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    Unknown Teacher English 10B – Pd. 07 27 February 2010 Literary Analysis: Night In the Novella‚ Night‚ imagery creates settings that enhance characterization. Elie‚ the witness-storyteller‚ is transformed from innocent to haunted by being put into a hostile environment. Religious to loss of faith by seeing that his god showed no concern of the events going on. And caring to indifferent when his father passes away. Elie turns from innocent to haunted throughout the story by coming from a good community

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    February 27‚ 2012 Night Discussion Questions: Chapters 8 & 9 Dylan Gnatz 4. Wiesel reports that after Buchenwald was liberated‚ the prisoners had no thoughts of revenge. Is this surprising? The prisoners’ lack of will for revenge is in no way surprising. The Jews held in the concentration camps had little will to survive after liberation‚ let alone seek retaliation. The entire point of the concentration camps themselves was to exterminate the Jews‚ both physically and mentally‚ and they were

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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Pathos- this is effectively used frequently through out the text so that the speaker gets the audience to be emotional. An example of this is when he says “ to be abandoned by god is worse than to be punished by him” (444). By saying this‚ the speaker get the audience to empathize with the victim‚ put themselves in the victims shoes‚ which gets the emotions and feeling across to all the members of the audience and get then engaged. He uses human emotion as a way to speak out against the holocaust

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    One genocide that affected many was the Holocaust‚ out of the survivors there was Elie Wiesel‚ who valued God over many things in his life. When he was forced into Auschwitz‚ he struggled to maintain his grasp with God. Like others‚ Elie began to develop a feeling of hatred against God because it seemed that God had abandoned them and allowed for all the pain to occur. Elie Wiesel’s connection with God changed during the years he left his home until he was liberated in Buchenwald. His journey with

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    In Elie Wiesel’s novel ‘NightWiesel gives readers a glimpse into the life of a Jew in a Nazi concentration. After being taken from his home town of Sighet‚ Transylvania in a cattle car‚ Wiesel ends up in the infamous Auschwitz. Throughout the novel Wiesel experiences a loss of innocence due to the traumatizing things he is exposed to‚ such as hangings and mass cremations. This loss of innocence results in a loss of faith. In the book‚ Wiesel employs the motif of religion to illustrate the idea

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