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    In the speech Elie Wiesel says that indifference is bad and that it is a crime against humanity .He also said that indifference to a tragedy is not guiltless and that you cant just witness cruelty towards someone or something and not be responsible in some way for what ends up happening instead he said that you have to step in and help the person or thing that someone is being cruel to. He also talks about his experience during the Holocaust‚ and how people ignored the millions of Jews that were

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    experience” (Rick Yune). The relationship of the quote‚ relates to Elie and his father because it demonstrates that father and son rarely get to encounter the same situation together and when they do‚ it is something that is not forgotten. During Night‚ father and son become closer together due to the experience they encountered‚ while at the concentration camps. Once at the concentration camps‚ and separated from the rest of the Wiesel family‚ Elie and his father create an attachment for one another‚ one

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    “Never shall I forget the little faces of children‚ whose bodies turned into wreaths of smoke beneath the silent blue sky.” That was written by Elie Wiesel. Eleven year old Krystyna and twenty one year old Pavel Friedmann had a harsh life. They both were forced to live in the ghetto. This happened from 1941 to 1942. They were forced to live in the ghetto because they were both Jewish. They both had an unforgettable story of their lives. They have similarities and differences in their lives in the

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    Each individual in the world that is living at this moment has a past. For a select few of these individuals‚ the past has more longevity in comparison to others. Although many vary in the length of it‚ the kind of past is relevant for everyone. A person’s past consists of different events and situations that all combine to create memories that live inside of their mind. Many of these memories created stay with a person for an extended period of time. For countless others‚ the memories become non-existent

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    defined as the constant search of looking for the balance of what is right and what is wrong. Elie Wiesel‚ author and Holocaust survivor‚ can be seen as one of the most prominent figures of political activism in the modern world. By publishing his works and experiences that deal with ethical concepts‚ Wiesel was able to shed a light on the horrors of people’s actions and their moral consequences. Wiesel is a firm believer in how the

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    able to listen to someone. When you are showing compassion you take ownership and stand up for something or someone. Compassion should be shown and given by everyone. Elie Wiesel was talking about compassion because this was a terrible event. He was talking about compassion because he wanted to show people that he was strong. Elie talked about compassion because he wanted to show people how easy it is

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    Life in Auschwitz Elie Wiesel‚ a former prisoner of Auschwitz‚ once said‚ “The opposite of love is not hate‚ it’s indifference.” Auschwitz was a camp set up by Nazis in the early 1940s and more than 12‚000 people died a day there. Who did Auschwitz affect? What happened there? How did it start? Auschwitz was a camp for many more than just Jewish people. The Holocaust started when Adolf Hitler lead Nazis to make a perfect race when the economy crashed. They wanted blonde-haired and blue-eyed Germans

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    Elie Wiesel has said‚ “What hurts the victim the most is not the cruelty of the oppressor‚ but the silence of the bystander‚ ‘’ I‚ unfortunately‚ know the emotion behind this quote too well. During my middle school years‚ my friends were everything to me. I had a compact group of two best friends. We were hardly seen without each other‚ but I had known one of the girls longer than the other; one since elementary school and the other I had barely met in middle school. The friend I had known the longest

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    failings (Stein 1270). Science fiction is a literary form of fiction‚ which has split from the broader form of fantasy; in which the plot‚ setting and theme are drawn from scientific knowledge (Benets 876). The autobiographical form used by Elie Wiesel in Night and the form of satirical humor used by Joseph Heller in Catch-22 more effectively depict anti-war themes than the science fiction

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    Night-Final In the fascinating memoir Night by Elie Wiesel‚ he deals with the struggle of surviving‚ which was devastating since it was during the holocaust. In the memoir NightWiesel uses Symbolism‚ Simile‚ and Irony in order to illustrate the events during the holocaust. Wiesel’s use of Symbolism helped the reader understand the captivity of the Jews in the concentration camps.”Father‚ I said “If that is true then I don’t want to wait. I’ll run into the electrified barbed wire. That would

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