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    combat force participation. The war started on September 1, 1939 and ended on September 2, 1945. Over 60 million service personnel and civilians were killed. The nation that suffered the most loss was the USSR. The novel Night by Elie Wiesel, was a story about the author, Elie Wiesel, experiencing the Nazi concentration camps with his father while WWII was happening. In the story, Elie’s family failed to escape the city of Sighet. This caused his family to be captured and separated by the Germans. He

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    In Night, by Elie Wiesel, one man tells his story of how he survived his terrible experiences in the Holocaust. Wiesel takes you on a journey through the his “night” of the Holocaust, how he survived the world’s deadliest place, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Elie Wiesel pulls you along on his dramatic journey through his endless night. Night, by Elie Wiesel forces you to open our eyes to the real world by using; irony, diction, and repetition to prove to his readers that man does have the capability to create

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    116 Pages Elie Wiesel used voices of the forgotten to inspire humanity upon the world. He shared personal experiences in Night to teach a sensitive subject. Wiesel’s message was spread throughout the world. He worked hard to influence leaders to create a better future. Even today, he influences the world and will continue to for many years. In 1965 Night was published. It shares Wiesel’s personal experience in Auschwitz as a young child. “What is a witness if not someone who has a tale to tell

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    demonstrated in the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel. In the memoir, Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize winning author and Holocaust survivor, recounts his experience in the network of Auschwitz concentration camps. During the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel creates a strong bond with his father. While Wiesel suffers through the horrific events happening in the concentration camps, the one person keeping him motivated to fight for his life is his father. Although Wiesel’s father could be responsible for Wiesel pushing

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    Night is a book written by Elie Wiesel. In this book Wiesel tells about his experiences in the Holocaust. Wiesel was only twelve years old when the Holocaust first affected him. Early on Wiesel was separated from his mother and sister. Him and his father were then moved from camp to camp having to endure harsh conditions. Together they both saw terrible things that they will never forget. Many conflicts in The Holocaust changed both Wiesel and his father. The two factors that affected Wiesel the

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    The book Night by Elie Wiesel is a book describing events during the Holocaust that happened in a concentration camp. He has many different conflicts throughout the book. Dealing with his dad is a big part in the book. One of the conflicts that he has with his dad is in the beginning of the book when he feels that his dad doesn’t pay enough attention to him. “My father was occupied with his business and the doings in the community” (Wiesel 18). He feels that his father cares more about other people

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    In Elie Wiesel’s autobiography Night, Wiesel has been exposed tribulations during The Holocaust; he had been taken captive at the young age of fifteen and spent months at the precipice of death. When several people would have an array of words to illustrate the entirety of the novel, Wiesel had saw fit one to fully do the job. Night is entitled Night because it depicts, symbolizes, and is a personification of Wiesel experiences and thoughts of The Holocaust. Night is the time where one reflects

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    English 2 Period 14 10 June 2015 Night Trilogy Criticism Elie Wiesel’s Night Trilogy is comprised of an autobiography about Wiesel’s experience during the Holocaust and the horrific struggle he faced while in concentration camps, and two other stories depicting the rise of Israel and an accident. The acclaimed Holocaust writer is most well-known for Night due to its effect across the globe. Dawn and Day are not autobiographies, yet they have lingering presences of Wiesel in the main characters and narrators

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    the worst situation that you can think of. There are people who experienced worse, such as Elie Wiesel, who experienced a living hell at the age of fifteen. Elie Wiesel was a survivor, many others not so fortunate.The book is known as Night, the memoir of Elie Wiesel. He wrote in order to make sure that no one forgets, no one is indifferent, and that no one becomes numb to their own suffering, Wiesel wrote a book describing his experiences in Auschwitz. Elie Wiesel’s purpose for telling his story

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    In the memoir Night, written by Elie Weisel, you take a journey through the 1940s, and learn what it was like to live during the Holocaust. Night records the life of Elie Wiesel during his teen years, and the oppression he and his family went through because of their Jewish descent. The Holocaust was a horrifying genocide where Adolf Hitler and the Nazis strived to wipe out the Jewish race, as well as Poles, Slavs, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Homosexuals, Gypsies, etc. Jews were taken from their homes

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