Night Narrative The train ride was jagged‚ people where silent‚ laying around me like dead bodies. My daughters fast asleep‚ the whole world felt as if it was at peace with itself. If only it persisted. Screams came from the train‚ “Fire‚ Fire‚ Oh Flames…” the lady had lost her mind. “Mother what is she talking about?” my daughter asked with a frightened face. “Nothing darlin’ don’t worry about it.” I said. The young boys in train took her down and started beating her until her cries and
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A loud “whoosh” echoes throughout the dark distant auditorium‚ and in an instant huge gleaming lights lower themselves upon the stage. The stage sits empty‚ lifeless‚ waiting‚ listening..listening for one to drop jaws with their all-knowing Mozart Symphony or disappoint with a piece that has no rhythm. With each day a new audience gathers around to join the stage in listening. To some it just may be a song‚ but to others it is a message‚ a chapter‚ a story. A story that throws all of life’s up’s
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The time period during World War II was very devastating. There were a countless amount of brutal deaths‚ with people even being burned alive. The setting of Night takes place in 1944‚ in a concentration camp called Buchenwald. It all starts out when the main character‚ Eliezer‚ has his Jewish hometown overrun by the Germans. Eliezer’s hometown gets turned into a ghetto by the Germans‚ and they are forced to stay in the ghetto until the whole neighborhood is sent to the concentration camps. Since
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light heart. “I happened to cross his path. He threw himself on me like a wild beast‚ beating me in the chest‚ on my head‚ throwing me to the ground and picking me up again‚ crushing me with ever more violent blows‚ until I was covered in blood” (“Night” 53). As a result of running into an angry SS officer‚ Wiesel first-hand encountered pure rage and torture. Being beaten senseless‚ regardless if you were a child or not‚ was not uncommon in the concentration camps. Although Wiesel was only fourteen
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along with a handful of others. Eliezer Wiesel’s novel night describes the harsh journey through the holocaust and explains that severe suffering can cause a reversal in relationships. In the beginning of his memoir‚ Elie Wiesel had a distant relationship with his father. Wiesel mentions that “he rarely displayed his feelings‚ not even with his family” his father kept to himself and didn’t open up to anybody‚ causing an unhealthy relationship with his son‚ Eliezer Wiesel. He later goes on and says
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Bruno remind innocent of knowledge and understanding of what was happening under his fathers direction at the auschwitz complex because‚ his family didn’t want has innocence and childhood destroyed. Bruno would of witnessed and became part of the constant beating of the incident Jews within the camp. Bruno would of been subjected to painful and cruel medical experiments. He would of been forced to work for wealthy Germans and the Hierarchy. He would of witnessed baby’s being killed after birth and
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reflects the death of Elie Wiesel’s father and how Elie was not able to weep because all the horrors he had confronted in the camps had deprived him of tears. The Jews in these concentration camps would lose most of their families and would then be left to take care of themselves. The concentration camps would turn many into animals‚ but Elie Wiesel was able to do his best to take care of his father until his father passed away. Jews who died in the middle of the night at the camps‚ would be
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Night Chapter 5 Chapter Five Journal Vocabulary: Functionaries- People who function in a specified capacity Lamentation- the act of expressing grief Kaddish- liturgical prayer‚ consisting of three or six verses Achtung- attention in German Characters: Hospital Patient: He says that he is going to die soon‚ and warns Eliezer that there are more “selections” at the hospital. Symbol(s): Number: This symbolizes your identity in the concentration camps‚ it is what defines your fate. Reflection:
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Insanity has a major impact in the book called Night‚ because many of the characters in this book lose their faith in god. It related in the most part in the Holocaust‚ because while being treated so badly they depended on the only person they thought would help them which was god himself. Insanity has a very major role in this book for numoreous character espesalliy Eli. For example‚ Eli had the most faith in god when it came to any type of beliefs he had to when it came to god‚ but it got
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because of the way they were born. My heart goes out for all the people that died during the Holocaust‚ and to all of the families that lost a love one. Nobody knows what it feels like unless they went thought it themselves. When reading Night the pain that the people went through is sad enough to make anybody want to take back the actions of the Nazi’s. "We walked over pain-racked bodies. We trod on wounded faces. No cries. A few groans." (Wiesel‚ pg. 88) Although I read the horrifying
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