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    novel The Catcher in the Rye. This novel is about a teenager‚ Holden Caulfield‚ who notices the world around him. He sees how a materialistic view on life has dominated over a spiritual view. The Catcher in the Rye by Salinger indicates that ways of a material world is present‚ just the way it is today. When parents are not there for their children‚ they will often buy the love of their children with gifts. In the novel Holden talks of ice skates that his mother bought him. He thinks about

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    An extraordinary example that demonstrates the economic usage of constructive words in order to express meaning can be observed in Elie Wiesel’s

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    Character Analysis: Holden Caulfield Adrienne Sutherland From the first few pages of The Catcher In The Rye‚ Holden is portrayed as unreliable. His inability to remember the fencing team’s equipment clearly highlights this characteristic. Not only is Holden unreliable in his actions‚ but also in his narration. During Holden and Sally Hayes’ fight at the skating rink‚ one had to question what actually went down. Holden‚ in his narration‚ claims to not have been yelling at Sally‚ meanwhile Sally repeatedly

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    Night by Elie Wiesel was rather short novel detailing Wiesel’s experience during Hitler’s reign and the Holocaust. Despite the fact that it was short‚ it not only conveyed the struggles and hardships that people went through during the Holocaust well‚ it also was written in a condensed yet powerful way. Even though I have never lost a loved one or seen people be killed in person‚ the events in Wiesel’s writing seemed oddly relatable. I felt his panic when his father was written down and I felt the

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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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    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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    In the memoir night the author Elie Wiesel questions his fate to show the reader a sad disbelieving tone .This is choice is important to the narrative as a whole because it develops the reader’s understanding of the character conflict about how to deal with his own sadness.Ellie thinks it tells the reader and shows how Elie was living a normal when the nazi army took over germany and moved all the jews straight into the ghetto’s once moved into the ghetto all the jews were moved into concentration

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    Survivor of Holocaust In Elie Wiesel’s Night (1960)‚ Eliezer Weisel deals with the harsh brutality of the Holocaust. He uses mental attributes such as determination and faithfulness to overcome the harsh environment and events that he manages with. His despondency is a result of all of his misery. With his mental attributes‚ he hardly survives‚ but his despondency is a result of his loss of hope because he has suffered emotionally‚ spiritually‚ and physically. Eliezer’s determination allows him

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    He was a Romanian American Jewish writer. He was an holocaust survivor. He had three sisters and a mom and a dad both his parents and little sister died in the holocaust leaving him and his two older sisters the only survivors from his family. Elie Wiesel encouraged hope in the face of fear through his works ¨Never Will I Forget¨‚ ¨Nobel Peace Prize Speech¨‚ and one of his untitled poems. One of Wiesel’s best books is Holocaust poetry. It impacted how we will always remember the worst

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    Silence: Shaping Eliezer’s Character “I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation…” said Eliezer Wiesel‚ the author of Night. Throughout the course of this book‚ Elie goes through many tragedies that change and shape his character. In Night‚ Eliezer Wiesel is a teenager who is swept away from his life‚ home‚ and possessions to go to a deadly concentration camp called Auschwitz. While in this camp‚ he witnesses the horrors of the Holocaust‚ including

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