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    keep their thoughts to themselves and are afraid to speak for other people. Just like in the book NightElie was concerned about the other Jews being taken to extermination camps‚ however his father told him not to worry about it because it wasn’t them being taken and they lived in denial that anything as unpleasant of what was reality was happening to the Jews and the same would happen to them. Until Elie and his family were captured‚ he continued to believe what his father said by not taking a stand

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    anyone else’s. They would do anything to survive. Night‚ by Elie Wiesel‚ is a memoir about his life in concentration camps during the time of the holocaust. Before going to the concentration camps‚ Eliezer is a normal boy with a loving family who would do anything for him‚ and he would do anything for them. Throughout his experience during the Holocaust‚ he witnesses prisoners sacrifice others‚ even family members to help ensure their survival. Elie too at times thinks of participating in these events

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    cruelty of an extreme degree. Millions of people met their ends in the dirty‚ torturous concentration camps. Despite this horror‚ some still showed love‚ kindness‚ and respect. It may have come in various forms but plenty of historical accounts‚ Elie Wiesel’s Night being one such account‚ have depicted these instances‚ As Wiesel’s book shows‚ humans are capable of unspeakable cruelties when standing in the face of fear‚ but compassion can be wrought from this fear and shown when needed most. In the 1930s

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    The renowned memoir Night by Elie Wiesel takes place in Romania and Germany during World War II. This piece of literature depicts a portion of the author’s life at the peak of a global war. At this time in history‚ many people refused to take notice of what was transpiring in Nazi Germany. In Wiesel’s Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech he said‚ “Neutrality helps the oppressor‚ never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor‚ never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere.” This declaration is relevant

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    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‚ tremendous luck‚ and external motivation are what allowed

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    Elie Wiesel stepped out a changed man with a determination to carry on and speak the voices of the dead‚ in an attempt to awaken the rest of the world from its slumber of hazy ignorance. He also came out a lonely survivor‚ silence finally consuming his father at the end of it all. That was not his only loss however; although he still acknowledges the existence of a God‚ it does not necessarily mean he is still faithful. He used to burn as bright as a star‚ but by the end‚ he was nothing more than

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    The Evils and Format of Night The novel Night‚ by Elie Wiesel‚ tells about his experience with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945. It is an extraordinary work telling the terrifying and real life experiences from the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel was one of the few survivors of the holocaust‚ and tells his miraculous story of what he went through and how he survived a long‚ life threatening year in the camps. The Holocaust was a time period in the

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    The novel‚ “Night”‚ by Elie Wiesel is a memoir that describes that struggles that Elie had to face as a young Jewish teen during the holocaust. Throughout the narrative‚ the author displays the terror that he faces when abruptly taken from half of his family and after going through two ghettos and then quickly being brought over to concentration camps. Many of the characters struggle with the deplorable conditions‚ the physical and mental abuse‚ and lack of faith in God while in the concentration

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    qualities in books such reader’s interest‚ an opportunity for vocabulary‚ and the appropriate reading level for their age. Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare Night by Elie Wiesel and Red Queen

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    could not be heard. In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel‚ silence was one of the appalling reasons was so many Jewish people were killed during the holocaust. Silent is what the US was during the mass murder of Jewish civilians‚ what the people in nearby towns were when they knew what was going on‚ but refused to acknowledge what was going on and silent is what all the dead Jews are now. The Holocaust taught us to not be silent when other people are in need. Night starts out with a young Jewish boy

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