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    Elie Wiesel

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    Creative Title A time where people were forced to leave their homes and everything they had in possession. This is something that happens to Elie Wiesel author and main character of NIGHT. Elie and his family are from jewish descent and are dehumanized by the Germans and forced into labour camps to work. They never knew what dangers they had ahead of them always having ignorance only to face the consequences. To lose and to have everything only to be gone in a second never to be returned. Throughout

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    Elie Wiesel

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    This odd morally gray story begins with Elie wiesel, the main character of the book as a 12 year old living in a town of Sighet. He resides in a in an orthodox jewish family that follows jewish laws and traditions to the tee. His parents are shopkeepers and his dad is a higher up in within Sighet’s jewish community. Elie has 3 sisters, two older, and one younger. What sets Elie apart from almost all Jewish teens at the time is his unusual studies of the Talmud, or jewish law. Followed by the caballa

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    Elie Wiesel Influences

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    hard work to become successful. Elie the writer of the Holocaust has all of those attributes. After being influenced by a writer at a young age, Elie Wiesel began to write more about his experience with the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel early childhood was abnormal. To begin, Elie Wiesel lived in a household where he was the only son. In “Elie Wiesel” it states, “Elie Wiesel had three sisters. Hilda and Batya were older than he was and Tzipora was younger”(“Elie Wiesel”1). Looking up to most of the female

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    Elie Wiesel Metaphor

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    One Elie Wiesel uses metaphor, connotative language, and metaphor to demonstrate that dehumanization ultimately causes negative mental and physical changes in the victim. Metaphor demonstrates that dehumanization causes them to lose their emotions. Metaphor “these withered bodies had long forgotten the bitter taste of tears” ( Wiesel pg. 63) Elie Wiesel uses this quotation to demonstrate that they completely forgot how to cry. The use of the phrase “bitter taste of tears” implies that Elie has

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    Elie Wiesel Reflection

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    reality that we never wanted to face; so we pushed it to its limits? Elie Wiesel was one of the many to face this tragic reality in Auschwitz, in the Concentration Camps, during the Holocaust...The pain of the Holocaust, the suffering of being ripped apart from your loved ones, to the mental and physical scars left by not only the S.S officers; but the horrors seen from the eyes of the purest souls. In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, Elie opens up the locked chest in his heart to tell us the horrifying

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    Elie Wiesel Reflection

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    would have the potential to betray him or her. Elie feels that way every single day when God betrays him in the novel Night, he then finds himself questioning his faith very often. Through this text, the Elie Wiesel begins to lose his faith as well as many other prisoners in the camp and he believes God is just watching him suffer and not helping him or anyone else. Elie was a strong believer of God, but Elie realizes God wouldn’t do this to the Jews and Elie felt is was best to stop believing in someone

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    Night Elie Wiesel

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    Night by Elie Wiesel remains a shocking and terrifying memoir of a survivor of the Holocaust, the murders of six million Jews and five million Gentiles. Elie, a victim of this dreadful event, was forced to separate from his family, and to miss the life he once had. Elie transformed into a unrecognizable, scarred person by the end of his journey. Elie’s traumatizing experiences in the concentration camps of Auschwitz affected him significantly; he changed both spiritually and in his relationship with

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    Thesis Statement: The hardships that Elie Wiesel faced in the concentration camps lead him to lose faith, until after when realizing it was crucial to keep faith in God despite the horrendous events of the Holocaust. What God would let his people be burned, suffocated to death, separated from their families, and starved to

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    Night By Elie Wiesel

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    Night One of my favorite books I have ever read was Night by Elie Wiesel. In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel tells a horrific tale of a Jewish teenager’s experiences in the Holocaust. This story takes place in Germany at several different concentration camps, one being Auschwitz. Throughout this heart wrenching story, Elie Wiesel falls victim to one of the millions of Jews getting taken from their home and out into camps during the Holocaust. The book Night has a title which symbolizes death

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    Elie Wiesel Reflection

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    normal people, like Elie Wiesel, when he was stolen from his life and brought to a place of pure torture, Auschwitz. Those things can change people, they can change who they were from the beginning of the happening, to the end. For example, In the book “Night” written by Elie Wiesel, Elie changes. Before he was taken to the concentration camp, Elie beared more positive characteristics. “I began to laugh. I was happy.” (Wiesel 72). Although this happened later in the book, Elie is more humorous and

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