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    Night by Elie Wiesel

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    The Loss of Faith It is very difficult for a young teenager to keep faith in a God during a crisis. This can be very well shown in Elie Wiesel’s novel Night. This novel is a personal‚ first person account of a young child‚ named Eliezer‚ and his time in a concentration camp with his father. It shows how Elie’s faith‚ once strong and incredibly vibrant‚ becomes almost nothing. Be it through the loss of faith one of his mentors has‚ or seeing human bodies burn around you‚ or seeing a helpless

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    Donovan Collins-Goodman Ms. Burdios English 8 4 May 2013 Night Essay Have you ever been separated from your family? What if living wasn’t guaranteed? The holocaust killed over eleven million people. The purpose of the holocaust was to eliminate the entire Jewish race. In Night‚ by Elie WieselElie and his family were separated. Elie was forced to take care of his father while his mother and sister were killed. The Jews’ freedom‚ identity‚ and sense of hope were taken from them to make the Jews

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    This was a reoccurring scene during the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel’s Night describes the horror of what the Holocaust did‚ not only to the Jews‚ but to humanity. The disturbing neglect the Nazi party had for human beings‚ and the human body itself‚ still to this day‚ intensifies the fear in the hearts of many. Men‚ woman‚ and children alike witnessed selfish‚ dehumanizing acts‚ the deaths of their friends and family‚ and not only the loss of faith in God‚ but in everything. The Nazi’s were ruthless

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    for all people‚ but mostly those of the Jewish faith. Each person involved in the Holocaust had a different way of coping with the fact that their friends‚ family and religion were being taken from them. In the book “Night‚” the author‚ Elie Wiesel‚ recounts how he survived the Holocaust and what effects it had on his faith. By the end of the memoir‚ Elie had lost his faith in himself‚ in mankind and in God. It can be believed that Elie lost his faith because he could not sense that his God was helping

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    NIGHT ESSAY In the beginning of Night‚ written by Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie WieselWiesel has been in the concentration camps suffering changes in his life‚ physically‚ mentally‚ and spiritually. In the beginning of Night‚ Wiesel’s identity is an innocent child and a devouted Jew. He was a happy child with a desire to study the Talmud‚ until his experience in Auschwitz‚ in which he changed his mental ways. First of all‚ he used to believe

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    Even Elie who heard of Meadle’s stories took pity on him not fully aware of what was to come. The Jews of Sighet caught glimpses of what waited for them unwilling to believe in Hitler’s plan or escape whatever was to come. Until the Jews experienced first-hand the horrors that existed‚ they cannot believe that such horrors exist. On the first train to the first labor camp Elie felt optimistic when arriving to Auschwitz saying “Confidence soared. Suddenly we felt free of the previous nights’ terrors

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    Night rough draft In the memoir‚ “Night”‚ the narrator Elie Wiesel recounts a moment when he saw body parts used as gun targets‚” Without passion or haste they shot prisoners‚ who were forced to approach the trench one by one and offer their necks. Infants were tossed into the air and used as targets for the machine guns”(Wiesel6). Humans were killing their kind without mercy. As the author describes his experiences‚ many other examples of inhumanity are revealed. One theme in “Night” is that

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    up as an example.” The book Night by Elie Wiesel is about what and how Elie‚ and other Jewish people‚ felt due to the barbarity they witnessed and endured in many concentration camps during the Holocaust. The Holocaust is one of the most mournful events in history‚ which left the world as a bystander to how people were stripped of their lives and treated like they

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    go of something that was always a part of ourselves‚ such as letting go of a teddy bear‚ or a blanket‚ but for other people‚ it can be almost instantaneous. Eliezer‚ the main character of the autobiography Night‚ written by himself‚ is portrayed to be a very religious man who puts all his faith in God. He wants to study and learn all about God and all about how He created the world and why. At the beginning‚ it is evident that Eliezer is relying on God to rescue him‚ his family‚ and all the poor Jews

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    In Elie Wiesel’s memoir‚ “Night”‚ readers see a dramatic change from the young‚ sensitive and spiritual individual to a‚ boy with the mindset of an adult that is spiritually dead and is unemotional. Elie shows this in his memoir by rewriting what he saw‚ thought‚ or what he heard while in concentration camps‚ this occurs‚ in the three sections of the memoir. In the first section of the book‚ Eile begins the transformation from a sensitive and spiritual boy to the opposite. Elie starts describes the

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