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    Two themes in the novel Night wrote by Elie WieselElie 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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    rights‚ such as the Holocaust. The murdering of over 6 million people of the Jewish religion and the extreme mistreatment of them in concentration camps clearly shows these violations. Many of the Jews that survived the dreadful concentration camps‚ retell their stories through books and interviews. Elie Wiesel‚ a Buna concentration camp survivor‚ reveals the violation of his human rights through the literary devices of imagery‚ conflict‚ symbolism along with understatement. Wiesel uses these literary

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    One of the cruel ironies of the Holocaust was the Jewish people’s loss in faith of God. They were persecuted for their religious beliefs and by the end of the war many‚ if not most‚ of the Jews had lost their trust in their lord after seeing the horrors of the Nazis. Elie is one of these prisoners who loses his faith while in the concentration camps with his father. In the book Night‚ Elie Wiesel uses the motif of his and his fellow prisoner’s faith to show the waning of their hope and humanity while

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    The book "Night" shows me the Holocaust from a point of view of a child. This book is not easy to read. In fact‚ this is an extremely difficult book to read and it’s not the kind of book you want to read when you’re feeling down or having a bad day. Essentially‚ it’s a personal account of a Holocaust survivor‚ Mr. Elie Wiesel. It’s his autobiographical story of struggle for survival while in Auschwitz‚ the largest of the Nazi concentration camps.... and after reading it‚ I’d say it’s a miracle

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    even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never." ( page 34) - Elie Wiesel. The mass killings in Germany activated against the Jews created a new word‚ genocide. The Nazi almost exterminated more than half of Jewish‚ and other. The book ’ Night’ was about Elie‚ and how he was sent to the concentration camp with his father‚ the story tells all of hardship and the endurance that he and his father need to have and how they survive these horrible experiences.

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    “Night” by Elie Wiesel focuses on Wiesel’s experience with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944 and 1945‚ toward the end of the Second World War. It all begins in 1941 with Eliezer is a twelve-year-old boy living in Sighet. He is the only son in an Orthodox Jewish family and is evidently quite religious. Eliezer learns the truth about World War II and the Holocaust through his teacher‚ Moshe the Beadle who was deported and escaped. When Moshe returns

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    Inhumanity In the book Night‚ by Elie Wiesel‚ Hitler’s main goal was to make the Jews feel inhuman; he was very successful in this. The Jews were tortured everyday for no reason at all other than for the SS officers’ own amusement. The SS officers treated the men as if they were animals‚ making them fight for food. Women‚ babies‚ old‚ sick‚ and handicapped were put into the crematoriums as soon as they arrived at the camps. They killed people for no reason‚ with no remorse whatsoever. Torture

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    a true story based on the author’s life‚ Elie Wiesel. The book takes you through his journey of WWII‚ and how the Nazis affected himself as well as his friends and family. This book paints a true picture of what it was like to grow up in Hungry during that time and how the Nazis were perceived at different points throughout the war. Throughout the book‚ he explains his journey with God as a Jewish boy and how he questions who God is and His plans for Wiesel. The first chapter introduces Eliezer

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    The novel "Night" is a stunning personal history of a youthful adolescent named Elie Wiesel’s encounters taken hostage by the Nazis‚ and living eighteen months in the a wide range of inhumane imprisonment of Germany. The story starts off in the little town of Sighet‚ Romania in 1944. The reader can without much of a stretch‚ distinguish the hero Elie‚ spending incalculable measure of hours in his synagogue thinking about the Talmud‚ and contemplating Jewish mysticism. As of now‚ there isn’t even

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    family is in the midst of a life threatening altercation. Basically‚ these people in particular would not go out of their way to save a relative from the grips of death‚ instead they would rather escape with their own lives. In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel‚ the theme of father and son relationships is haunted by self-preservation over love and loyalty.

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