“Without passion‚ without haste‚ they slaughtered their prisoners” (5). Dehumanization is when others view human beings as less than human‚ it is the deprival of positive human qualities. In the book Night‚ by Elie Wiesel he explains the dehumanization of himself‚ his family‚ and his fellow Jews throughout their journey from going to many different camps during the Holocaust. He is a fifteen year old boy from the town of Sighet‚ but was deported into concentration camps where he faced starvation
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Night by Elie Wiesel describes his experiences as a Jew in the Nazi concentration camps during World War II. Wiesel and other Jews survived‚ but many others did not. One of the key components to the Jews’ survival was faith along with hope. According to Hebrews 11:1‚ “Faith is the substance of things hoped for‚ the evidence of things not seen.” Many of the Jews found themselves questioning their faith as they witnessed and endured the horrors of the Holocaust. Although they hoped to survive
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their family is in the midst of a life threatening altercation. Basically‚ these people in particular would not go out of their way to save a relative from the grips of death‚ instead they would rather escape with their own lives. In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel‚ the theme of father and son relationships is haunted by self-preservation over love and loyalty.
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In the book‚ “Night”‚ Eliezer Wiesel talked about a boy named Elie from Sighet and he got deported to a concentration camp by the Nazis. They took Elie’s freedom‚ identity‚ family‚ dignity etc. The Nazis treated Jewish people badly and used any kind of way to dehumanize them. Moments of moral ambiguity helped Elie retain his humanity in the face of dehumanizing treatment by staying positive which helped him retain his good qualities as a human. Elie’s respond on a moral ambiguity is based on how
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Night By Elie Wiesel Taylor Brennan October 2014 Period 6 Senior English Ms. Scimone/Hagis Chapter 1 DOK Questions: 1. Identify one character trait of Elie’s father. Elie’s father doesn’t display his feelings‚ and he is rather distant from his family. 2. Organise the events from 1941-1944. 1941: Elie meets Moishe the Beatle when he is 13. 1942: All foreign Jews were expelled from Sighet‚ including Elie’s friend‚ Moishe. 1943: Daily bombings of Germany and Stalingrad
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The book “Night” is a true story based on the author’s life‚ Elie Wiesel. The book takes you through his journey of WWII‚ and how the Nazis affected himself as well as his friends and family. This book paints a true picture of what it was like to grow up in Hungry during that time and how the Nazis were perceived at different points throughout the war. Throughout the book‚ he explains his journey with God as a Jewish boy and how he questions who God is and His plans for Wiesel. The first chapter
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and his sister. He will clearly remember those eight words probably forever. ""Night. No one prayed‚ that the night would pass quickly. The stars were only sparks of the fire which devoured us. Should that fire die out one day‚ there would be nothing left in the sky but dead stars‚ dead eyes." Eliezer‚ ch.1 " This quote shows the pure terror and fear among the people. This also shows how much they depended on the night and longed for it each day. "Some talked of God‚ of his mysterious ways‚
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Eliezer’s Change in Faith At the beginning of Night‚ Eliezer was driven to further his knowledge of the Kabbalah despite his father’s wishes. He was so determined that he found a master in Moishe the Beadle to help him. Together Eliezer and Moishe would read the Zohar to “discover within the very essence of divinity (5).” Eliezer hoped to enter eternity‚ a time that he thought “question and answer would become ONE (5).” However‚ Eliezer’s faith and relationship with God began to change because
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themes in the novel Night wrote by Elie Wiesel‚ Elie has to go through his through most of his teenage years going through the holocaust which shows inhuman cruelty and the struggles of survival throughout the Holocaust. An example of the theme of ‘inhuman cruelty and on page 65 it says “ Behind me‚ I heard the same man asking: “For God’s sake‚ where is God?” And from within me‚ I heard a voice answer: “Where He is? This is where--hanging here from this gallows…” That night‚ the soup tasted of corpses
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Inhumanity In the book Night‚ by Elie Wiesel‚ Hitler’s main goal was to make the Jews feel inhuman; he was very successful in this. The Jews were tortured everyday for no reason at all other than for the SS officers’ own amusement. The SS officers treated the men as if they were animals‚ making them fight for food. Women‚ babies‚ old‚ sick‚ and handicapped were put into the crematoriums as soon as they arrived at the camps. They killed people for no reason‚ with no remorse whatsoever. Torture
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