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Response For Night By Elie Wiesel

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“Night” by Elie Wiesel explains and shares the experiences from the eyes of holocaust survivor. Throughout the whole book from start to finish one word to capture the book is inhumane. Elie Wiesel had witnessed what no child should see nor imagine. When Elie reminisces about his parents the horror that he survived will creep back into his mind as will the countless things he encountered. For a relatively happy person (which is me) they might shed a tear or two depending on how emotional they are. Although we cannot all relate to witnessing our father dying in front of us we wouldn’t want anything happening to them, so personally I had put myself in the exact same position as Elie and any normal person with a father bad or good would still get emotional. Even though some people may not able to handle the book emotionally, the book is very detailed, you learn about what this survivor …show more content…

Elie is going through many things psychologically; he constantly regrets having not listened to Moishe because as said before they would have had a chance to escape. Also the fact that he lost faith in god was something he grieved about. Throughout the entire book Elie was honest; he didn’t hold back and wrote everything to the best of his ability leaving nothing out. A perfect example about being honest was how Elie talked about having sex with the polish girl (scene wasn’t explicit at all) he left no details out from the entire story and mentioned everything. In the book he says he didn’t defend his father while beaten to death, went to his bunk to let his father die. Remember Elie had an internal dilemma whether or not he saves himself or his father? To point out something in Elie, you can’t tell he is a humble man because he does not blame or accuse anyone of what they did to him and his father. He was just simply telling his life and everything he withstood, without having a hateful tone or foul

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