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    Choice A Comperecine Night and The Boy in The Striped Pajamas These books are Night by Elie Wiesel and the book The Boy in The Striped Pajamas. Both of the main characters are sent off to a Nazi Concentration camp. They are both towards the end of World War 2. These books are similar in many ways‚ even though both books go in either a good or bad way. In general both of the main characters were very precarious. Both boys went to Auschwitz. Both parents suffered from at least one thing in both books

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    Night In the story‚ ‘Night’‚ author Elie Wiesel shares his most personal experiences during the Holocaust‚ during which he lost his family and many friends. As a young man‚ Eliezer’s faith in humanity and religion is shattered following the unparalleled evil perpetrated by the German’s against the Jews. In the year 1944‚ at the young age of fifteen‚ Eliezer and his family were taken from their home to the Auschwitz concentration camp‚ and then to Buchenwald where they endured unimaginable cruelty

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    Top 5 Speeches/ RASAR: “The Perils of Indifference‚” by‚ Elie Wiesel  Top 5 Speeches  1. Jim Valvano 1993 ESPYS speech  a. March 3‚ 1993  2. Lou Gehrig Farewell to Baseball speech  a. July 4‚ 1939  3. Eliezer (“ElieWiesel “The Perils of Indifference”  a. April 12‚ 1999  4. FDR’s First Fireside Chat  a. March 12‚ 1933  5. Ronald Reagan’s 40th Anniversary of D­Day speech  a. June 6‚ 1984  Summary  In the speech‚ author Elie Wiesel discussed the impact of indifference in 20th century society.  Wiesel discusses how people used indifference during World War 2

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    Annotated Bibliography WieselElieWiesel‚ Marion.Night. New York: Hill And Wang‚ 2006. Print. The book Night is narrated by Eliezer who represents Wiesel and is a Jewish teenager that suffers from the Holocaust‚ however hardly survived from it. Night is Elie Wiesel’s memoir‚ which along the story we can learn the struggle that Elie had with the harsh condition in the concentration camp and the days with hopeless. “Never shall I forget that night‚ the first night in camp‚ which has turned my

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    If nothing was done about the Nazis they could potentially start killing again. It is important for Nazis to be brought to justice because “ Certain remarks will be made and the killer will not be able to kill a second time…”(Lyon‚ France Elie Wiesel testifies in Barbie trial). If the Nazis are brought to justice then they will not be able to carry out any more inhumane crimes and take innocent lives. By bringing the perpetrators to justice‚ it will show people how horrific the holocaust really

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    Night Theme In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel‚ faith is a topic and a theme. It is brought up constantly throughout the novel. Wiesel starts off dedicated to his faith‚ and then he loses it when his family was taken away. By the end he was broken and faithless. This proves that one can lose faith by watching inhumane things; things no one should ever live through. When Wiesel first reaches Auschwitz‚ he sees fire and smells the burning of flesh. Wiesel was disturbed when he figured out they were

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    Nesta lu  Yuen  English 7  21 March 2014  Agents of Violent act vs. Exceptional Act  Of all genocides‚ mass murders and/or murders‚ and wars; people who commit the violent acts excuse themselves as an unmoral being. In ​ Night​ by Elie Wiesel and ​ Perils of Obedience​ by Stanely Milgram‚ people that become agents of great violence believe that authority overpowers morality and their self preservation makes them act violently; although people have become agents of great violence‚ in ​ Obedience in

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    to it. “Bread‚ soup - these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time.” –Elie Wiesel. The very few survivors from the holocaust. “…Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust…” –Elie Wiesel.

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    Sections 6 and 7 In the blizzard and the darkness‚ the prisoners from Buna are evacuated. Anybody who stops running is shot by the SS. Zalman‚ a boy running alongside Eliezer‚ decides he can run no further. He stops and is trampled to death. Malnourished‚ exhausted‚ and weakened by his injured foot‚ Eliezer forces himself to run along with the other prisoners only for the sake of his father‚ who is running near him. After running all night and covering more than forty-two miles‚ the prisoners find

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    Personal Reflection – Chapter 4 Regarding the sad memoir of Holocaust survivor‚ Elie Wiesel‚ Night has had a massive impact on my understanding of the book. Eliezer’s struggle with his faith is a dominant conflict in Night. At the beginning of the memoir‚ his faith in God is absolute. His belief in an omnipotent‚ benevolent God is unconditional‚ and he cannot imagine living without faith. The book tells me about what happened in the holocaust from a first-hand account of a real holocaust survivor

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