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Thesis Statements For Night By Elie Wiesel

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“I no longer felt anything except the lashes of the whip. “One! . . . Two! . . .” he was counting. He took his time between lashes. Only the first really hurt.” (p 57) Elie had been punished in front of all the Jews for having mixed in others affairs. Which these affairs were between Idek and a young Polish girl. For seeing something a Idek didn’t want anyone to know or to see, Elie had been lashed in front of the whole camp.This violence can be compared to today’s world in the way of being punished for seeing or knowing certain things or possibly just to have violence, but the independent and dependent variables need to be taken into account. The cruel way the guards would move the Jews from camp to camp could be an example of the unnecessary force and bloodshed used. “ “Faster, you filthy dogs!” We were no longer marching, we were running. Like …show more content…

The SS were running as well, weapons in hand. We looked as though we were running from them. The night was pitch-black. From time to time, a shot exploded in the darkness. They had orders to shoot anyone who could not sustain the pace. Their fingers on the triggers, they did not deprive themselves of the pleasure.” (Night, p. 85) With this in mind, the SS took joy from shooting and just spilling Jewish blood onto the snow, while they were running in the night. The Jews did everything the SS told them besides being able to keep up, the human body can only take so much, but this was a good enough reason for the Germans to act with brutality. In this circumstance the Jews didn't know anything, they just were not able to run fast enough to get away from the murderous intent of the SS. Accordingly, “ “Throw out all the dead! Outside, all the corpses!” The living were glad.

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Seeing the crematoriums is not the first-time Elie or his family experienced cruelty. The first time he witnessed cruelty was in the ghettos, seeing people beat by the Gestapo to get in line to get on the train. Once Elie was introduced to camp life, Elie and other prisoners were always beat inside of the barracks, but did not feel the pain due to being beaten and treated subhuman for some time. A German guard can do anything they want to the prisoners, unfortunately Elie was in the wrong time and place when Idek needed to vent his fury and Elie had crossed paths with him. So Idek started to beat Elie, “as I bit my lips in order not to howl with pain, he must have taken my silence for defiance

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Nazi propaganda was meant to promote anti-Semitism, hatred, and fear. The Jew was reduced to a vermin or pest that needed to be exterminated. Not only did the Nazis achieve this dehumanization goal on posters, they achieved their dehumanization of the Jews within the walls of the ghettoes, the concentration camp’s electric fence, and the humane soul of the people. From the starvation in the ghettos, people had already started falling victim to savagery as they were being transported in the rail cars. After a lady had continually screamed about an imaginary fire, “She received several blows to the head, blows that could have been lethal” as the crowd shouted their approval (Wiesel 26).

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The Germans would beat the Jews to ensure complete control over them and keep them in line. The Germans would use threats to have control over the Jews and keep them working. After Elie watched his father be beaten, “‘What would you like then? Shall I break your teeth with my fist?’” (Wiesel 63).

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Hannah Noel Mrs. Beaupre English 1 Honors 23 September 2016 Dialecticals 3-4 One passage that I think is interesting is, “No. Two steps from the pit we were ordered to turn to the left and made to go into the barracks” (Wiesel 25). With this quote the first thing that popped into my head was that these officers were petrifying the prisoners and making them think they were going to die and then at the last second turn them around. The fact that they did that is barbaric.

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Throughout the story “Night”, there are many ways and examples of man’s inhumanity to man. Elie and many other jews first experienced this when they were forced out of their homes to the concentration camp. Elie and other inmates witnessed violent actions daily at the concentration camps, from soldiers beating inmates and inmates fighting other inmates.  Experiencing these actions affected Elie and other people in the concentration camps.

