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    Period 1 28 March 2017 Synthesis Essay “To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.”― Elie Wiesel. In the memoir‚ The Night by Elie Wiesel tells a story how twelve-year-old Elie Wiesel himself spends much time in trainloads of Jews to the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. In a train car eighty villagers have to survive on slightest food and water. When Elie Wiesel is 16 the United States Army in April 1945 saved him‚ but it was too late for his father‚ who died after a beating

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    faith. Unable to know why God would allow an event so inhumane like the Holocaust happen‚ makes society question Him. In Night‚ Eliezer was a Jew who was forced to go to a few concentration camps. In the camps Eliezer saw and experienced many barbaric events. Him and many other Jews struggled to survive‚ which made him question his beliefs. In the memoir Night by Eliezer Wiesel‚ he uses Eliezer’s relationship with God to show that people doubt their faith when times get tough and that sometimes when

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    02 May 2013  Loss of Innocence in Night by Elie Wiesel  Is there ever the possibility of the loss of innocence? How can one lose their innocence?  What is innocence? The loss of innocence can happen after certain events. These events make  kids have to grow up and get independant quickly‚ if not‚ well they can’t survive. That is the loss  of innocence. When kids must grow up quickly and learn the truth about the real world and how  cruel it can be. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel there are a number of examples of loss of 

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    In Elie Wiesel’s book‚ "Night"‚ the main character Eliezer‚ goes through numerous struggles with his faith in God which is caused by the Holocaust. This horrific genocide changed the way many Jews and others thought about their religion and views on things. Just like others Eliezer experienced the same but was questionable about his faith even before the Holocaust took place. In the beginning of Night‚ Eliezer went to the synagogue to pray every day and wanted study the cabbala very badly but

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    A Loss of Innocence Throughout the story Night‚ by Elie Weisel‚ the main character Elie slowly loses his innocence and sanity. At the beginning of the story‚ Elie is kindhearted and innocent. He would never harm anyone in any way‚ but towards the end of the story‚ he would kill a man if it meant getting an extra ration of bread or soup. Innocence can mean a multitude of things. It could mean that you are naïve to what is happening around you‚ it could mean that you would never hurt anyone in any

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    Family- Sighet Hungary Elie- only son Father- well respected Jewish council Mother- no great detail 3 sisters- Hilda‚ Bea‚ Tzipora Poor Moishe the Beadle works at sinagog Teacher of Kabbalah Expelled from Sighet- foreigner Profit presumed dead Didn’t believe him when he said they were going to die Edicts Couldn’t leave Yellow stars Didn’t allow valuables 6pm curfew couldn’t travel by train not attend sinagog Physical + Mental = Cruelty Inhumane Stop at Kaschau border

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    In the memoir “Night” by Elie Wiesel‚ a young Jewish boy during the time of the Holocaust talks about all of his experiences during these horrific events and everything that he has gone through‚ being stripped from everything but his father and barely managing to survive everyday in the harsh conditions.  He was separated from his family and from his friends too‚ most of whom he will not see after the first separation of men and women‚ ever.  Elie‚ through all that he faces‚ changes from a sensitive

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    soul into a raving madman. Night‚ a memoir by holocaust survivor and professor‚ Elie Wiesel‚ paints the horrors of isolation and how its knives will carve away your flesh and hope until there’s nothing but a vile corpse. In order to avoid the assured effects of this ‘solitary confinement’ in the concentration camps‚ having loved ones were beneficial because they needed one another to talk to‚ keep each other strong‚ and predominantly to keep each other sane. In NightElie tediously oversees his father

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    on the autobiography “Night” by Elie Wiesel‚ throughout the novel humanity is questioned and delved into thoroughly. Elie Wiesel was fifteen when he was taken away from his home in Sighet‚ Transylvania. His family and himself were brought to Auschwitz concentration camp then soon to Buchenwald. Night is filled with the horrible events of the holocaust that Elie Wiesel experienced through his teenage years. When faced with the true horrors of the concentration camps Elie Wiesel lost to the evil of god;

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    dad goes through each camps as they experience new ways of how the Nazis dehumanize the jewish people. Wiesel engages readers’ emotions with powerful unforgettable moments in order to achieve his purpose. Wesiel wants to help readers come to a greater understanding of the Holocaust and make them think about how Dehumanization is shown across the story. In the memoir Night‚ the author Elie Wiesel wrote the memoir to show that in tough times‚ people only think about themselves‚ thus creating a Dehumanization

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