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Breaking The Chain Of Conformity In Night By Elie Wiesel

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Breaking The Chains Of Conformity With Courage Courage is similar to being the ripened fruit on a barren tree, it gives life and color to a dull exterior. The courage that others display gives our nation determination for another day. Courage is the ability to prevail through hardships, to reveal your true inner nature, and to stand up for what you believe, when the rest of the world falls as a slave to conformity. Hardships are lurking around every corner of our life ready to immerse whenever we least expect them. In fact, he only way to be prepared for the moment that these hardships come is to have courage and a vallor mindset. In Elie Wiesel’s ‘Night’, Elie faced obstacles in the concentration camps that he had never before experienced; yet, he stayed courageous and determined to stay alive. While at these camps, Elie was living off of a slice of bread and chunky soup, he was beaten for no reason, and he was emotionally scared beyond belief. Near the end of Elie’s journey, his father, with whom he had put all love and affection, died before him. However; Elie …show more content…

In fact, the only way that a problem is solved in our day and age is with our voice. Will that be your voice? During the years of racial segregation, there was a woman who altered history by being courageous. Rosa Parks is an amazing example of someone who was not fearful of breaking the chains of our racial country. One day Rosa Parks was taking the city bus from her working place back home. Rosa was sitting in a front seat that normally belonged to those of white skin. When a white woman entered the bus and asked Rosa to move Rosa told her “No”. Rosa was later arrested but she now serves as a hero to America for her bravery. It can be very difficult to be different in a world that is so similar, but sometimes it can be as easy as sitting down in a world that all stands

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The heart wrenching and powerful memoir “Night” by Elie Wiesel depicts Elie’s struggle through the holocaust. It shows the challenges and struggles Elie and people like him faced during this mournful time, the dehumanization; being forced out of their homes, their towns and sent to nazi concentration camps, being stripped of their belongings and valuables, being forced to endure and witness the horrific events during one of history’s most ghastly tales. In “Night” Elie does not only endure a physical journey but also a spiritual journey as well, this makes him question his determination, faith and strength. This spiritual journey is a journey of self discovery and is shown through Elie’s struggle with himself and his beliefs, his father

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Anyone can be overcome by selfishness in order to survive the hardest of times. In Elie Wiesel’s “Night”, the main character Elie faces many hard times that puts both survival and loyalties into perspective. In horrific conditions, the necessity to survive can overpower the strongest of human loyalties. First off, people tend to prioritize their own safety over the safety of others. Secondly, prisoners abandon their communities for a position of authority in order to survive.

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In a situation where your body is surviving on a thread, your stomach is inflated due to starvation and all the strength you had before is gone, you have to rely on mental and religious strength to carry you through your hardships. In Elie Wiesel’s “Night”, Elie talks about his personal experiences and hardships he faced during WWII and his life at Auschwitz as a young boy. Throughout the story Elie pushes through losing his mother and sister, lashings, seeing babies burned alive and the fear of death but also the hope for it in some situations. No amount of physical strength can help someone survive in the brutal place Auschwitz. Everywhere in the story Elie and other characters show that with mental and religious/spiritual strength, you can push through any hardship you have to face.

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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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After going through so much, many people do not have the same mindset as they did before. Being tortured and watching others being tortured changes a person’s life, especially Elie’s, his father’s, Moshe the Beadle’s, and Rabbi Eliahou’s. Elie Wiesel, the author of Night, shares his own experience of going through a concentration camp, and it is clear that many things in his life changed

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teve Goodier once wrote, “My scars remind me that I did indeed survive my deepest wounds.” Night by Elie Wiesel is a memoir about Elies life during The Holocaust. He was a young boy when he was taken from his home in Sighet, Transylvania and brought to concentration camps. He was separated from his mother and two sisters and was left with his father. Determined for him and his father to live, Elie faced many people who didn 't want him to keep going and others who encouraged him to keep going.

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Courage. Courage is when you are willing to go above and beyond, past your own boundaries, to fight the monster we call fear. Mildred D. Taylor has written us this amazing novel called, Role of thunder hear my cry. This book is told through the mouth of a young colored girl who has many courageous moments, and stands up for her convictions. This courageous young girl’s name is Cassie Logan.

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Like a tree’s root, which digs deeper to prevent it from toppling, people follow their built-in actions and tap into their survival instincts when dealing with difficult moments. Similarly, Elie Wiesel's Night is a harrowing account of his experience during the Holocaust as it provides a window into how behaviors change to survive, turning to bare instincts. He observes the countless individuals massacred, abandoned, and driven to madness during these intense periods, demonstrating the crumbling of ethics fueled by the urge to survive. In times of distress, human nature transforms to overcome dire situations. Life is like an unpredictable sea: serene in one moment and turbulent and rough in the next.

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According to William Ernest Henley, an English poet, writer, critic and editor,“In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance, My head is bloody, but unbowed”(Henley 2). Within William’s poem, “Invictus”, he elaborates on the idea that everyone will have to face challenges in their life at one point or another, however, it’s important to not let these hardships destroy their spirit. These ideals can be seen within many of life’s individuals, including the Jewish Prisoners, Elie Wiesel, and Eva Kor as they take these factors head on, and channel them. For instance, the novel, Night, written by Elie Wiesel, illustrates the way the Jewish community was able to come together for survival

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What is courage? Courage is having fears or worries, yet still doing what needs or should be done. One example of courage would be a person that is fighting cancer. This person is probably scared that they might die, yet they still fight to regain their health and to become better.

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To find a man who has not experienced suffering is impossible; to have man without hardship is equally unfeasible. Such trials are a part of life and assert that one is alive by shaping one’s character. In the autobiographical memoir Night by Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, this molding is depicted through Elie’s transformation concerning his identity, faith, and perspective. As a young boy, Elie and his fellow neighbors of Sighet, Romania were sent to Auschwitz, a macabre concentration camp with the sole motive of torturing and killing Jews like himself. There, Elie experiences unimaginable suffering, and upon liberation a year later, leaves as a transformed person.

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