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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Night by Elie Wiesel Lisa Cormier-Léger December 6th 2010 English 22211 Journal Chapter 1: I felt anger and disbelief. Why couldn’t they have known where
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Elie Wiesel has said‚ “What hurts the victim the most is not the cruelty of the oppressor‚ but the silence of the bystander‚ ‘’ I‚ unfortunately‚ know the emotion behind this quote too well. During my middle school years‚ my friends were everything to me. I had a compact group of two best friends. We were hardly seen without each other‚ but I had known one of the girls longer than the other; one since elementary school and the other I had barely met in middle school. The friend I had known the longest
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In the memoir Night‚ Elie Wiesel uses figurative language and diction to illustrate that in the darkest of times‚ if one keeps on going and persevering‚ success will always be possible. Wiesel uses figurative language to show how hard it was to keep on fighting to survive and how difficult it was to not give up like the thousands of others. Elie writes‚ “I was putting one foot in front of the other mechanically. I was dragging with me this skeletal body which weighed so much. If only I could have
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of/reactions of Malcolm X and Elie Wiesel similar and different? Do you think you would have reacted the same way in their place? Explain. The experiences that Malcolm X and Elie Wiesel lived through were somewhat similar in that it involved racism‚ and how an individual responded when basic human rights were denied of them during their youth. Malcolm’s perspective on white people and even America in general was influenced early on in his childhood when his father was killed in a suspicious accident
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human failings (Stein 1270). Science fiction is a literary form of fiction‚ which has split from the broader form of fantasy; in which the plot‚ setting and theme are drawn from scientific knowledge (Benets 876). The autobiographical form used by Elie Wiesel in Night and the form of satirical humor used by Joseph Heller in Catch-22 more effectively depict anti-war themes than the science fiction
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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 struggles to stay alive both physically and mentally
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victims of abuse are often left with less-visible damage to their mental state‚ both emotional and spiritual. The consequences of emotional and spiritual suffering are explored in depth in the memoir Night‚ by Elie Wiesel. In my opinion‚ the spiritual and emotional trauma experienced by Elie and the Jewish prisoners is more damaging than the physical effects. Firstly‚ their intense suffering results in a complete loss of faith for many characters after their life-changing experiences. Additionally
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the years of 1933 to 1945 were murdered in the Holocaust (Interesting facts 11). Night‚ by Elie Wiesel‚ is a book about a kid who is put into a concentration camp when he was twelve and had to survive with just his dad. He fights for long time until he starts to lose his faith in God which is a big part of the story because God and his dad are the only ones keeping his will to live up. In Night‚ Elie Wiesel presents the idea that faith can be weakened in times of loss or sorrow. Eliezer has a lot
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begin‚ all because of a string of hope. Without this emotion‚ many historical events would not have occurred‚ such as the Holocaust‚ one of the most infamous genocides in history. In the book Night‚ by Elie Wiesel‚ he writes about the Holocaust and his time in several concentration camps with his father. Hope plays an important part in this story; it became the catalyst of the Holocaust‚ protected Jewish victims of genocide‚ and eventually caused the end of WWII. During World War I‚ Germany suffered
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