worse and just standing there watching what is going on creates more problems. If someone doesn’t do anything about something‚ they observed it makes things worse for the people involved. For example‚ in "The Perils of Indifference" by Elie Wiesel‚ it says‚ "He understood those who needed help why didn’t he allow his refugees to disembark." This shows that the way Franklin Delano Roosevelt didn’t send help right away affected the prisoners of all the different concentrations camps created
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Night Portfolio By: Scott Kahler Mrs.Grandel 2nd Hour November 19‚ 2010 Figurative Language 1. Simile- “Physically he was as awkward as a clown. (pg.1).” Moshe was compared as a clown because he was a funny guy. 2. Metaphor- “Thousand gates and one gates leading in to the orchard of mystical truth.” This is a metaphor because each
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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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Elie Wiesel was a young boy when he was imprisoned and orphaned during the Holocaust. After seeing many Jews being brutally murdered‚ he was very upset that the world did not do anything to help them. Nobody stopped Hitler and because of that‚ many innocent lives were taken away without a reason. This‚ however‚ we did not engage in World War 2 for the Jews. When Elie Wiesel was 15‚ he and his family were deported from Hungary and placed in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Around 90% of the
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Nearing the end of World War II‚ a young Wiesel‚ among many others‚ was rescued from the concentration camp in Auschwitz and was finally free from the grasp of the wicked Nazis. After his freedom‚ Wiesel did all he could through his literary works to let the world know of the horrors he experienced at the hands of the Nazis. He received a Nobel Peace prize for his messages to the world. In 1999‚ he gave a very prominent speech about oppressors and the indifference of Man‚ apathetic to the suffering
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Elie has changed as a result of his imprisonment. He has changed emotionally‚ spiritually‚ and physically. Elie’s emotional state has changed during his imprisonment because before the he was sent to imprisonment‚ he was very innocent. When Moishe the Beadle came back to the town after being taken by the Nazis and shot in the leg‚ Elie did not believe his story. During Elie’s imprisonment‚ he was almost living Moishe’s story. Elie’s emotional state started to change when he got to his first labor
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One of the themes in Elie Wiesel’s memoir‚ Night‚ is man’s inhumanity to man. During the Holocaust‚ Elie experienced a terrifying account of the Nazi death camp horror that turns him into an agonized witness to the death of his family‚ innocence and God. A poem by Ruth Dykstra‚ “What I Don’t Know”‚ reflects Elie’s situation and beliefs. This poem expresses Elie’s struggles as a young Jew who has lost his faith and hope. In the beginning of the poem‚ the speaker questions: “Did they know? /
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Silence: Shaping Eliezer’s Character “I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation…” said Eliezer Wiesel‚ the author of Night. Throughout the course of this book‚ Elie goes through many tragedies that change and shape his character. In Night‚ Eliezer Wiesel is a teenager who is swept away from his life‚ home‚ and possessions to go to a deadly concentration camp called Auschwitz. While in this camp‚ he witnesses the horrors of the Holocaust‚ including
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From the beginning of the book‚ it strikes me how brave and passionate Elie Wiesel is. To be a 13-year-old boy and studying the Jewish religion intensely at time when it was dangerous to be Jew shows great passion and dedication to me about his character. His bravery is also shown when on the train to Birkenau and in Auschwitz when in front of his father he continues to stay strong. Reading about how the Jewish people of Sighet had housed Nazis reminds me of the hospitality certain Native American
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Night By Elie Wiesel Hope or despair? The book "Night" by Elie Wiesel is a first-person narrative about the Holocaust. The Holocaust was the genocide of over 6 million European Jews and others by the Nazis during World War II The book tells the story of the time when the author was taken to a concentration camp by the Nazis. At the time he was only 14 years old and lived in Sighet‚ Transylvania. He tells us all of his horrifying experiences as a Jewish prisoner. Even though he tells us this gruesome
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