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In the book “night”, Elie Wiesel wrote from an objective point of view to complete his memoir for certain reasons. First of all he wrote if from objective to give to give an understanding to the Audience that what is going on the not just with him but other Jews too. And he began with Moishe the Beadle because it all starts when he started to warn everyone that bad times were coming for them and it came true in the first chapter.

Chapter 2 In chapter two Mrs. Schachter was hallucinating through that chapter and here is why, In the passage it saids, “She is hallucinating because she is thirsty, poor woman….That's why she speaks of flames devouring her”. And the definition of hallucinating is an experience involving the
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It challenges Elie's faith into questioning God that where was he? Or Why did he let this happen? I think this effects Ellie and every prisoner that was on that camp because in this young boy's death, he didn’t say anything like the young man before that died, giving hope to everybody by saying his last words before he died. In the story, everybody went home that day with more hope and Elie comment saying that the soup had tasted better than ever that night, basically saying that they were grateful even they were in prison but still alive. But this young boy Pipel was different. He was more of a small, pale child. He also was up there calm but also nervous, and he didn’t say any last words before he died so basically not giving hope to the Prisoners in camp. And the worst thing is that he didn’t die instantly after they let him hanged, “the child, too light, was still breathing”. And after he died half an hour more, that’s when Elie’s faith goes down again. Someone said, “For God’s sake, where is God?” and Elie basically gives himself a rhetorical question also questioning where was God? This question that came to his mind also questioned his faith. After all Elie thought that God maybe dead with one of these people that were hanged. ”Where he is? This is where hanging here from the

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