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    Night In the book Night‚ the awfulness of the Holocaust and abhorrent treatment of Jewish beings was narrated through the eyes of fourteen year old‚ Elie Wiesel. His family lost all privileges and freedom when they were taken to the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944. Eventually‚ Elie would lose contact with his sister and mother. Therefore‚ he only had his father by his side. Both of them had experienced the tremendous atrocity of the gruesome life in camp. Elie’s father had seemed to lose all

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    Elie WieselNight (Les Editions de Minuit 1958). Book Review Elie Wiesel was born September 30‚ 1928‚ in Signet‚ Transylvania‚ known now as Romania‚ he grew up with three sisters. Wiesel pursued Jewish religious studies‚ which was strongly influenced by the traditional spiritual beliefs of his grandfather‚ as well as his parent’s liberal expressions of Judaism. Wiesel studied at the Sorbonne in France from 1948 - 1951 he majored in journalism‚ writing for French and Israeli publications

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    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‚ NightWiesel used eyes to display the hope and positive emotion in characters. In the beginning of the story‚ eyes were used as an indication of Moche the Beadle’s calmness in the following quote. “I loved his great‚ dreaming eyes‚ their gaze lost in the distance” (Wiesel 13). The beadle‚ like his eyes‚ is peaceful

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    Faith plays a major role throughout the novel‚ Night by Elie Wiesel and in his interview with Oprah. Faith is what keeps most of them alive in the beginning of the novel and somewhat at the end because at the end Elie loses his faith due to all the suffering they go through. In the interview with Oprah Winfrey‚ Elie has reconnect with his faith because he understood why he suffered so much. I believe that he lost his faith towards the end of the book and then many years later when he returns to the

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    Sources and Methods The author uses his own personal experience and memories that he remembers in order to create and write the book Night. The tone of this book is therefore intensely personal and subjective. The book Night is not meant to give readers an overall review of what happened in the Holocaust‚ but a personal and painful experience that one single victim had to experience. Historiographical Significance Elie Wiesel wrote this book in order to document the painful experiences and memories

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    even surprise themselves with how much their thoughts can change. Before Elie Wiesel is sent to a concentration camp he is very religious. However‚ during his time in the concentration camp he loses faith quickly and often questions himself about God and his ways. Elie Wiesel wants the readers of his book to see how the camp changed him and his beliefs. In NightElie Wiesel uses tone‚ imagery‚ and diction to

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    sides. The side that took a part and the victims involved. In this case‚ we get to see a Nazi‚ Auschwitz soldier and a Holocaust victim. Elie Wiesel‚ a 15 year old‚ and a Jakob W. who became a Auschwitz guard in the 1940’s. Who’s side would you chose? Elie‚ victim‚ or Jakob‚ Auschwitz guard? From reading two perspectives of the Holocaust‚ I am on the side with Elie. Even though Jakob didn’t kill anyone‚ he didn’t stop them either. I rather fight and try to stop it and save as many lives as I can before

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    Daniel Dukeshire  11/8/2014  English 2   Block 4  Dylan Saunders  Night    Night‚ by Elie Wiesel‚ is a representation of real occurrences throughout the holocaust.  Said by Elie himself‚ the book was not created for sympathy or empathy in any way‚ but was to  prevent the suffering of himself‚ as well as millions of other Jews‚ from repeating itself in  history. Experiencing years of torture leaves obvious physical damage‚ but also chips away at the  physiological standpoint of a human being. Elie’s way of portraying the unnatural events he 

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    killed or be killed and for most‚ killing comes without a second thought. Night is a memoir written by Elie Wiesel. Night is a story of Elie‚ one of the jews in the camp of Auschwitz and how he and his father survived. Wiesel discusses all of the people he met‚ the dangerous places he survived though‚ and the horrible acts he saw while in Auschwitz. Each of the examples demonstrate how survival acts as the dominant instinct. Wiesel utilizes characterization‚ setting‚ and mood to show that when survival

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    Night: survival of Elie Wiesel Night is a candid‚ horrific‚ and deeply poignant autobiographical work by Elie Wiesel based on his experiences‚ as a young orthodox Jew‚ of being transmit with his family to the German death camp at Auschwitz‚ and later to the concentration camp at Buchenwald. Primarily‚ his father helped him survive. Upon arrival to the camp‚ Elie and his father are immediately aparted from Elie’s mother and sisters. This is the last time the two sides of the family will ever

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