during the gruesome time period of the Holocaust. In “Night‚” the word‚ night‚ symbolizes suffering‚ death‚ and how all this suffering and death caused Elie to lose his faith in God. A symbol of night in the Elie’s autobiography is suffering‚ The first few signs of suffering began from Mrs. Schächter’s vision‚ “Look! Look at this fire! This terrible fire! Have
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this period of time. Inhumanity can scar people emotionally and mentally. Inhumane people tend to act very cruel towards other people‚ animals‚ and the environment. In the story‚ “Night” by Elie Wiesel‚ there were many merciless examples of how inhumanity was shown during World War II. In the beginning of the story‚ Elie writes‚ “Without passion or haste‚ they shot their prisoners‚ who were forced to approach the trench one by one‚ and offer their necks. Infants were tossed into the air and used as
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were tossed into the air and used as targets for the machine guns” (Wiesel 6). During the holocaust‚ Hitler’s German regime shows to the world that humans are capable of cruelty of an extreme degree. Millions of people met their ends in the dirty‚ torturous concentration camps. Despite this horror‚ some still showed love‚ kindness‚ and respect. It may have come in various forms but plenty of historical accounts‚ Elie Wiesel’s Night being one such account‚ have depicted these instances‚ As Wiesel’s
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