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    March 23‚ 2015 English 11-Night Essay Dehumanization is defined as the psychological process of demonizing the enemy‚ making them seem less than human and hence not worth of humane treatment. It also can lead to increased violence‚ human rights violations‚ war crimes‚ and genocide. When there is severe hatred and aversion towards a different group‚ it can direct to classifying the rival as inhuman and treating them with bestial punishment. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel‚ the Jews were victims of

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    they do in certain situations every day. Elie Wiesel (who dat?) stated in his Nobel Prize speech‚ “For us‚ forgetting was never an option. Remembering is a noble and necessary act.” This quote explains that Elie‚ a Holocaust survivor‚ cannot forget his actions as well as others actions during this time. We look at people like Elie in awe after understanding the many hardships they have endured. It is impossible to stay noble‚ and was especially hard for Elie due to the dehumanization he experienced

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    forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time” (Elie Wiesel). This is but one of many insightful quotes we can take from Elie Wiesel’s Night. In my eleven years of schooling in which time I have read over one hundred novels; Night is by far the most captivating and suspenseful. This is the best book of its kind because of the rare firsthand telling by Holocaust victim Elie Wiesel. Using his firsthand account of The Holocaust‚ Wiesel communicates a vivid telling which enables readers to feel

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    Throughout Elie Wiesel’s Holocaust narrative‚ Night‚ the struggle in remaining faithful is a predominant conflict the Jews face. The protagonist‚ Elie Wiesel‚ is depicted as a dynamic character who undergoes a vast transformation regarding his faith. As Elie encounters many hardships and horrors during the reign of Hitler‚ his faith in God is continuously tested to the point where he begins to alter his beliefs. Wiesel indicates that exposure to a cruel‚ inhospitable world prompts the deterioration

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    military advance. Elie Wiesel‚ author of Night‚ a biographical account of the Holocaust‚ does a skillful job in his narrative‚ showing us how hard it was for people to grasp the unbelievable possibility of what the Nazis were doing to the Jews. We have to regularly remind ourselves of the atrocities committed during the Holocaust so that we are never lulled into believing that people couldn’t do something

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    survival? Well‚ Elie Wiesel lived to tell the story. Elie tells about his struggles in his novel called Night. He speaks upon what had happened to him and his family in the holocaust‚ and what ultimately led him to living through the holocaust. The reason he is alive today and was able to tell the story‚ is because of his persistence to live‚ his mental strength to keep going‚ and his overall grit to become one of the historic survivors that he is today. The persistence of young Elie Wiesel played a large

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    In the memoir‚Night‚By Elie Wiesel‚the author’s personal experiences from being on concentration camps helped support the facts taught by history. History will teach you about what the Jews had to go through but the memoir itself would tell the readers what it was actually like to experience all of those situations. At one point in the memoir Elie talks about how he saw a son kill his own father for a ration of bread. History would teach you that the Jews

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    Literary Paragraph In the book Night by Elie Wiesel there are specific events that occur causing characters to begin to lose faith in God or their gods. Elie explicitly says in the book‚ “How could such a good God could let this happen to his people.”(something along those lines) Faith is a way people can connect with a higher being and use that connection to shape their lives. It is said that true faith in God is only shown under true conditions of struggle or pain. Evidence from the text about

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    * “you’re killing your father”101 * “The old man mumbled something‚ groaned and died. Nobody cared” 101 * “I shall never forgive myself. Nor shall I forgive the world for having pushed me against the wall‚ for having turned me into a stranger‚ for having awakened in me the basest‚ most primitive instincts.” Xii * “In this place‚ it is every man for himself‚ and you can not think of others. Not even your father. In this place there is no such thing as a father‚ brother‚ friend. Each of

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    Plot‚ characters‚ and theme page I read the novel Night by Elie Wiesel. It is about a young boy named Eliezer during the era of the Holocaust and is narrated through his words. He talks about his faith through the Jewish readings but is cut short when his teacher Moshe is deported. Moshe comes back and tells him the Gestapo shot them all down in a ditch and how he narrowly escaped. This sets up the story telling about the inhumane genocide of the Jewish people. After this‚ the Germans occupy Eliezer’s

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