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    author is conveying. Wiesel uses personification on page thirty nine‚ when he says “Remorse began to gnaw at me.” Remorse cannot eat away at a person‚ but it allows the reader to understand how guilty Elie felt when he did not stand up for his father. A second example of figurative language used in Night is foreshadowing. Foreshadowing allows the author to keep

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    In the memoir Night‚ the narrator Elie Wiesel recounts a moment when he saw the terrible horrors of the concentration camp “Infants were tossed into the air and used as targets for the machine guns.” (Wiesel 6). Moishe had explained to the people of Sighet the horrors of the concentration camps and what they did there. What the men in the concentration camps did was terribly horrific. Wiesel didn’t have much to say about Moishe’s statements and proclaims‚ in the end he saw at first hand what other

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    in opinion began to become forms of identification‚ and man began to use faith and religion to distinguish themselves from one another. [to be cont.] Wiesel’s purposeful tone emphasizes the reality of religious hostility. The last sentences in Night‚ especially reflects the direct tone. “From the depths of the mirror‚ a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me” (Wiesel 115).

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    One can seize the complex relations between ethical and religious aspects in limit situations. Such a situation can be illustrated using Elie Wiesel’s reflections on the Holocaust. Reading Wiesel’s Night one could be tempted to believe that‚ due to the life conditions in death camps‚ man is driven away from his faith--and‚ according to some authors‚ one could find there an early form of a theology of the death of God. However‚ in his subsequent works‚ Wiesel brings more and more arguments in favor

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    English 10H P4 9 December 2013 My Notice and Note Soiree In using my Notice and Note strategies‚ I found that my analysis of the book‚ Night by Elie Wiesel to be far more in depth than it would have been had I done the contrary. For instance‚ when applying the method of ‘Again and Again’ I realized that the phrase‚ “‘Fire‚ over there! The fire! Listen to me!’” (Wiesel 24) sequentially appeared in chapter two on pages 24 through 28. The phrase foreshadowed the revealing of the crematoriums on

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    lost their faith. Unable to know why God would allow an event so inhumane like the Holocaust happen‚ makes society question Him. In Night‚ Eliezer was a Jew who was forced to go to a few concentration camps. In the camps Eliezer saw and experienced many barbaric events. Him and many other Jews struggled to survive‚ which made him question his beliefs. In the memoir Night by Eliezer Wiesel‚ he uses Eliezer’s relationship with God to show that people doubt their faith when times get tough and that sometimes

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    placed sanctions on their everyday ordinary lives. If the guards felt like a person was not worth anything‚ they would be sent to the gas chamber or an inferno. The Germans were a harsh army that desensitized the life of the Jewish. In the novel Night‚ translated by Marion Wiesel he describes how a life can be dehumanized at a split second. To begin with‚ The Jews of Sighet always felt inferior and less human to the German authority. It began with the major relocation of the Jews to the ghettos

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    The purpose of Take Back the Night was to promote awareness and support survivors of rape‚ sexual assault and relationship violence among students and nonstudents. I also think the goal was to unify the community by allowing survivors to open up about incidents of abuse/assault within their lives. I observed the audiences reactions when the audience showed lots of support to the survivors that were telling their stories of assault and abuse. Whenever a survivor would leave the stage the audience

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    being able to have food‚ water‚ and happiness‚ all taken away in a snap only to be replaced with an everlasting nightmare. Elie Wiesel was only a teenager before he was taken away by german officers to be apart of the Holocaust‚ having faced being separated from his family‚ barely a speck of food and endless torment for ten years. As a Holocaust survivor he wrote the book Night so that there would be a changed in history and nothing would repeat itself but also remember the Holocaust. Therefore war

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    QUOTES 1. Take care of your son. He is very weak‚ very dehydrated. Take care of yourselves‚ you must pass selection. Eat! Anything ‚anytime. Eat all you can. The weak don’t last very log around here..” The man that is previously talking to Elie and his father is telling them that they need to do what ever they can to past selection. 2. “The only thing that keeps me alive‚” he kept saying “is to know that Reizel and the little ones are still alive. Were it not for them. I would give up.” This means

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