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Dialectical Journal For Night By Elie Wiesel

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“‘I wanted to return to Sighet to describe to you my death so that you might ready yourselves while there is still time. Life? I no longer care to live…but I wanted to come back to warn you. Only no one is listening to me’” (Wiesel 7). 1. This passage is from the first chapter of the book. Moishe the Beadle, a foreign Jew who was expelled from the town of Sighet, where the narrator, Eliezer Wiesel, lives, is warning Eliezer of the danger he faced when he was expelled and how that same danger is imminent. He is also complaining that no one will listen to him, because they pity him – or that they are optimistic that what happened to him will not happen to them. 2. Moishe tells Eliezer that he didn’t want to come back to Sighet for his personal …show more content…

Wiesel says that during his evacuation, he first started to hate, specifically the Hungarian police, and that the only thing that links him and the Hungarian police is his absolute hatred for them. He goes on to say that he hates them specifically because of the fact that they were the first ones that he could link to the torment that was yet to come. 3. Wiesel includes these words in Night to show the reader a subtle, almost undetectable change in himself. Before this point in time, Wiesel portrayed himself as a young man intent on studying the teachings of the Messiah, who always demonstrated the proper behaviors and never revealed his emotions. Now, though, during this event, he confesses to the reader that he feels hate – a strong emotion – for the Hungarian police, and he foreshadows that there is more hatred to come. This passage symbolizes the beginning of Wiesel’s transformation over the course of events in Night. 4. This passage makes me realize that hate is one of the main emotions that caused the events of WWII to unfold the way they did. The Germans’ hate for the Jewish people, the Jewish people’s hate for their oppressors, the hate that kept going around and around…and look what it did. I think that by realizing what hate is and how powerful it can be, I think that I will reconsider saying, “I hate this” or “I hate that” the next time I’m angry and

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Why did I live? Why did I breathe?” P.4. In this quote Elie is asked by Moishe the Beadle “Why he prays”, but Elie is not sure why he prayed. But all that Moishe

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To the people of Sighet, it was a rule to dislike the needy, a group of peoples whom the townsfolk shared few similarities. An exception however was Moishe the Beadle, a man unique in the fact that he doesn’t fall under the stereotypes of any common group. His noninvasive and shy demeanor evokes an inviting feeling and causes those around him to smile. These personality traits separate Moishe from the dullness of others and distinguished him as a potential mentor for Elie to have. The use of imagery and other descriptive vocabulary brings to light Moishe’s role as Elie’s master, and also highlights him as a complex character.

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In the novel, “Night” Elie Wiesel communicates with the readers his thoughts and experiences during the Holocaust. Wiesel describes his fight for survival and journey questioning god’s justice, wanting an answer to why he would allow all these deaths to occur. His first time subjected into the concentration camp he felt fear, and was warned about the chimneys where the bodies were burned and turned into ashes. Despite being warned by an inmate about Auschwitz he stayed optimistic telling himself a human can’t possibly be that cruel to another human.

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Night Response Journals Response #1 “The time has come...you must all leave” (Officers page 16).     At this time in Elie and his family, friends and other resident are being escorted out of the harsh ghetto. People are getting dragged out of their homes person by person, some people get to stay longer than others.

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When Wiesel said that he had ceased to feel human, he mean that he prefer to give up, to die not to feel pain anymore. Also, he means that death might be better than living at that moment, hat it would be so easy to just fall off to the side and die then there would be no more pain or misery. He wouldn’t be cold, his foot would be not hurt, he wouldn’t be hungry, tired or anything. He has seen over and over other people just… not really give up. But more… give in to death, and if it wasn’t for his dad he probably would have done it.

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