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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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    In the novel the night trilogy by Elie Wiesel‚ the author Elie says “if in my lifetime I was to write only one book‚ this would be the one.” (The night trilogy‚ Preface to the new translation‚ Pg 5) This book is very important to him. He communicates with us his experience and thoughts during the holocaust. He expresses what he witnessed and endured with disbelief and heartbreak. Everything he tolerated as an adolescent was hard to process as it would be for anyone who was in such a horrid situation

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    NIght Essay “You’ve got what it takes‚ but it will take everything you got.” In the end Elie had what it took to survive and live but when he saw himself in the mirror for the first time after the concentration camps he was shocked. He found out this terrible journey took everything out of him. Night after night Elie was put through so much‚ cold nights‚ long runs‚ starvation‚ and hard labour. The most important decisions in the novel that one chooses is strongly tied with the outcome and the end

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    Night: survival of Elie Wiesel Night is a candid‚ horrific‚ and deeply poignant autobiographical work by Elie Wiesel based on his experiences‚ as a young orthodox Jew‚ of being transmit with his family to the German death camp at Auschwitz‚ and later to the concentration camp at Buchenwald. Primarily‚ his father helped him survive. Upon arrival to the camp‚ Elie and his father are immediately aparted from Elie’s mother and sisters. This is the last time the two sides of the family will ever

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    to give meaning to my survival‚ to justify each moment of my life”. Wiesel believes he was destined to survive so he can share his experience and justify every part of it. In his novel Night‚ with his father by his side‚ Elie Wiesel been forced to survive the Holocaust. He’s been through up and downs through the experience with God as a Jewish man‚ himself‚ and his choices with the burden of surviving. Elie Wiesel’s novel Night deals heavily with the topic of survival. It is clear that mental strength

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    Elie Wiesel uses Night to symbolize the darkness‚ fear and torture Jewish people had to live with‚ and survive from‚ during World War II. It symbolizes the dark and cruel path that Jews had to suffer from. Night was a time to be feared of because; the Nazis were brutal to the Jews and acted inhumane. In addition‚ humans are also inherently evil because‚ although it was hard to survive during the time‚ instead of sticking together‚ the Jews turned against their own families. Although some say that

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    Holocaust Essay   “For the dead and the living we must bear the witness” (hoodreads.com/quotes/tag/holocaust). The book Night by Elie Wiesel was about the Holocaust taken place in Auschwitz concentration camp. Elie went through ghettos and later on was separated from his and sister; luckily he was with his father. At the concentration camp the people worked hard labors and lived like as slaves from 1944 to the day of liberation (1945). The author’s purpose for writing this novel was to inform

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    March 23‚ 2015 English 11-Night Essay Dehumanization is defined as the psychological process of demonizing the enemy‚ making them seem less than human and hence not worth of humane treatment. It also can lead to increased violence‚ human rights violations‚ war crimes‚ and genocide. When there is severe hatred and aversion towards a different group‚ it can direct to classifying the rival as inhuman and treating them with bestial punishment. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel‚ the Jews were victims of

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    Dehumanization in the Night Do you know how many people died during the time of the Holocaust? The number went up to eleven million deaths. Six million of them were Jews. Which left only three million Jewish people alive. Here is one story. In the novel‚ Night by Elie Wiesel‚ Tattoo‚ Star of David‚ and Transporting are ways the Jew were dehumanized. One way of dehumanization was the tattoo on their arms. The tattoo was a series of letters and numbers. Elie Wiesel numbers were A-7713. “I became

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    Silence...it’s a simple word that can hold so much over a person. A word that once it is said no longer describes itself. In NightElie Wiesel uses imagery‚ flashbacks‚ and characterization to explain how silence is forced‚ as well as broken into the people throughout the Holocaust. The inmates were forced to watch horrific events and became accustomed to it‚ many others did as well‚ such as the townspeople‚ who were used to seeing emaciated prisoners pushed through the towns. None of them said

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