Samuel Lechuga Bernstein English 9 honors/Pre-AP/Period 1 25 April 2013 Section 3 1) F-Tzipora 2) G-Stein of Antwerp 3) D-Madame Schachter 4) B-Moshe the Beadle 5) 6) H-Dr. Menglele 7) D- Madame Schachter 8) B- Moshe the Beadle 9) C- Mr. Wiesel 10) B-Moshe the Beadle Section 4 1. Holocaust- A great or complete devastation or destruction‚ especially by fire. 2. Synagogue- A synagogue is a Jewish house of worship‚ often having facilities for religious
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Night‚ an autobiography by Eliezer Weisel‚ recounts his experience of being a Jew in the Holocaust during the early 1840 ’s. The story explores the escalation of fear in the Jews and its overriding presence in their lives‚ Eliezer ’s crisis of faith‚ and the loss of humanity in the Jewish people including the numerous images of death put forth in the book. Weisel portrays their fears in ways we could never dream of and makes us look at how people are affected spiritually in the wake of dehumanizing
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In the book Night by Elie Wiesel‚ there is a motif of survival and a central idea that when one is put in a desperate situation‚ developments that may otherwise seem either mundane or horrifying may instead be seen as remarkable or amazing. When all the guards leave their posts because of an alarm signal‚ two cauldrons of soup are left unattended. All of the prisoners quickly take note of the soup and are in awe‚ “two cauldrons of soup with no one to guard them! A royal feast” (Wolff 59). The author’s
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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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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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trauma and distress Elie Wiesel experiences as a prisoner in the concentration camps causes him to suffer from Holocaust Survivors Syndrome. First‚ Elie views his survival as luck. After seeing himself in a mirror for the first time in over a year‚ Elie writes‚ “From the depths of the mirror‚ a corpse was contemplating me” (Wiesel 115). The imagery of a corpse suggests that to Elie‚ his life barely continues. His comment suggests he might as well be dead after his experiences. Thus‚ Elie believes he survives
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selfish. In high-stress environments‚ people may not know how to react‚ giving one and whoever they are trying to save added difficulty in their survival. Self- preservation is also an instinct. Instincts are uncontrollable‚ and therefore should not be shamed
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rule there was a mass extermination of Jews. The Nazi leader Adolf Hitler used his manipulation to take over Germany and with his power he turned it to hate and killed Jews for no reason. This time period was full of darkness and hate. In the book Night there were many events that showed the hatred that the Jewish people went through and the horrible living conditions. The first event of hatred was when the Jews were beaten for doing something that wasn’t even wrong. One example of this was when
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In “Night”‚ Elie Wiesel uses diction in numerous ways in order to form an audience to connect with his contextual elements in his brief story‚ specifically when expressing his interpretations of the men‚ such as Idek‚ who worked to run the concentration camps. This made the text undemanding to appreciate for the audience. He also incorporated diction throughout the time of lynching men and adolescents‚ and occasionally using colloquialism‚ throughout the excerpt. For instance‚ towards the end of
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In Elie Wiesel’s Night‚ the protagonist Eliezer enters a spiritual struggle to maintain faith‚ not only in God but in humanity. Turned upside down‚ his world no longer makes sense. He becomes disillusioned through his experience of Nazi cruelty‚ but even more so by the inexplicable cruelty that fellow prisoners inflict upon each other. Eliezer is appalled by the human depth of depravity and capacity for evil‚ his own included. Within the story there seems to be an emphasis on how inhumanity begets
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