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    Elie Wiesel and John Robinson are two individuals that had the chance in life to have people show them who they are as one. Wiesel’s father simply asked him questions that made him think deep in himself. His father was able to ask questions about why he did certain things that made him dig deep to find the answers. While Robinson had to go through experiences to figure out whom he really is. Being born with a condition that will permanently make one different in others eyes is rough. Robinson had

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    dreadful ones; the common reaction to these occurrences should be to learn from these events to avoid making the same errors. However‚ as it is evident in history‚ that is not always the case. In the novella Night by Eliezer Wiesel‚ he explains how‚ a host of those dreadful‚ yet historic‚ events. In Night‚ after witnessing genocide‚ local Kabbalah teacher Moishe the Beadle warns the Jews of Wiesel’s city. They denied his claims‚ losing their chance to avoid deportation. While at the concentration camps

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    The narrator is Death. He sees life in terms of colors because he views the world in terms of color. He understands his role and task in the world by using color The thing that was ironic about the first book LieseI stole that she didn’t know how to read yet she dug up a book that was about grave digging in a graveyard. The thing that is ironic about is that it relates to heaven‚ and the street didn’t have anything to do with heaven in the war. This statement should not be taken literally because

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    30‚ 2016 Write about this line on page 29 – “The beloved objects that we carried with us from place to place were now left behind in the wagon‚ and with them‚ finally our illusions. “ What do you think this means? How was this a turning point for Elie? After Hitler’s announcement to annihilate the Jews and the Anti-Semitic attacks on the Jews of Budapest‚ “the race toward death had begun” (10). Restrictions were held upon the Jews. Under the pressure of death‚ Jews were forced to yield “gold‚

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    Night Chapter 5 Chapter Five Journal Vocabulary: Functionaries- People who function in a specified capacity Lamentation- the act of expressing grief Kaddish- liturgical prayer‚ consisting of three or six verses Achtung- attention in German Characters: Hospital Patient: He says that he is going to die soon‚ and warns Eliezer that there are more “selections” at the hospital. Symbol(s): Number: This symbolizes your identity in the concentration camps‚ it is what defines your fate. Reflection:

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    Insanity has a major impact in the book called Night‚ because many of the characters in this book lose their faith in god. It related in the most part in the Holocaust‚ because while being treated so badly they depended on the only person they thought would help them which was god himself. Insanity has a very major role in this book for numoreous character espesalliy Eli. For example‚ Eli had the most faith in god when it came to any type of beliefs he had to when it came to god‚ but it got

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    The time period during World War II was very devastating. There were a countless amount of brutal deaths‚ with people even being burned alive. 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

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    views. Elie Wiesel’s quote is easy to agree with because people should care about others‚ and pay attention to their surroundings. Even though people should think about others‚ they tend to put themselves first and do what is best for them. For example‚ there was concentration camps where Jews were placed due to the fact that Hitler believed they were guilty for Germany losing World War I. During this period of time‚ the United States was not aware of the Holocaust according to them. Elie Wiesel’s

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    When a person first reads the famous quote “We must always take side. Neutrality helps the oppressor‚ never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor‚ never the tormented.” Spoken by the notable Elie Wiesel while accepting the Nobel Peace Prize of 1986‚ it could cause a reaction; in this case any reaction could occur depending on a person’s morals‚ ethics and even values. But‚ what does this quote really mean? Does it define the horrific situations that Rwanda‚ the Nazi’s‚ or Syria went through

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    The book “Night” and its topic of the concentration camps of Auschwitz and Buchenwald is very essential to the story. Wiesel describes these camps with great detail and emotion which got my attention and curiosity. With the research I have collected I learned that Auschwitz and Buchenwald were two major concentration camps to the Nazis in Germany that were mainly for either executing prisoners or forcing them to work in a variety of different fields. These two camps were known more as complexes

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