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“Night” by Elie Wiesel is an autobiography that sheds light on his life growing up as a Jewish teenager. When he was just sixteen years old, he was forced to grapple with limitations set in place by the Nazi’s rule. At this time in history, the Nazis were trying to exterminate the entire population of Jewish people solely because of their religion. The Nazis took over his town and began their cruel ruling system.

The book starts out describing how life was when it was “normal” for Elie Wiesel. Elie had ordinary things such as a loving family, nice house, food, education and freedom. These are all things we take for granted. He also had a strong faith in God and made a great effort to educate himself in the teachings of his faith. The world he lived in symbolically represents a light. …show more content…

The Nazis started treating Jewish people worse than animals. Elie’s family was ultimately removed from their home forever and placed in a ghetto. They had to give up their prized possessions in order to avoid the Nazis. Worst of all, they lost their freedom. Eventually, they were transported by train to a concentration camp having no idea what was in store for them. Concentration camps had crematoriums that would burn people until they turned into ashes. Those chosen to live were treated cruelly and forced to starve. When his family arrived at the concentration camp, he and his father were separated from his mother and sister. They were taken to be cremated. Elie and his father were sent to barracks to live. However, they were abused and hardly fed. The symbolic “night” had taken over. Elie started to become angry with God and lost his

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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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Elie Wiesel is a fifteen year old boy who believes in God. Elie Wiesel then gets taken to the Holocaust of 1941-1945. As he goes going through the Holocaust Elie Wiesel is losing everything he's ever known. Elie Wiesel loses his faith in God, and turns from a boy to a man. All he can do is try to survive as long as he can, doing anything he can.

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They also had no possessions and separated from their family and had to work in again horrible conditions. Elie also had to watch his father be treated like he was not even human. He even had to watch people he knew and loved die and could do nothing about it. Sometimes they were sent to work until they died. My second example is when he rejects god.

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Throughout the book Night by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel tells the readers of the pain and horror he experienced while imprisoned by Nazis during the holocaust. Wiesel talks about the concentration camps, and how some of the people were nice, and some were mean. He explains the challenges they overcame, and the horrors that they saw. Over the course of the novel, Elie goes through numerous changes including losing his mom and sister, when he no longer feared death, and he went from being religious to not even knowing if there is a god. Throughout the memoir, Elie changed a lot.

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The book Night is a autobiography told from Elie Wiesal’s perspective. It talks about his experience with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944-45. Wiesel writes about how his faith is degrading to the point he believes there is no God, and how he is disgusted at humanity. The book starts in Sighet, Romania, You learn about Moshe the Beadle who is a poor man, but very religious. He was expelled like the rest of the Jews onto a cattle train and taken to Poland.

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He had lost his faith, and his father was the only thing that provided him the will to live. Once his father was gone, his life no longer had value or meant anything to himself or anyone else because in the camps no one could afford to care for others, at least not as much as they had to care for themselves, “I remained in Buchenwald until April 11. I shall not describe my life during that period. It no longer mattered to me anymore” (Wiesel 113). Elie was denied basic human rights.

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The Jews turned into scavenging animals… In the book a son kills his father over a piece of bread. This is eye opening to Elie because it was as if the young man was possessed by a beast. The frail guy suddenly attacked and Elie knew then that this man’s morals and ethics vanished long ago. In the

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The memoir entitled “Night” is the story of the fight for survival. It’s Elie Wiesel’s story of his fight to survive along with his fellow Jews in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps. Elie’s personal account of this story is both heart wrenching and effective. Hearing Elie’s personal anguish brings the story to life. It’s the story of how people can survive with the barest of means.

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The Jews were forced to live in ghettos and made to give up any valuables they possessed and eventually being transported forcing to leave behind all they have known. But, nothing could compare to the feeling of loss once entering Auschwitz. Jews were immediately being separated from their families not knowing that it would most likely be the last time they would see each other. Elie experienced this when he was separated from his mother and sister describing the situation “I didn’t know that this was the moment in time and the place where I was leaving my mother and Tzipora forever.” (29).

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The Jews are treated cruely and are forced to be shaved and stripped out of their clothes. They are transferred over to Auschwitz, the main camp, and are put to work in a work camp, Buna, and there, Elie is put to work in an electrical-fittings factory. At the camp, the Jews are treated inhumanely, and are seen as slaves. They are malnourished, overworked, and are forced to live under poor living conditions, with little blankets and clothes. On a daily basis, the Jews are seen as targets that the Nazi's could beat, neglect, and often killed.

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After they got all the Jews out they packed them into cattle cars to take them to Auschwitz. The Jews were separated by gender. Elie got separated from his mom and his sister, but he stayed with his father. The fathers and sons tried to stay close to each other to take good care of one another because that was the only family they had. After two days of travel, thirst became intolerable, as did the heat.

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The concentration camp caused Elie to lose big parts of what makes people human. He lost his ability to mourn, his ability to care for others, and even his ability to think. After Elie arrived at the concentration camp he said, “The absent no longer entered our thoughts. No one spoke of them—who knows what happened to them?—but their fate was not on our minds. We were incapable of thinking.

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Night, by Elie Wiesel, reveals the pain and suffering that one goes through physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually during an everyday battle of survival. It is expressed with a powerful and seductive insight on what the concentration camps did to Jewish people during the Second World War Elie Wiesel tells the story through his eyes and what he, his father, and many other Jews had to fight through to remain alive. Within the concentration camps, Elies thoughts of living a normal life is non-existent when death stares him in the face with no sense of humanity. Elie and his father’s faith, humanity, strength, and courage are put to the test when death is surrounding them literally every day. This piece of writing has such a powerful

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He was viewed as crazy. The surrounding Jews did not escape town while they still could, to avoid the Nazi’s brutal slaughtering. When the Nazis arrived, they gathered and over packed Jews into cattle cars to take them to concentration camps. They’d be taken to concentration camps in Auschwitz. Elie was separated from his mother and younger sister, but was able to stay with his father.

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No one could every picture such a horror coming for people who do nothing but good in their small community. Elie along with his family has been sent by trains to the largest concentration camps knowns as, “Auschwitz” at this time no one had known what the place was. The life for him in a concentration was nothing but difficult both physically and emotionally. Besides going through a physical pain every day everyone who had a life in a camp were forced the change how they feel. To be able to survive in such camps you had no choice to worry about feeling you had to adapt to your surrounding by not feeling and becoming numb.

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