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Elie Wiesel Dialectical Journal

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“I stood petrified. What had happened to me? My father had just been struck, in front of me, and I had not even blinked.” (Wiesel 39) In chapter 3 it’s discussing how what happened and what has changed as Elie and his father had been going through the process of selection. Before Elie went to the camp he was completely different than the person who walked into the camp. Also during the actions of chapter 3, as a reader I found that Elie had already changed as he made his way into the camp. For example, relating to the quote I have chosen, in that specific part of the chapter and when Elie's father kindly asked to know where the bathroom was and he was hit by a Gypsy. As described in this part of the book Elie felt himself almost immediately
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1. “For nearly an hour, she remained...till Papa came home and played the accordion. Only then did she sit up and start to recover.” - Liesel finds comfort and safety in her foster father. She trusts him and is happy when around him; two important aspects of any relationship, especially a family relationship.

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Q5: After I read this book, this made me understand how much the Jews has struggled in the camps. Before I read this book, I thought the concentration camps is where Jews had to work until there numbers on their arm would be called out to get killed. They would killed them only by using the gas chambers which that wasn't the case at all. A lot of Jews were killed by machine guns. Babies were used as target practices for shooting.

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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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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.

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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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Elie Wiesel writes about his experience and the hardships in the Holocaust. During these years of war the Jewish prisoners had to experience horrific starvation, the daily labour work in concentration camps, and the question of his faith in God. Yom Kippur is celebrated by Jews to demonstrate their faith in God and many show their faith by fasting on the tenth of Tishrei. There were countless Jews who had already perished from malnourishment and endured constant mistreatment. While staying in these camps he says “We received more blows than food.

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What had happened to me? My father had just been struck, in front of me, and I had not even blinked. I had watched and kept silent” (Wiesel 39). Elie is shocked by his reaction because normally he would stand up for his father, but what he has experienced has taught him to stay silent in order to not be punished himself and enhance the

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Never shall [he] forget those things, even were [he] condemned to live as long as God Himself” (Wiesel 75). This quote leads me to believe that the suffering endured in the camps lead Elie to become lost with who he was. Elie and the other members of the Jewish community try to keep their faith as much as they can even though it is being tested. As shown in Night enduring suffering forces people to become much different versions of themselves.

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