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Book Report On Night By Elie Wiesel

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Night, a book about an amazingly brave, bold, determined boy who was forced into manhood. Elie Wiesel was just a 15 year old boy when he first started hearing about the camps, and at that age, he wasn’t old enough to understand that there are real problems hidden behind what the Germans were telling them. From the time when Elie and his family were taken by the Germans and by the time Elie was rescued, he was a completely different person. With all the struggles Elie went through put a strain on his life that can never be healed, so for Elie to write this book and go through all of the hard struggles and old thoughts. But along with writing this book can wonderful lessons and a beautiful message. Now the big question is why did he write this book knowing how much pain he would go through again? …show more content…

There is only a few specific things we learn in school about the holocaust and when we actually learn and read about someone who has been through it, it gives us a better understanding about something history books wouldn't write about. Elie was not afraid to tell his reader about the truth, he did not block out the bad behaviors people did just to make sure his readers feel uncomfortable. He wrote the truth so that people could feel more of the pain the jews, and other prisoners, went through. Even though we will never truly understand the struggles, but at least we have a better understanding thanks to

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In the memoir Night was written by Elie Wiesel in 1955, 10 years after the events happened. This book is about the Holocaust, there were about 4-6 million victims of the Holocaust. The Holocaust happened between the years 1933 and 1945. Elie was a survivor of the Holocaust and wrote this memoir of the tragic events that happened to him and other people. In the first three chapters of this story, Wiesel tells about the way his life was changed and he was dehumanized and left with nothing of his old life.

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In the book Night, we the readers witness the hardships and struggles in Elie’s life during the traumatic holocaust. The events that take place in this story are unbearable and are thought to be demented in modern times. In the beginning Elie is shown as a normal teenage Jewish boy, but the events are so drastic that we the readers forget how he was like in the beginning. Changes were made to Elie during the book, whether they were minor or major. The changes generated from himself, the journey, and other people.

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Night, by Elie Wiesel, is a very dark and heavy book. The book is called night because the night is a dark, heavy, uncontrollable thing just like Elie’s life going through all the camps he did. The life in the first ghetto was good. They were allowed to practice their own religion and had a synagogue.

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In the memoir of Elie Wiesel, “Night” it tells his experience during the holocaust. Elie Wiesel changed from a spiritual, sensitive little boy to a spiritually dead unemotional man because before the holocaust he had a good life and family. Then during the Holocaust he lost everything and was poorly treated. Before the Holocaust Wiesel had a good life and had fun. He would go to school and believed in God.

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Introduction Throughout World War 2 Germany was living and thriving in a sea of repression. Hitler and his followers blamed the Jewish for many things that had gone wrong during World War 1 and the germans believed that the Jewish needed to be punished for that. Nazi’ started forcing the Jewish out of their houses, stealing their valuables, transporting them in overpacked transport cars, relocating them to concentration camps, and it is at those concentration camps where they were starved, beaten, and destroyed. Before all of these actions were able to happened Hitler’s SS officers had to be trained to repress the Jewish and it is from that point of view that you should “read” my documents. In Elie Wiesel’s book “Night” we were told that the reason that the Jewish did not fight back was because they could not believe that human beings could do such things and that is why I chose to write my documents from the view of a SS officer who is completing his training and learning how to treat the Jewish.

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