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Elie Wiesel, author and victim of the Holocaust wrote the novel Night which portrays his experiences in the Holocaust. During the Holocaust the Nazis dehumanized many groups of people, but primarily the Jewish people. Elie writes about his personal journey through the Holocaust, and how he narrowly escaped death. In Elie’s novel he also provides detailed descriptions of what the victims of the Holocaust had to suffer through, and the different ways the Nazis made them feel like nothing more than animals that are meant to be used for work and slaughtered. One of the first things that Elie and the other Jewish people from his village have to suffer through is riding in a cramped cattle car, as if they were animals.

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In Elie Wiesel's autobiography, Night, he speaks out about his unforgettable experiences in Birkenau as a Jewish prisoner. All of the things Elie shall never forget is due to the fact that this experience changed his life drastically. It changed him as an individual and had detrimental effects on him for the rest of his life. Elie maintains this atrocious memories because it is something he survived. He, unlike so many, survived.

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In the memoir, Night by Elie Wiesel, he talks about his religious passions that started at a young age before the Holocaust but as the novel goes on, his faith starts to diminish because he feels he has been loyal to God and in return God had abandoned them. Paragraph 1: In the beginning of the novel, Elie’s life is centered around Judaism. He would study Talmud during the day, praying at the synagogue at night, and was very curious about the Jewish mysticism. Elie asked his father to find him a master who could guide him in his studies of Kabbalah, his father replied by saying, “ You are too young for that.

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The tactics used by their perpetrators were purposeful and cruel, and that translates into their inhumane methods of killing. One of the ways each group was murdered was during sporadic ambushes, usually occurring in remote locations like woodlands. Elie Wiesel mentioned one of these ambushes in the beginning of his novel, saying, “The Jews were ordered to get off and onto waiting trucks… They were forced to dig huge trenches. When they had finished their work, the men from the Gestapo began theirs” (Wiesel 6).

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Elie Wiesel's novel "Night" is a harrowing account of his experiences during the Holocaust, and it vividly depicts the atrocities committed by the Nazis against the Jewish people. The book highlights the idea that the road to Auschwitz was built by hate but paved with indifference. This is shown through the various characters' reactions to the events around them. In the novel, Eliezer's father is beaten by a German officer for asking where the bathroom is, and Eliezer reflects on the incident, stating, "I did not move.

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Do you have what it takes to survive harsh times? In the book Night, by Elie Wiesel, him and his family travel to the concentration camps expecting something good to happen. But, instead when Elie arrives all that he expected wasnt true. Families were getting separated as well as people were dying. Suffering leaves behind the person Elie is meant to be because of inhumane decisions that left him starving, losing hope in God, and having a completely different identity.

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Memories are the faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information. Memories help shape and fold the way we live and experience certain things that occur in our lives. I believe that memories help people in their efforts to las from the past and succeed in the present. Memories occur from experiences in your life and things you’ve done. This is beneficial because it could help you to better judge a future scenario and make better decisions in the future.

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Often the Nazis would use whips and truncheons, which are metal or wooden batons that are used to beat people, when the Jews were getting out of the cattle cars and the Nazis wanted to rush them. Also much of the time the Nazis would beat the Jews with them for all types of things like not moving fast enough, not following orders exactly and for not working. They would beat the Jews into submission, causing the Jews to break under the pressure. This gives the Nazis the excuse to shoot them. The Nazis told the Jews they had two choices to decide their fate they either work or they would be thrown into the furnaces or simply just thrown into the furnaces.

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In Night one of the ways that the Jews were dehumanized was by abuse. There were beatings, “I never felt anything except the lashes of the whip... Only the first really hurt.” (Wiesel, 57) “They were forced to dig huge trenches. When they had finished their work, the men from the Gestapo began theirs.

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This piece of evidence shows that Elie rebelled against the SS to be with his father, which takes tremendous courage. Furthermore, in the earlier chapters of Wiesel’s novel he was beaten by a Kapo named Idek because he was in a bad mood. A French woman showed courage by giving Elie a mini speech in perfect German, a language no one knew she spoke, in order to pass off as an Aryan. Years later they meet

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