In Class Essay Outline
Hook: Conspiracy theories around the world attempt to hide the undeniable and atrocious memories of the the holocaust that so many survivors fight to save. Many different groups of conspiracists try cover up these stories. Introduce book and no news from auschwitz.
Claim/Thesis: The most important details that Wiesel emphasized in his memoir are how most of the Jews turned barbaric and animal like from being constrained so long, how awfully the S.S. officers treated the Jews in the concentration camps, and how onlookers of the tragic events did not show any remorse to the Jews, but instead mocked and objectified them. The tragic events of the Holocaust are absolutely essential to be told to prevent future tragedies,
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Most Jews started getting put in concentration camps in 1939 and the war did not end until may 1945. Elie wiesel is deported in may 1944. Him and his dad were between concentration camps for almost a year. “On the third night of our journey, I woke up with a start when I felt two hands on my throat, trying to strangle me” (Wiesel 102). “Our first act as free men was to throw ourselves onto the provisions. That’s all we thought about. No thought of revenge, or of parents. Only of brea” (Wiesel 115)
Body Paragraph #2: How awfully the S.S. officers treated the Jews while they stayed in the concentration camps. When Elie’s father was sick, he could not stay quiet while pleading for water, resulting in blow to the head by an S.S. officer, just for talking. “The officer wielded his club ad dealt him a violent blow to the head” (Wiesel 111). Ellie’s dad later died that night from a combination of the sickness, but most significantly, the blow to his head from the S.S.
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“And the spectators observed these emaciated creatures ready to kill for a crust of bread” (Wiesel 101). “Dozens of starving men fought desperately over a few crumbs. The worked watched the spectacle with great interest” (Wiesel 100). Jews did nothing in the eyes of today’s world
Body paragraph #4: The tragic events of the Holocaust are absolutely essential to be told to prevent future tragedies, and Night is a great way to pass on these memories due the fact that it is a primary source. Night is told through the first person, therefore providing an immensely accurate depiction to what life was like during the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel himself too had gone through or seen pretty much everything that was happening to the Jews. Although readers can learn a lot from the memoir, they are too sane to truly comprehend how the Jews felt without actually experiencing the tragedy for