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    they stared into mine‚ has never left me” (Wiesel 109). This is a quote taken from Elie Wiesel’s book Night. In order to completely understand this‚ the quote needs an explanation. In his book‚ he says he hasn’t looked into a mirror for YEARS. Just think about how crazy that is. That’s where that song from Mulan comes in. “When will my reflection show…”‚ or something like that. Like previously stated in paragraph 2‚ someone separated Elie Wiesel from his family. Although he was with his father

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    As soon as my eighth grade English teacher told me the reading assignment for school this year‚ I knew I wanted to read “Night” by Elie Wiesel. Night is a narrative all about his experiences during World War II and the Holocaust while he was stuck inside of a concentration camp. Eliezer was just a young man when the Nazis invaded Germany and took them from their homes. He explains the stories of him and his father’s experiences in the concentration camps. I think it is extremely amazing and impressive

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    said by Elie Wiesel during his acceptance speech of the Nobel Peace Prize. Elie was eloquent about what the world tried to suppress. Wiesel affected society because he wrote and spoke for the surviving and gone‚ that their stories not be erased‚ and that the world keep silent no more. Elie Wiesel‚ a convict in the Holocaust‚ weakened physically yet determined emotionally‚ went on to “provide a sober yet passionate testament of the destruction of European Jewry during World War II” (“Elie Wiesel”). Wiesel

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    the guards know they can’t do anything or even show a little remorse. One silent night I was laying down just thinking how things used to be before the war against Jews when my family was happy and not separated. After not knowing what happen to rest of my family members just only made my shoulders heavy and difficult time breathing. Day by day I get this feeling to just give up on hope and die. I cried every night hoping to wake up in a home with nothing but joy. I want my father’s words to become

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    rule there was a mass extermination of Jews. The Nazi leader Adolf Hitler used his manipulation to take over Germany and with his power he turned it to hate and killed Jews for no reason. This time period was full of darkness and hate. In the book Night there were many events that showed the hatred that the Jewish people went through and the horrible living conditions. The first event of hatred was when the Jews were beaten for doing something that wasn’t even wrong. One example of this was when

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    In the book Night by Elie Wiesel‚ there is a motif of survival and a central idea that when one is put in a desperate situation‚ developments that may otherwise seem either mundane or horrifying may instead be seen as remarkable or amazing. When all the guards leave their posts because of an alarm signal‚ two cauldrons of soup are left unattended. All of the prisoners quickly take note of the soup and are in awe‚ “two cauldrons of soup with no one to guard them! A royal feast” (Wolff 59). The author’s

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    Elie Wiesel: Never Forget Elie Wiesel has written over thirty novels over the course of his life. These novels directly affect society in general and especially impact Judaism. He has contributed not only to his race and religion but to ever human soul who reads his work. Elie Wiesel does this by not allowing any to forget the Halocaust of the Jews. "Elie Wiesel was born in Signet‚ Transylvania on September 30‚ 1928. He grew up the only son of four children‚ in a close-knit Jewish community

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    suffer. In Elie Wiesel’s novel Night it shows that after experiencing a lack of compassion on a daily basis‚ people to feel pain. Night is Wiesel’s account from being in the Holocaust‚ and the horrors he faced. Not only are the Jews being shown lack of compassion by officer’s who guard the camp‚ but even their own people. It is like a chain reaction; no compassion is shown to the Jews‚ so the Jews showed no compassion towards each other. For example‚ when the officers were forcing Wiesel and others

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    never the tormented." is a powerful quote said by Elie Wiesel. In a simplistic way this quote is saying that in a time when something is going wrong‚ don’t stay silent. Tell someone and speak up because if you don’t‚ the wrong will continue to be done and nothing with solve it. The validity of this statement can be proven through two different works of literature. The fist work of literature is a memoir written by Elie Wiesel. It goes by the name of Night and consists of Elie’s experience in the Holocaust

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    feeling and sentiment. Suddenly‚ the song of a lone violin‚ resonant in its isolation‚ floats through the dismal barrack. The musician is not a glorious soloist with thousands of adoring fans‚ but a boy on his deathbed. Elie Wiesel describes this moment in his memoir of the Holocaust‚ Night. The Jews had become empty shells forced to march through the glacial‚ incapitating cold after the concentration camp’s evacuation. However‚ Juliek‚

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