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    In Night by Elie Wiesel, he tells a story of him in the concentration camp ,in WW2, called Auschwitz. The story begins with Elie seeing how the Germans were losing the war and he thought he and his fellow jews would be safe. Instead, he notices the Germans start moving them and taking their things. Then they are shipped to the camp. In the end of the story they are liberated and saved from the camp they moved to. Throughout the story Elie’s relationships with his; father, God, and the SS change

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    never be a time when we fail to protest”(Elie Wiesel). “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented”(Elie Wiesel). The book “Night” was authored by Elie Wiesel who is a survivor of the holocaust that happened 1993 to 1945 in Germany. It is the story of Elie’s experience that he has during the holocaust with his father there for 90% of the trip.Throughout Elie Wiesel experience as a child in the beginning his father

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    Night By Elie Wiesel

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    alone during the holocaust survived better than being with family. In “Night” by Elie Wiesel, Elie had to be separated from his family; he never saw them again. Family made the holocaust even harder; Jewish prisoners perturbed about their family every second. On top of Elie worrying about his family, his dad was an old man. There were many times throughout the book Elie had to be a provider for his dad. On page 29 in Night Elie said "An SS soldier came toward us wielding a club. He commanded:

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    the many concentration camps in Europe. During the “Final solution” two out of every three European Jews were killed. This genocide lasted from 30 January,1933 to 8 May,1945. Elie Wiesel,a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust,shares his personal traumatic,faith breaking and experiences with inhuman treatment in his memoir, Night. Even when faced with traumatic malice,humans have the capacity for great empathy and benevolence. To begin, when compassion was shown to Elie. Elie was beaten severely and backed

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    Does It Run in Your Blood to Betray the Ones You Love? In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, the horrific reality of the Holocaust is revealed in first person. Elie was a young boy when he was torn apart from him mothers and sisters at the beginning of this, which left him and his father on their own for the remaining years. At first, people just wanted their families to be safe and to get to be together. However as time goes on, these bonds started to weaken because of the unimaginable trauma that

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    Night, By Elie Wiesel

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    Him the right questions.” (5) In Elie Wiesel 's novel “Night,” we find the horrific life story of a father and son during the period of the devastating Holocaust. Elie and his father need to unite in order to survive through the excruciation. We find a transition of indifference by Elie during his Nobel Peace Prize. From his love for life to not caring about anything, Elie matures as the book progresses. He learns to value his father and stick together. In “Night,” Elie Weisel utilizes the fear of

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    In the memoir Night, by Elie Wiesel, the word night is repeatedly used as a metaphor symbolizing the conditions and emotions that the Jews struggle with during the Holocaust. Elie’s personal struggle with his experience evoke connotations of darkness that describe the inhumane treatment that Elie and the Jews are forced to endure throughout the memoir. In the beginning, Elie's town is invaded by German soldiers and soon, the Germans force all of the town's Jews to evacuate. After being thrown onto

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    that came to be known as hell on earth. Together with those persecuted and killed were over six million Jewish people. This attempted annihilation and genocide became known as the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel describes his experience at the infamous concentration camp, Auschwitz, in his chilling memoir, Night. As he struggles to survive the brutal conditions of the camp, he often describes the eyes of himself, of his father, of his oppressors, and of his fellow prisoners. The eyes appear as a powerful

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    In the beginning of night we meet a 12 year old jewish boy named Elie. Elie lives in the town of Sighet he also lives with his parents and two older sisters, I actually find that quite ironic because I have two older sisters. He also has a cabbala teacher named moshe the beadle who is often described as awkward. Moshe is deported by the hungarians because he was a jew. After several months in captivity Moshe returns telling stories of how at the Polish border the jews were handed over to the Nazis

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    In the memoir Night, the narrator Elie Wiesel recounts the moment when he was informed and then later thrown into the horrors of Hitler's wrath. When Moshie the Beadle came back he proclaimed “Infants were tossed into the air and used as targets for the machine guns” ( Wiesel 6). This shows inhumanity because the nazis are killing kids in front of their parents. They are able to kill without hesitation or remorse. As the author describes his experiences, many other examples of inhumanity are revealed

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