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    settings that enhance characterization. Elie‚ the witness-storyteller‚ is transformed from innocent to haunted by being put into a hostile environment. Religious to loss of faith by seeing that his god showed no concern of the events going on. And caring to indifferent when his father passes away. Elie turns from innocent to haunted throughout the story by coming from a good community and being put into a hostile environment. At first before he got deported from his home‚ Sighet in Transylvania. He was

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    how he felt at a specific time. As a reader‚ personification allows us to easier relate to the idea or feeling the author is conveying. Wiesel uses personification on page thirty nine‚ when he says “Remorse began to gnaw at me.” Remorse cannot eat away at a person‚ but it allows the reader to understand how guilty Elie felt when he did not stand up for his father. A second example of figurative language used in Night is foreshadowing. Foreshadowing allows the author to keep

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    portrayed are Gretel‚ stepmother and a witch. These all characters have negative roles like one scared girl and two antagonists. "Hansel who‚ one evening‚ had overheard his parents’ conversation‚ comforted Gretel. "Don’t worry! If they do leave us in the forest‚ we’ll find the way home‚" he said. And slipping out of the house he filled his pockets with little white pebbles‚ then went back to bed. All night long‚ the woodcutter’s wife harped on and on at her husband till‚ at dawn‚ he led Hansel and Gretel

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    Mockingbird‚ Elie Wiesel’s Night‚ and Chris Crutcher’s “Goin’ Fishin’‚” characters possess courageous attributes. For the duration of the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ A character has courageous moments. First‚ courage

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    three relationships between the fathers and the sons (Elie and Chlomo‚ Rabbi Eliahou and his son‚ Meir and his father) they all have similarities and differences. They have similarities in their religion and situations. They all showed their love and hatred for each other in different ways. For their similarities they all have at least three things two things in common. They were all stuck in concentration camps‚ they’re all Jewish‚ and they all have the will to survive. Elie and his father help each

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    experience‚ some of them sworn to protest against such horrible genocide and to enlighten people so it does not happen again. Primo Levi (1919-1987) and Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) were among those writers who made a significant contribution to the modern Jewish literature in general and to the Holocaust in particular. Primo Levi is best known for his grandeur memoir‚ Survival in Auschwitz. It is a brilliant

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    Imagine not being able to have food‚ water‚ and happiness‚ all taken away in a snap only to be replaced with an everlasting nightmare. Elie Wiesel was only a teenager before he was taken away by german officers to be apart of the Holocaust‚ having faced being separated from his family‚ barely a speck of food and endless torment for ten years. As a Holocaust survivor he wrote the book Night so that there would be a changed in history and nothing would repeat itself but also remember the Holocaust

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    Do you think you can overcome an environment filled with dangerous people trying to survive? In the book “Night”‚ Elie is constantly trying to survive. He’s always trying to fulfill his hunger and thirst as he tries to survive. Elie is not the only one that has to deal with this. Others have to find ways to survive during times of the Holocaust. This may affect the person’s physical health or mental health. Survival could affect you and your body in a harmful way. Hunger is a big part of survival

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    One of the themes in Elie Wiesel’s memoir‚ Night‚ is man’s inhumanity to man. During the Holocaust‚ Elie experienced a terrifying account of the Nazi death camp horror that turns him into an agonized witness to the death of his family‚ innocence and God. A poem by Ruth Dykstra‚ “What I Don’t Know”‚ reflects Elie’s situation and beliefs. This poem expresses Elie’s struggles as a young Jew who has lost his faith and hope. In the beginning of the poem‚ the speaker questions: “Did they know? /

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    had one person in mind ㄧ my brother. I let darkness into me to save him. I extinguished his light. And now my attacker will extinguish mine. Everytime I close my eyes I see my brother‚ reaching for me like Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam. There’s something in his hand. Through the gaps of his fingers‚ I can see that glints gold. “Take this!” I hear him scream. He opens his hand‚ a Star of David resting on his palm. It’s the star he sold to the SS guard so long ago. “Just stay alive‚ that would

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