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    As a survivor of the inhumane‚ annihilating Holocaust‚ Elie Wiesel once said‚ “Having survived by chance‚ I was duty–bound to give meaning to my survival.”(“Having Survived”1). Elie Wiesel did not know at the time that he had a reason for surviving this tragedy‚ but soon realized that he survived to offer a story and message about the horrors of that time to a world that often seemed to block it out completely and forget (“Having Survived”1).To spread his message to the world‚ which is one of peace

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    Summary: Chapter 3 Arriving at Birkenau‚ every Jew must leave their belonging‚ along with their optimistic illusions‚ behind in the wagon as they move forward to be admitted in the concentration camp. An SS officer instructs the men to go to the left and women to the right. Although he does not know it at the moment‚ this is the last time Eliezer will ever see his mother and youngest sister Tzipora. All Eliezer can think of now is to not lose his father. Already some Jews are being beaten and shot

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    Relationships” in Elie Wiesel’s “Night.” In the short story “The Night‚” Elie Wiesel explores that how father and son ruin their relationship in the period of the anti-Semitism. They lose their appearance‚ lovely life and wealth for being Jews. Elie and his family‚ as well as numerous other families‚ were kidnapped from their homes by the German Nazis and were forced to work in concentration camps because of their Jewish heritage. The Jews were required to work day and night and were

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    the book‚ Night is Elie Wiesel. The book Night is about a family going to a concentration camp called Auschwitz. Elie has to make some major life choices. Also‚ how he changes a lot throughout the story is very noticeable. Elie had to make a lot of changes to his lifestyle. When they first got to the camp him and his father got separated from his mother and sister. Elie says “Never shall I forget that night‚ the first night in camp‚ which turned my life into one long night.” (43) Elie went with his

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    Dehumanization “Without passion‚ without haste‚ they slaughtered prisoners” (Wiesel 5). Night by Elie Wiesel explores the horror of the ways the Jews were treated during the Holocaust. No matter what age or gender‚ the Nazi’s treated all Jews like "animals" or "things ". No one called the Jews by their names‚ just their prison numbers as if they were only figures to be put to work. The atrocities that happened during the Holocaust were not only unbearable for most Jews‚ but also unimaginable for

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    Animal Imagery in the Night In Night by Elie Wiesel a memoir about his time in the Holocaust concentration camps Elie used animal imagery. Animal imagery is when someone uses animal instincts and behavior to define the characteristics of a human. Using animal imagery‚ he accomplished multiple things. One of them is showing how the prisoners act and how this experience has changed them and made them animal-like. Most people know how animals act. An by using animal imagery the author gives the reader

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    The definition of the word night is the time of darkness between sunrise and sunset but the meaning of the word night is something totally different to Elie Wiesel. Ever since the holocaust the word night to Elie Wiesel has meant more than darkness‚ it has meant death and loss of hope and he expresses that feeling in his book Night. In his book he wrote‚ “So much had happened within such a few hours that I had lost all sense of time. When had we left our houses? And the ghetto? And the train

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    IDIOMS with ANSWERS: Unit 1 I. Fill in the missing words in the sentences below. Choose from the following: AT A LOOSE END AT ONE’S WITS’ END AT DEATH’S DOOR AT A LOSS AT FAULT AT RANDOM AT A PINCH AT FIRST SIGHT AT SHORT NOTICE AT A STANDSTILL AT LEAST AT SIXES AND SEVENS AT ALL COSTS AT LOGGERHEADS AT THE CRACK OF DAWN AT ALL HOURS AT MOST AT WILL AT BEST AT ONCE 1. When Richard Burton was Elizabeth Taylor it was a classic case of love …………………………… 2. Traffic was ……………………………………. this

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    Bystanders’ Role”‚ by Stephanie Chen‚ “The Nuremberg Trials”‚ and the novel Night by Elie Wiesel show how bystander apathy and obedience to authority effect the way a human being reacts to an emergency. But a person’s responsibility when another’s human rights are being violated should be to help stop it before it becomes

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     ​ Violations of the “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” in the book  Night​ .  ​ In Night​  ​ The Germans push the Jews to their limits. The book Night‚ written by Elie  Wiesel‚ is about the tragic events that Wiesel witnessed and went through while he was a young  boy during the Holocaust. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights gives you the basic  human rights that every person should be guaranteed. In the book Night‚ there were several  violations in articles four and five of the "Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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