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    Joseph Artabane 4/3/13 Mr. Kanai English II A.M.D.G Father Son In Elie Wiesel’s autobiography “Night” the protagonist Elie has to choose whether to put his needs over his fathers and leave him to die and to strengthen his own chance of survival or let himself struggle to try and keep his father alive. This choice is so hard for a 16 year old boy to make by himself. His love for his father and all he has done for him makes him want to stay‚ but his constant hunger and own survival is on the

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    November 26‚2012 1st period The novel that I have just read is called Night by Elie Wiesel. In Night‚ by Elie Wiesel the theme of the book is survival is evident throughout the novel. The importance of this is that Elie had to survive. He had to do anything possible to make sure he survived. Ellie got split up of from his mother and it was just he and his father and they had to survive. ‘Don’t kill yourself. There’s no hurry. But watch out. Don’t let the SS catch you.’[P.50]. This shows

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    The part that I personally found the most sorrowful in Night written by Elie Wiesel is when he and his father get separated from each other due to his father’s death. The bond between the two was unbreakable and they never thought that they would be able to get through it all without each other. They agreed that neither of them would let this bond fade. This is why when Elie and his father do get separated it is so heartbreaking. They had always agreed that they would of died for one another if it

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    Elie Wiesel’s Night is a vivid account of the horrors of the Holocaust. Describing in his memoirs the extent of the horrendous atrocities he both witnessed and experienced‚ Wiesel tells of a boy who is stripped forever of the world he has know. Night tells of not only Wiesel’s stolen innocence‚ but also of the darkness that forever extinguishes the light in both his soul as well as the soul of all those who are touched by this event. His witnessing of good people turned into brutes through atrocities

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    My featured painting today entitled The Night was painted by Max Beckmann during 1918 and 1919. It is housed at the Kunstammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen‚ Dusseldorf. This is an early example of Beckmann’s grotesque and appalling visionary paintings with its misshapen figures. Before us we have an overcrowded room in a modern city. Beckman himself said he wanted this work to be looked upon as a large modern history painting tinged with a sense of evil. Three men have invaded the room and are terrorising

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    Night Essay Have you ever noticed that when people are in a difficult struggle‚ they seem in a bad mood and often turn into brutes? In the book Night by Elie Wiesel‚ a teenaged boy goes through a horrific experience during the holocaust. In the beginning‚ he watched friendly people turn into starving savage beasts. For example‚ when Eliezer and other Jews were being transported from Auschwitz to Buchenwald‚ the SS officers threw some bread onto the train; most of the Jews started to brawl to get

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    I propose to analyze graphic novels that retell past historical tragedies‚ specifically Art Spiegelman’s Maus and Miné Okubo’s Citizen 13660. Although Maus was a critical success when it first came out‚ some Holocaust survivors criticized Spiegelman for making a comic book out of their tragedy. Thus‚ the central questions that I will be exploring in my research paper include: do graphic novels cheapen or trivialize the meaning of the events that they depict? How valid are graphic novels in these

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    Mrs. Newell English 201 December 4th‚ 2013 Brutes After reading the book "Night" by Eliezer Wiesel‚ One of the most tragic themes in the book is Wiesel’s discovery of the way that atrocities and cruel treatment can make good people into brutes. Despite the difficult circumstances‚ Wiesel is able to endure the atrocities and remain true to his character and consistent with his morals. When Wiesel first gets to the camps he discovers the actions taken by some to ensure their own survival

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    Night In the memoir “Night” we see the atrocious events of the holocaust through the eyes of Ellie Wiesel a young boy from Sighet‚ Romania. The memoir begins with Ellie and his family in Sighet unaware of the horrible events they will experience. In this book we see how his experiences in the holocaust change his beliefs about god and his complete kindness. The change we see in Ellie is most evident in his opinion‚ Ellie goes from a very religious and god fearing person and doesn’t

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    horror in history. Book’s such as Maus (Art Spigealman) and Night (Elie Wiesel) were written so that these horrors would not be re-lived. Six months into his dictatorship‚ Hitler began systematically stripping the Jews of their basic privileges and rights. The right to own land‚ hold health insurance‚ serve in the military‚ or seek legal counsel was all seized from Jewish life‚ (History). Thus leaving them homeless and with no-where to go. In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel‚ Elie writes of how

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