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Analysis Of Night By Elie Wiesel

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Nelson Mandela once said, “To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.” This means you shouldn't take away anyone's freedom to have human rights because you will be questioning their state of being a human. In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, the author explains and describes his experience during the holocaust. The author describes how the Jews were treated, the camps they traveled to, and how he feels during this experience. According to, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel several of the Jews Human Rights were violated. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a document adopted by the United Nations on December 10, 1948. This document states a list of Articles every person has and should abide by no matter what. Everyone should have a right to possess human rights because “Nobody has the right to torture, harm, or humiliate you,” “Nobody has the right to take your things from you without good reason,” and …show more content…

In reality torturing includes physical, mental, or verbal to be exact. Article 5 from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights says, “Nobody has the right to torture, harm, or humiliate you. Presently, in the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel in chapter 4 pg.64 says, “I saw Idek with a young Polish girl, half-naked on a mattress. Idek leapt up turned around and saw me while the girl tried to cover up her breasts.” Also on chapter 4 pg.65 states, “Lie down on it, on your stomach!” I obeyed. “Then I was aware of nothing but strokes of the whip.” In this chapter Eliezer caught Idek sleeping with a Polish girl and Idek see’s Eliezer and punishes him by giving him 25 lashes on his back with a whip. Accordingly, to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Eliezer's 5th Article of human rights was broken by Idek because he was tortured by Idek for no apparent

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was established to protect fundamental laws, liberty, and pursuit of contentment. Yet after it was imprinted into life, power lust and war craving societies still violates the document that holds the existence of every individual. A memoir Night written by Eliezer Wiesel proves this accusation by elucidating the Jew’s hardship at the concentration camps of 1944-1945. German’s violating, millions suffering, the novel defends that the superior race (Adolf Hitler’s supporters) corrupted articles two, four, and nine of the proclamation.

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Through the unforgettable moments in Elie Wiesel’s book, Night it explains what the holocaust did, and how the Germans made it possible to question humanity. It displays Elie’s relationship with his father; Relationships helps the mind prevail through tough situations; They can be powerful and can influence one to keep hope for the future. Elie Wiesel describes his experiences in the numerous Auschwitz concentration camps. Elia and his father had their mind set to get to survive the camps as soon as they knew what was truly going on. Elie and his father’s relationship was instantly strengthened when Elie did not have to go with his mother, Elie describes “His voice was terribly sad.

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In “Night” by Elie Wiesel, Hitler was not only trying to exterminate the Jews, but he was also trying to make them feel like they were less of a person than the people around them. He felt that the Jews were a bother to the Germans more than anything. He tortured them to the point that they wanted to pick on the person next to them so that person would look worse than themselves. Hitler’s job was to make the humans feel like they were nothing but a piece of dirt along the path that he would walk on to success. Hitler knows exactly how he will make the Jews feel like they are not humans.

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It is not possible for human rights to be actualized for every person. In Elie Wiesel’s book, Night, there are examples of how people have more power than others, therefore people are punished for bad reasons. Going along with this in Elie’s speech, The Perils of Indifference, he talks about how indifference is shown in WW2. There are many ways that Elie shows that it is not possible for human rights to be actualized for every person.

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The nonfiction memoir genre is important to memorialize historical events like the holocaust because the memoir allows the reader to feel like they are inside the story, it grows the reader's sympathy and it educates the readers about the holocaust so they begin to understand things they didn't know before. Especially in the memoir Night, Wiesel decries the events accurately and describes in great detail the horrific sights he had witnessed and experienced. In chapter eight, Elie watches his father die, then when he wakes up he sees in his father's bunk “another invalid”(Wiesel 106). After withstanding this, Wiesel “did not weep” (Wiesel 106) but he admits that he had a shameful moment of relief. This allows the reader to walk the path of

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The memoir Night by Elie Wiesel should be required reading in schools. An SS soldier screams “ Faster, you filthy sons of bitches!”On page 81 to the Jews. This shows how disrespectful and careless they were to the prisoners which describes how the history about concentration camps were. Also, the fact that the prisoners never committed any crime shows that it’s possible for a person to disrespect another for a meaningless reason.

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Throughout the memoir, Elie Wiesel is faced with multiple gory sites that test his faith. A major one was the hanging of the young boy, the pipel. Not only did that event affect Elie, but it affected the whole concentration camp. The Nazi’s intended for it to be a threat or warning to the prisoners; however, the prisoners felt as though the perpetrators crossed the line with the hanging. Although they did kill thousands of people on the daily basis, the hanging of the child was seen to be the cruelest of cruel acts just to prove a point.

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Night Elie Wiesel’s story of his experience in the holocaust. The author is Elie Wiesel, his story takes place in the concentration camp, a theme word from this story is strength. In night, Elie Wiesel demonstrates everyone has the strength to push through trying situations even though they might not think it’s there through the separation of his family, seeing his dad struggle, and his injured foot. Elie Wiesel showed a lot of strength when his family was separated. “Men to the left!, women to the right!

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