impossible‚ it was to speak” (Wiesel introduction). Elie Wiesel introduces his tragic memoir Night with the fact that silence was not the answer for victims of atrocities. This memoir depicts Elie Wiesel’s experiences at Auschwitz‚ one of the cruelest concentration camps during the Holocaust. Through the pain and seemingly eternal silence that fell upon the victims‚ a voice needed arise to shed light on the broken actions in the world. Elie Wiesel‚ in his memoir Night‚ reminds the world that “silence”
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In the story‚ Wiesel talks about what it was like to be sent to the concentration camp Auschwitz. Not only did he talk about what it was like to be sent there‚ but he also described what it was like to go through the camp. To me‚ I realized how brave Wiesel was to have been in such an awful and discriminating situation and still try to find hope. If it were me in his shoes I have no idea what I would have done. It’s hard to think about it considering that nobody I know has ever been in a situation
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biography on Elie Wiesel. He’s a very famous man for multiple reasons. He survived the Holocaust which is a very amazing thing‚ especially since he was at one of the worst concentration camps you could possibly be at‚ Auschwitz. I’m going to do an in depth biography on Elie’s life from when he was a young boy up until now. Elie has lived a very amazing life and a very fortunate at that‚ not many people can say they have survived the Holocaust and lived so long after it as well. Childhood Elie was born
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Elie Wiesel was born in 1928 in Sighet‚ Transylvania. When he was fifteen years old he and his family were sent to Auschwitz by the Natzis. His two older sisters lived through this experience‚ yet his mother and younger sister died. His dad died later on(The Elie Wiesel Foundation). Elie Wiesel was influenced to write by the impact the holocaust had on him and his family. After experiencing and surviving the holocaust Elie moved to France and began to write about the holocaust and informing others
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In Elie Wiesel’s novel ‘Night’ Wiesel gives readers a glimpse into the life of a Jew in a Nazi concentration. After being taken from his home town of Sighet‚ Transylvania in a cattle car‚ Wiesel ends up in the infamous Auschwitz. Throughout the novel Wiesel experiences a loss of innocence due to the traumatizing things he is exposed to‚ such as hangings and mass cremations. This loss of innocence results in a loss of faith. In the book‚ Wiesel employs the motif of religion to illustrate the idea
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Human nature is a very complicated and disputed topic‚ and the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel brings up several questions about what humanity is capable of. The act of killing the young pipel is far more inhuman than the murder of one’s own father for bread‚ killing for food is a basic survival instinct‚ driven by extreme circumstances and starvation‚ killing the young boy is simply cruel. Killing the young boy in front of the whole camp shows no compassion or empathy‚ two key qualities that show humanity
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Elie Wiesel once said “ We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor‚ never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor‚ never the tormented”. In Elie Wiesel’s novel Night a tragic theme is occurring throughout the book. Throughout the novel examples of dehumanization occur when Elie and his family are in the cattle car and told that “If anyone goes missing you all will be shot like dogs”. “Throw out all the dead! All the corpses outside!... Here is one! Take him! They undressed him‚ the
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themselves‚ and not depend on others in order to survive. In the novels Night and Maus II by Elie Wiesel and Art Spiegelman‚ the main characters Elie and Vladek are prisoners at Auschwitz. Both Vladek and Elie take advantage of the opportunities given. They are also selfish when it comes to survival‚ hence only relying on themselves. This is crucial to their survival of the death camp. In Art Spiegelman’s Maus II and Elie Wiesel’s Night‚ Elie and Vladek have to take advantage of every opportunity‚
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Dehumanization is essentially treating someone as though they are not a human. In the memoir Night‚ the effects of this have been shown. Cruelty is causing pain or suffering to someone or something. Night‚ which is placed during the Holocaust‚ has shown what happens. The prisoners were deprived of food and other basic needs. Overall‚ Dehumanization is one of the many types of cruelty and has a major effect on how people act. Over the course of the memoir‚ many humans were placed in horrifying circumstances
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Two weeks and three days after Eliezer Wiesel was released out of Buchenwald he looked himself in the mirror and saw a horror of himself. “I wanted to see myself in the mirror...From the depths of the mirror‚ a corpse gazed back at me.” said Wiesel at the end of the book. This quote has a lot of meaning because he hadn’t seen a reflection of himself since the ghetto‚ which was in 1941. He refers himself as a corpse‚ which shows the rough conditions he went through at these concentration camps. He
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