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    The book Night‚ by Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel‚ gives a firsthand account of the events that took place. Several recurring themes‚ motifs‚ and symbols are used by Wiesel to show the beliefs and ultimate moral decline that enveloped the minds of many Jewish survivors. In reaction to the book Night by Elie Wiesel I can truly say that I am shocked and appalled by the fact that the Nazi guards got away with committing such atrocities to their Jewish prisoners such as what they did in this book. In

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    March 23‚ 2015 English 11-Night Essay Dehumanization is defined as the psychological process of demonizing the enemy‚ making them seem less than human and hence not worth of humane treatment. It also can lead to increased violence‚ human rights violations‚ war crimes‚ and genocide. When there is severe hatred and aversion towards a different group‚ it can direct to classifying the rival as inhuman and treating them with bestial punishment. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel‚ the Jews were victims of

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    Dehumanization- to deprive of human qualities or attributes. The Holocaust was a dark time‚ where a man named‚ Adolf Hitler‚ who hated anyone who in his eyes who were not perfect‚ like Gypsies‚ the disabled‚ and especially anyone who was Jewish. The people who Hitler hated were taken to places called concentration camp where they would almost certainly meet their demise unless they were rescued by the Americans or the Soviets. In the novel Night by Elie WieselWiesel explains‚ and illustrates

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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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    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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    ability to be human. In Night by Elie Wiesel‚ he tells his story of his experience in the concentration camps in Nazi Germany. He explains what he felt and also the things that they did to him and his father‚ who sadly died in the end. The Nazis slowly dehumanize them as the story progresses through taking the things they own‚ taking away their identities‚ and starving them. These put a struggle on Elies mind and sometimes brought him and his father closer to each other. Elie and the other victims

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    Thesis/Your Opinion: In the author’s point of view‚ the theme of dehumanization leads to the lack of individualism is conveyed through the use of similes‚ metaphors‚ and imagery. Reasons That Support Your Opinion/Thesis Point A (topic sentence): Throughout the book‚ Elie uses metaphors to demonstrate the devastating theme of dehumanization. Evidence (and page number): “It was as though she was possessed by some evil spirit.” (25) Explanation: By using this metaphor of referring to the woman

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    “The yellow star? Oh well what of it‚ you don’t die of it...” (Wiesel 5). This dialogue from a character in the novel expresses the hardships of the Jewish populations during the early time of the holocaust. Dehumanization is when a human feels like their life is not worth anything to even be alive anymore. They feel deprived of all their human qualities. The Germans threw the Jews into harsh concentration camps. They placed sanctions on their everyday ordinary lives. If the guards felt like a

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    In 1937 Jews had been captured by the Germans and Wiesel was one of them. Wiesel writes about himself and others that went to the concentration camp. Wiesel wrote about the cruelty him and his father went through. Throughout the process of the camp he questions himself about God because while he was hoping for freedom God didn’t help and he wonder why. Wiesel also tries to find his inner-self in different cities he was shipped to. Wiesel was consumed by darkness‚ the death of his family

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    Second World war‚ the Nazis built concentration camps that were used to kill millions of people‚ mostly Jews. When the war came to an end‚ few camp prisoners were able to survive. One of the survivors of these death camps was Elie Wiesel‚ the author of Night. In his book Night‚ he shows how the Nazis dehumanized the Jews in the concentration camps. The Nazis did this through stripping the Jews from their identity‚ eliminating them systematically and by changing the feelings that they had towards their

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