killed and for most‚ killing comes without a second thought. Night is a memoir written by Elie Wiesel. Night is a story of Elie‚ one of the jews in the camp of Auschwitz and how he and his father survived. Wiesel discusses all of the people he met‚ the dangerous places he survived though‚ and the horrible acts he saw while in Auschwitz. Each of the examples demonstrate how survival acts as the dominant instinct. Wiesel utilizes characterization‚ setting‚ and mood to show that when survival is at stake
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When World War II began there were 9 million people in concentration camps‚ when the war ended there were 3 million people. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor President Ford put the japanese americans and the immigrants into internment camps because they looked like the enemy‚ the Japanese were not able to fight in the Military because they looked like the enemy. When Hitler became Chancellor he chose to put the Jews in concentration camps because he thought they looked like the enemy‚ Hitler
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are afraid to speak for other people. Just like in the book Night‚ Elie was concerned about the other Jews being taken to extermination camps‚ however his father told him not to worry about it because it wasn’t them being taken and they lived in denial that anything as unpleasant of what was reality was happening to the Jews and the same would happen to them. Until Elie and his family were captured‚ he continued to believe what his father said by not taking a stand and defending other people for what
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Individual How were the experiences of/reactions of Malcolm X and Elie Wiesel similar and different? Do you think you would have reacted the same way in their place? Explain. The experiences that Malcolm X and Elie Wiesel lived through were somewhat similar in that it involved racism‚ and how an individual responded when basic human rights were denied of them during their youth. Malcolm’s perspective on white people and even America in general was influenced early on in his childhood when his father
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Effects on Survivors of Concentration Camps Many people during the 1940s were put into concentration camps‚ and after getting out‚ if they did get out‚ suffered many problems. The stress and torment these people went through was pure murder (Nelken). The humans put into these concentration camps were from many different races‚ and also included the mentally retarded‚ severely handicapped‚ insane‚ and very sick people (Austin). Survivors of concentration camps faced psychological‚ spiritual‚ physical
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Removal of human looks that defined who they are * Same uniform * Cut hair to remove individuality. * “In a few seconds we had ceased to be men” 37 * “I became A-7713. From then on‚ I had no other name”42 The harshness of the camp quickly transformed them into selfish indifferent people * “I had not even blinked‚ only yesterday I would have dug my nails into the criminals flesh” 39 * “you’re killing your father”101 * “The old man mumbled something‚ groaned and died
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one at all. A great man such as Elie Wiesel would agree to that statement. He believes standing up for what is right by showing compassion for a fellow human being than for letting good men do nothing while evil triumphs. The message he passes was how indifference is showing the other man he is nothing. He attempts to grasp the audience by personal experiences and historic failures we need to learn from to grow to the compassion human being we all can be. Elie Wiesel show great respect for America
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Two themes in the novel Night wrote by Elie Wiesel‚ Elie has to go through his through most of his teenage years going through the holocaust which shows inhuman cruelty and the struggles of survival throughout the Holocaust. An example of the theme of ‘inhuman cruelty and on page 65 it says “ Behind me‚ I heard the same man asking: “For God’s sake‚ where is God?” And from within me‚ I heard a voice answer: “Where He is? This is where--hanging here from this gallows…” That night‚ the soup tasted
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narrator Elie Wiesel recounts a moment when he saw the terrible horrors of the concentration camp “Infants were tossed into the air and used as targets for the machine guns.” (Wiesel 6). Moishe had explained to the people of Sighet the horrors of the concentration camps and what they did there. What the men in the concentration camps did was terribly horrific. Wiesel didn’t have much to say about Moishe’s statements and proclaims‚ in the end he saw at first hand what other horrors Moishe did not see
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Concentration camps were places of death and hard labor for Jews. The Nazis controlled these camps‚ by dividing Jews in different camps and sections. Jews had to be creative to avoid getting caught by the Germans. First off the concentration camps were horrific places in which many Jews were put to death. Second‚ Hitler was the one who got Germans to abuse the Jews to death‚ and last; after death the Jews were still misused by the German police and Hitler. The things about the Holocaust that
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