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    they can get through Elie Wiesel and his father struggled with survival during the Holocaust‚ but together made it as long as they could. He made it longer than his father and lived long enough to write this book. His father died few days before they were liberated. In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel the author used many father son relationship scenarios. Elie and his father love each other and show that by caring for each other. One way they show father son relationship is elie puts his father before

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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 NightElie and his father got put into a concentration camp during the Holocaust. All prisoners stood

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    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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    murdered before the camp’s liberation in 1945 (Seventieth Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz 1). One of Auschwitz’s survivors‚ Elie Wiesel‚ recalls his experience in the camp‚ “Death wrapped itself around me until I was stifled. It stuck to me. I felt that I could touch it. The idea of dying‚ of no longer being‚ began to fascinate me.” Even though Elie was liberated from Auschwitz when he was fifteen years old‚ the ghastly events still haunt him. Looking at himself in the mirror weeks

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    When the book begins‚ Eliezer was a young and innocent child. A faithful follower of God who dedicated his time reading holy books. His innocency was defaced by the treatment of the Nazis not only to him and his family but also his fellow jews. Eliezer experienced several heart wrenching events‚ the death of his mother and sister‚ the enslavement on the concentration camp‚ and the burning of his neighbors in thousands. His faith in God’s justice and mercy shattered and throughout his life he

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    “He spoke of only what he had seen. But people not only refused to believe his tales‚ they refused to listen”(Wiesel‚ 7). The first time that the idea of silence is ever seen in the book is one of the scenes in the very beginning; where Moishe the Beadle arrives back in Sighet to tell the people of the horrors he had seen in the forest‚ but to no avail. The people shut him out; they say nothing to the man who has seen what nobody should ever see. It’s a state of denial‚ the people have implemented

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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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    the Jew’s main purpose was to survive and Mr. Wiesel was doing just that with his father by his side. As Mr. Wiesel explains through all this pain and suffering that he is still strong‚ “I was no longer capable of lamentation. On the contrary‚ I felt very strong” (65). When running through the icy winds and snowy weather Mr. Wiesel had become strong minded because his foot was still healing and if he were to stop he would get shot by a SS officer. Wiesel explains‚ “These thoughts had taken up a brief

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    For this essay I chose option number three. Option three is was there any part that was most shocking to you? Which one and why? The part I chose is when Elie Wiesel’s father was about to die. Elie always cared for his father and he always made sure that nothing bad was going to happen to him. Elie’s father started to become sick when they were on the train to their last camp. There were almost 100 people in one cattle cart when there are only supposed to be 80. The cattle cart would stop now and

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    Elie WieselNight (Les Editions de Minuit 1958). Book Review Elie Wiesel was born September 30‚ 1928‚ in Signet‚ Transylvania‚ known now as Romania‚ he grew up with three sisters. Wiesel pursued Jewish religious studies‚ which was strongly influenced by the traditional spiritual beliefs of his grandfather‚ as well as his parent’s liberal expressions of Judaism. Wiesel studied at the Sorbonne in France from 1948 - 1951 he majored in journalism‚ writing for French and Israeli publications

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