dehumanized‚ and as a result of this dehumanization he became numb. At the beginning of the novel‚ Elie was a naïve young Jewish boy with an incredibly strong faith‚ who wept “over the destruction of the temple” (Wiesel 14). By the end‚ years of concentration camp life have broken his spirit and Elie is no longer fazed by the death and torture occurring all around him (Wiesel 103). This numbness manifests itself in varying ways throughout Night‚ each more disheartening than the last. First‚ Elie loses
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The setting of Night takes place in 1944‚ in a concentration camp called Buchenwald. It all starts out when the main character‚ Eliezer‚ has his Jewish hometown overrun by the Germans. Eliezer’s hometown gets turned into a ghetto by the Germans‚ and they are forced to stay in the ghetto until the whole neighborhood is sent to the concentration camps. Since the neighborhood is Jewish‚ they are shipped off in cattle carts to the concentration camps‚ where most of the neighbors will spend the rest
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a story how twelve-year-old Elie Wiesel himself spends much time in trainloads of Jews to the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. In a train car eighty villagers have to survive on slightest food and water. When Elie Wiesel is 16 the United States Army in April 1945 saved him‚ but it was too late for his father‚ who died after a beating. “I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people.”-George Takei
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This was stated by a German officer as Elie and his community were being transported to the concentration camps. To be referred to as a dog is humiliating and mentally restraining. Not only that‚ but the inability to retaliate or express your opinion would degrade the human mind. As Elie reached his first camp‚ he was immediately separated from his family. “Men to the left! Women to the right!” (Wiesel‚ pg 29). Here the Germans view the Jews as if they were a herd of animals
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The Devil’s arithmetic is a book and movie about a very tragic time “the Holocaust” and about what the daily life was not just for a jew but anybody who was in the camps. Hannah is a kid our age who must endure through the whole thing only to die saving her cousin and best friend rivka by going into the gas chambers for her. Though the book and the movie are the same they have many similarities and differences except for one thing that stays constant throughout the book and movie. Throughout the
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of Jews ever existing‚ but through all of the horror and dead bodies someone survived. His name is Elie Wiesel‚ many years after his experience with the Germans; he wrote a book called Night. His book consists of the childhood he experienced at Auschwitz and the dehumanizing experiences that he faced. His book won many metals‚ like the United States of America Congressional Gold Medal‚ the French Legion of Honor and the Nobel Peace Prize. His story‚ and many others from other people who lived‚ have
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“The opposite of love is not hate but indifference‚” Elie Weisel stated after commenting on his thoughts on racism and his years surviving the Holocaust. Weisel was thrown in and out of concentration camps starting at the age of fifteen until finally his final camp where his father had died was liberated. The tragedies that Weisel along with the other millions of people who suffered were unimaginable and even Weisel himself strived for years to find words that somewhat explained what their experience
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someone you look up to‚ model after‚ he is someone you want to be like. But‚ entering a concentration camp could have a tragic impact on that relationship between a father and son. In Night‚ Eliezer and his father go through many ups and downs that reflect on how strong their relationship really is. Elie Wiesel uses an effective father and son relationship to illustrate the effects of what concentration camps have on human beings. Eliezer and his father own a quite distant relationship‚ a strong
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writes about his experience in the Nazi death camps during the 1940’s. Mr. Wiesel was a jewish teenager who had just been placed in a concentration camp. He writes about his first night there. To begin his writing‚ he starts with 7 things that he shall never forget. These things include his awful experiences. It talks about what he saw‚ and how it affected him and his faith in God. He is essentially discussing the horrors that he saw while at the camp. They will scar him forever and he will never
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Dehumanization found in Ellie Wiesel’s Night Ellie Wiezel‚ along with millions of other Jews‚ were subjected to the relentless torture of the Nazis throughout WWII. During their time in the concentration camps the Nazis took pleasure in stripping the Jews of their sense of self. Everything and anything that characterized them as humans was taken away. Thus‚ dehumanizing them to the fullest extent. Dehumanization plays a role in every genocide‚ as the oppressors take advantage of the mental
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