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Elie Wiesel Why I Write Making No Become Yes Summary

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Elie Wiesel is a survivor of the Holocaust. He wrote “Why I Write: Making No Become Yes” to explain why he feels the need to share what he experienced during the harsh time period. First he says “But for the survivor, writing is not a profession, but an occupation, a duty”. In this sentence it shows how he is not doing this for fun or entertainment, but more so for the people that he saw die, and all the people he lost. He feels that the reason he survived was to write about what happened and to show other people what they went through. Secondly, “And if I write, it is to warn the reader that he will not understand either”. This quote makes me think that he can only explain so much to use and there is so much more that we will never know or
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Chapter 5 During the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel changes from a Spiritual and a boy with faith, to a cold hearted, spiritually dead emotional man. And throughout chapter we can see how he questions God, and also to do things such as a protest, or a sign to rebel against God. ”Why, but why should I bless him?Every fiber in me rebelled. Because he caused thousands of children to burn in his Mass grave? Because in His great might, he had created Auschwitz, Birkenau, Buna, and so many other factories of death?”.

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I will also discuss how Wiesel uses language, tone, and style to convey his message, the types of details, evidence, and examples he uses to support his claims, and how he establishes his credibility and appeals to the readers' emotions and values. Wiesel's purpose in writing Night was to tell people about the horrors of the Holocaust and to make sure that future generations never forget the horrors of the Nazis. His central idea is that the Holocaust was a horrible tragedy that should never be

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Elie Wiesel’s main purpose for writing this book was to ensure that this world and everyone on it would begin to know what was happening in these camps across Europe and what was being done and not being done to help start it. Wiesel wants to prevent this such tragedy for ever happening ever again around the that he and thousands of other jews had to face to survive another day being a

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Moreover, It begs the audience to remember and pass on their memories for generations to come; to stop them from making the same mistakes that were made in the past. It delves into his theme of memory and the importance of it. By prompting these questions Elie Wiesel encourages self-examination and invites the audience to assess their roles in nurturing hope and preserving memory. Through the use of rhetorical questions Elie Wiesel encourages self reflection, improvement, and prompts his audience to participate in his message; to consider the importance of memory, hope, and despair in their own

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Author Bio Elie Wiesel, born September 30, 1928, is married to Marion Wiesel, who he has one son with. Elie Wiesel is a professor at Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts, he’s also taught at the City University of New York, and was a visiting scholar at Yale. Elie Wiesel is the Advisory Board chairman of the newspaper Algemeiner Journal. Elie Wiesel wrote Night based on his personal experience as a holocaust survivor. Elie Wiesel has received a Nobel Peace Prize, a Congressional Gold Medal, a Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded by George H. W. Bush, and many more awards.

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Wiesel’s efforts to become educated allowed him to become extremely literate and cause his writing to make people feel similar to how he felt while living through those experiences as a young Jewish boy who had to live through the Holocaust. Wiesel fought to educate himself to make sure to successfully expose the truths of the Holocaust while also making sure the world gets to hear his

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Elie wrote the book so this would never happen again and to tell people what he really had to go through because some people think the holocaust was fake or not as bad as people make it but it really is bad because million of jews died and Elie was one of the surviuojs of that and had to watch his whole family leave ad die infront of him and he wants people to know that all those events of staving, being beaten to death, watching his father slowly die over the years, he wanted to commit subside so many times he wrote the book so these events won't happen to nobody ever again or have to go through what he had to go through during his time in the Holocaust,  It's amazing how he survived it and lived to tell his side of the

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The overall purpose of Wiesel’s speech was to emphasize the danger of indifference and the importance of compassion. He has made this compelling to the reader through his use of devices such as pathos, and by calling us, the readers and listeners, to take action, warning us that passivity is itself a choice. Wiesel’s prime exigence is his experience in the Holocaust, where ‘a Jewish boy discovered the Kingdom of Night’ (118). This boy is a symbol; a version of himself separated and personified as another victim, lost to the horrors of the Holocaust. He is Wiesel’s naivety, his innocence, and his youth, and now Wiesel’s duty to remember.

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He felt it was important to relay the lessons he learned, so that others will not have to go through the same hardship, in the future. This reflects Moishe the Beadle’s struggles “Infants were tossed into the air and used as targets for the machine guns” (Wiesel, 6). These monstrous events are the result of not acting because they felt no personal connection. This resulted in not bearing witness, and the massive loss of life during The Holocaust. Making the choice to bear witness needs to be made before it is too late.

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Elie Wiesel voiced his emotions and thoughts of the horrors done to Jewish people during World War II whilst developing his claim. Wiesel “remember[s] his bewilderment,” “his astonishment,” and “his anguish” when he saw they were dropped into the ghetto to become slaves and to be slaughtered. He repeats the words “I remember” because he and the world, especially those who suffered in the ghettos and camps, would never be able to forget how innocent suffered. Consequently, he emphasized that “no one” has the right to advocate for the dead. Like many other people in the world, he lost his family during the war.

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