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    6 million Jews alone. Elie Wiesel is a Jewish survivor of the holocaust who shares his experience in the notorious Auschwitz concentration camp. Elie Wiesel‚ author of Night reveals how he lost his family and faith to the evils he experienced during the holocaust. This book is still very important because people need to be shown how imperative it is to stand up for what is right and to challenge society to make the world a better place for everyone. The book follows Elie starting from the young

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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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    The book Night by Elie Wiesel describes his time in the concentration camps during the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel’s life before The Holocaust was studying the Jewish religion day and night. During the day he would go to school to study religion and at night would go to the Synagogue to pray. He did the exact same thing every day. He was static and unchanging. But when he was forced into the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland‚ he had to adapt for it. This was the only way he would survive. EIie had

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    forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time” (Elie Wiesel). This is but one of many 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

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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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    The novel‚ “Night”‚ by Elie Wiesel is a memoir that describes that struggles that Elie had to face as a young Jewish teen during the holocaust. Throughout the narrative‚ the author displays the terror that he faces when abruptly taken from half of his family and after going through two ghettos and then quickly being brought over to concentration camps. Many of the characters struggle with the deplorable conditions‚ the physical and mental abuse‚ and lack of faith in God while in the concentration

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    experienced the gut wrenching feeling of missing an opportunity you know could have offered a path for escape -knowing that you can pinpoint an exact moment in time that could have altered the course of your story. The Wiesel family is no exception to this statement. The novel‚ Night‚ by “Elie Wiesel” is a survivor’s story of his experiences in the Holocaust. It is an autobiography of his life before and during the concentration camps. In these times the path was not always straight and the overwhelming circumstances

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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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    after Eliezer Wiesel was released out of Buchenwald he looked himself in the mirror and saw a horror of himself. “I wanted to see myself in the mirror...From the depths of the mirror‚ a corpse gazed back at me.” said Wiesel at the end of the book. This quote has a lot of meaning because he hadn’t seen a reflection of himself since the ghetto‚ which was in 1941. He refers himself as a corpse‚ which shows the rough conditions he went through at these concentration camps. He sees a reflection of a worn

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    each book tells me leaves somewhat of a mark on who I am. Through every word I gain some knowledge or concept that will help further my academic or social sides. Reading a nonfiction book‚ usually a biography or historical reveals to me what it takes to become a great person‚ what I need to prepare for in the future‚ learning to avoid the same mistakes that countless others have already made‚ and just gives me more knowledge on the topic. These lessons were also learned from the book Night‚ by Elie

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