treatment can make decent people into brutes. Does Elie himself escape this fate? Use specific events to convey your opinion. 2) Elie Wiesel won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 for his championing of human rights around the world. How might his advocacy for human rights have grown out of his Holocaust experiences? What are the positive lessons of the Holocaust that Wiesel hints at in Night? 3) Dehumanization is the process by which the Nazis reduced the Jews to little more than "things" which were
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Elie Wiesel’s Night is a novel about himself and his family and their time in Auschwitz. This book describes the most gruesome event in human history‚ the Holocaust. It also describes the psychological effect that the Holocaust had on the young people and adults who survived the horrible event. In the interview with Bob Costas Elie describes some of the aspects of Judaism. The main setting of this book is in Auschwitz‚ a concentration camp in the Holocaust and is from Elie’s point of view. This book
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Auschwitz‚ the largest Nazi concentration camp of World War II held roughly 405‚000 registered prisoners and of that number only 65‚000 survived‚ not only were prisoners fighting for their lives but also their minds. Primo Levi approaches the psychological effects of Auschwitz with personal experiences‚ this resulting in a biased and partial recount. Levi describes the effects of the concentration camp on ones self-respect and human dignity and often inmates ‘resorting to mental‚ physical‚ and social
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Prize winner Elie Wiesel‚ Wiesel has been in the concentration camps suffering changes in his life‚ physically‚ mentally‚ and spiritually. In the beginning of Night‚ Wiesel’s identity is an innocent child and a devouted Jew. He was a happy child with a desire to study the Talmud‚ until his experience in Auschwitz‚ in which he changed his mental ways. First of all‚ he used to believe that all people were nice and that human were not capable of hurting another human being. He later changed
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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 of the traumatic experiences he suffered during the Holocaust. As the deportation of
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During WWII & the reign of Hitler was the Auschwitz Concentration Camp‚ a labor camp‚ which could be considered to be one of the worst places for a person of the Jewish faith place to be at that time in history. Handed down through history‚ it is considered to be one of the brutalist places on earth that a person could be. As James Deem described it‚ “Prisoners receiving punishment were often placed in cramped basement cells and deprived of food” (9). To be put into simple terms‚ it was torture.
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While under the rule of Adolf Hitler‚ Auschwitz was one example of the Nazi Party’s cruelty forced onto people that were considered less valuable. During World WarⅡ‚ Auschwitz was one of the largest Nazi concentration camps. There were three large camps located in Auschwitz. The first camp located in Auschwitz was AuschwitzⅠ. Auschwitz Ⅰwas one of the main camps in Oświęcim(Holocaust Teacher Resource Center). In August of 1944‚ it held roughly about sixteen thousand prisoners(Holocaust Teacher
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ones. They have granted us sight over what would otherwise be invisible to us. When looking at someone‚ one can tell how they are feeling by staring into his or her eyes. Our eyes never lie. Our eyes will often mirror our souls and display our true inner emotions. In Elie Wiesel’s autobiographical narrative‚ Night‚ he uses the eye motif to portray characters’ true souls. In some parts of the narrative‚ Night‚ Wiesel used eyes to display the hope and positive emotion in characters. In the beginning
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and Elie’s starting point was when one he looks up‚ began to lose faith in the lord God. Elie used to have a very strong faith in God. He had such a strong faith that he wanted to study the Kabbalah as a teenager‚ but the Kabbalah is meant to be taught at the age of at least thirty. He also prayed to God every day and wanted to be a rabbi when he grew up. This all began to change‚ when one of his mentors‚ Moishe the Beatle was expelled from Sighet‚ the town where he lived for being a foreign Jew
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Night‚ written by Elie Wiesel‚ portrays the story of a boy experiencing the horrifying events of the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel came from a Jewish family who had a strong faith in God and the Jewish religion. One of the major conflicts in Night is Elie’s internal battle with his faith. Elie’s principles shift during the course of the book from ardently believing in a benevolent God to questioning Him‚ but ultimately regains his faith by the time he leaves the concentration camp. Elie’s dedication
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