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    This is the diagnosis for Mr. Holden Caulfield. Mr. Caulfield is a sixteen year old‚ white‚ male‚ whos residence is in New York City‚ New York. He has brown/gray hair and is about 6 foot. Caulfield is in high school and was recently expelled from Pencey Prep. After analyzing Caulfield‚ I have come to determine that he has Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PSTD). Mr. Caulfield has multiple symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. After speaking with the patient and observing his actions‚ several

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    aura resides. Holidays are meant to be a time of happiness; therefore‚ Wiesel uses a word with a positive connotation to highlight that for us. Furthermore‚ a mirage defines something that‚ in reality‚ does not exist. This definition is true to the word’s use because we as the readers know that the joy of the Jewish New Year was simply masking the daily terror and misery of life in a concentration camp. I believe that Elie Wiesel broke his silence about his Holocaust experience because he remembered

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    eternities ago… It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed” -Elie Wiesel. Millions of heads were enforced in the Holocaust‚ Elie Wiesel was one of the few survivors. Mr. Wiesel survived through the genocide known as the Holocaust. The Holocaust occurred from 1939 to 1945 in Europe. The mass annihilation was lead by Adolf Hitler. Hitler had one capital goal‚ to be the

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    Elie Wiesel was a young boy when he was imprisoned and orphaned during the Holocaust. After seeing many Jews being brutally murdered‚ he was very upset that the world did not do anything to help them. Nobody stopped Hitler and because of that‚ many innocent lives were taken away without a reason. This‚ however‚ we did not engage in World War 2 for the Jews. When Elie Wiesel was 15‚ he and his family were deported from Hungary and placed in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Around 90% of the

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    The Horrors of Dehumanization “The Almighty himself was a slaughterer: it was He who decided who would live and who would die; who would be tortured‚ and who would be rewarded” (Wiesel‚ “Hope‚ Despair”). The author of Night‚ a novel documenting the horrible and gruesome events of the holocaust‚ Elie Wiesel expresses his experiences and observations in which he and his fellow Jews were dehumanized while living in concentration camps. All Jews‚ as a race‚ were brutalized by the Nazis during this

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    Nearing the end of World War II‚ a young Wiesel‚ among many others‚ was rescued from the concentration camp in Auschwitz and was finally free from the grasp of the wicked Nazis. After his freedom‚ Wiesel did all he could through his literary works to let the world know of the horrors he experienced at the hands of the Nazis. He received a Nobel Peace prize for his messages to the world. In 1999‚ he gave a very prominent speech about oppressors and the indifference of Man‚ apathetic to the suffering

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    vastly between the two authors. Night is a work by Elie Wiesel about his experience with his father in the Nazi Germany concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945 (Night book.). Elie became motivated to write this novel because he felt he was obligated to share the gruesome experiences felt by Jews during that time period. Many scholars agree that “Elie Wiesel wrote the book "Night" as a memoir of his experiences as a Jew during the Holocaust. He calls himself a "messenger

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    Elie has changed as a result of his imprisonment. He has changed emotionally‚ spiritually‚ and physically. Elie’s emotional state has changed during his imprisonment because before the he was sent to imprisonment‚ he was very innocent. When Moishe the Beadle came back to the town after being taken by the Nazis and shot in the leg‚ Elie did not believe his story. During Elie’s imprisonment‚ he was almost living Moishe’s story. Elie’s emotional state started to change when he got to his first labor

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    will take everything you got.” In the end Elie had what it took to survive and live but when he saw himself in the mirror for the first time after the concentration camps he was shocked. He found out this terrible journey took everything out of him. Night after night Elie was put through so much‚ cold nights‚ long runs‚ starvation‚ and hard labour. The most important decisions in the novel that one chooses is strongly tied with the outcome and the end. Elie was put into this situation at at a young

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    Often people may wonder‚ “what did I do to deserve this?” Well‚ that is exactly what Elie Wiesel was thinking in 1960‚ when he was just 15 years old. Wiesel is the author of the memoir “Night”. He is a famous holocaust survivor. This novel describes his fighting journey in the concentration camp “Auschwitz”. He struggles with many factors‚ the two biggest factors being survival and faith. If there is a situation where cruelness is a key factor‚ the one being attacked may wonder why God isn’t helping

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