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Denialialism In Night By Elie Wiesel

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The denialism motif that emphasizes the theme that humans have a tendency to deny ugly, painful truths is shown multiple times throughout the book. For example, foreign Jews were being deported from the town of Sighet and Elie Wiesel says, "Behind me, someone said, sighing, 'What do you expect? That's war...' The deportees were quickly forgotten"(6). The native Jews tried to rationalize these actions after the others were "Crammed into cattle cars"(Wiesel 6) by saying it is what it is and continued to deny that anything that was happening was wrong. Even after one of the deportees, Moisha, survived and came back to tell of the horrors he'd seen including them "shoot[ing]their prisoners." and infants being "tossed into the air and used as targets-"(Wiesel
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