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    02 May 2013  Loss of Innocence in Night by Elie Wiesel  Is there ever the possibility of the loss of innocence? How can one lose their innocence?  What is innocence? The loss of innocence can happen after certain events. These events make  kids have to grow up and get independant quickly‚ if not‚ well they can’t survive. That is the loss  of innocence. When kids must grow up quickly and learn the truth about the real world and how  cruel it can be. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel there are a number of examples of loss of 

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    never the Vitim. Silence encourages the tormentor‚ never the tormented” (Elie Wiesel). Dehumanization is the act of not being treated fair or human. In the novel‚ Night‚ by Elie Wiesel‚ he demonstrates his own personal experiences with dehumanization such as Being beaten for animalistic reasons‚ being killed off by dysentery‚ and being worked to fatality. Dehumanization was really an enormous part of the holocaust. Elie saw how people were being beaten just for walking in on an event‚ walking

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    In Elie Wiesel’s book‚ "Night"‚ the main character Eliezer‚ goes through numerous struggles with his faith in God which is caused by the Holocaust. This horrific genocide changed the way many Jews and others thought about their religion and views on things. Just like others Eliezer experienced the same but was questionable about his faith even before the Holocaust took place. In the beginning of Night‚ Eliezer went to the synagogue to pray every day and wanted study the cabbala very badly but

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    A Loss of Innocence Throughout the story Night‚ by Elie Weisel‚ the main character Elie slowly loses his innocence and sanity. At the beginning of the story‚ Elie is kindhearted and innocent. He would never harm anyone in any way‚ but towards the end of the story‚ he would kill a man if it meant getting an extra ration of bread or soup. Innocence can mean a multitude of things. It could mean that you are naïve to what is happening around you‚ it could mean that you would never hurt anyone in any

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    Night is a novel written by Elie Wiesel that not only demonstrates alienation‚ but also dehumanization. Dehumanization is taking someone’s rights away even when it has been given to them freely. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights lists 30 articles in which humans should obied. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a novel where you are not judged only by your decisions‚ but also by the color of your skin. Imagine living in a world where you have no control over what is happening‚ your

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    Dehumanization in Night Dehumanization is horrible and no novel displays this better than Night. This novel‚ Night by elie wiesel was published in 1960. This book is about the holocaust. I’m going to talk about something that is always shown in Nightdehumanization. Dehumanization is the process which the Nazis gradually reduced the Jews to little more than “things” which could easily be gotten rid of in terrible ways with no remorse. There are a few specific scenes in Night where it shows dehumanization

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    In the memoir “Night” by Elie Wiesel‚ a young Jewish boy during the time of the Holocaust talks about all of his experiences during these horrific events and everything that he has gone through‚ being stripped from everything but his father and barely managing to survive everyday in the harsh conditions.  He was separated from his family and from his friends too‚ most of whom he will not see after the first separation of men and women‚ ever.  Elie‚ through all that he faces‚ changes from a sensitive

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    soul into a raving madman. Night‚ a memoir by holocaust survivor and professor‚ Elie Wiesel‚ paints the horrors of isolation and how its knives will carve away your flesh and hope until there’s nothing but a vile corpse. In order to avoid the assured effects of this ‘solitary confinement’ in the concentration camps‚ having loved ones were beneficial because they needed one another to talk to‚ keep each other strong‚ and predominantly to keep each other sane. In NightElie tediously oversees his father

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    on the autobiography “Night” by Elie Wiesel‚ throughout the novel humanity is questioned and delved into thoroughly. Elie Wiesel was fifteen when he was taken away from his home in Sighet‚ Transylvania. His family and himself were brought to Auschwitz concentration camp then soon to Buchenwald. Night is filled with the horrible events of the holocaust that Elie Wiesel experienced through his teenage years. When faced with the true horrors of the concentration camps Elie Wiesel lost to the evil of god;

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    since the Nazi’s took millions of Jews and placed them in concentration camps. One story told by Elie Wiesel‚ in the book Night describes how Elie survived the holocaust and lived to tell his story. His story describes of the mistreatment of the Jews and his father. The Nazi’s attempt to dehumanize the Jews is evident by the many hardships that Elie endured. The Jews treated like Elie Wiesel quotes “For God’s sake‚ where is God?” Mistreatment of the Jews began quiet and then it was heard

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