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What Is Shlomo's Role In The Book Night By Elie Wiesel

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Throughout this breathtaking book, there are many different characters that were very important that played a huge role to make this book successful. To begin, Shlomo is a character who is respected by the entire Jewish community, and by all of his son’s. He and Eliezer were friends and they had to try and remain friends throughout this concentration camp. Moshe the Beadle is Eliezer's teacher of the Jewish mysticism. Moshe is a very unwealthy Jew who lives in Sighet with the rest of them. Moshe is captured and deported before the rest of the rest of the Jews are captured. He escapes from the camps and returns to tell the town where the Nazis are taking them and what they are doing to the them. Madame Schächter is a middle aged woman who is …show more content…

Elie Wiesel is now beginning to develop all these different actions that are on the uprise and beginning to happen all throughout Europe. Throughout the book, Wiesel tells the readers what he had to go through to survive and what he felt like such as this line in the book, “because of his hunger and deprivation, he had become nothing more than a stomach”. He is showing us all how poorly they were getting treated with hardly an food, any water, no medicines, no doctors that were able to keep yourself in ok shape to survive. Despite all this misery and the thought of death through the camp that was beginning to take place, their were still plenty of moments when people were being very generous and extremely caring toward one another with sharing, helping one another out and sometimes even defending one another even though the knew the risks of doing so. Such as when, Elie’s father began to give rations of his own hardwork food to his son so that he can live longer and possibly have a chance of a better life one day while his father begins to face starvation and depression with the less food that he is eating and that everyone else is getting. 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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