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Reflections On Elie Wiesel's Night

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Real World Reflection On February 14, 2018 a shooting occurred in a school in Florida, by one of the students. This unleashed anger throughout countless students and parents who wanted stricter gun control laws; this event started many protests and actions being made in order to have safe schools. However, the government is not making reforms to keep guns out of the hands of minors and dangerous people causing even more unrest. This event relates to British imperialism in India because the government was not listening to the needs of the population. Furthermore, the people started to peacefully protest under guidance of Gandhi, one of the greatest activists in history, eventually leading to social, economic, and political change. This event in history helped me understand that protesting and fighting for what one believes in can lead to reform. Before relating these two events, I thought that there was no point …show more content…

As Ellie endured the appalling concentration camps his conviction in God ultimately disappeared. In a similar way to Marjane, Elie’s life events caused him to lose important parts of himself, yet eventually allowing him to grow. However their experiences were extremely different because Elie actually endured oppression and torture. Marjane mainly observed the pain and suffering of others, truly changing her due to her young age. Another difference between the two characters is that Elie near the end of the book started to not only not believe in God, but even despise God. He believed that people should not praise him, because he allowed the Holocaust to occur. On the other hand, Marjane’s belief in God may have disapeared, yet she still did not think of him negatively. Clearly, in the two beautiful stories the protagonists endured similar experiences ultimately terminating their belief in

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The picture that lingered in my mind the most after reading Night was the thoughts of Nazis burning many, many babies in furnaces like they were meat. The reason that this lingered in my mind was because babies are so defenseless and innocent. They were no threat and could have caused no harm to the Nazis, but the Nazis were so evil that they burned young babies alive. This stuck with me because although I knew the Nazis were evil people, even I didn’t go so far as to think that they would ruthlessly and systematically destroy helpless children. It also strikes me as odd, because although the babies were Jewish, they could have been indoctrinated by Nazis and raised away from their Jewish families - thus fulfilling the Nazi goal of eliminating

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The Holocaust was one of the darkest page in mankinds history. Millions of Jews, Gypsies, gay, and disabled were persecuted for their belief, sexual preference or their natural body. They were sent to concentration camps filled with brutal treatments, starvation and were operated with surgeons who were performing unethical operations. “Night” by Elie Wiesel is a short novel made by the merging of several short stories. The short stories are about him, his father, and other prisoners living in the dark days of concentration camp.

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