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    - 1945 during World war 2 Nazies separated many family’s and put them in the concentration camps.In the story “Night” written by Elie Wiesel tells us about his experience and what him and his father witnessed during they were in the Concentration camp.Throughout the story Elies and many other Jews faith and beliefs change while they are in the concentration camps. The story “Night” is about a young Jewish kid name Elie that was put in concentration camp.Elies was taken to a camp called Auschwitz

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    Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking‚ loving‚ and dreaming. At night everything is more intense‚ more true. The echo of words that have been spoken during the day takes a new‚ deeper meaning” Elizer Wiesel. The book “Night” was based on a true story of a holocaust survivor. Elizer and his father Chlomo went from camp to camp‚ from beating to beating‚ all for his father to end up dying in the end. I will explain three types of irony that takes place in the story. Firstly‚ dramatic irony

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    Elie Wiesel is one of the countless number of people affected by the Holocaust. He and his father were taken from their home and separated from his mother and sister. Elie Wiesel wrote the book Night which tells some of the struggles they had to endure. Throughout these struggles‚ keeping faith in God was not easy to do. Many times Elie doubted that there was a God to help. In chapter three‚ Elie and his father waited in line with the rest of the people to find out if they were to go to the prison

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    Plot‚ characters‚ and theme page I read the novel Night by Elie Wiesel. It is about a young boy named Eliezer during the era of the Holocaust and is narrated through his words. He talks about his faith through the Jewish readings but is cut short when his teacher Moshe is deported. Moshe comes back and tells him the Gestapo shot them all down in a ditch and how he narrowly escaped. This sets up the story telling about the inhumane genocide of the Jewish people. After this‚ the Germans occupy Eliezer’s

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    In his autobiography‚ Night‚ Elie Wiesel relates how the atrocities committed during the holocaust deeply effect his belief in God and his relationship with his father. In the beginning of the book‚ Elie’s relationships with his father is not so intimate. At the same time‚ his relationship to God is extremely close. By the end of the book these relationships change‚ leaving Elie closer to his father than to God. Before the Nazi occupation of his hometown‚ Sighet‚ Elie’s relationship with God

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    Adult building. Horrifying. Life-changing. These words describe Elie’s pain throughout the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel. A young Jewish boy who suffered through concentration camps during the Holocaust. This caused Elie and his father’s relationship to change. Their relationship changed from not so close‚ to close‚ then to Elie being relieved when his father passes away. Before the Holocaust Elie and his father weren’t close. Elie thought of his father as a cultured man‚ rather unsentimental. “He

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    Throughout the graphic and devastating scenes in Elie Wiesel’s Night‚ his character’s personality and outlook on the world greatly changed. The concentration camp transformed Elie into a shell of a man. Elie would never quite have the same philosophical views or the same outlook on family as he did before experiencing the atrocities Hitler had waiting for him in the camps. Elie also would never be able to view himself quite the same when he looked in the mirror. In the beginning of the memoir‚

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    “Being a neutral bystander helps those who are evil‚ that remaining silent encourages even more evil to happen.” Meaning if you do not do anything many people will get hurt and staying quiet never helps a situation. This was the overall topic of Night and how everyone though the Holocaust was. To begin‚ I agree with Wiesel’s statement because‚ the people have no one to help them and they keep getting hurt. In the poem‚ “First They Came‚” the soldiers kept coming back each day to take more and

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    Matt Sturgis Francev 1A Francev MW 7:30 Essay #3 Clamence’s Absence of Morals in The Fall In Albert Camus’ novel‚ The Fall‚ he portrays the character of Jean-Baptiste Clamence as a depressed‚ narcissistic recluse who‚ in his “past-life‚” had a noble career at one point‚ but due to his complete nonexistence of any morals‚ lost it all and ended up in the shadiest section of Amsterdam: a part of town that shortly became his own personal hell. In the regards to human life and the value of humans

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    physically and mentally. Although Eliezer life was more revolting than mine‚ I can still see the similarities between our lives. Reading Night was dejavu. It brought back many memories that I thought were forgotten and opened wounds I thought were healed. According Eliezer‚ “only those who experienced Auschwitz know what it was.Others will never know.” (Wiesel‚ 1955) Although I have not experience living on concentration camp‚ I do know how it feels to live in a control and strike environment. When

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