“Night” by Elie Wiesel – Personal Responses Chapter 1 • Moché the Beadle’s story is very disturbing. He had experienced horrible atrocities and risked his life to warn his fellow townspeople. However‚ the latter did not believe him yet alone listen to him. They called him the madman. This passage is hard for the reader‚ who knows what is going to happen to the Jews later on (situational irony). Moché was also foreshadowing what was going to happen to the Jews. This warning also brings about the
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End of Term Self-Reflection Throughout this term‚ I read several outstanding books that helped me grow as an independent reader. First‚ I read The Book Thief by Markus Zusak‚ which is an inspiring historical fiction novel. This wonderful text was just right: not too challenging‚ not too easy. In addition to‚ I read The Martian by Andy Weir‚ which is a science fiction novel. The Martian was a slightly challenging read‚ but that did not in any way impair my ability to understand or enjoy
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Night Journeys by Avi is a story‚ set in 1768‚ of a teenage orphan named Peter York who lives with Everett Shinn and his family in Pennsylvania. Mr. Shinn is the leader of the Quaker Community and the local Justice of the Peace. Peter‚ who has been promised by the Shinn family to be treated well in exchange for his horse‚ Jumper‚ and hard work on their farm‚ is presented with what he refers to as a great crisis. The details of this crisis are revealed as Peter becomes deeply involved in a manhunt
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Night is a wonderful book that talks about Elie Wiesel in the five concentration camps he has been in. The book Night is written by Elie Wiesel. What does the world Night mean to Elie? He explains about his life in the camp they have a lot of action‚ and anxiety going into the camp they don’t know what is going to happen. There first night in the concentration camp was scary he lost a lot of things he had. One of the quotes in the book that talks about his first night it says “Never shall I forget
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In the memoir‚Night‚By Elie Wiesel‚the author’s personal experiences from being on concentration camps helped support the facts taught by history. History will teach you about what the Jews had to go through but the memoir itself would tell the readers what it was actually like to experience
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forced to sell their clothes and return the money to the killer. Arthur explained that the man who killed them was a terrible‚ vicious killer. If he did not have anyone to shoot‚ he would practice shooting bottles all day with his machine gun. One night‚ when Arthur was sound asleep and did not respond to Hans‚ the killer and SS officer‚ he shot a bullet through a
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insightful quotes we can take from Elie Wiesel’s Night. In my eleven years of schooling in which time I have read over one hundred novels; Night is by far the most captivating and suspenseful. This is the best book of its kind because of the rare firsthand telling by Holocaust victim Elie Wiesel. Using his firsthand account of The Holocaust‚ Wiesel communicates a vivid telling which enables readers to feel as if they went through the perils themselves. The book appeals to a worldwide audience due to the
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Unit 3 Reflection Death’s narration makes the story much more interesting because not only is he able to narrate in first person but he’s also able to narrate in third person making the use of the literary device of foreshadowing much more effective. From the very beginning of the book death lets the reader know that everyone in Liesel’s life will die‚ from there the rest of the book’s plot is developed to explain how Liesel slowly but surely loses very important people in her life. It starts off
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the world. The book "Night" by Elie Wiesel captures Wiesel’s haunting experience during the Holocaust. A book like this is one that is not read for enjoyment‚ but rather for information. If one wants to be able to at least imagine what the people in the concentration camps went through‚ then this is the book to read. Night does not sugar-coat what happened in those camps. Wiesel tells the world what it was really like to live behind those barbed-wire fences. Elie Wiesel wrote "Night" to inform the
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Night by Elie Wiesel was rather short novel detailing Wiesel’s experience during Hitler’s reign and the Holocaust. Despite the fact that it was short‚ it not only conveyed the struggles and hardships that people went through during the Holocaust well‚ it also was written in a condensed yet powerful way. Even though I have never lost a loved one or seen people be killed in person‚ the events in Wiesel’s writing seemed oddly relatable. I felt his panic when his father was written down and I felt the
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