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Analysis Of Night By Elie Wiesel

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“Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed” (Wiesel 34). Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, thinks these words after the first night in Birkenau concentration camp. After being separated from his mother and little sister forever, Wiesel then witnessed children being burned and innocent people being shot. Before these tragic events, he used to study the Talmud and Kabbalah every day. However, after one day in the camps, he no longer felt God’s presence. In his memoir Night, Elie Wiesel is affected spiritually, emotionally, and physically due to the year he spent in the concentration camps. Due to what he witnessed and experienced in the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel questioned
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Being the last sentence of the book, and out of all the passages I highlighted this one stood out to me and described Wiesel’s experience in just a few simple sentence. He looked at himself for the first time in many years, and did not recognize himself he saw a different person. This showed me that the concentration camps changed him he was a different person inside and out. The events that occurred to him had scared him so much that the man he saw in the mirror wasn’t him, but one who had been drained of life that looked lifeless from the events occurred in the concentration camps. He was weak and this whole passage embodies his weakness and the whole point of the concentration camps.

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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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Throughout the memoir Night there many instances where many of the people in the concentration camps were treated inhumanly, cruel, or degrading or were subjected to torture. When Eli finds Idek and a young Polish girl together together intimately, he starts to laugh and this angers Idek to where he promises to get him back for not minding his business (Wiesel 57). Later on in the same page of the book, Wiesel goes on to say that “They brought a crate” (Wiesel 57) and he was then forced to lie down on the crate while he felt “the lashes of the whip”(Wiesel 57). This is incontrovertible a violation of article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), which states that No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman

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Imagine showing up to church, nothing different from every other time you arrive. However, this time when you show up, you notice flames and pure destruction. Today, this scenario seems make-believe, however this was not the case in Sighet, Transylvania in 1941. According to Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night, once the German soldiers arrived in Sighet, many norms were altered, such as their laws and attires. Eli Wiesel uses night as a motif in the memoir Night in order to convey an underlying message about the increase of darkness, possibilities of death and lack of humanity once non-authoritarian members arrive.

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Strength of Love Scared and afraid wanting to die, but the only thing keeping you from giving up and dying is the love of your family. In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie is just a normal 15- year-old boy when him and his family are taken to Birkenau a concentration camp in Poland. When Elie and his family were taken to Birkenau Elie and his dad is separated from his mom and his sisters never to see them again. After Elie and his dad are separated from the girls Elie and his father find it very difficult to survive in the camp, they just want to give up and die but the their love for each other kept them going. In Night the author uses imagery to help convey the message of family bonds.

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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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Night by Elie Wiesel includes one horrific story when the Jews are being transported on trains. Bread is thrown into the trains by Germans standing by. This story tells us how relationship between fathers and sons changed. The relationship between fathers and sons is one of the strongest bond you can have.

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Literary Analysis “Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies in us while we live. ”--Norman Cousins Losing something one loves is hard, but losing one's self is worse.

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In the memoir Night, the author Elie Wiesel speaks of his experience as a Jew during World War ll. Elie Wiesel is a Jewish 13 year old boy who lives with his sister, dad, and mom. The Nazi’s come and his family is forced out. He and his father travel to many concentration camps and struggle to survive. Elie Wiesel shows that strength and resilience are essential to survive when encountering difficulties such as starvation, desperation, and being ridiculed.

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The book night is a non fiction account of a Jewish 15 year old teenager who tells the story of his experience as a young boy, with his family taken from their home in Hungary during the holocaust in 1940s. The reasons you should read the Night by Elie Wiesel are its very attention grabbing for any reader, you’ll get a huge imagination about the holocaust when reading. Source 1 explains ‘‘Elie's writing is his ability to translate the most incredible details into a fluid memory of the experience’’ The structure and the way Elie writes inspirers people of any age, “This structure helped me, along with many of my classmates, in reading such an overpowering book. ’’(2).

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Susan Gale once wisely said, “Sometimes you don't realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness.” Elie Wiesel wrote Night about his father and his experiences throughout the holocaust. In Night, Elie is taken to different camps, and during his stays he witnesses horror and tragedy. Elie’s whole family ends up murdered… all but him. Elie came out of the holocaust mentally stronger due to silence, family, and evil.

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Night by Elie Wiesel, is a book that informs the reader about the experiences he encountered while going through the holocaust. Through the text Elie does not only inform the reader about the problems he faces throughout the holocaust, but he also expresses some themes. Elie expresses themes such as faith in God, identity, and denial, without the reader evening really grasping it if he does not pay close attention. During Night, Elie has a dynamic relationship with his faith in God.

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Your circumstances or experiences can impact your beliefs and principles for the rest of your life. In the memoir, Night by Elie Wiesel, Eliezer Wiesel documents his experience as German forces take over their small town of Sighet. The entire Jewish population is sent to concentration camps. In a camp called Auschwitz, Eliezer is separated from his mother and younger sister, but he remains with his father, Shlomo. As Eliezer struggles to survive against severe malnutrition and the cruelty of the camp, he also develops a conflict within himself revolving around his faith.

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Throughout history there have been many instances of cruelty towards our brothers and sisters in race. Some of theses hatreds have turned deadly, and there has been much bloodshed. One of the most lethal occurrences is that of the Nazi party towards the Jewish people of conquered Europe. In the book Night the account of Elie Wiesel is told. Elie is a young Hungarian jew, when Hungary enters into WWII.

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Thou Shall Not Kill; a commandment, a law and four words to protect those who cannot defend themselves. These four words did little to protect the millions of Jews, during the Holocaust; who were hunted down, herded into camps, brutally beaten both physically and mentally and marked for death. Since then and before our world has seen this played out again and again in places like Nanking, Rwanda, Cambodia, and Darfur and on farms and in slaughterhouses in every country of the world. This bloodshed will not be cease until those four words are truly embraced by every culture to include every living species on this earth. Every trial and tragic event Eli Wiesel endured and wrote about in his novel, Night has happened to an animal in the woods,

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