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    This is shown in Night by ellie wiesel and his appalling experience. In this essay we will idetntify and elaborate on these instances exhibited throughout novel. One theme displayed by wiesel is hope. This is shown by Ellie himself‚ellie always had hope that he might get saved‚ which contibuted to his survival. Because many characters lost hope of survival‚ they were either put to death or commited suicide. Showing this in the novel is the character Akiba Drumer. Their loss of hope was a

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    Night- Ellie Wiesel

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    Night‚ written by Elie Wiesel‚ portrays the story of a boy experiencing the horrifying events of the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel came from a Jewish family who had a strong faith in God and the Jewish religion. One of the major conflicts in Night is Elie’s internal battle with his faith. Elie’s principles shift during the course of the book from ardently believing in a benevolent God to questioning Him‚ but ultimately regains his faith by the time he leaves the concentration camp. Elie’s dedication

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    Night In the book Night‚ the awfulness of the Holocaust and abhorrent treatment of Jewish beings was narrated through the eyes of fourteen year old‚ Elie Wiesel. His family lost all privileges and freedom when they were taken to the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944. Eventually‚ Elie would lose contact with his sister and mother. Therefore‚ he only had his father by his side. Both of them had experienced the tremendous atrocity of the gruesome life in camp. Elie’s father had seemed to lose all

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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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    World Literature  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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    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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    Ellie Wiesel

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    Ellie Wiesel Elie Wiesel develops the central idea and advances his point across by using formal diction‚ pathos‚ and allusions in his speech and documentary. He uses all of these things so that the audience will be more into the story and know what he was feeling‚ not just make the audience listen to another bring speech. Throughout the speech and documentary‚ Wiesel uses formal diction to get his point through more clearly. In his speech he states‚ “No one may speak for the dead‚ no one may

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    including‚ Ellie felt during the Holocaust. In the book Night Ellie uses repetition‚ irony‚ and dictation to show loss of faith in his book. To show how the workers were losing faith in God Elie uses repetition. In the book Ellie says “Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my god and soul and turned my dreams to ashes”(34). He’s describing how the Nazi’s killed his faith. Ellie continues to repeat this saying “Never shall I ever forget those flames that consumed my faith forever.” Ellie continues

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    Never” -Ellie Wiesel. Ellie wiesel is a holocaust survivor‚ author‚ nobel peace prize winner‚ a inspiration and many more things. He just like any average boy had a typical family‚ standard house‚ religion‚ and loving friends. And along with many others he was clueless to what horror awaited him. In the Book “Night” by Ellie Wiesel‚ the main character‚ Ellie is affected by the events in the book by experiencing a loss of sympathy‚ loss of faith‚ and Ellies perspective on Death. Ellie Wiesel was

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    In this section by Ellie Wiesel‚ you see personification through "Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes"(Wiesel 34). This literary device impacts the meaning of what Ellie is going through‚ and if it were not in this quote‚ you wouldn’t be able to fully grasp the severity and finality of Ellie’s faith. This example of personification allows you to infer that his faith is going to go through many trials throughout his time in the camps and

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