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Dialectical Journal For Night By Elie Wiesel

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To introduce the image and the book I’m going to say what means the interplay between satisfaction (fulfillment of one's expectation needs or wants pleasure) and regret (feeling sad or reprentant over something that has happened). What we can break down from these two words towards the book is that at every moment of history it can be observed that there have been moments of satisfaction such as when father and son passed the test to avoid being sent to the gas chamber or when they receive a piece of bread to be able to feed themselves, on the other hand, the other person has been able to hand, you can also see that they go through moments of regret such as when they are separated from their mother and sister “Men to the left”. Women to the right!” (page 29), or in the last moments of their father's life. …show more content…

In the camps they live a hard life, where they can see people losing their lives to get hungry, people dying in the gas chambers, others by shooting.... Where in the end only Elie manages to get out of that hell alive, leaving behind his family. The book can be matched with the picture because in the picture you can see an old man dressed in formal clothes who is sitting alone at a table along with other empty chairs, which can be deduced that the empty chairs are the part of the family that has lost. Being able to reach the conclusion that the man sitting is Elie and the empty chairs belong to his family who left him in the concentration

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