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The book Night by Elie Wiesel is a sad and depressing story about Eliezer and his story during the Holocaust and every thing that happened to him during this time. I feel that if I was in this situation I would feel the same exact way Eliezer would because being a teenager during the time of all of this would be stressful and complicated, in fact, this is how I would relate to the text personally. If I had to compare how I view the world between how the text views the world then I would say that they would be similar and agree with each other. There will always be bad people/ things in the world, but if you wait long enough and try hard enough you’ll make it to the end and all the pain will go away. In this situation I feel as if giving up would be the wrong thing to do and pushing through would be the right thing to do in order to stay alive. If you were in that situation would you give up? Would you be able to push through everything knowing whether or not you will be doing this your whole life or not? If you were in pain would you still be able to push through? …show more content…

The text changed some of my views of the world because I showed me how cruel and rude people can be in the world. The text really communicated me and made me realize how sad it was to people and their family during this time and how hard it was to leave their family. The book addresses how important family is when time gets hard and that’s how the text addresses things I care about personally which is family. When Eliezer and his family were sent of to concentration camps he was separated from his mom and sister which had to have been sad, but he got to stay with his dad and I feel like it would have been harder for him to stay alive without his dad telling him he could make it, so that's how important family

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Elie Wiesel in the preface to Night (page 1 paragraph 3) says “ Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness, the immense, terrifying madness that had erupted in history and in the conscience of mankind?” This passage illustrates in just a few sentences the horrors that the author witnessed during the Holocaust. The author is saying that he wrote about his experiences to try and regain some of the humanity that he lost during the Holocaust. The author's mind is so plagued by the events that he witnessed that he almost considers madness to be the only way to make sense of the events he witnessed. The memories of Elie Wiesel are so abhorrent, that he tried to contain them

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Night is a first hand account by Elie Wiesel that describes the horrors and torment he faces during the worst genocide in human history. Elie grew up in a Jewish household in Sighet with his parents and two sisters. Elie’s faith was very important in his life; he always wanted to absorb more knowledge about the sacred scriptures. His mentor, known to the citizens of Sighet as Moishe the Beadle, taught Elie the teachings of the Kabbalah. In 1942, Moishe, along with the other foreign Jews, were transported.

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Elie Wiesel, an honorable writer and author of the memoir, “Night”, received a Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 for standing up for people's ethnicity. He witnessed a traumatizing event at the age of 15 and wrote a book on his experience. The Holocaust killed six million innocent Jews and five million Gentile people. Unfortunately, Wiesel saw and experienced everything from torture, starvation, and death while being held in the concentration camps. Experiencing this trauma altered Elie's spiritual views and his relationship with his father.

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Night by Elie Wiesel he compares how the prisoners felt after that event to how the soup had tasted that evening. When Elie had said "I remember that I found the soup tasted excellent that evening" (Wiesel 46). He was saying how the prisoners had felt after the United States had bombed germany,it can be argued that he did this because the Nazis would have punished the Jews at the camp if they had celebrated this. Additionally Elie says "That night the soup tasted of corpses" (Wiesel 48). When he said this he was saying that the Jews were mourning the deaths of the prisoners that were hung that day, having no other way to express himslef besides describing the soup I belive he conveyed his emotions through it.

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Elie Wiesel’s novel Night is required reading in just about every sophomore English class in the country. The novel, along with a lifetime of humanitarian work, earned Wiesel the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. Night is one of the most powerful depictions we have of the Jewish experience of the Holocaust; a work carefully crafted to achieve Wiesel’s ultimate purpose: to bear witness to the atrocities and allow the reader to feel the suffering of the Jews and of millions of others so that in identifying with these characters, the truth seeps into the bone marrow of the reader and fires a determination to do whatever is necessary that atrocities like this never happen again. Wiesel opens the novel with a character sketch of Moshe the Beadle.

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In the book Night Elie Wiesel a 15 year old boy takes his readers through the life of a Holocaust survivor. When reading Night you feel what he feels what Elie feels. This truly inspirational book is a great read and helps you understand the gruesome, frightening, and suffering that was the Holocaust. No one should ever have to endure the suffering that he went through in order to survive this horrific event. One part of the book that I found particularly striking to me would have to be the death march.

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I thought the book was sad and I really enjoyed how personal it was. After reading it again as an adult, I had a whole new feeling towards the book. Although I still think the book is sad and I do still enjoy how personal it is, I have a new appreciation for the text. This time, I felt every emotion that Elie felt. This time, I felt like I was going on the journey alongside him.

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My Reaction To The Book “Night” The relationship with Elie the camps and how he feels about the holocaust is very interesting. The book I will be talking about how the holocaust effected Elie. This book was published September in 1960.this book talks about the holocaust and how the concentration camps were really bad. It talks about the relationships between their fathers and sons.

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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

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I even think that was the thought on Elies mind, when he was experiencing the Holocaust first hand. What happens next, would survive the next day? Questions that needed to be answers, and the suspense me interested in this book. You never realize what actually happens, until you experience it first

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The night is full of darkness, though this novel is not about that type of night, it is about the deep-down darkness felt by everyone involved in the Holocaust. This novel tells the story of a teenager who is sent to a concentration camp with his family. He and the other people with him experience starvation, diseases, and abuse. The Nazis perform so-called, “selections” where they pick who can no longer work due to these diseases and will be killed. Elie cares for his father until he dies and the camp is freed.

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